Thrive Solo The One Where I Talk To Author & Journalist, Jill Stark
My guest on this week’s episode is the awesome Jill Stark.
Jill, who is both single and childfree, is a best-selling author, content specialist and award-winning journalist, who uses the power of storytelling as a tool for connection and change. Her best-selling books include Happy Never After and High Sobriety. She is from Scotland but lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Topics that we cover are:
- the parallels between sobriety and choosing the single life;
- why she describes herself as a social agitator;
- how Jill grew up in a culture of drinking, and how she took that into her adult life;
- the irony of how she became a health reporter writing about binge drinking;
- how she came to quit drinking, initially for three months, and how much she loved it;
- the book deal that saw her quit drinking for a further year;
- people’s reactions to Jill’s sobriety;
- being single, and how Jill never questioned whether she actually wanted to get married and have kids;
- the correlation between quitting drinking and her clarity around her relationship status;
- Jill’s podcast, Well Enough Alone;
- her ‘Solo Sunday’ events in Melbourne;
- why we shouldn’t be looking to other people to fix feelings of loneliness;
- the lie we’ve been told that one person can fix all of our problems or complete us;
- Jill’s mental health crisis in 2014;
- how fundamentally important it is to develop a strong sense of self;
- how we’re so conditioned to see marriage and babies as ‘success’;
- the growing ‘movement’ of single women;
- how Jill resonates with Bella DePaulo’s notion of being ‘single at heart’.
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Check out Jill’s website:
https://jillstark.com.au/
Check out Jill's podcast, Well Enough Alone:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/well-enough-alone-a-guide-to-thriving-solo/id1751129641
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