Divorce Discussions

Your child walks through the front door after time at their other home, talking a mile a minute about everything you missed. What your face does next matters more than any custody schedule. In this episode of the Divorce Discussions Podcast, host Angie Weber sits down with Lyerly Spongberg, founder of Step Up With Lyerly and a Certified ADR Divorce Coach, High Conflict Coach, and Co-Parenting Spec...

Should I stay or should I go? If that question has been running through your mind in the car, at the dinner table, or at two in the morning, this episode is for you. Host Angie Weber sits down with Karen Covy, a divorce coach, lawyer, mediator, author, and speaker who has seen divorce from every angle. Karen explains how to make a clear, confident decision about your marriage using your head, your...

You get the text. Before you even finish reading it your jaw is tight, and you have somehow already typed half a response you are absolutely going to regret sending. It happens so fast that it does not feel like a decision. It feels like who divorce turned you into. It is not who you are. It is a pattern, and patterns can be studied. Tara Scott has spent twenty years walking into organizations all...

There is a form sitting in a file somewhere with your ex's name on it. A 401k from a job you left years ago. A life insurance policy you set up when the kids were little. You probably have not looked at it in years, and if something happened to you tomorrow, that form would win. In this episode of Divorce Discussions, host Angie Weber sits down with DSC member Rachel Schromen, J.D., founder and ma...

Nobody prepares you for the first night your kids are not there. The house is quiet, their rooms are empty, and you are sitting with a grief that almost nobody warns you about. In this episode of Divorce Discussions, host Angie Weber sits down with Nora Marcus, LMSW, a New York based licensed social worker, certified divorce mediator, and certified co-parenting specialist who builds child-first pa...

You could name the thing that set it off. The pickup time, the tone of a text, who was supposed to handle what. So how did it turn into something so much bigger than either of you meant it to be? In this episode of Divorce Discussions, host Angie Weber sits down with Adya Riss, MSW, a family mediator at Riss Mediation who spent years as a therapist before moving into mediation and who specializes...

You did everything right. You ran the numbers, you talked to the bank, and you qualified for the mortgage. So the house is yours, right? Not necessarily. In this episode of Divorce Discussions, host Angie Weber sits down with Mitch Irwin, a loan officer and divorce mortgage specialist at Bell Bank Mortgage and a member of the Divorce Support Collective, to talk about the gap between qualifying for...

At some point after a divorce, someone is going to ask if you are ready to start dating again. And even if the answer is yes, there is often a quieter question sitting underneath it: what if I miss the signs again? In this episode, Angie sits down with Justin Smith, a Tampa-based entrepreneur and the founder of Cray, a dating and relationship safety app built around more than 70 research-backed re...

Who gets the house? It is one of the first questions that comes up in a divorce, and one of the hardest to answer, because a house is never only a house. It is the kitchen, the pencil marks on the door frame, the first Christmas. And it is also, for most families, the single largest financial asset on the table. In this episode, host Angie Weber sits down with Kimberly Reeves, a real estate adviso...

Have you walked past a mirror lately and not quite recognized the person looking back? Long before the papers, before the hard conversations, something in your body was already bracing. In this episode of Divorce Discussions, host Angie Weber sits down with Romy Limenes, a trauma-informed coach, breathwork facilitator, and former nurse who found her way back to herself after her own marriage ended...

For many women, divorce isn't just the end of a relationship. It's the beginning of taking full ownership of their financial life, sometimes for the very first time. In this episode of Divorce Discussions, DSC Director, Angie Weber, sits down with Donna Cates, a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA), wealth builder, and founder of Money Matters Wealth Solutions and Navigating Divorce, to talk...

Divorce doesn't just end a relationship, it completely reshapes your finances. And most people don't realize that until they're already in the middle of it, making fast decisions about income, assets, and their long-term security without really understanding how it all fits together. This episode is here to create some clarity. Angie Weber sits down with Melissa Murphy Pavone, a certified financia...

"This divorce is going to mess up my kids." It might be the single biggest fear holding parents in place, and in this episode of Divorce Discussions, we meet it head on. Divorce Support Collective Director, Angie Weber, sits down with Jill Kaufman, a therapist, divorce coach, mediator, and co-parenting expert who went through her own difficult divorce and made it her life's mission to help other p...

The marital home is so much more than the biggest asset on the table. It's stability, it's memories, it's where life happened.  And the decisions you make about the house during a divorce can follow you for years if they're made without the right information. In this episode of Divorce Discussions, Angie Weber sits down with Karla Kyte, a nationally recognized divorce mortgage planning consultant...

If you're in the thick of divorce, you already know the hardest part isn't the paperwork. It's the 2am spiral, the text that hijacks your whole day, the quiet question of whether you'll ever feel like yourself again. In this episode of Divorce Discussions, Angie Weber sits down with Christin Becker, a certified divorce coach and Divorce Support Collective member who walked away from a 27-year marr...

Are all the accounts really being disclosed? What if something is being hidden? When you're divorcing, few things feel more unsettling than wondering whether you're seeing the full financial picture. In this episode of Divorce Discussions, Angie sits down with Becky Sampson, founder and CEO of Only Subpoenas, to pull back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood tools in the legal system. Beck...

"Am I going to be okay?" When it comes to divorce and money, that's the question underneath all the others. In this episode of Divorce Discussions, Angie sits down with Karise Gaynor-Morgan, an attorney turned wealth advisor with Bernstein Private Wealth Management in Minneapolis, to talk about how to find financial clarity and confidence no matter what stage of divorce you're in. Karise is a Cert...

School is almost out, and while your kids are counting down the days, you might be lying awake counting everything that could go wrong. Who has them each week? Who's paying for camp? What happens when the schedule falls apart? In this episode of Divorce Discussions, Angie Weber sits down with Adina Lebowitz, a family mediator, parenting coach, and member of the Divorce Support Collective. Adina sp...

Does divorce always mean lawyers and courtrooms? Absolutely not. In Episode 3 of the Divorce Discussions Podcast, host Angie Weber sits down with Nancy Gabriel, a divorce and family mediator with over 14 years of private practice experience and owner of Mediation Around the Table. Nancy explains how mediation puts the decision-making power back in your hands instead of a judge's, walks through rea...

What if you could actually see how your financial decisions today will play out over the next ten years?   In this launch episode of the Divorce Discussions Podcast, host Angie Weber sits down with Connie Howard, founder of What If Wealth and a certified divorce financial analyst, who spent 30 years building financial models for startups before realizing that the people who needed number-crunching...

You've been lying awake running the same question on loop: should I stay, or should I go? In this very first episode of Divorce Discussions, we sit down with Chip Neuenschwander, a licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of Wayzata Counseling in Minnesota, to talk about discernment counseling, a short-term, structured process designed specifically for couples where one partner is leanin...