Last Year of Single
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<p>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?</p><br><p>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.</p><br><p>Welcome to The Last Year of Single. Coming to you live from India.</p><br><p>Follow Bree Steele on Instagram: @breesteele.mp3</p><p>Share your experiences, thoughts, feeling and ideas: lastyearofsingle@gmail.com</p><br><p>Host: Bree Steele</p><p>Executive Producer: Bree Steele</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Recent Episodes
July 7, 2026
My Last Year of Single List: the 5 goals I set myself (and the 2 I'm keeping secret)
<p>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?</p><br><p>In this episode, I am finally revealing five of the things on my own list: what they are, why I chose them, and what success actually looks like to me for each one. I am keeping two items secret for now. But five is enough to be going on with.</p><br><p>Here is what made the list:</p><ul><li>Writing a book. </li><li>Being in a Bollywood film. </li><li>Watching an entire Bollywood film without subtitles and actually understanding it. </li><li>Learning what a healthy and trustworthy romantic relationship is supposed to feel like and what that even means for someone who has never quite experienced it.</li><li>And becoming financially secure, not rich, not retired, just genuinely, solidly secure.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>For the relationship goal, I play a clip from my episode with Ann Davidman, a counsellor and author who specialises in helping people understand what they actually want from love and relationships. For the financial security goal, I play a clip from my episode with Glen James, creator of the Money Money Money podcast, formerly My Millennial Money, and one of Australia's most trusted voices on personal finance.</p><br><p>I also want to hear what is on your list. Email me, DM me on Instagram, or come and talk about it in the Last Year of Single Facebook community. And if you have not written your list yet, Episode 10 is where I explain exactly how to do it.</p><br><p>The Last Year of Single List is not about being productive while you wait for life to start. It is about deciding what your life is and living it. Whatever happens next.</p><br><p>Substack memoir: breesteele.substack.com</p><p>Instagram: @breesteele.mp3</p><p>Facebook community: Last Year of Single</p><br><p>Host, Executive Producer & Editor: Bree Steele</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
June 30, 2026
Why Asian men are the least swiped on dating apps & and how to challenge our own biases
<p>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.</p><br><p>I wanted to make this episode because of two things I have noticed. The first: every time I post about dating in India, Indian men get flooded with racist comments - comments that would never be said about a white man doing the exact same thing. The second: I am a white woman dating in India, and I have had to sit with an uncomfortable truth: in a country still shaped by colonial history, my whiteness makes me more desirable to many people here than I would ever be considered at home. </p><br><p>That is a bias I benefit from. </p><br><p>Harry Au, psychologist and social worker whose practice focuses on the Asian experience in North America, joins me to talk about what it is actually like to be a single Asian man navigating dating apps built on a hierarchy he did not choose and cannot opt out of. We talk about the research, the stereotypes, where they come from, and - more importantly - what each of us can actually do to check our own dating biases instead of pretending we don't have any.</p><br><p>This episode is a departure from my usual single-women focus, and I am not sorry about that. Last Year of Single exists because nobody is having an honest conversation about what it is actually like to be single and that conversation has to include people who are not straight white women, because the rom-com version of single life was never the whole story.</p><br><p>In this episode:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>The research on racial bias in dating apps. What the data actually shows, and why</li><li>Why Asian men are twice as likely as Asian women to remain unpartnered</li><li>What it is actually like to date as a single Asian man in North America</li><li>The specific stereotypes Asian men face and where they historically come from</li><li>Why Indian men get disproportionately racist comments when dating content goes viral</li><li>The uncomfortable truth about whiteness and desirability in post-colonial India</li><li>How to actually check your own dating biases. Practical steps, not just awareness</li><li>Why "I just have a type" is rarely as innocent as it sounds</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Harry Au is a registered social worker and psychologist whose practice, Asian Therapy, focuses specifically on helping Asian clients navigate identity, family and relationships. He holds a Master's in Gender Studies and Feminist Research from McMaster University.</p><p>This is not a comfortable episode. It is an important one.</p><br><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>Harry Au: https://www.therapywithharry.com/ </p><p>Substack memoir: breesteele.substack.com</p><p>Instagram: @breesteele.mp3</p><p> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
June 23, 2026
Going to a wedding alone: the single woman's guide to surviving wedding season
<p>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.</p><br><p>I am writing this from Mumbai during Indian wedding season, where the city looks like a Bollywood film set and the celebrations last for days. It got me thinking: why do Indian weddings look so much more fun? And why, as a single woman, do I dread a western wedding invitation?</p><br><p>Etiquette expert Jackie Vernon-Thompson joins me to answer everything nobody tells you about navigating weddings as a single person: how to handle the plus one conversation, how to decline a wedding invitation without destroying a friendship, whether you are actually obligated to attend a bachelorette party, and why - according to Jackie - wishing wells at weddings are genuinely rude and should be retired immediately.</p><br><p>We also talk about a theory I have been sitting with for a while: when couples throw out all the traditional wedding etiquette rules to make the day entirely about themselves, they stop thinking about their guests. Main character energy is great for the couple getting married. It is expensive and exhausting for everyone else in the room.</p><br><p>According to LendingTree, 40% of wedding guests have gone into debt to attend a wedding, and for bridal party members that number jumps to 62%. And 48% of Americans are secretly hoping they are not asked to be in a bridal party this year because of the financial and time burden. The etiquette around all of this is broken. This episode fixes it.</p><br><p>Jackie Vernon-Thompson is a Certified Etiquette Consultant, #1 bestselling author of Transformative Etiquette, and founder of From the Inside-Out School of Etiquette, featured in HuffPost.</p><br><p>In this episode you'll learn:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>How to go to a wedding alone without feeling like the exhibit </li><li>The exact etiquette around plus ones for single guests, what you can ask for and how to ask</li><li>How to decline a wedding invitation without damaging the friendship</li><li>Whether couples should pay for their guests to attend bachelorette and bachelor parties</li><li>Why wishing wells are considered rude and what good wedding gift etiquette actually looks like</li><li>How to decide whether you actually want to go to a wedding </li><li>How wedding etiquette has changed in the past 20 years and why bucking tradition is putting pressure on guests</li><li>How couples can be more inclusive of their single guests </li><li>Why Indian weddings look more fun than western weddings and what western couples could learn from them</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Whether you are heading to a wedding alone this summer, trying to figure out if you can say no without the guilt, secretly relieved someone cancelled their engagement, or planning a wedding and want to actually be a good host to your single friends, this episode is for you.</p><br><p>Jackie Vernon-Thompson: transformativeetiquette.com · @fromtheinsideoutsoe</p><p>Substack memoir - the Last Year of Single story in real time: breesteele.substack.com</p><p>Instagram: @breesteele.mp3</p><p> Host and Executive Producer: Bree Steele</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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<p>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?</p><br><p>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.</p><br><p>Welcome to The Last Year of Single. Coming to you live from India.</p><br><p>Follow Bree Steele on Instagram: @breesteele.mp3</p><p>Share your experiences, thoughts, feeling and ideas: lastyearofsingle@gmail.com</p><br><p>Host: Bree Steele</p><p>Executive Producer: Bree Steele</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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