Solo – The Single Person’s Guide to a Remarkable Life
Dr. Peter McGraw
“Solo - The Single Person's Guide to a Remarkable Life” by Dr. Peter McGraw, seeks to celebrate and destigmatize single living. Welcome to the podcast that explores how being single affords you the freedom to be adventurous, start a business, make art, travel the world, get in shape, or simply sleep in when you want to. Join Peter – behavioral scientist, humor researcher, and bachelor – as he interviews happy single men and women and assembles advice from leading experts about health, fitness, money, business, travel, fashion, art, leisure, and of course, sex and dating. For the so-called spinster or bachelor, Solo is the resource for people who are happily single (aka the unapologetically unattached).
Episodes
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Feb 9, 2023 • 1h 15min
How To Not Go On A Date
You may remember a previous episode, “How to go on a date.” This is a long overdue follow-up for non-daters: how to not go on a date. Many solos are not interested in dating – for now or forever. Peter McGraw wants to make the case for all the other amazing things you can do instead of dating and how to find your way through a world that thinks you are dating. In this episode, he speaks to Jill Cohen and Stephanie McHugh about why you should not date, what you can do instead, and how to talk to people when they inquire why you are not dating.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
Feb 2, 2023 • 1h 4min
Contemporary Spinsterhood
The Solo movement is growing. Lucy Meggeson has a wonderful new podcast for single childless women: Spinsterhood Reimagined. Peter McGraw was the first guest bloke to appear, and she kindly shared the audio with him, and he shares it here with you.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
Jan 26, 2023 • 1h 29min
Emotional Intelligence
In this podcast, they discuss emotional intelligence and its role in cooperation, as well as the negative stereotypes of single people. They explore the concept of Homo sapiens' ability to cooperate and solve conflicts using emotions. They delve into the different aspects of emotional intelligence, including emotion recognition and regulation. They also discuss the development of emotional intelligence in teams and strategies for emotion regulation, such as acceptance and reappraisal. They touch on the downsides of emotional intelligence and the influence of abilities and intentions on perception.
Jan 19, 2023 • 1h 22min
The Social Leap
How can something so complex and far-reaching as marriage could be invented and so widely adopted? To begin to answer that question, Peter McGraw speaks to Bill Von Hippel, the author of The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 9min
The All-or-Nothing Marriage
To understand single living, you need to understand non-single-living – especially the 800-pound gorilla of relationships: marriage. In this episode, Peter McGraw speaks to Eli Finkel about contemporary marriages, which are focused on self-growth and self-expressiveness. Eli shares insights from his book The All-Or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
Jan 5, 2023 • 1h 19min
Freedom In Community
Peter McGraw talks about how remarkable singles have a team -- an interconnected group of friends, family, acquaintances, and professionals. But this takes work. He invites a member of the Solo community, Monique Murad, to discuss the value of community and how to cultivate it.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
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Dec 29, 2022 • 1h 3min
Optionality
As the year ends, remarkable singles around the world are considering how to make their lives even more remarkable. To help with that endeavor, Peter McGraw speaks to Richard Meadows, a finance writer and the author of Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World. They have a far-ranging conversation about Optionality (“the right but not obligation to take action") – something that singles have more of than non-singles.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 9min
Truth Or Truth With Suzette Smith
Peter McGraw hosts a “Truth or Truth” conversation with Suzette Smith, where they ask each other questions about being single and living a remarkable life as a Solo.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
Dec 15, 2022 • 1h 16min
Episode 150: Looking Forward, Backward, And Inward
One hundred and fifty episodes and nearly three years into the Solo podcast, Peter McGraw invites Kym Terribile and Julie Nirvelli back into the Solo Studio to talk about the podcast's progress.They discuss Peter's successes and weaknesses, as they look backward, forward, and inward regarding the podcast and the solo movement more generally. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
Dec 8, 2022 • 55min
Hygge
Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute and author of 'The Little Book of Hygge – Danish Secrets to Happy Living', discusses the concept of Hygge and how to create cozy moments. Topics include the Swedish theory of love, the benefits of exercise and social activities, the power of candles in creating a cozy atmosphere, engaging in game nights and overcoming phone distractions, being present and connecting with others, and Huga beyond the home.
