70: DIG IN: Thriving While Single and Talking to Your Kids About Dating
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball
Persephonica
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Dig In, we have some great advice about how to live a fulfilling life as a single person in a world that can often seem like it’s built for couples and families. Also, an important question about how and when to introduce a potential new partner to your children. Plus, Jo & Zo share some more gynaecological giggles…
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CREDITS
Exec Producer: Jonathan O’Sullivan
Producer: Samantha Psyk
Assistant Producer: Eve Jones
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Digit, it is so hard to leave a relationship when you know it's the right thing to do. |
| 0:08.6 | If you're getting waxed, people are like, oh, okay, yes, I'll do this. I'll move this lip here and I'll |
| 0:12.9 | move that lip there and whatever, whatever it takes. My only advice to people would be, if you're |
| 0:17.7 | using hair removal cream, be careful around your rear. Does it burn? It can burn. |
| 0:23.7 | Oh, you can't sit down for a long time afterwards. |
| 0:27.5 | She said, yes, you've got a very small hole. |
| 0:30.2 | This stunned me a bit and I burst out laughing. |
| 0:32.9 | Oh my God. All of that |
| 0:34.8 | right after this. |
| 0:42.5 | Thank you. my God. All of that right after this. Digit is sponsored by Ancient and Brave. Do you ever think the hardest work you do is the stuff |
| 0:47.9 | no one notices, Joe? Oh, I'm thinking of the toilet rolls and changing them when they've |
| 0:53.0 | run out, throwing the little cardboard rolls away. I'm thinking of the toilet rolls and changing them when they've run out, throwing the little |
| 0:54.2 | cardboard rolls away. I'm thinking of the vacuuming that nobody else ever seems to see the |
| 0:59.3 | dirt or the crumbs on the floor. I mean, I could go on. I'm sure you can too. Absolutely. |
| 1:04.0 | Putting out the recycling, pulling out the bins, generally emptying bins, carrying wood, cleaning |
| 1:08.5 | the fireplace, carrying shopping, putting it away. |
| 1:11.4 | Well, I've recently been focusing on how much protein I get. It's not about the gains. |
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