Thrive Solo
Let’s be real — being single and child-free? It’s pretty damn awesome. Don’t believe me? Stick around. I promise you, by listening to this podcast, you’re going to start seeing your solo life in a whole new light — one that feels empowering, exciting, and full of possibility.
I’m Lucy Meggeson, and I’m here to help you stop seeing singlehood as a consolation prize and start embracing it as the incredible opportunity that it is. Because the truth? Being single isn’t second best. It’s not a waiting room. And it sure as hell isn’t a life of lack. In fact, when you lean into it, it can be just as fulfilling—if not more so—than being coupled up with kids.
And besides, no matter what our relationship status, what we all really want is to feel good in the here and now. So instead of focusing on what’s ‘missing,’ let’s focus on what’s possible. The freedom. The adventure. The extra time and headspace to create a life that’s truly our own.
Because here’s the thing: you are so much more powerful than you realise. Your thoughts shape your reality. And when you shift your mindset, you shift your life. My mission isn’t just to help you feel better about being single—it’s to help you recognise your own agency. To help you see that you are the creator of your own experience. And that you, and you alone, get to decide what your life looks like.
So join me here every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and let’s build lives that feel joyful, meaningful, and wildly fulfilling — on our own terms.
Let’s Thrive Solo…together.
E-mail me at lucy@lucymeggeson.com
Thrive Solo
The One Where I Talk To Writer & 'Late Bloomer', Allora Dannon Campbell
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My guest on this week’s episode is the fabulous Allora Cannon Campbell.
Allora is 34, single, childfree, and the oldest of 10 homeschooled kids raised on a horse farm in New York State. By the age of 32 she’d never been kissed, let alone been in a relationship, and in 2023 Allora started talking about her big ‘secret’, as well as her adventures with dating, on TikTok. Eighteen million views later, and an appearance on the Drew Barrymore Show thanks to documenting her life as a self-proclaimed ‘late bloomer’, she is now a spokesperson for those people who have also come to the game of love and sex later in life.
She lives in Western New York, marketing for a biotech company by day, and writing by night.
Topics that we cover are:
- Allora’s wonderful childhood with her parents and nine siblings;
- how taking care of her younger siblings was - and still is - a big part of her identity;
- how she thought she was the only person in the world who was a ‘late bloomer’, and how embarrassed she was by it;
- what it felt like to be ‘behind’ everyone else in terms of love and romance;
- the feeling of isolation when you’re not hitting the usual milestones at the ‘right’ time;
- her first relationship at the age of 32, and what it felt like to experience all of her ‘firsts’;
- the expectation and pressure she felt about 'knowing what to do';
- what happened when she started sharing her ‘late bloomer’ journey on TikTok;
- the story of Allora going on The Drew Barrymore Show;
- the dating app ‘hellscape’ and her experience of it;
- how, whilst she wants to share her life with someone, she us “super good” at being single;
- why women don’t need men in the same way as they used to;
- how Allora’s standards for relationships are high because her parents have such a great relationship;
- the article she wrote after suffering the grief of her first heartbreak;
- what Allora finds the hardest about being single;
- her novel, Sisters, Salt & Dragons.
Follow Allora on Instagram:
@alloradannon
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@alloradannon
Check out her website:
https://www.alloradannon.com/
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And thank you so much for listening!