How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships

Let’s start with the hard stuff: the bravest thing you can do is stand up for yourself and move forward. This week, we’re going to talk about the big piece of your divorce puzzle that is going to stand in the way of you doing just that: your relationships. What’s going to happen to your kids and their relationship with former grandparents? Step- and former step-spouses? Former step-siblings? What...

Love hurts. When you’re on the precipice of divorce, your relationship’s specific circumstances don’t matter as much as the grief and loss you feel as you prepare to walk away from your relationship. Studies show the brain reacts to a break-up experience the same way it reacts to breaking an addiction. That’s why it’s essential to understand what you’re going through and how grief impacts your div...

You’re newly divorced. You’ve moved into a new place. Let’s say, to really put a cap on this exercise of imagination, you’re sitting on the floor one night eating sesame chicken straight out of the take out container by the light of a single lamp and you’re wondering — perhaps aloud — what am I going to do next? You’re going to start but rediscovering your own individual sense of style. This week...

How can people be more intentional in the choices they’re making? If ever there was a time to develop the intellectual muscles that allow us to focus through a veil of emotion, it's when we’re facing the prospect of divorce. This week on the show, Dr. Laura Gallaher joins us to talk about how our brains and bodies work under this sort of stress. She is an organizational psychologist and has worked...

Go on, sing it with us... "it's the most wonderful time of the year..." It's the most cherished of all divorce traditions, that special time when you sit down and ask: how do you split the holidays ?Let’s get this out of the way early: if you have kids involved, splitting holidays is not easy. We’re not just talking about the winter holidays, mind you. What about winter break... Christmas Eve, Chr...

Dr. Jeremy Gaies is a licensed psychologist and certified family mediator and author of “A Clear and Easy Guide to Collaborative Divorce”. He joins Seth Nelson and Pete Wright for a conversation on collaborative law and how a structured collaboration can lead to reduced complication and stress in your divorce. What is collaborative coordination? Who’s on your collaborative team and how do they wor...

What are a few of the things that you never have time to do because of work, kids, or your relationship with your spouse? This week on the show, we’re turning the corner on the divorce itself and imagining a world in which you find yourself in the mysterious state of being alone. In your post-divorce, being alone involves some grief, sure. But it’s also about learning to live alone again. It’s abo...

Lives entwined are as complex as any machine. This week on the show, Seth Nelson and Pete Wright talk about how to navigate separating parts of your lives together that are incredibly complex, with a hypothetical courtroom exercise that will help you clearly understand your lawyer’s objective in supporting you in your divorce. What are your objectives in the divorce process and why is it so import...

Unraveling co-mingled finances in a separation starts by knowing where your money is. For many of us, answering that question can be much harder than it may seem. This week on Toaster, Seth Nelson and Pete Wright dive into the murky waters of divorce and your money. What do you do if you don’t know where your money is? How do you handle co-mingled finances? How can you make yourself more aware of...

Unprecedented . If that word doesn’t earn word-of-the-year on every lexicographer’s list for 2020, language is broken. What happens if you’re living through these unprecedented times with a spouse and you’re struggling in your relationship? This week on the show, family law attorney Seth Nelson guides us through the process of navigating a dissolution of a marriage. How do you communicate when you...

Seth Nelson is a Tampa based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems. In "How to Split a Toaster," Nelson takes on the challenge of divorce with a central objective — saving the most important relationships with your family, your former spouse, and yourself. Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and join us later this month for our official launch!...