381. Be Your Own Partner: A Conversation About Singleness and Mindset with Meghan Keane

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever feel like your relationship status defines your worth? Like your life is on hold until you find a partner? What if you could stop waiting and start being your own best partner—whether you're single, coupled up, or somewhere in between?

This week, I’m joined by Meghan Keane, founder of NPR’s Life Kit and author of Party of One: Be Your Own Best Partner, to break down the shame and stigma around singleness and how it holds so many women back from fully living their lives. We talk about how to identify your values, manage your thoughts and emotions, and create meaningful, nourishing connections—with yourself and others.

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0:00.0	Welcome to unfuck your brain.
0:08.3	I'm your host, Cara Lowentile, master-certified coach, and founder of the School of New
0:13.3	Feminist Thub.
0:14.5	I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life
0:20.0	on your own terms, one that you're
0:22.0	truly excited to live. Let's go.
0:27.6	Hello, my friends. I'm so excited for today because you all know that one of my soap boxes
0:33.4	is the way we think about marriage and romantic relationships and the socialization that women
0:38.4	get around those things. And I often say, even though it does make any sense, that I sort of still
0:43.2	feel like in my heart that I'm single, even though I'm married, because I feel more like
0:47.9	affiliated with and aligned with single women and the way that they get to live their lives.
0:53.5	And I try to live my life pretty
0:55.1	like that despite being married. I have a cooperative partner. And he has a lot of autonomy too.
1:00.0	But anyway, so I'm very excited about this conversation. I'm here with Megan Kane, who has a book
1:05.8	all about this called Party of One, Be Your Own Best Partner. And so we're going to start with our normal routine where I make women brag about themselves
1:13.8	and they do so either resentfully or happily or somewhere in between.
1:18.3	So, Megan, tell us about yourself.
1:20.4	Hi.
1:21.3	Absolutely.
1:21.9	Thank you so much for having me.
1:23.7	Yes, I am the showrunner and founder of NPR's Life Kit, which is NPR's service journalism brand.
1:31.8	Started about seven years ago now at this point, which is now half of my whole working career and career at NPR.
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