# Advice from Joan Rivers, single parenting and learning to read the room with Cally Beaton Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/single-ladies-in-your-area-7027384/advice-from-joan-rivers-single-parenting-and-learning-to-read-the-room-with-cally-beaton Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/single-ladies-in-your-area-7027384/advice-from-joan-rivers-single-parenting-and-learning-to-read-the-room-with-cally-beaton.md Podcast: [Single Ladies In Your Area](https://stenobird.com/podcast/single-ladies-in-your-area-7027384) Published: 2026-05-22T03:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/single-ladies-in-your-area/episodes/advice-from-joan-rivers-single-parenting-and-learning-to-rea Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66d6edc291ae4d209b1d4826/e/6a0b2b08a9d74429838020c8/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/single-ladies-in-your-area-7027384/episodes/advice-from-joan-rivers-single-parenting-and-learning-to-read-the-room-with-cally-beaton Duration seconds: 2964 ## Resource This week Amy and Harriet are joined by comedian, author, speaker and all-round bad ass, Cally Beaton and her gorgeous pooch Jeff! She shares her infinite wisdom and answers questions like: How can you stop creating obstacles for yourself and just go for it? Is there ever any getting away from the classic “mum guilt”? And HOW do you flirt with someone from across a room without exchanging a single word? (No really, how? Amy REALLY needs to know.) Cally's book Namaste Motherf*ckers is out now in paperback. Grab your copy at callybeaton.com . Amy's taking her brand new show Thanks For Having Me on tour around the UK from Feb 2027. Tickets are currently on sale, just head to plosive.co.uk . And Harriet is going on tour with her brand new stand-up show Floozy this autumn. For tickets and dates head over harrietkemsley.com . We want to hear your dating stories! Email in at singleladiesinyourarea@gmail.com . Follow Single Ladies In Your Area on Instagram @singleladiespod Produced, recorded and edited by Aniya Das for Plosive. Assistant Producer is Amy Townsend-Lowcock. Photo by Paul Gilbey. Artwork by Welcome Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/single-ladies-in-your-area-7027384/episodes/advice-from-joan-rivers-single-parenting-and-learning-to-read-the-room-with-cally-beaton/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/single-ladies-in-your-area-7027384/advice-from-joan-rivers-single-parenting-and-learning-to-read-the-room-with-cally-beaton.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.