Dare To Speak: Difficult Conversations That Change Everything

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....

He says yes… when he means no. He keeps the peace… until everything explodes. And somewhere along the way, the relationship starts to quietly fall apart. In this episode, we’re talking about something that doesn’t get spoken about enough, people pleasing, particularly in men, and the silent damage it can cause in relationships. Because what looks like “being nice”… Often becomes resentment, confus...

Ever found yourself wide awake at 3am… mind racing, thoughts looping, and no way to switch it off? In this episode, Eve dives into the exhausting cycle of ruminating thoughts , the kind that keep you stuck, overwhelmed and unable to rest when you need it most. You’ll hear why these thought patterns feel so powerful at night, how they quietly impact your mental health, and why trying to “think your...

Why do so many men stay silent… even when they’re feeling everything? In this episode, Eve explores the quiet struggle many men face when it comes to expressing emotion. Beneath the surface, there is often depth, care and complexity but years of societal conditioning have taught many men to suppress, deflect or simply not have the language for what they feel. Eve examines how this silence isn’t a...

Divorce is rarely just about legal paperwork. More often, it is about conversations that never quite happen. In this episode, Eve explores one of the most common patterns she sees in separation: two people who once knew each other deeply suddenly struggling to communicate at all. Conversations stall, emotions escalate, and before long solicitors are speaking on their behalf. The cost of that break...

In this episode, Eve explores the powerful role triggers play in difficult conversations and why reactions in the moment are often shaped by experiences that happened long before the conversation even began. Many people assume they are “overreacting” or “too sensitive.” In reality, the nervous system is doing exactly what it has learned to do: protect you. A tone of voice, a phrase, or even a look...

Most difficult conversations aren’t fuelled by anger. They’re fuelled by fear. Fear of losing access to your children. Fear of being misunderstood. Fear of saying the wrong thing and making it worse. Fear of conflict escalating. Fear of rejection. In this episode, Eve explores the quiet but powerful role fear plays in separation, co-parenting, and high-stakes conversations at home. When fear is dr...

What begins as a small disagreement can quickly become something much heavier. In this episode, Eve explores the concept of kitchen sinking , that moment in a difficult conversation when old grievances, historic resentments, and unrelated frustrations are suddenly thrown into the mix. You may recognise it. A simple comment turns into: “And another thing…” “You always…” “What about last year when…?...

Let’s look at the moments when nothing is said… yet everything is felt. Silence in relationships can be confusing, painful, or even protective. Is it avoidance? Is it fear? Is it an attempt to keep the peace? We unpack how silence often becomes a form of communication in itself, one that can create distance, misunderstanding, or emotional disconnection if left unspoken. We also look at the powerfu...

Ruptures don’t always look dramatic. Sometimes they’re quiet. Subtle. A shift in tone. A conversation avoided. A moment that never quite gets repaired. In this episode, I explore what really happens when relationships rupture and why it’s not the rupture itself that causes the deepest damage, but how we respond to it. We talk about the emotional complexity beneath broken connection, the patterns w...

Silence isn’t empty. It speaks, often louder than words. In this episode, we explore the moments where nothing is said… and everything is felt. Silence can soothe, punish, protect, or distance. In relationships, it can be a refuge, or a wall. Together, we unpack how silence shows up in our personal lives, what it’s really communicating, and why so many of us struggle to name it. You’ll be invited...

In this episode, Eve Stanway shares the part of divorce that rarely gets airtime, the quiet shame, the isolation, and the conversations we avoid because we don’t know how to have them without everything falling apart. Drawing from her own lived experience, Eve explores what really happens when difficult conversations go unspoken, in relationships, families, and even within ourselves. She gently ch...