Well Enough Alone - A Guide To Thriving Solo

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Episodes: 28

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Well Enough Alone is a celebration of solo living that tears up the “sad and lonely” single script and embraces a path that can be joyful and fulfilling.


Because there is more to life than “partnered and happy” or “single and searching.”


There is solo and thriving.


Hosted by best-selling author and award-winning journalist, Jill Stark, this podcast is for anyone who’s ever been told that being single makes you incomplete. Or that life only begins when you find “the one”.


To leave “well enough alone” means to stop trying to change something that’s already good enough.


What if the one you’ve been looking for is you? Could embracing your single status rather than fearing it be the key to a happy life?


Jill talks to inspiring guests, some who are single and some who aren’t, about what they’ve learned from time spent in their own company, and interviews experts in psychology, human behaviour, business, health and wellbeing, about how to thrive alone.


Whether you’re happily single, trying to get comfortable with your solo status, or partnered and looking to carve out more time for yourself, Well Enough Alone will empower you to live your life your way.


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Episode Date
SEASON FINALE: Heidi Clements: Single after 60 – the freedom, self-love and empowerment of age
May 04, 2025
Paul Dolan: Can you be truly happy alone? (Spoiler: single, child-free women are the happiest)
Apr 27, 2025
Michelle McQuaid: the cost of being a ‘good girl’ – finding freedom from people-pleasing
Apr 20, 2025
Therese Shechter: ‘My so-called selfish life’ – how the child-free movement is reshaping the world
Apr 13, 2025
Cindy Gallop: I’m unmarried, no kids, dating younger men casually for sex, and I’m blissfully ecstatic.
Apr 06, 2025
Annie Whitlocke: A death doula’s lessons on dying, aloneness and how to live well
Mar 30, 2025
Amy Gahran: Solo polyamory and getting off the ‘relationship escalator’
Mar 23, 2025
Rosie Batty: On hope, finding yourself amid trauma and grief, and building a life with meaning
Mar 16, 2025
Jacinta Parsons: On reclaiming your forever self, the wisdom of older women and lessons from living with chronic illness
Mar 09, 2025
Cyndi Darnell: Sex and the single life – intimacy, sexuality and non-traditional relationships
Mar 02, 2025
Alexandra Collier: Single motherhood by choice: the triumphs, challenges and secrets of solo parenting
Feb 23, 2025
Hannah Ferguson: on modern womanhood, what’s driving loneliness in Gen Z, dismantling shame, and building political engagement in a broken world
Feb 16, 2025
Matt Agnew: On life after The Bachelor, finding happiness alone, healthy masculinity and his life-long mental health journey
Feb 09, 2025
Yumi Stynes: Rising strong, surviving the trolls, and finding freedom after divorce
Feb 02, 2025
Season Finale: Claire Mason: on sobriety as a path to single freedom, self-love and happiness
Sep 08, 2024
Gyan Yankovich: on building a shared future with friends, and why friendship should be treated with the same respect as marriage
Sep 01, 2024
Megan Waters: Self-love and growing strong through the struggles
Aug 25, 2024
Emma Edwards: Budgeting for one, and understanding emotional spending
Aug 18, 2024
Lauren Beckman on the voting power of “childless cat ladies”, and the politics of being single
Aug 11, 2024
Alita Brydon: on surviving the dating scene, body positivity, and how to stop being a people pleaser
Aug 04, 2024
Danni Duncan: on choosing not to have children, and the rise of the child-free movement
Jul 28, 2024
Stuart Henshall: When the honeymoon’s over – marriage, divorce and the journey to self-acceptance,
Jul 21, 2024
Dr Ahona Guha: the psychology of being alone – navigating loneliness and learning to love your own company
Jul 14, 2024
Jess King: rebuilding after betrayal, and not being defined by having a partner
Jul 07, 2024
Dr Bella DePaulo: Single at heart: the art of thriving solo
Jun 30, 2024
Yvie Jones: Taking back the power and defining your own worth
Jun 23, 2024
An Introduction To Jill Stark & Well Enough Alone
Jun 16, 2024
An Introduction To Well Enough Alone
Jun 08, 2024