The cost of living is rising… and for single people, it hits differently.

In this honest and heartfelt episode, I open up a conversation that isn’t being spoken about enough — the emotional and financial weight of navigating life on your own in today’s climate.

This isn’t about dating. This is about responsibility, resilience, and the reality of having one income, one decision-maker, and no one else to fall back on financially.

Through a grounded meditation, real talk, and practical financial tips, this episode is here to support you in moving from fear and overwhelm… into clarity, empowerment, and self-trust.

We cover:

• The impact of rising living costs on single people.
• The reality of managing finances on one income.
• Reframing independence as empowerment.
• Practical tips for single women right now!
• What it really means to be an empowered single woman.

You may be doing this on your own… but you are not powerless. This season is calling you to take ownership, trust yourself deeply, and become the woman who creates her own safety, stability, and success.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

You are a Bad Ass at Making Money by Jen Sincero

A Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Cameron Gikandi

She's On the Money

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On this episode of Single and Not Settling, we are sharing a conversation Vanessa Maree was invited to have on the Youtube series, And Carrying On.

Chrissie, the host of And Carrying On also invited Kevin to bring in the male perspective on challenges of dating.

The audio is a bit soft in parts, but we hope you listen to the end as you'll hear:

• The quick fire questions on how you would handle sticky dating scenarios.
• Vanessa Maree does deep into why she created her eBook "The Empowered Single Women" and why it is so valuable.
• A reminder that is is OK to be single.
• What are our own Red Flags and Green Flags.
• The courage it takes to escape a toxic relationship and support avaliable to those who do (Trigger Warning alert).

This is a fun conversation full of perspectives and advice that comes from our real life experiences!

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Download a copy of the FREE eBook "The Empowered Single Woman" ⁠here⁠ to transform your beliefs about dating and find the love you deserve.

Ever felt like you have forgotten how to connect with others or wondered how to ask a question the right way? If so, this episode is for you!

Vanessa Maree has a conversation with Joe Che, the creator behind The Connection Map, the first comprehensive framework of human connection that brings clarity and language to the way we connect in relationships, work and life!

This episode starts with a little life update (I'm manifesting like a boss again!), then we dive into:

• What was happening in Joe's life when he had the idea to create The Connection Map and questioned if love was really enough.
• Guidance on how to ask the right questions on a date! Get the skills for a conversation that flows with ease and confidence (psst, Joe has created an AI bot for this...link in show notes)
• The differences between that 1950's love and modern day love, including dating app data.
• Where to go to meet men and women!
• How to discuss the results of The Connection Map with your partner.
• A conversation Joe recommends having before sexual intimacy using his R.M.S.L technique.
• Is your own lack of self love blocking you from receiving love?

This conversation with leave you with the confidence and hope that you can confidently speak your desires clearly and with clarity, know yourself a little better and understand there is something out there to discover the true compatibility between you and someone you are in the early stages of a relationship with.

To connect with Joe Che and to access his free resources:

Complete The Connection Map: https://www.theconnectionmap.com/

Free Resources: https://www.theconnectionmap.com/category/all-products

Joe's AI Communication Tool:

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-4Fdbbed9h-you-to-i-statement-formula-by-joe-che

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Say "hello" by sending an email to [email protected], I love hearing from you!

Download a copy of the FREE eBook "The Empowered Single Woman" here to transform your beliefs about dating and find the love you deserve.

The story continues with Part 2 of Attachment Bonds...

& it feels so edgy to share!

In this episode of Single and Not Settling, I open up and talk about how I navigated my way through the layers (yes there was more!) and how I discovered that fantasy became a regulation tool.

I break down:

• What I felt in my body when I saw him again and tuned in out what it was communicating to me.
• That line in the sand moment that said "I've released this, I am done."
• A dream where he appeared and the symbolism BLEW MY MIND!
• Where I am at now. Present in my life, loving on myself and embodying my new identity.

This episode is for you if you are DONE with repeating patterns and cycles with the "bad boy" and are ready tune into your body's wisdom, take a look at your wounds and bonds to receive what is truly waiting for you!

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Say "hello" by sending an email to [email protected], I love hearing from you!

Download a copy of the FREE eBook "The Empowered Single Woman" ⁠here⁠ to transform your beliefs about dating and find the love you deserve.

Have you ever felt deeply attached to someone — even when, logically, you knew the connection wasn’t aligned or going anywhere?

In this episode, I’m unpacking attachment bonds — what they are, why they form so quickly (especially with emotionally unavailable men), and how they can feel magnetic, consuming, and confusing… even when you’re otherwise grounded, self-aware, and doing the work.

I share a very real and recent personal experience that began with a simple moment of silence — a message read but not replied to and how that activated an attachment bond in my nervous system. From there, I take you step-by-step through the exact process I used to move through it, regulate myself, and gently release the attachment.

In this episode, we explore:

- Why attachment bonds are normal (and not a sign that something is “wrong” with you)

- How to calm your nervous system when attachment is activated.

- How we unconsciously hand our power away and how to call it back.

- Why emotionally unavailable men often trigger attachment more strongly.

- The difference between being attached to a person vs being attached to a feeling.

- Cord cutting and energetically speaking to that person.

I also share the grounding phrases that supported me through this process, including:

“I’ve already released this.”“I choose reality.”

And one of the most powerful truths from this experience:

What feels magnetic is often what feels familiar to an old part of us not what is aligned to our future self.

If you’ve ever felt pulled toward someone you knew wasn’t right, this episode will help you understand why and show you how to come back home to yourself with compassion, clarity, and self-trust.

This is only Part 1, there was so much more to share, come back for Part 2!

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Say "hello" by sending an email to [email protected]

Download a copy of the FREE eBook "The Empowered Single Woman" ⁠here⁠ to transform your beliefs about dating and find the love you deserve.

New Years Resolutions?....Nope not subscribing to that this year!

Each year we are told to write out our dreams and goals for the New Year, to put in actions steps that make us feel like failures if we did not reach them. But what happens when we are just not feeling it? If 2025 did a number on us and we are still reeling from the pain and heartbreak it brought?

Vanessa Maree lays it out in this episode from her own experience and how she is doing 2026 differently. She also shares:

• Her experience from her first social media troll and what it taught her - ouch but thank you.
• A massive identify evolution and what she has been doing to navigate through it.
• What next? When you are piecing yourself back together you get to decide what that looks and feels like.
• A viral New Years Eve ritual. did she eat the grapes or not?!
• How Vanessa Maree is flipping the script on New Years Resolutions and asking herself a set of questions each month (make sure you write these down!).

The advice for the month is "you do you", simple but also so powerful at the same time.

This one will leave you feeling relieved, calm and trusting that you are not alone in the feelings you are experiencing right now.

Connect with Vanessa Maree ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@vanessamaree_wingwoman⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Say "hello" by sending an email to [email protected]

Download a copy of the FREE eBook "The Empowered Single Woman" ⁠here⁠ to transform your beliefs about dating and find the love you deserve.

This wasn't the episode I planned to record.

I wanted to record an episode to hype up single women at Christmas, reminding you that you are enough, that it is OK to be single and that your life has so much meaning and value. While I still believe that to be true, I didn't have it in me to show up that way this time.

So instead, I am being real with you...more so than usual.

In this episode, I share openly what the past few weeks have brought up for me, the triggers, the quiet grief, the reflection that comes when the year is ending and you find yourself questioning your life's alignment, your choices and where you are right now.

I share why I have pulled away from social media, how a short trip to Byron Bay shifted so much, who showed up back into my life during Mercury Retrograde and the clique advice about being in a "high vibration", "you create your own reality and can change it at any time". Single women are exhausted!

So, if you are ending 2025 feeling reflective, uncertain, and quietly question where you are at, this episode is for you.

No silver linings.

No trying to "fix things"

Just honesty, self compassion and permission to feel it all.

If this episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you.

Connect with Vanessa Maree ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@vanessamaree_wingwoman⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Send an email to [email protected]

Download a copy of the FREE eBook "The Empowered Single Woman" ⁠here⁠ to transform your beliefs about dating and find the love you deserve.

Recently Vanessa Maree was interviewed by Terri Messenger for the Genius Zone Podcast.

In this transformational episode, Vanessa nudges you to become aware of your own outdated beliefs around love, relationships and being single.

Vanessa Maree shares her Soul Led Confidence pillars to help single women be ok with forming new connections and starting conversations with men (or anyone for that matter)!

Stay til the end when Vanessa Maree takes you through a meditation to remove the old and call in the new!

Connect with Vanessa Maree ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@vanessamaree_wingwoman⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Follow the podcast page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@singleandnotsettling.podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Download a copy of the FREE eBook "The Empowered Single Woman" ⁠here⁠ to transform your beliefs about dating and find the love you deserve.

In this episode, Vanessa Maree sits down with the incredible Megan Gourlay, a heart-led matchmaker and the founder of Love With Me. Together, they explore what it really takes to find aligned love in today’s world, from mindset to emotional readiness to the practical steps of matchmaking.

Here’s what we dive into:

• From Corporate to Cupid, Megan opens up about her journey from the corporate world into matchmaking, what pulled her toward love, connection, and helping people meet their person.
• We get real. Megan shares the relationship and dating challenges that cracked her open (including an appearance on a popular dating reality TV show), shifted her path, and ultimately inspired her to guide others into healthier, aligned connections.
• Megan walks us step-by-step through how she gets to know her clients on a deep level. Their values, desires, and references and how she uses that to create intentional, compatible matches instead of surface-level pairings.
• If you’re a single woman who’s exhausted, jaded, or losing faith — Megan offers the grounded, compassionate truth that will help you reconnect to hope, self-worth, and possibility.

Also, stay tuned to the end as Vanessa Mare makes an announcement you do not want to miss!

Get in touch with Megan Gourlay here: www.lovewithme.com.au

Connect with Vanessa Maree and say hello! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@vanessamaree_wingwoman⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Download a copy of the FREE eBook "The Empowered Single Woman" ⁠here⁠ to transform your beliefs about dating and find the love you deserve.

I kick things off with a big heartfelt thank you toeveryone who reached out after my last episode. Your messages honestly meant so much. I give a little update on where I’m at — still moving through some things, but doing okay (promise!).

Then we get into the juicy stuff:

• How to meet men organically! I’m sharing everyday places where you can cross paths with men naturally. Plus, I give you a few simple conversation openers to make that first move feel effortless. Check out more onmy Instagram!

• Of course, the universe is still out here doing her thing…shifting people in and out of my world. I tell a funny story about one of those “good ones” and how I managed to completely stumble over my words (classic me).

• And finally — there’s a new red flag alert! 🚩It’s something that’s happened to me three times now, and every single time…the guy ghosted. So yep, it’s officially a pattern and something every singlewoman needs to know about.

💌 Share this episode with another single woman who needs to hear it — because this one might just save her some emotional energy (and a few eye rolls).

Connect with Vanessa Maree ⁠⁠⁠⁠@vanessamaree_wingwoman⁠⁠⁠⁠

Follow the podcast page ⁠⁠⁠⁠@singleandnotsettling.podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠

Download a copy of the FREE eBook "The Empowered Single Woman" ⁠here⁠ to transform your beliefs about dating and find the love you deserve.