ICYMI: How to Thrive as a Party of One

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Candice Lim is joined by Meghan Keane, the founder of NPR’s Life Kit and the author of Party of One: Be Your Own Best Life Partner. We’re approaching “cuffing season,” a viral term that demarcates those colder months when everyone in your life suspiciously couples up. While it’s bred a whole economy of cozy, staying in vlogs and soft (or hard) launches, what happens to those who choose not to cuff up this season — or ever? On today’s episode, we’re talking about what it really means to choose yourself in a world that pressures us to partner, and how the internet helps or hurts this narrative thanks to friendship breakups, dating app screenshots, and unfiltered Reddit advice. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim, with production assistance from Alexandra Botti. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.5	Hey, I'm Candice Lim, and you're listening to I-C-Y-My.
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1:24.3	She's the founder and supervising editor of NPR's Life Kit,
1:28.5	and she's also the author of a new book called Party of One. Be your own best life partner. Please welcome to the show, Megan Kay. Hello, Megan. Thanks for having me, Candace.
1:34.8	Megan, the funny thing about us is that we actually used to work on the same floor together at NPR.
1:40.1	We sure did. Four floor. Best views. And I'm so glad to reunite with you today. Because I have a question to ask you. Look, Megan, you are a first time guest on this show. Therefore, I must ask, what is your first internet memory? So I wanted to be journalistically true and really think about the first
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