Episode 168: Home Alone

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Being single is a lifestyle choice for some women and an unwelcome reality for others. In this episode we meet three women, each with different perspectives on living and working alone, especially during a pandemic. Retired professor Joan DelFattore has been happily single for decades. Susie, a consultant, is mourning the lack of a husband and children. Her isolation during Covid just makes everything feel worse - particularly when HR seems fixated on families. And psychotherapist Magali Rozenfeld says being by yourself can provide unexpected opportunities for growth.

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0:17.1	or settle in together on the weekend for a hearty Sunday roast whatever the weather.
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0:44.5	Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success.
0:45.9	I'm Ashley Miltight.
0:51.9	This time, three perspectives on living and working alone.
0:57.8	So much of what I've been reading about how to adjust to the pandemic has to do with how to keep up social relationships.
0:59.8	And that's unquestionably important.
1:02.0	But I think it's also important to talk about the value of solitude.
1:06.0	The general kind of discourse around it is let's all band together and support the mothers and the fathers
1:13.3	who are in this trying time. And not once has it been mentioned. Let's band together and support the
1:20.0	people who are enduring this by themselves. It forces you to some personal growth, whether you like
1:26.8	it or not.
1:27.9	When it's not about survival, you get to know yourself in a different way.
1:33.3	Coming up on the broad experience.
1:48.3	I was a bit of a mess in the lead up to my 40th birthday.
1:52.5	My father had died earlier that year, work was in upheaval.
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