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PODCAST

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,

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54:54

Solo, The Book, Coming January 2024

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2023/03/16

Kym Terribile and Peter McGraw discuss Peter's contract with Diversion Books to publish Solo in January 2024. They discuss the sales process, the ambitious writing deadline, and some plans for marketing Solo.Love the show?Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/

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Paul Shirley

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2023/03/09

Peter McGraw invites Paul Shirley, a writer, entrepreneur, and retired professional basketball player, into the Solo Studio to discuss Paul's remarkable life as a basketball player through the lens of his books. "Can I Keep My Jersey?" has blended into Paul's time in the minor leagues and overseas. Paul learns that if things go poorly, you don't have to take it as an existential threat because sometimes things do work out, or sometimes they don't. Looking into the lens of the "Stories I Tell On

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64:11

Becoming Bisexual

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2023/03/02

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/

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63:29

Are You Thriving Or Coping?

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2023/02/23

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

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32:04

How To Turn Down A Date

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2023/02/16

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

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75:11

How To Not Go On A Date

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2023/02/09

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

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64:20

Contemporary Spinsterhood

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2023/02/02

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/

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88:32

Emotional Intelligence

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2023/01/26

In 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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81:50

The Social Leap

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2023/01/19

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/

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69:09

The All-or-Nothing Marriage

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2023/01/12

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 bookThe All-Or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work.Love the show?Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/

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78:44

Freedom In Community

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2023/01/05

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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62:37

Optionality

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2022/12/29

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

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68:42

Truth Or Truth With Suzette Smith

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2022/12/22

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/

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76:10

Episode 150: Looking Forward, Backward, And Inward

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2022/12/15

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/

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54:47

Hygge

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2022/12/08

People are homebodies for a variety of reasons: they are introverted, they have a disability, their hobbies are well-suited for home, or they simply like being indoorsy. As part of his third installment in a series on homebodies, Peter McGraw speaks to Meik Wiking about creating cozy moments—at home or elsewhere—through the Danish concept of Hygge. Meik is the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute and the author of the “The Little Book of Hygge – Danish Secrets to Happy Living.” The conversation

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54:50

Happier At Home With Gretchen Rubin

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2022/12/01

In his second installment of a series on homebodies, Peter McGraw talks to Gretchen Rubin - the magpie of happiness - about creating a better home base. They discuss her book Happier at Home, and she dishes out some helpful, non-intuitive ideas about creating a more welcoming home for yourself and others.Love the show?Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/

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43:22

Waking Up Early With Donnie

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2022/11/24

In this episode, Peter McGraw speaks to Donald Lichtenstein who is thriving personally and professionally. Peter likes to say that singles can sleep in when they want to, but Donnie does the opposite. He gets up absurdly early—because that is what is best for him. It’s a thoughtful conversation in which they discuss how Donnie likes routine, loves dogs and dislikes travel.As a proud homebody, Donnie inspired Peter to prepare a short series on homebodies, and this serves as the first episode.Love the

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61:27

Single During The Holidays

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2022/11/17

Peter McGraw welcomes Kris Marsh, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, to discuss being single during the holidays – specifically Thanksgiving and Christmas.Love the show?Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/

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52:10

Sex And The City

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2022/11/10

The world often treats single living as liminal and less than, but not the hit television show Sex and the City. In this episode of Solo, Peter McGraw invites Mary Dahm into the Solo Studio to discuss the cultural implications of this critically-acclaimed show. They discuss Sex and the City’s importance in creating an alternative narrative about single living and female sexual positivity. Bonus material is back, which you can access by signing up atPeterMcGraw.org/solo. Mary and Peter discuss how

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Intellectual Humility - Live Podcast

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

2022/11/05

Peter McGraw recently attended the Mind Under Matter Festival, where he did a live taping about Intellectual Arrogance, Humility, and Timidity withDr. Jeff Larsen. Dr. Larsen is a Social Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. He is an expert on emotions, attitudes, and well-being.Love the show?Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/

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