Wise & Worthy, Thriving After Divorce

Co-parenting is a never-ending job. While your responsibilities to your children may technically decrease after the age of 18, you are never done being a parent. Maintaining this parental relationship, while working in tandem with your ex can be a tricky line to walk. There is an abundance of room for miscommunication, hurt feelings, and misunderstandings.  Shaunna Lee is an author, life coach, an...

Deciding whether or not to stay together for the sake of your children can be an extremely difficult decision. There are usually dozens of different things to consider, from health and safety risks to the sheer logistical convenience of being married, and everything in between.  This week’s guest is divorce coach, podcast host, and author, Kate Anthony. Kate specializes in helping women who are wr...

Getting back into the dating scene post-divorce can be a stressful experience when children are involved. When do you introduce them to the kids? How involved are the children with finding someone? What if the kids don’t like your new partner? These are just a few of the questions that are likely to come up, and there is not a one-size-fits-all solution. These questions can be daunting and may eve...

Rarely do ex-spouses agree on how to best parent their children post-divorce. During the relationship there may have been agreements made that both parties agreed to, but living separately means those might no longer apply. These differences in parenting style often lead to disagreements and conflict, so what happens then? Nina Cruz is based in Sydney, Australia, where she works as a Parent Coach,...

"Budget" can sometimes feel like a scary word, or perhaps it just feels overwhelming. During divorce, it is important to come up with a plan that will help you reach financial freedom, as the reality of your financial situation changes. Financial freedom can mean different things to different people. Primarily, it is about having control over your finances and being able to manage your money by de...

Tonya Carter is a Divorce/Relationship Exit Strategist, working with women to help them navigate through the process of uncoupling by providing support, advice, resources and tools ‎that will help mitigate interruptions in their business, work performance and household obligations. ‎In this episode of Divorce & Other Things You Can Handle , Tonya explains why feeling guilty is human, and we di...

In this episode of  Divorce & Other Things You Can Handle , I speak with reinvention specialist Alison Hall. Alison is the founder of  Change Agent Coaching for Women , and her work is primarily focused on helping women to confidently lean into their strengths, find their purpose, dump the self-doubt, and reinvent themselves to create the lives they want and deserve. In this episode, we discus...

In this episode of  Divorce & Other Things You Can Handle , I discuss the Emotional Freedom Technique, or Tapping, with Author and Energy Strategist Theresa Lear Levine. Theresa is an EFT Master Practitioner, Law of Attraction coach, and Energy Strategist. She’s the founder of Becoming More Me where she helps professional women to get out of their own way and resolve their innermost pains, tra...

When a marriage ends, the person who makes the decision to get divorced matters. The person who makes the decision gets an emotional head start and has more information ahead of the other partner. When a partner tells you that they want a divorce, this can be really challenging. You may go into the fright, flight, or freeze mode. This is especially challenging if the divorce request seems to have...

Are celebrity divorces just tabloid fodder and entertaining diversions? Or are there real and meaningful lessons about divorce we can learn from Hollywood’s biggest stars? In this episode of the  Divorce & Other Things You Can Handle podcast , I speak with Los Angeles-based family law attorney Patrick Baghdaserians about his experiences with celebrity divorce and the lessons we can all learn f...

Divorcing an alcoholic is never easy. Challenges can continue long after the divorce decree is issued. This is especially true if you have children. How can a person cope with alcoholism in a marriage? How do you know when it’s time to give up and seek a divorce? What is the best way to rely on your support network when you’re going through it? In this episode of  Divorce & Other Things You Ca...

When people think about the betrayal of divorce, they often think of  infidelity . But the betrayal is about so much more. It’s about feeling betrayed by ideals we were raised with including: That marriage is forever  That it will be our happily ever after  That we’ll have a perfectly happy family  The idea of what even counts as family  Our roles as wife and mother.  Being betrayed by these ideal...

When you get divorced, there are many big things you need to deal with: lawyers, child custody, finances. But there are a million little things to deal with as well. This is the minutiae of divorce, and it can be just as overwhelming as the big stuff. In this week’s episode of Divorce & Other Things You Can Handle, I speak with author Dawn Dais about handling the minutiae of divorce.

Once upon a time, it seemed the only person you needed to help you through a divorce was  a great divorce attorney . And lawyers can still be essential, especially through a  contested divorce . But divorce lawyers are far from the only person who can help you successfully navigate the divorce product. In fact, it’s often best to assemble a professional divorce team. In this episode of the  Divorc...

Being able to handle financial assets in a divorce – knowing what the retirement accounts are and how they should be split, is an essential part of the divorce process. But if you aren’t the spouse who normally handles the financials – or even if you are, how do you know accounts aren’t falling through the cracks? Or that you aren’t leaving crucial retirement money on the table? In this week’s epi...

When getting a divorce, one of the big questions you have to negotiate is, “When to go public with my divorce?” Going public with your divorce means telling everyone including your parents, siblings, other close family, friends, and especially your children. How can you help your children understand what’s happening while causing them as little pain as possible? In this week’s episode of Divorce &...

Jennifer Lee, AIF®, AWMA® and the founder of Modern-Wealth joins the podcast to discuss what happens in a divorce when you're not the one who's been handling the family financials. Jennifer shares her insight on this issue to discuss how the non-monied spouse can successfully take ownership of her financial life - and when it makes sense to seek the help of a financial advisor.

Mediator Gabrielle Hartley joins the podcast to discuss the issue of pets in divorce - a topic that's becoming more and more popular. Gabrielle shares her insight on this issue and how couples should approach their pet's well-being in divorce, even when the court might dismiss it.

Lisa Decker joins Mandy this week to discuss how the most common types of debts are handled during divorce - car loans, medical debt, student loans - and how these types of debt are handled from a financial and legal perspective.

This week Dr. Thomas Jordan joins the podcast to discuss how to find lasting love after divorce and explore your learned relationship behaviors.

Attorney Lisa Ziederman joins Mandy to discuss the complications of handling financial matters during the divorce process.

This week mortgage guru Jody Bruns joins the podcast to discuss the nitty-gritty details of mortgages and refinancing in divorce.

Attorney A.J. Grossman joins the podcast to discuss the best to have a tough conversation - how to bring the other person into the conversation, words and phrases to avoid, and how to develop a strategy for your discussion.

This week, Mandy is joined by Shea Defs from Custody X Change to discuss how to create a parenting time schedule that is designed for success.

Conscious co-parenting coach Mikki Gardner joins Mandy to discuss finding the right mindset to create new holiday traditions after divorce.