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Totally Fine with Tiffany Philippou

Nicola Slawson on being single but wanting children

Season 1, Ep. 5

Nicola is a journalist, writer and public speaker. She’s worked in news at the Guardian and at Huffpost. While at HuffPost, Nicola wrote a personal essay about being the only single one in her friendship group and it went viral. Nicola then went on to create of my favourite newsletters, The Single Supplement, which is about the highs and lows of single life.


In this episode, Nicola shares her experience of being single and wanting to be a mother.


Nicola's newsletter, The Single Supplement: https://thesinglesupplement.substack.com/

Nicola's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicola_slawson/?hl=en

Unattached: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unattached-Essays-Singlehood-Angelica-Malin/dp/1529110394/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Stork and I: https://thestorkandi.com/

Gateway Women: https://gateway-women.com/

Ambiguous Grief: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/06/how-be-okay-being-single/590854/

Social Infertility and mother's day: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/single-women-motherhood-mothers-day-social-infertility-410352

Nicola's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesinglesupplement

Facebook group for people who are solo mums or considering it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/190410894999092


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