I am finishing my podcast today in order to take some time for myself and to work on whatever is ahead. I am nowhere near finished with this message ... but this podcast is no longer serving me as the space in which to deliver it. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, listened to my episodes and reached out to me. See you over on Three Single Women! Lots of love xxx Thank you so much for listening to my show! You can follow and contact me here; Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/onesing...
Apr 16, 2025•5 min
TW - Suicidal ideation This week, my guest is Life Coach, Tom Parish. After a painful divorce, Tom was overwhelmed by self-doubt and shame and found himself struggling under the weight of toxic masculinity - the pressure to suppress emotion, to "man up" and to suffer in silence. In the midst of this emotional collapse, Tom experienced a profound awakening. He left his career as an Aircraft Engineer in the RAF and embarked on a radically different path as a Life Coach grounded by compassion, auth...
Apr 15, 2025•55 min
This week I'm talking about a time when I was close to settling within a relationship which was a very good one, but it wasn't the right one. I talk about my break up and how much it hurt and the grief I felt and the way i blamed myself, questioning why I couldn't just be happy and settle down. At 40 years old, I now see how much conditioning I was influenced by and talk about how my recognition of that was the first step towards being a happily single and childfree woman! Enjoy xxx Thank you so...
Apr 08, 2025•22 min
This week my guest is Childfree Pioneer and Guru, Marcia Drut-Davis! Marcia shares her story of how an appearance on the American television news magazine 60 Minutes, in which she told her in-laws that she and her then-husband had no plans to have children, led to the loss of her teaching job and being unfairly labelled a child hater. We discuss Marcia's decision not to have children and the deep commitment that motherhood requires. Marcia shares her experience of being childfree in the 1970's, ...
Apr 01, 2025•59 min
This week, my guest is Associate Research Professor and Director of Education Initiatives at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and author of Toward a Small Family Ethic and Catastrophe Ethics , Dr Travis Rieder. We explore the complex moral questions surrounding procreation, family sizes and climate change. We discuss: - Global temperature projections and what they mean for children born today - The ethics of family size in a world facing climate crisis - The impact of the environm...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 1 min
TW ** Eating Disorders** My guest this week is a friend of mine, Kirsty Wood, RD. Kirsty is a Confidence & Empowerment Coach as well as being a Registered Dietitian specialising in gut health and digestion, intuitive eating and helping people to improve their relationship with food. I wanted Kirsty and I to have both a personal and professional chat about the overwhelming pressure placed upon women to look a certain way in a society fuelled by patriarchy, capitalism and media messaging. We d...
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 7 min
This week, my guest is the legendary, Shani Silver! Shani is the host of A Single Serving Podcast which she launched in 2019, she is the author of 'A Single Revolution: Don't Look For a Match, Light One' and she also publishes two Substacks, weekly. Shani is an advocate for living life to the fullest, while single and has made great strides in shifting single women's mindsets across the globe. She challenges outdated dating advice and perspectives, offering a far more positive abd empowering app...
Mar 12, 2025•52 min
This week, my guest is another one of my lovely listeners! Rachael is getting married this year and she and her partner have decided to remain childfree. We discuss Rachael's life and how she does not feel a pull towards motherhood and prefers a life with her dogs. We discuss how Rachael grew up believing she would have children and only relatively recently heard the term "childfree" and how she found online communities and podcasts to help her to process her decision. We talk about what it's li...
Mar 05, 2025•58 min
This week, my guest is one of my listeners! Kat made contact with me following my awakening episode and shared a very similar experience to me, at around the same time, leading to the same realisations and feelings! Having been on the pursuit of marriage and children, leading as far as to begin making plans to become a single mother, by choice... Kat had an awakening which led her to freedom from societal pressures, self love and acceptance, a blissful feeling of joy for an entire year and she i...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Today, I am talking about my choice to be voluntarily celibate and how I feel about men, sex and relationships at this point in time. I have developed a different mindset when it comes to intercourse and I am not missing sex ... at all! Enjoy xx Thank you so much for listening to my show! You can follow and contact me here; Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/onesinglewoman/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551831488278 TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@onesinglewoman YouTub...
Feb 19, 2025•11 min
Today, my guest is Nandita Bajaj, Executive Director of Population Balance. Following on from my awakening episode, last week, I wanted to publish this interview which was carried out in August 2024. Nandita explains the stage we are currently at with overpopulation and how human supremacy, patriarchy and pronatalism have driven us to a dire situation on planet earth. We discuss ecological overshoot, the loss of biodiversity and the effect this has on the human race and the non-human animals, th...
Feb 12, 2025•1 hr 25 min
Today I talk about my awakening during the summer of 2024, when I took a break from podcasting. I talk about the effect it had on my mind, my life, my view of the world and social conditioning and the reasons I am trying to expose the damaging effects of pronatalism. Lots of love xx Thank you so much for listening to my show! You can follow and contact me here; Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/onesinglewoman/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551831488278 TikTok - https:/...
Feb 05, 2025•37 min
This week, my guest is Keltie Maguire, host of the Kids of Childfree podcast and Clarity Coach for women experiencing ambivalence when it comes to the decision of whether or not to have children. Keltie experienced a great deal of ambivalence herself surrounding this decision and found it hard to find other women who were undecided. Today she tells her story of reaching the decision to remain childfree, how she became a Clairty Coach and subsequently set up her podcast, how she works with women ...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 13 min
In this second interview with narcissistic psychopath, HG Tudor we delve into the role narcissism is playing within society. We talk about how it is accelerating narcissistic behaviour on social media platforms, narcissism in the workplace, the psychology behind wars and more! HG's work can be found here ; https://narcsite.com/ Enjoy! xx Thank you so much for listening to my show! You can follow and contact me here; Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/onesinglewoman/ Facebook - https://www.fac...
Jan 22, 2025•59 min
This week, my guest is the gorgeous Rachel Beck of The Feisty Heroine podcast! Rachel started her new podcast in October last year and she is promoting the single and childfree lifestyle whilst celebrating the many other accomplishments women can make in life, outside the traditional social roles. We talk about Rachel's 10 year relationship/marriage with her ex husband and the pressures she felt to marry at a young age, due to her conservative upbringing. We discuss the issues and compromises wi...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 6 min
My guest today is documentary filmmaker, Towe Carlsson who, having found herself questioning her desire to have children and fearing regretting motherhood, went on to make a documentary called Motherhood, Confessions of Regret. Towe worked with three women and one of their children, as well as author of Regretting Motherhood, Orna Donath. The trailer, which can be seen on my social media today is moving and demonstrates the necessity for this conversation to be opened up within society. Towe and...
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 7 min
HAPPY NEW YEAR! In todays episode I'm talking about the ways in which we compromise within relationships, marriage, children and friendships and how we can easily tolerate dynamics which aren't in alignment with who we really are. I talk more about my journey to authenticity and the changes I have experienced within my life and my mindset and how I am moving forward into the New Year, ditching the resolutions and replacing them with a simple desire to follow the real me! Thank you so much for li...
Jan 01, 2025•24 min
My last episode of 2024! I hope this inspires single people to have a really gorgeous, joy-filled day, whatever you're doing! Merry Christmas and I will be back on New Years Day! x Link to Jill Starks article; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-05/why-im-spend-christmas-day-alone-doing-the-things-i-love/103177882 Thank you so much for listening to my show! You can follow and contact me here; Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/onesinglewoman/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id...
Dec 18, 2024•19 min
Today, my guest is diagnosed narcissist and psychopath, HG Tudor. HG, the self-proclaimed "Ultra" narcissist, publishes a wealth of content surrounding the subject of narcissism on Youtube, where I first found his work and became fascinated by his in-depth, first hand knowledge. In Part one, we discuss narcissism and how it is formed within an individual and the various schools and cadres of this personality disorder. We also discuss some of the warning signs and various character traits and how...
Dec 14, 2024•1 hr 5 min
This week my guest is social scientist, author and leading expert on single life, Dr Bella DePaulo! We discuss Bella's new Book, Single at Heart and what it is to live an intentionally single life full of power, freedom and heart-filling joy! You can visit Bella's website here; https://belladepaulo.com/ Single at Heart available on Amazon; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Single-Heart-Power-Freedom-Life/dp/1805223984/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20UZ5T6A106L3&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GfiO9EEjx6CbUWSRB6ySmHUlfdKuWMYYcjwH...
Dec 11, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Today I am talking about the human ego and how it has affected me on a personal level and how it affects society and the world we live in. I talk about my personal experiences with my own ego and how the realisation that it had driven my life, led me to my higher self. Thank you so much for listening to my show! You can follow and contact me here; Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/onesinglewoman/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551831488278 TikTok - https://www.tiktok.co...
Dec 04, 2024•33 min
Hello and welcome back to One Single Woman after a much longer break than I had originally anticipated! In this episode I explain that I took a step back from podcasting because I was experiencing a massive shift in my mindset and the way in which I looked at the world and I needed to make some sort of sense of it all. This podcast is still very much about being single and childfree, but I am now on a mission to expose the way that social conditioning impacts every aspect of our lives, our world...
Nov 27, 2024•36 min
I am taking a break at the end of this first six months of podcasting as I work on Season 2! I will still be active on social media and please feel free to get in touch with me. Thank you to everyone for their support in this first six months. Back soon! Thank you so much for listening to my show! You can follow and contact me here; Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/onesinglewoman/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551831488278 TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@onesinglewom...
May 28, 2024•5 min
PART 2 of my interview with Dr Peter McGraw, host of "SOLO, THE SINGLE PERSON'S GUIDE TO A REMARKABLE LIFE" Podcast. Today in this second half of the interview, Peter and I discuss; - The four different types of singles Peter has derived and the distinguishing characteristics which make them unique - The ways in which these types of singles can be incompatible, when dating - Loneliness and how although some people suffer from loneliness, some may be suffering due to expectations to be within a r...
May 21, 2024•31 min
PART 1 of my interview with the awesome Dr Peter McGraw! Peter is the host of the "SOLO, A SINGLE PERSON'S GUIDE TO A REMARKABLE LIFE" podcast and today he joins me to discuss the Solo movement. In part 1, we discuss; - Peter's life as a bachelor and how his own podcast aided the navigation of his solo journey. - The difference between a single and a solo person - The "relationship escalator" we are all meant to ride in life and the rules which need to be obeyed once you are on the escalator - T...
May 14, 2024•52 min
In todays episode, I speak with listener, Charlotte. Charlotte got in touch with me to tell me that she had found peace and happiness after divorce from her 25 year marriage in which she had made numerous compromises, for her husband. We discuss Charlottes marriage and how she went along with certain aspects without question through fear of being perceived as "high maintenance". We discuss her feelings on finding out that her husband had moved on to another relationship and how she dealt with th...
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Paul Ward is back today and we are talking dating apps! We discuss the different experiences from a male and female perspective along with our own personal experiences. We discuss the psychology used within them for the operators to gain wealth, whilst the subscribers lose out. We discuss the way some people use the apps without having healed from previous relationships and much more! You can follow Paul here; https://www.instagram.com/_great_kraken_/ Thank you so much for listening to my show! ...
Apr 23, 2024•56 min
This week I am speaking to another friend of mine, Victoria. Vic wanted to share the journey of her marriage breakdown back in 2022, when she discovered her husband had been unfaithful after 20 years. Vic describes the battles she faced, the feelings and emotions and how she hit rock bottom and felt she couldn't live without him. She goes on to tell her story of picking herself up from the depths of despair and creating a new, empowered life which she is very much embracing, as a single woman fo...
Apr 09, 2024•39 min
Hello! I am on an Easter break this week but I wanted to share a little clip of some recent loveliness! I am going to be uploading some random, short, bonus episodes on a semi regular basis and alongside my weekly epsiodes. These episodes will be of random thoughts, feelings, experiences and stories from my life... not necessarily relating to being single. I hope you enjoy this mini episode about spreading a little joy to those around you. I will be back with a regular episode, next week. Happy ...
Apr 02, 2024•4 min
In todays episode, I chat with one of my best friends, Bex! We sit by the harbour in our village and discuss Bex’s relationship history and her two main relationships and how they differed. We discuss how she is now in the longest single period she has ever been in and how she feels about that and the prospect of a relationship in the future and how high the bar of expectation now is, for her. We also talk about dating apps, friendships, the difference between loneliness and being alone, advocat...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 1 min
