Well Enough Alone - A Guide To Thriving Solo
A podcast by Spare Room - Sundays
27 Episodes
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Paul Dolan: Can you be truly happy alone? (Spoiler: single, child-free women are the happiest)
Published: 27/04/2025 -
Michelle McQuaid: the cost of being a ‘good girl’ – finding freedom from people-pleasing
Published: 20/04/2025 -
Therese Shechter: ‘My so-called selfish life’ – how the child-free movement is reshaping the world
Published: 13/04/2025 -
Cindy Gallop: I’m unmarried, no kids, dating younger men casually for sex, and I’m blissfully ecstatic.
Published: 06/04/2025 -
Annie Whitlocke: A death doula’s lessons on dying, aloneness and how to live well
Published: 30/03/2025 -
Amy Gahran: Solo polyamory and getting off the ‘relationship escalator’
Published: 23/03/2025 -
Rosie Batty: On hope, finding yourself amid trauma and grief, and building a life with meaning
Published: 16/03/2025 -
Jacinta Parsons: On reclaiming your forever self, the wisdom of older women and lessons from living with chronic illness
Published: 09/03/2025 -
Cyndi Darnell: Sex and the single life – intimacy, sexuality and non-traditional relationships
Published: 02/03/2025 -
Alexandra Collier: Single motherhood by choice: the triumphs, challenges and secrets of solo parenting
Published: 23/02/2025 -
Hannah Ferguson: on modern womanhood, what’s driving loneliness in Gen Z, dismantling shame, and building political engagement in a broken world
Published: 16/02/2025 -
Matt Agnew: On life after The Bachelor, finding happiness alone, healthy masculinity and his life-long mental health journey
Published: 09/02/2025 -
Yumi Stynes: Rising strong, surviving the trolls, and finding freedom after divorce
Published: 02/02/2025 -
Season Finale: Claire Mason: on sobriety as a path to single freedom, self-love and happiness
Published: 08/09/2024 -
Gyan Yankovich: on building a shared future with friends, and why friendship should be treated with the same respect as marriage
Published: 01/09/2024 -
Megan Waters: Self-love and growing strong through the struggles
Published: 25/08/2024 -
Emma Edwards: Budgeting for one, and understanding emotional spending
Published: 18/08/2024 -
Lauren Beckman on the voting power of “childless cat ladies”, and the politics of being single
Published: 11/08/2024 -
Alita Brydon: on surviving the dating scene, body positivity, and how to stop being a people pleaser
Published: 04/08/2024 -
Danni Duncan: on choosing not to have children, and the rise of the child-free movement
Published: 28/07/2024
Well Enough Alone is a celebration of solo living that tears up the “sad and lonely” single script and embraces a path that can be joyful and fulfilling.Because there is more to life than “partnered and happy” or “single and searching.”There is solo and thriving.Hosted by best-selling author and award-winning journalist, Jill Stark, this podcast is for anyone who’s ever been told that being single makes you incomplete. Or that life only begins when you find “the one”.To leave “well enough alone” means to stop trying to change something that’s already good enough.What if the one you’ve been looking for is you? Could embracing your single status rather than fearing it be the key to a happy life?Jill talks to inspiring guests, some who are single and some who aren’t, about what they’ve learned from time spent in their own company, and interviews experts in psychology, human behaviour, business, health and wellbeing, about how to thrive alone.Whether you’re happily single, trying to get comfortable with your solo status, or partnered and looking to carve out more time for yourself, Well Enough Alone will empower you to live your life your way. Get early access to new episodes by subscribing on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
