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
04/28/2026 | 51 mins.
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! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo/
Solo Thoughts 18: Welcoming Rough Seas
04/07/2026 | 18 mins.
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/solo/
Lessons from the Hurt Business
03/24/2026 | 1h 13 mins.
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
03/10/2026 | 1h 25 mins.
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 the science of solitude and answers questions, such as “What actually happens when you sit with yourself? And how much solitude is enough?” The answers might surprise you.
Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.petermcgraw.org/solo
About Solo – The Single Person’s Guide to a Remarkable Life
About Solo – The Single Person’s Guide to a Remarkable Life
About Solo – The Single Person’s Guide to a Remarkable Life
“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, money, business, travel, fashion, art, leisure, and of course, sex and dating. For the so-called spinster or bachelor, Solo is the resource for people who are happily single (aka the unapologetically unattached).
USA