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Solo – The Single Person’s Guide to a Remarkable Life

Solo – The Single Person’s Guide to a Remarkable Life

Dr. Peter McGraw 267 episodes Latest May 28, 2026

Solo - The Single Person's Guide to a Remarkable Life, hosted by Dr. Peter McGraw, is a podcast that celebrates and destigmatizes single living. It explores how being single offers freedom for adventure, entrepreneurship, art, travel, fitness, and more. Peter, a behavioral scientist and humor researcher, interviews happy single individuals and gathers advice from experts on health, money, business, and dating. The podcast serves as a resource for those who are happily unattached.

Episodes

Singles in the Workplace: How Companies Can Better Support Solo Employees May 28, 2026 3633 Sarah Brock, the CEO of Sarah Bee Talent, joins Peter McGraw to examine how “family-friendly” workplaces often overlook solo employees. Building on Peter’s recent article in The Conversation, they discuss scheduling, workplace culture, benefits, amatonormativity, and practical ways companies can better support Solos in an era when unmarried adults are reshaping the workforce.Love the show? Su
Aging Single #12: The Wealth Ladder May 7, 2026 3614 What does financial freedom look like when you’re climbing solo? Peter McGraw talks with Nick Maggiulli, author of The Wealth Ladder, about the six levels of wealth, what changes at each stage, and how singles can build money—and a remarkable life—on their own.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
Are You Dead? Going Solo in China Apr 28, 2026 3090 One in four Chinese households is now a single person. Pan Wang, Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies at UNSW Sydney, joins Peter McGraw to talk about the “Are You Dead?” app, one-person hotpot restaurants, date-renting, AI companions, marriage markets, and how TV dating shows reshaped love and marriage in a single generation.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Solo Thoughts 18: Welcoming Rough Seas Apr 7, 2026 1080 A high-achieving friend falls in love and suddenly finds himself in rough emotional seas. In this Solo Thoughts episode, Peter McGraw explores why calm, optimized lives can make us successful – but not truly alive – and why passion, uncertainty, and even heartbreak may be the price of a psychologically rich life.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/so
Lessons from the Hurt Business Mar 24, 2026 4380 Heavyweight boxer turned writer Ed Latimore joins Peter McGraw to talk about his new book, Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business—a raw meditation on violence, discipline, ego, addiction, and growth. Onwards!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo
The Psychology of Solitude Mar 10, 2026 5124 Alone isn’t lonely. Psychologist Robert Coplan, author of The Joy of Solitude, coined aloneliness—the distress of not getting enough time to yourself. Psychologist Thuy-vy Nguyen, co-author of Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone, discovered the “deactivation effect”—just fifteen minutes alone turns down the volume on your emotions. Peter McGraw talks to them about th
Aromanticism (Again) Feb 28, 2026 3840 In this re-released episode, Peter McGraw asks the question, “What if you never felt romantic love – and didn’t need to?” In this eye-opening favorite, Peter sits down with Jessalyn Dean, an aromantic relationship anarchist living a remarkable solo life. They unpack what it means to be aromantic, how Jessalyn got off the relationship escalator, and why autonomy, not romance, is her guiding co
I Love You, Man (Again) Feb 12, 2026 6396 What 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
Sick while Solo Jan 20, 2026 4513 Why 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 l
Aging Single #11: Third Acts Dec 30, 2025 3123 Whether 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 se
Solo Thoughts 17: Welcome to the Solo Economy Dec 11, 2025 791 In 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 wo
Diverging from the Relationship Escalator (Again) Nov 25, 2025 5110 New 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 Solo

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