Divorce Coaches Academy

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) What's a divorce coach? How you answer that question is important for 2 reasons. It's an opportunity to advocate for the profession and you have the chance to do some grassroots marketing. In today's episode, Tracy and Debra dive into the specifics of how you can answer this in a concise and impactful way. Professional divorce coa...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) Do you feel pressured to be all over social media? Are you spending hours designing posts, creating reels, and trying to gain followers? Do you love it or do you avoid it like the plague? In today's episode, we talk about the phenomena of social media and how divorce coaches can make smart choices around their use of social media...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) You're a what? A divorce coach? Divorce coaching is still a relatively new profession and today Tracy and Debra talk about what you can do on an individual level to help spread the word about the value we add for clients going through the divorce process. It all starts with professionalism in your individual practice and insuring...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) We are thrilled to bring you another coach spotlight interview today with fellow CDC Ashley Wood, also known as The Conscious CoParent. Ashley Wood is a CDC Certified Divorce Coach® in service to parents who feel overwhelmed by divorce, hopeless about co-parenting, and concerned about how living in two homes may impact their child...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) Interpersonal conflict is a part of our everyday lives, but divorce can magnify any conflict that already existed in the marriage. Tracy refers to divorce as a conflict petri dish. In today's episode, we talk about how getting additional training to become a conflict resolution expert can provide your clients with even more tools...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) First impressions matter and it's never more important than when you're onboarding a new client. Once you've had that consult call and the client says "yes", the next experiences they have with you set the tone for the rest of your coaching relationship. Listen in as Tracy and Debra talk through the 5 critical steps that create a...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) We're excited to bring you another spotlight coach interview with our CDC colleague Cindy Stibbard. Cindy is the driven and compassionate entrepreneur and CEO behind Divorce ReDefined, her Vancouver-based separation and divorce coaching practice. After going through her own high-conflict divorce, this passionate and determined mot...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) Today's discussion is all about how to start making money in your divorce coaching practice. We see far too many talented professionals ditch their dreams of achieving financial success and want to share some tips for hitting your first $10k without all the expense or heartache. Being a great coach with impeccable coaching skills...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) We're so happy to bring you another spotlight coach episode this week featuring Jennifer Warren Medwin, Jennifer Warren Medwin, MS is a CDC© Certified Divorce Coach, Supreme Court of Florida Family Mediator, a Certified Marital Mediator, and author of Strategies & Tips from a Divorce Coach: A Roadmap to Move Forward.  Jennifer...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) Did you know the family law/divorce lawyer industry revenue for 2022 is projected to be $12.1 billion dollars? OMG, that's a lot of money being spent on divorce. On today's podcast, Tracy and Debra talk about the frustration that clients often experience with their attorneys and what you, as a professional divorce coach, can do to...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) As divorce coaches, we want our clients to have a better divorce experience.  But when does that desire cross the line from supporting our client to feeling the need to save our client? Today's episode is a reminder that we serve our clients best when we stay neutral and allow them to choose their own path and make their own decis...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) It happens. You begin coaching a client and ... uh oh ... it's just not working. If you've ever struggled with the decision to end a client relationship, then this episode is just for you. Today Tracy and Debra talk through the nuts and bolts of what to do when you begin to notice something is off, action isn't being taken, the cl...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) Periodically, we want to bring you insights from other successful, practicing divorce coaching professionals to expand the conversation . We're so excited to bring you our very first spotlight coach interview today.    Today's guest, Andrea Hipps, LBSW, is a Certified Divorce Coach® and author who helps parents all along the divor...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) Getting new clients is important, but so is making sure you’re spending your time, money and energy on the marketing activities and admin tasks that create the most return for your business. Today, Tracy and Debra talk about the metrics that have helped them  make critical decisions in their businesses. Do you know what percentage...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) Every divorce has conflict, but not every divorce is high conflict. As divorce coaches, we have the unique opportunity to help our clients become self-aware of their own conflict style, identify any personal behaviors that are contributing to divorce conflict and transition to a more strategic approach. Word on the street is that...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) In today's episode, Tracy and Debra talk about how the coaching conversation is intentionally different from a conversation with friends and family.  While divorce coaches are great listeners, empathetic, and caring, we're also professionals who are there to get results for our clients. In order to achieve those results, we need t...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) One of the most common mistakes we see as divorce coaching professionals is when clients allow others to make decisions in their divorce. Today we discuss the power of reminding clients that they are the captain of their own divorce; from deciding the type of process they use to the amount of conflict they want to introduce to the...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) On today's episode, Debra and Tracy discuss the who's who of individuals that are entering the field of divorce coaching and why they believe it is becoming so popular and important in the landscape of divorce. Divorce coaching is a relatively new profession, but a quick Google search on the term "divorce coach" yields more than 4...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) Getting your certification as a divorce coach is awesome, but then what do you do? On today's episode Tracy and Debra talk about how to get those first clients and where new coaches should focus their energy when just starting out. It's easy to get caught up in "shiny object syndrome" and feel the need to do ALL THE THINGS right a...

Send Us a Message (include your contact info if you'd like a reply) In this introductory episode, Tracy and Debra share a little background about the inspiration for creating Divorce Coaches Academy™.  They talk about the mission and purpose of DCA™ which is to offer affordable, online continuing education for professional divorce coaches so they can maximize client impact and create thriving prac...