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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Mar 2, 2023 • 1h 4min
Becoming Bisexual
Peter McGraw invites two friends into the Solo Studio to discuss what appears to be an emerging shift: once heterosexual women embracing their bisexuality. His guests, Rachel and Taylor, discuss their experience becoming bisexual in their thirties, and Peter presents data identifying a shift in the number of people identifying as lesbian, gay, and bisexual.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
Feb 23, 2023 • 1h 3min
Are You Thriving Or Coping?
Compared to research on married people, there is little being done to investigate the well-being of single people. Fortunately, Geoff MacDonald, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto has turned his attention to examining singlehood. Peter McGraw is joined by guest co-host Iris Schneider to discuss Geoff’s recent academic paper that investigates predictors of life satisfaction for singles. The conversation will help you understand why you are coping or thriving as a single person.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
Feb 16, 2023 • 32min
How To Turn Down A Date
In the last episode, Jill Cohen, Stephanie McHugh, and Peter McGraw talked about how many solos are not interested in dating – for now or forever. They discussed the other remarkable things that can be done instead of dating and how to navigate a world that expects you to be dating. There was to be bonus material in that episode, where they spoke about how to turn down a date. They talked so much that Peter decided to make a separate episode, and here it is. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
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/
