Last Year of Single
Host Bree Steele redefines singlehood by creating a bucket list of experiences to have before marriage, tackling topics like fear, loneliness, money, and sex with expert insights. The podcast is recorded live from India.
Episodes
Rom-coms & Disney Princess films: how our comfort movies have impacted how we date and enjoy single life
Rom-coms, Disney princesses, and why we still expect love to look like the movies. I've always watched movies, TV shows, and read books as a way to understand myself and to work out what to expect from life, and this episode asks what happens when "what to expect" came from a childhood of Disney princesses and rom-coms.Millennial women are the first generation raised with on-demand access to film
Chosen Family: how to create a close community & what straight people can learn from the LGBTQIA+ community
Chosen family isn't a backup plan — for queer and trans communities, it's been survival and a radical way to build love, care, and belonging outside blood and marriage. This episode asks why the rest of us haven't caught up.Bree talks to Dr. Shanna Kattari, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and director of the [Sexuality | Relationships | Gender] Research Coll
My Last Year of Single List: the 5 goals I set myself (and the 2 I'm keeping secret)
If you have been listening to Last Year of Single from the beginning, you know I have been talking about the Last Year of Single List since the very first episode. The idea is simple: if you knew in twelve months you would never be single again, how would you spend your time? What would you do that you have been waiting to do with someone else?In this episode, I am finally revealing five of the th
Dating app biases: the least swiped group on dating apps is Asian men & how to challenge our own dating biases
Asian men are twice as likely as Asian women to be single. Black women face the same exclusion from the other direction. This is not a coincidence and it is not about attraction - it is about bias, and dating apps have made that bias faster, more efficient, and easier to never have to examine.I wanted to make this episode because of two things I have noticed. The first: every time I post about dat
Going to a wedding alone: the single woman's guide to surviving wedding season
Going to a wedding alone when everyone else has a plus one is one of the most quietly expensive, emotionally exhausting and occasionally humiliating experiences of being single. This episode is the bible for single women at weddings and for the couples planning them.I am writing this from Mumbai during Indian wedding season, where the city looks like a Bollywood film set and the celebrations last
Dating with a disability: ableism, sex, dating apps and learning to love single life (Peta Hooke)
It's the end of monsoon season in Mumbai. Bree went to the premiere of Call Me Bae last night. And she's been thinking about a question that's been sitting with her: what is it like when you have never once seen yourself reflected in a rom-com?That question brought her to Peta Hooke.Peta is a disability advocate, podcaster, and single woman living with cerebral palsy in Melbourne, Australia. She u
Hate being single? Can't find love? - our self-esteem is affecting our ability to enjoy single life & have fulfilling relationships. How to build unbreakable self-worth
I used to say I loved myself. I also used to people-please, stay in situationships that made me feel worthless, and spend every night alone wondering what was wrong with me. Those two things cannot both be true. One of them was lying.If you would say you love yourself, but you keep accepting less than you deserve, chasing people who don't choose you, and feeling like being single means something i
Single men: the male loneliness epidemic, why single women are happier and how men can have better friendships
For the women listening: if you've spent years dating emotionally unavailable men and wondering why - this episode has the peer-reviewed answer. And it's more surprising, and more human, than you'd expect. For the single men listening: this episode was made for you. Not to lecture you. Not to make you feel worse about yourself. To actually help.University of Toronto PhD researcher Elaine Hoan join
Why you keep attracting the wrong people: love bombing, dopamine, dating apps, toxic relationship patterns and how to break them - Dr Anastasia Hronis
If you've just come out of a relationship, situationship or hookup that felt like an addiction: intense highs, crushing lows, a pattern you can't seem to escape no matter how much you want to, this episode explains exactly what was happening in your brain. And what it takes to actually stop it.Clinical psychologist Dr Anastasia Hronis joins Bree to break down the psychology and neuroscience behind
Break ups: how to be single again, heal from heartbreak and build a new life no one can take away
Getting over a breakup is one of the most painful things you'll go through. The standard advice: go no contact, keep busy, time heals all wounds; often isn't enough. This episode gives you what actually works.Dorothy Johnson, breakup coach and host of How to Get Over Your Ex, joins Bree to talk about how to truly heal from a breakup and build a life so full that no one - not your ex, not a situati
Fear of being single and trying new things: how to stop playing it safe and actually start your Last Year of Single List
You know exactly what you want to do with your single life. You just can't make yourself do it. Fear of being alone, of starting over after a breakup, of putting yourself out there and failing; is what keeps most single women stuck. This episode gives you the psychological tools to push through it.The Psychology Sisters join Bree to unpack the specific fears that hold single women back from actual
Single motherhood: the reality of single mothers, single parents by choice, and how we can support single parent families
Single motherhood is one of the most talked-about and least honestly depicted realities for women. Jenny Davidson tells it completely straight: the financial pressure, the stigma, the resilience, and everything in between.Jenny Davidson, CEO of the Council of Single Mothers and their Children Victoria, joins Bree to share the unfiltered reality of single motherhood today, and what it actually look
The single woman's bucket list: how to write your Last Year of Single List in 8 steps (and actually do it)
What would you do if you knew this was your last year of being single? Not rushing to find a relationship, but doing everything you've been putting off, dreaming about, or telling yourself you'll do someday. This episode shows you exactly how.Bree Steele walks you through the 8-step process for writing your own Last Year of Single List - the single woman's bucket list that is the heart of this pod
Body clock pressure: how to decide if you want children as a single woman
When you're single (after a breakup or chronically single) the question 'do you want kids?' can feel like the most urgent, loaded and impossible question you've ever been asked. This episode helps you actually answer it, honestly, for yourself.Ann Davidman, Parenthood Clarity Mentor and co-author of Motherhood — Is It For Me?, has helped hundreds of single women find genuine clarity on one of life
Living single: living alone, share houses and the cost of living crisis. The housing options for single people
The housing market was built for couples, and if you're single and renting or trying to buy alone, you feel that every single month. This episode explains why it's not your fault, and what's actually changing.Alicia Denby, sociology researcher and PhD expert on singles in urban spaces, reveals the structural reasons housing is harder and more expensive for single people. Plus, co-living company Co
Sex life while single: how to feel sexually fulfilled and stop settling for losers & empty connections
Being single doesn't mean your sex life has to be a series of disappointing hookups that leave you feeling worse than before. Clinical sex therapist Laura Miano joins Bree for the honest, practical conversation about sexual fulfilment that single women are rarely given.Laura Miano is a clinical sex therapist and co-founder of POSMO, and she brings zero judgement and complete honesty to one of the
BONUS: Guided body scan meditation for burnout recovery and stress relief - with SIRPA practitioner Irralee Andrzejowska
Burnout, stress and heartbreak don't just live in your mind, they live in your body. This short guided body scan, led by SIRPA practitioner Irralee Andrzejowska, helps you check in with what your body is actually trying to tell you.You can do this body scan any time, as many times as you like. It pairs directly with Episode 6 on burnout recovery, but works as a standalone practice whenever you nee
Burnout recovery for single women: how to heal from exhaustion when you're carrying everything alone
Burnout hits differently when you're single. There's no one to pick up the slack, share the mental load, or notice before you crash. If you've come out of a breakup already running on empty, or you've been carrying too much alone for too long - this episode is what you need.Irralee Andrzejowska (SIRPA practitioner and physiotherapist) and Dr Michael Leiter (burnout researcher and author) reveal wh
Single woman finances: how to build financial security, save money and career advice
Being single (especially after a breakup) can make money feel terrifying. There's no safety net, no one to split the bills with, no shared savings. But being single is also one of the most powerful opportunities to build real financial independence on your own terms.Glen James (host of the Money Money Money podcast) and Brian Nathan (life and mindset coach) share the practical steps and mindset sh
How to make friends as an adult: beating loneliness and building real connections when you're single
One of the hardest and least talked-about parts of being single (especially after a breakup) is loneliness. Not missing one person. Missing a whole world of connection. This episode gives you a practical plan to fix it.Anna Goldfarb (New York Times friendship journalist) and Demi Kotsoris, founder of Millennial Crisis, share the exact strategies that work for making new friends as an adult, and wh
How to have better friendships as a single woman: why your friendships feel disappointing & how to fix them
When you're single (especially after a breakup) your friendships become everything. Your support system, your social life, your chosen family. So why do they so often fall short of what you actually need?Anna Goldfarb, friendship expert and New York Times journalist, and queer friendship researcher Tom Roach reveal why friendships get harder as we get older, and what single women can actually do a
Fear of being single: why being alone feels so scary & how to stop letting it control your life (Dr Anna Machin, Oxford)
Whether you're newly single after a breakup and terrified of being alone or you've been single for years and still feel like something is wrong with you, this episode gives you the science behind why, and what to actually do about it.Dr Anna Machin, evolutionary anthropologist and love researcher at the University of Oxford, reveals the biological and societal reasons behind our fear of singlehood
How to enjoy being single - stop waiting for love and start living - Graham Norton's advice that changed everything
Whether you're newly single or you've been single for years; this is the episode that changes how you see everything.Host Bree Steele introduces the concept that started it all: what if you treated your single life as the most intentional, exciting chapter - not a waiting room for a relationship?After crying on the kitchen floor at 4am, losing her job, moving to Mumbai alone on gut instinct, and g
What is the Last Year of Single? The podcast for single women who are done waiting and ready to live
If you're newly single, healing from a breakup, or exhausted by the pressure to find a partner before you can start living - this is the podcast that changes everything.The Last Year of Single is the show that asks one question: if you knew in 12 months you'd never be single again, how would you spend your time?Host Bree Steele - award-winning podcaster, TEDx speaker, and Australian woman living s
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