Well Enough Alone - A Guide To Thriving Solo
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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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 28
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
SEASON FINALE: Heidi Clements: Single after 60 – the freedom, self-love and empowerment of age
If you want to know how to be happy alone and show up proudly and unapologetically as your authentic self, you need to listen to this episode.
This is our season finale and what a way to close out s…
Paul Dolan: Can you be truly happy alone? (Spoiler: single, child-free women are the happiest)
What do we actually need to live a happy life? Are marriage and children the pathway to fulfilment, or do they actually make you less happy?
This week, Jill talks to someone who has studied these que…
Michelle McQuaid: the cost of being a ‘good girl’ – finding freedom from people-pleasing
How do we let go of perfectionism and people-pleasing and learn to put our own needs first?
This week, Jill speaks with Dr Michelle McQuaid, an internationally recognised positive psychology expert, …
Therese Shechter: ‘My so-called selfish life’ – how the child-free movement is reshaping the world
To have kids or not have kids? In a world where marriage and parenthood are still seen as the expected life path, what does it mean to defy convention and choose a different way?
This week, Jill talk…
Cindy Gallop: I’m unmarried, no kids, dating younger men casually for sex, and I’m blissfully ecstatic.
This week’s guest is the very definition of thriving solo. Cindy Gallop is a trailblazer for single, child-free living. She’s torn up the rule book, rejected outdated societal expectations, and activ…
Annie Whitlocke: A death doula’s lessons on dying, aloneness and how to live well
What do death and dying have to teach us about getting comfortable with aloneness and living a good life?
It’s a subject that’s often taboo and shrouded in fear and secrecy, but it’s also something n…
Amy Gahran: Solo polyamory and getting off the ‘relationship escalator’
If you’ve ever been with a partner and asked, “Is this relationship going anywhere?” or been swept up in a romance without stopping to question if it’s really what you want, then you may already be f…
Rosie Batty: On hope, finding yourself amid trauma and grief, and building a life with meaning
This week’s episode is one we’re really honoured to bring to you.
Our guest is someone with boundless courage and compassion, who has shared some of her most vulnerable moments with the world so that…
Jacinta Parsons: On reclaiming your forever self, the wisdom of older women and lessons from living with chronic illness
Season 2: Episode Six
Jacinta Parsons: On reclaiming your forever self, the wisdom of older women and lessons from living with chronic illness
Reaching mid-life and reckoning with the ageing process …
Cyndi Darnell: Sex and the single life – intimacy, sexuality and non-traditional relationships
This week’s episode is a really juicy one so buckle up!
Can we have a fulfilling, safe and healthy sex life when we’re unpartnered? Is sex an essential part of the human experience or are there other…
Alexandra Collier: Single motherhood by choice: the triumphs, challenges and secrets of solo parenting
Today’s episode is one that many of you asked us for – what does it take to have a child on your own?
Whether you’re sure you want kids, still trying to decide, or want to be child-free, this week’s …
Hannah Ferguson: on modern womanhood, what’s driving loneliness in Gen Z, dismantling shame, and building political engagement in a broken world
We live in an age when we’re more connected than at any point in history. But in our terminally online timeline, many young people are feeling a profound sense of loneliness, isolation and pessimism…
Matt Agnew: On life after The Bachelor, finding happiness alone, healthy masculinity and his life-long mental health journey
Imagine being the star of a reality TV dating show as one of the most visible eligible bachelors in the country, and you find love in the full glare of the public eye only to have your life fall apar…
Yumi Stynes: Rising strong, surviving the trolls, and finding freedom after divorce
We’re back for season two and what a way to kick off, with Australian broadcasting icon, Yumi Stynes – a fierce and fearless trailblazer who knows all about finding your strength when you are very mu…
Season Finale: Claire Mason: on sobriety as a path to single freedom, self-love and happiness
Claire Mason: on sobriety as a path to single freedom, self-love and happiness
Can quitting drinking be the key to a happy, single life?
This week, Jill talks to podcaster, body positivity advocate a…
Gyan Yankovich: on building a shared future with friends, and why friendship should be treated with the same respect as marriage
Our friends are some of the most important people in our lives. They’re the people we can be 100% ourselves with.
And for many single people, they are our family.
So why are friendships seen as lesse…
Megan Waters: Self-love and growing strong through the struggles
This week, Jill talks to TV presenter, public speaker and proud Warumungu/Yawuru woman, Megan Waters about growing and healing through times of struggle and why time alone is an essential part of her…
Emma Edwards: Budgeting for one, and understanding emotional spending
One of the best things about solo life is the freedom to live life your own, without having to run decisions past anyone else.
But one of the more challenging things is how expensive it can be to liv…
Lauren Beckman on the voting power of “childless cat ladies”, and the politics of being single
Why are single people often ignored by policy makers? And is that about to change?
This week, Jill is joined by writer and political commentator, Lauren Beckman, to dissect Vice Presidential candidate…
Alita Brydon: on surviving the dating scene, body positivity, and how to stop being a people pleaser
If a romantic connection is something you see in your future – whether for one night or forever – then you do not want to miss this week’s episode.
Jill speaks to Alita Brydon – dating expert, body po…