The Champagne Girls’ Guide to Living the Life You Love Podcast

The unexpected - this past week we were forced to stay home due to an ice storm. We live in the South, this weather is not a normal part of our winter. As single women we were responsible for our homes and making sure we had food in the house for us and the kids. We found ourselves resting more and sometimes stressing more. Listen in and hear how we dealt with this unexpected time stuck in our hom...

Do you find January a season of blah? Join us as we discuss feeling the January blues and how we have tried to embrace the season and turn it into a time of positive reflection.

In this episode we discuss parallel parenting - parenting on your own without cooperation or communication from your child's other parent. We discuss being the best example we can be for our kids, focusing on what we can control, and setting boundaries where we can. 

Join us on the porch as we discuss spending the first holiday after divorce on our own without the kids. We talk about 15 ways we can spend our time to combat the loneliness of a Christmas season on our own. 

Welcome to Champagne Sunday! Today we discuss breaking up the monotony of the every day things - how do we feel like we are really living when we are also bogged down in the monotony of the things that must be done? Join us on the porch and listen as we talk about it!

This Sunday we discussed the concept of NOT being a hero - allowing ourselves to not be the best at everything while we take much needed time for ourselves to heal and grow and reset. 

Join us as we discuss a single woman problem - what do you do when your car won't start?? Lauren experienced just this thing this week. 

This week on the porch we discuss celebrating and what it looks like to us. We are living lives we love and this means we are celebrating with our people - whether it is Halloween or just the beauty of a well lived day. Join us as we talk about celebrating and what it looks like to us now!  

This week we discuss ways we have reorganized our lives after divorce to better fit our lives. From new routines to how we think about our homes we have found ways to more fully love our lives.  Do you have a topic you would like for us to discuss? Send us an email at ChampagneSundayGirls@gmail.com  

This week we talked about those times when the toxicity of our former lives blindsides us and triggers anxiety or fear. Listen as Lauren describes how she uses her theater training to step outside of her triggered moments to identify what is happening and see it for what it is so she can let it go. Beth has learned to do the same! Welcome to the porch for Champagne Sunday. 

Join us for the final part of our discussion with Dr. Carolyn Pistorius on how to start starting over after divorce with your finances. Carolyn has some wonderful advice on how to get started in setting priorities with regard to money.  Join us as she gives us some tips and advice on managing our finances on our own after divorce. Part 3 of 3! Thank you Carolyn! 

Join us for PART 2 of our episode of how to start starting over after divorce with your finances. Carolyn has some wonderful advice on how to get started in setting priorities with regard to money. 

Dr. Carolyn Pistorius has been divorced for several years and is incredibly financially savvy. Join us as she gives us some tips and advice on managing our finances on our own after divorce. Part 1 of 3! 

When we started over after divorce - or one of the many times we felt we weren't making in progress in the starting over process - we took a personal inventory of our strengths and weaknesses. Knowing who you are and how to play to your strengths and make your weaknesses work for you instead of against you is huge in creating success sooner rather than later. Join us on the porch this week and the...

Now is the time to make your list of the things most important to you in a new partner. Now, when you aren't in a relationship. Your non-negotiables will be easier to define if you aren't with someone who may already be a compromise on them, right? What did you learn from your marriage? From past relationships? They have all served as lessons in what you do and don't want in a forever partner. Hav...

What do we do when we are stuck in a rut? Overwhelmed with life? This week we talked about some of the ways we purposefully change things up to help us engage in life again and live in the glass half full instead of the glass half empty. Join us on the porch! 

So, we had some weather and trees came tumbling down leaving us without power and making us feel POWERLESS to control the aftermath, the loss of power, fences, and the insurance companies. In this, we realized that we feel powerless A LOT and having an attitude of gratefulness really does make a difference especially when dealing with the loss of control in parenting when divorce happens and we ar...

This week the Champagne Girls talk about how they are using their time. Our lives are precious and that clock is ticking! How are we spending our time? Who are we letting in? What are we doing with this gift of time that we have been given?

Lauren, Beth, and Bonnie discuss the need for space in order to be successful navigating life for themselves and their kids. 

In this episode we tried to stay on topic discussing how we plan to continue to move forward and engage in self care and moving toward our goals once the new school year begins. However, it turns out we also wanted to talk about custody agreements, how healing from trauma can look like depression, stereotypes of women, talking to our kids about our marriages, how our kids have little memory of som...

Welcome to our first Champagne Split - a shorter conversation we feel has insightful discussion worth its own episode but not quite long enough to be considered a full episode.  In this first Champagne Split, Beth discusses the list she made to help her define what was most important to her to use to help guide her to begin building a life she loves. Enjoy!  

In this episode Bonnie, Lauren, and Beth discuss strategies to handle that anxiety that creeps in when life is going well. It is not always comfortable to be without the chaos and anxiety we felt in our toxic marriages. 

In this episode the Champagne Sunday Girls discuss living in the present and the important role community has in making it easier.

Listen as the girls discuss feeling judged in divorce, the inevitability of losing friends in divorce, and other uncomfortable realities divorce brings. Join us on the porch as they openly discuss some of the unfortunate fall our divorce brings. 

This week Lauren, Beth, and Bonnie continue their discussion about dealing with the lives their ex's have created for themselves as well as other topics related to the way life goes on. Making the effort to stay in a positive place is well worth the effort. Join us on the porch!