Podcast
Solo – The Single Person’s Guide to a Remarkable Life
Hosted by Dr. Peter McGraw · EN
“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).
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I Love You, Man (Again)
Feb 1201:46:36Tap to summarizeWhat happens when two charismatic creatives—and close friends—sit down with Peter McGraw to talk friendship, love, and the Solo movement? This intimate, funny, and thoughtful conversation with Chester See and Darwyn Metzger explores what it means to live remarkably, forge deep male friendships, and question the default path. A fan favorite, this episode returns for a new wave of listeners.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
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Sick while Solo
Jan 2001:15:13Tap to summarizeWhy are unmarried patients less likely to receive life-saving medical treatments? Peter McGraw talks to professor and author Joan DelFattore about how America’s healthcare system disadvantages those who are single or outside the nuclear family model. From TEDx talks to the New England Journal of Medicine, she’s sounding the alarm on a silent crisis. If you’re Solo—and especially if you live alone—you need to hear this episode.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo
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Aging Single #11: Third Acts
Dec 3000:52:03Tap to summarizeWhether you call it a Third Act, third season, or second life, one thing’s clear: middle-age and beyond isn’t the end. It’s a redesign. In this episode, as part of the series on aging, retiring, and dying single, Peter McGraw explores how Solos can turn aging, retirement, and reinvention into their most liberated chapter yet. Joined by Theresa Williamson, a city planner and Solo in her own second life, they unpack how mobility, flexibility, and optionality give Solos an edge—and why a fulfilling Third Act doesn’t require a fat bank account or a partner, just a little creativity (and maybe a plane ticket to Brazil).Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo
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Solo Thoughts 17: Welcome to the Solo Economy
Dec 1100:13:11Tap to summarizeIn this Solo Thoughts episode, Peter McGraw talks directly to you about how singles are reshaping work, housing, finance, and community. The rise of single living isn’t a passing fad— it’s a structural shift. Yet our institutions remain stuck in a world built for two. That disconnect is where the Solo Economy sits. Is the world ready? No.Join the movement: petermcgraw.org/soloInterested in workshops or coaching? Reach out. Onwards!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo
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Diverging from the Relationship Escalator (Again)
Nov 2501:25:10Tap to summarizeNew to Solo? Start here! This re-release from the early days of the pod covers a concept that comes up again and again—in the podcast and Peter McGraw’s book. The “relationship escalator” is the default path of dating, moving in, marrying, and merging lives. Amy Gahran, who coined the term, joins Peter to break it all down. We explore what the escalator is, why it’s so invisible, and how Solos step off it—through consensual non-monogamy, platonic partnerships, sexual friendships, or simply going Solo.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo
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Single at Heart, Singles Bill of Rights, and Singles' Day
Nov 1101:06:27Tap to summarizeIt’s 11/11—Singles’ Day—and we’re celebrating Solo style. First, Bella DePaulo returns to talk about her new book Single at Heart, why solo diners are more influential than you think, and what it really means to thrive alone. Then, Christina Campbell (aka CC) joins to unveil the Singles Bill of Rights—a bold call for equality in a world built for two. Onwards!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo
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Intimacy Design
Oct 2301:01:04Tap to summarizeSex educator and psychologist Lisa Dawn Hamilton returns to join Peter McGraw to build on Relationship Design and discuss Intimacy Design—the art of co-creating authentic, adventurous, and consent-forward sexual experiences. From sexual containers to eager consent, they explore how to make intimacy safer, hotter, and more intentional.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo
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Flirting
Nov 2, 2023Tap to summarizeDo you like to flirt? Do you like be flirted with? Peter McGraw speaks to Lucy Meggeson, the host of Spinsterhood Reimagined, about this fun yet challenging endeavor. They discuss what fliting is, why flirting is important, and give some tips to be a better flirt. What do you think? Join the Solo community and let Peter know: https://petermcgraw.org/solo/Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
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Emotional Intelligence
Jan 26, 2023Tap to summarizeIn the third installment in a series on the invention of marriage and cooperation, Peter McGraw speaks to Hillary Anger Elfenbein about something that makes cooperation more or less effective: emotional intelligence.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
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