Dare To Speak: Difficult Conversations That Change Everything

Episode 42 - Divorce, Difficult Conversations and Choosing the Right Family Lawyer with Colette Bain What should you expect from a family solicitor when you are going through separation or divorce? And how much difference can the right lawyer make to the way your divorce unfolds? In this episode of Dare to Speak: Difficult Conversations That Can Change Everything, I’m joined by Colette Bain, Partn...

Episode 41: The Difficult Conversations We Need to Have About Money – with Paul Steed Money is one of those subjects we often avoid talking about properly. We might know what is coming into the bank each month, what the mortgage costs and whether we can afford the supermarket shop, while having surprisingly little understanding of the bigger financial picture: pensions, investments, retirement, li...

Episode 40: Difficult Conversations, Cancer, Hope and Living for Today with Annie Bennett What happens when the conversations we would rather not have become the ones that matter most? In this episode of Dare to Speak: Difficult Conversations That Change Everything , I’m joined by Annie Bennett , former primary school teacher and head teacher, business owner, baker and founder of the charity Chron...

Episode 39 - Parenting Challenges and Honest Conversations with Young Adults How do you stay connected to your young adult when conversations begin to feel more difficult? In this special episode of Dare to Speak: Difficult Conversations That Can Change Everything , Eve Stanway shares a reading from her new book, Dare to Listen: Navigating Life’s Difficult Conversations with Young Adults Aged 16 t...

Episod  38 - Things I Wish More Parents Knew About Talking to Young Adults How do we stay close to our young adults while allowing them to become the authors of their own lives? As children move through adolescence and into adulthood, our relationship with them has to change. We may still see the potholes ahead. We may desperately want to protect them from mistakes, heartbreak, disappointment or d...

Episode 37: Divorce, Death and Your Money: The Conversations You Can’t Afford to Avoid with Marcos Kallou What happens to your home if you die while you are separated? Does your ex still have a potential claim on your estate after divorce? Does your partner automatically have rights if you have lived together for years? And could your spouse make decisions for you if you suddenly lost capacity? Th...

Dare to Speak | Episode 36 - Coming Home to Yourself: A Conversation with Washington Ali Washington Ali is a confidence coach and speaker, and leader of the Confidence Tour, a nationwide series of one and two day events across the UK. He was named Transformational Life Coach of the Year, and has worked with over twenty thousand people through his speaking, coaching, and events. Before any of that,...

Finding the Missing Pieces: Absent Fathers, Identity and Men’s Mental Health with Simon Gordon What happens to our sense of identity when part of our family history is missing? In this deeply personal episode of Dare to Speak: Difficult Conversations That Change Everything , Eve Stanway is joined by Simon Gordon, founder of Alexander Media Creative, to explore absent fathers, family separation, id...

Episode 34 - The Conversation You May Never Get to Finish Some conversations remain with us long after they have ended. We replay the words, imagine what we might have said differently and wonder whether the other person will ever understand the impact of what happened. In this solo episode of Dare to Speak , Eve explores the psychological and emotional impact of conversations that are never prope...

Episode 33 – What Lies Beneath an Affair? Shame, Self-Betrayal and Infidelity with Alex Croxford What lies beneath an affair? Why do women cheat, even when they love their partner and never intended to leave their marriage? Infidelity can cause profound emotional pain. Understanding why an affair happened does not excuse the deception or diminish the experience of the betrayed partner. It allows u...

Episode 32 - Dare to Speak Interview - The Father Wound: Why a Father's Presence Matters – with Laura McCoy EPISODE DESCRIPTION What happens when a parent is physically absent, emotionally unavailable, or simply unable to connect with their child? In this deeply thoughtful episode of Dare to Speak – Difficult Conversations That Change Everything, I sit down with Laura McCoy, founder of Daddy...

Episode 31 - Social Media, Separation and the Conversations Parents Dread - with Mark Saxby Every parent reaches a point where a phone becomes the thing nobody wants to talk about. The rules blur. The other household sees it differently. The child goes quiet in exactly the place where an open conversation was needed most. In this episode, Eve is joined by Mark Saxby, founder of the social media co...

Episode 30: Never Stop Learning: Sam Johnson on Parental Alienation, Fatherhood, and the Conversations That Change You With multi-award winning divorce coach, Eve Stanway Thirteen years ago, Sam Johnson left his marriage and intended to stay present in his children's lives. Within weeks they had been told he didn't want them. He went through the legal process. He didn't get anywhere...

Dare to Speak: Difficult Conversations That Change Everything By multi-award winning divorce coach, Eve Stanway Episode 29: Five Things Your Children Hear When You Think They Are Not Listening Most of the concern during a separation focuses on the logistics. Who lives where. What the arrangements will be. How to divide what was shared. Children, meanwhile, are watching something else entirely. The...

Dare to Speak: Difficult Conversations That Change Everything with Multi-Awarding winning Divorce Coach - Eve Stanway Guest Interview - Episode 28  The Subtle Art of Being a Total Psychopath Guest: Geraint Anderson | Book: How to Con Friends and Manipulate People: The Subtle Art of Being a Total Psychopath Geraint Anderson spent a decade as a top-ranked City of London stockbroker. He left, blew th...

Dare to Speak: Difficult Conversations That Change Everything EPISODE 27 - When You Do Not Recognise Yourself in an Argument With Multi-Award Winning Divorce Coach - Eve Stanway You are calm at work. Measured. Known for your ability to handle pressure without losing composure. Then you get home, the conversation turns difficult, and something happens that you cannot fully explain. You become someo...

The Grief of the Childhood We Did Not Have Most grief comes with a name. This kind does not. There is no funeral for the connection that was never quite there. No ceremony for the encouragement that did not come, the safety that was absent, the moments of being truly seen that simply never arrived. Yet the loss is real, and for many people it runs quietly beneath the surface of adult life, shaping...

Dare to Speak Interview with Anthony Astbury - Men, Difficult Conversations & the Cost of Silence Anthony Astbury spent nearly two decades in finance in the City before founding the Whole Man Academy, a personal development organisation for ambitious professional men who feel the distance between where they are and where they want to be. He runs events across London, the Cotswolds and Winchest...

The Everyday Conversations That End Marriages Most marriages do not end because of one catastrophic event. They end because of thousands of small moments that nobody named, nobody addressed, and nobody thought were serious enough to talk about. I have spent more than 25 years working with people through separation and divorce. What I know, with absolute certainty, is that the end of a marriage is...

Episode 23: How We Talk to Children About Divorce The way you talk to your children about divorce will shape how they carry it. Not just in the weeks after you tell them, but for years. The language you use, the emotions you manage - or fail to manage - and the consistency of what you say and do will either anchor your children through one of the most destabilising experiences of their lives, or a...

Episode 22: The First 90 Seconds - The Hidden Dynamics of Difficult Conversations Most people think a difficult conversation goes wrong in the moment. It does not. It goes wrong before a single word is spoken. In this episode, I am exploring what is actually happening beneath the surface when a conversation feels impossible. The neuroscience. The nervous system. The patterns you learned long befor...

Bonus Episode: When Men Talk Honestly About the Hard Stuff Guest: Johnny Seifert | Host, Secure the Insecure Most people know what they should say. The problem is what happens in the body the moment the conversation gets difficult. The throat tightens. The mind races. The instinct is to deflect, perform, or disappear. Johnny Seifert has spent years creating a space where people, particularly men,...

Episode 20: The Breadwinner Trap When Providing Becomes the Only Way You Know How to Love Money is rarely the real argument in divorce. The fight over assets, maintenance, support payments - these are the surface. Underneath is something much more frightening: if I'm not the provider, who am I? This episode is about the man whose entire sense of worth is built around earning. His overtime is...

Episode 19: The Court Didn't Decide That. The Conversation Did. Dare to Speak: Difficult Conversations That Change Everything Most people going through separation and divorce in the UK believe the outcome will be decided by a judge or driven by their solicitor. The data tells a different story. Divorce mediation consistently produces better long-term outcomes than going to family court, yet o...

Divorce changes more than your living situation. It changes how you feel. How you sleep. How you show up. How you cope. And for a lot of men, that shift happens quietly, buried under the admin, the practicalities, and the pressure to just "deal with it." In this episode, Eve talks about what's often left unsaid: the real impact of separation and divorce on men's mental health....