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 Owner Of Yidan's Farm Stay, Yidan Xiong
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My guest on the podcast this week is the fabulous Yidan Xiong.
Born and raised in China, but now living in northern Thailand, Yidan went from being a marketing executive in Beijing, to being a farmer living in rural Thailand with an array of animals, from cats and dogs to pigs and chickens. Yidan has created her very own farm stay, Yidan’s Farm, for travellers and people living a nomadic lifestyle to come and immerse themselves in nature, interact with the animals, and help grow and harvest the food on the farm, as well as cook and eat together.
Yidan is single and childfree.
Topics that we cover are:
- her life in Beijing before she started a new life in, Chiang Dao, Thailand;
- the hard working ethic of the Chinese people;
- how she ended up creating Yidan’s Farm, and what that journey looked like;
- the picture she had in her mind when she started building her farm;
- the houses she built using bamboo because her Grandpa worked with bamboo in her childhood;
- how Yidan found local workers to help her with her project;
- the kinds of guests who tend to stay with Yidan on the farm;
- the many animals that Yidan has on the farm, and how many of them ‘found her’;
- how important nature is to her, having rediscovered the connection she always had to it as a young girl;
- the slower pace of life that she now enjoys;
- what freedom means to Yidan, and the part that money plays in feeling free;
- how her parents have reacted to her life in Thailand;
- her mother’s disappointment that Yidan hasn't married or had kids, and how she found it hard to believe that Yidan was ‘really’ happy;
- how she deals with the opinions of others when it comes to her way of life;
- the wonderful relationships she has with the people — largely women — who stay on her farm;
- what thriving solo means to Yidan.
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