Last Year of Single
Last Year of Single
Podcast Description
If this was your last year of single, what would you do? If you knew in 12 months, that you would never be single again, how would you spend your time?Lets redefine what it means to be single. We’re making a list of all the last things we would do in our last year of true freedom, and we’re going to do everything on that list. Host, and seven-year single, Bree Steele also wants to make the day-to-day of single living easier. Bree will talk to experts who will help us fix the worst parts of being single: fear, loneliness, money, sex and more.Welcome to The Last Year of Single. Coming to you live from India.Follow Bree Steele on Instagram: @breesteele.mp3Share your experiences, thoughts, feeling and ideas: [email protected]: Bree SteeleExecutive Producer: Bree Steele Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Content Themes
This podcast addresses themes specific to single living, covering topics such as navigating loneliness, financial independence, establishing fulfilling friendships, and maintaining a vibrant sex life. Episodes like Living Single examine housing options for individuals, while Single Sex Life addresses intimacy without the complexities of traditional dating.
If this was your last year of single, what would you do? If you knew in 12 months, that you would never be single again, how would you spend your time?
Lets redefine what it means to be single. We’re making a list of all the last things we would do in our last year of true freedom, and we’re going to do everything on that list. Host, and seven-year single, Bree Steele also wants to make the day-to-day of single living easier. Bree will talk to experts who will help us fix the worst parts of being single: fear, loneliness, money, sex and more.
Welcome to The Last Year of Single. Coming to you live from India.
Follow Bree Steele on Instagram: @breesteele.mp3
Share your experiences, thoughts, feeling and ideas: [email protected]
Host: Bree Steele
Executive Producer: Bree Steele
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 and TV; meaning we absorbed the golden era of Disney princess movies and the golden age of the rom-com more completely than any generation before us.
Bree talks to Dr. Veronica Hefner, associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Dominican University of California, whose research examines exactly how romantic films and Disney princess movies shape real beliefs about love, dating, and relationships.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- What “happily ever after” actually trains us to expect from love and a partner
- Why we keep attracting the wrong people, and how rom-com idealism can prime us for emotionally unavailable men
- How childhood media exposure connects to anxious attachment and avoidant attachment patterns later in life
- Whether it’s still okay to watch these films, knowing what we now know
- How to untangle what we actually want from what we were taught to want
- Why we expect real life to imitate art in the first place
- The genuine, researched benefits of rom-com watching, and how to actually be happy alone instead of waiting for a movie ending
We reference Sex and the City, Eat Pray Love, Bridget Jones’s Diary, (500) Days of Summer, Serendipity, Notting Hill, and Sleepless in Seattle throughout.
If you’ve ever caught yourself measuring your single life against a movie you watched twenty years ago, this episode is for you.
Dr. Veronica Hefner: hefner.faculty.ucdavis.edu
Substack memoir — last year of single in real time: breesteele.substack.com
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Host and Executive Producer: Bree Steele
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