The Divorce and Beyond® Podcast with Susan Guthrie, Esq.

Susan Guthrie is joined by Jan Barefoot, the Barefoot P.I., to discuss how a private investigator may be the secret weapon you need for your divorce! This episode aims to help listeners understand what a private investigator (P.I.) does in a divorce. We often think about hiring a P.I. solely to find out if a spouse is having an affair. Yet, there is so much more they can do to help bolster the div...

In a Special Bonus Mini-sode, host Susan Guthrie is joined by returning guest Molly Dare Hillenbrand , the dynamic founder of HillenBRAND Media and the host of "On Air with Molly Dare."  They discuss Molly's recent viral TikTok post with well over 1.5 million views that caused a media sensation nationwide with features in the New York Post and on NewsNationLive among others! In a post captioned "D...

This week host Susan Guthrie is joined by returning guest Jackie Pilossoph, Founder of Divorced Girl Smiling . Together Susan and Jackie discuss the importance of understanding the anger about your divorce and how to move past it so that you can thrive in your beautiful beyond! Some people go ten, twenty, or even thirty years caught up in the anger of their divorce.  For example, we all know that...

Are you ready to hear MORE of the most memorable moments and juicy stories from today’s top divorce professionals on the Divorce & Beyond podcast?  — We are back with Part Two of the Most Memorable Cases from our favorite Divorce & Beyond expert guests.  In this episode, guests such as Evan Schein, Michelle Dempsey Multack, and Debra Doak discuss their most memorable divorce cases and experiences....

Are you ready to hear some of the most memorable moments and juicy details from today’s leading experts featured on the Divorce And Beyond podcast?  — August kicks off with a special two-part episode from Host and Top Divorce Attorney, Susan Guthrie .  A few weeks ago, she ran a post on Instagram that shared a recent Buzzfeed article that contained a bunch of divorce attorneys' craziest cases. The...

On this week's episode, Host, Susan Guthrie and Special Guest, Cindy Gunraj discuss the layered and nuanced topic of cultural norms as they relate to divorce and how your family's expectations and beliefs can make a difficult experience even harder. Cindy Gunraj is a brown woman who has tackled the difficult experience of divorce within a family construct and culture that prizes marriage and famil...

Ready to dive into the next installment of our Bonus  Divorce & Beyond Headlines Round Up Monthly episode?  This month, Host and Top Divorce Attorney, Susan Guthrie is joined by one her good friends and a favorite guest, Attorney and Author, Gabrielle Hartley, whose experience withhigh profile divorces will give us a peek inside the inner workings behind the headlines.  Susan and Gabrielle review...

On this week's episode, Host, Susan Guthrie and Special Guest, Tracy Coenen , CPA, CFF, MAFF, one of the leading forensic accountants in the country, review the essential red flags you need to look for if you suspect financial abuse or infidelity in your divorce! According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, nearly one-third of U.S. couples filing for divorce engage in financial inf...

On this week's episode, Host, Susan Guthrie sits down to chat with Attorney Tracy Moore-Grant , the co-founder of T he Amicable Divorce Network , to discuss what an "amicable" divorce really is and what you need to know to have one! Most everyone says that they want to have an "amicable divorce" but what does that really mean?  Do you have to be the best of friends to have an amicable divorce?  Ca...

It is fitting that our 4th of July episode features the topic of freedom and independence!  In this week's episode, Host, Susan Guthrie speaks with Sherry Gaba , psychotherapist and author of " Love Smacked, " about the toxic cycle of love addiction and how you can break free! Relationship addicts are so in love with love with love and romance and being coupled up that they continually move from o...

In this episode, Host Susan Guthrie and Top Financial Expert, Olivia Summerhill CFP, CDFA, CMC, share insights into the significance that the marital standard of living (MSOL) may have on your divorce and how it can impact your ability to maintain your lifestyle post-divorce. "I just want to maintain my standard of living."  Divorce attorneys and financial professionals hear that a lot but what do...

This week our Host, Susan Guthrie is joined again by  Vassia Sarantopoulou , Counselor - Psychologist, Msc and the creator of AntiLoneliness who returns to the podcast to help us to break out of the trap of perfectionism. Are you a Perfectionist?  See if this sounds like you: Perfectionists strain compulsively and unceasingly toward unattainable goals, and measure their self-worth by productivity...

Are you ready to dive behind the curtain and unpack the latest high profile divorce cases in our Bonus  Divorce & Beyond Headlines Round Up Monthly episode?  Get a behind the scenes look at some celebrity splits, high profile break ups and the stories behind the headlines from the Voice You Can Trust. In this month's Headline Round-up Susan discusses: Case Update:  Country Singer Sam Hunt and Wife...

In Part Two of this special two-part episode focused on Parent Coordination, Susan and   Attorney/Mediator, Carolyn Kalos dive below the surface to dig into some deeper considerations when working with a PC in your high conflict case.  Carolyn shares some examples from her cases of what works and what doesn't and gives you some great questions to ask BEFORE you decide to add a parent coordinator i...

This week and next, Susan speaks with Attorney/Mediator, Carolyn Kalos in a special two-part episode sharing everying you need to know about Parent Coordination:  What it is and How it Can Help Your High Conflict Co-Parenting! Carolyn Kalos has been practicing in New York City, some of the busiest courts in the country for over 25 years and spend many of those years in the courtroom with some of t...

This week on the podcast, Susan is joined by America's Most Trusted Psychologist, Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo, who shares her expertise in helping you silence that inner critic so that you can get out the Red Zone of stress and to thrive in your Divorce and BEYOND! Would it surprise you to know that well-known celebrities and athletes like superstar, Shaquille O’Neill, suffer from self-doubt? That they...

We are back with Domestic Abuse Part Two where Dr. Christine Cocchiola discusses the increasing awareness of another form of IPV, Post-Separation Abuse, which is increasingly in the headlines with the ongoing high profile cases of Kim Kardashion and Kanye West and the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial. Abuse between intimate partners comes in many forms.  All are destructive, but some are so insid...

This week our Host, Susan Guthrie is joined by Dr. Christine Cocchiola , and expert in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) for an important two-part episode that delves into some of the most insidious forms of abuse: coercive control and post-separation abuse. Abuse between intimate partners comes in many forms.  All are destructive, but some are so insidious and pervasive that they are incredibly com...

Ready to dive into the next installment of our Bonus  Divorce & Beyond Headlines Round Up Monthly episode?  This month, Host and Top Divorce Attorney, Susan Guthrie is joined by one of our favorite guests, Attorney Beth McCormack, whose experience with these high profile divorces will give us a peek inside the inner workings behind the headlines.  Susan and Beth review some of the top stories from...

This week our Host, Susan Guthrie spends some time with, Vassia Sarantopoulou , Counselor - Psychologist, Msc and the creator of AntiLoneliness to explore what it means to be lonely and why being alone does not necessarily equal loneliness. As humans we crave connection.  We long to feel that we are not alone, but does being alone equal being lonely?  According to our expert this week, Vassia Sara...

Kate Anthony is back and she's right in her wheelhouse - helping you to decide whether there is still a chance for your relationship or if it's just simply, time to go. This week, Susan and Kate dive deep into how you can make this incredibly difficult decision.  We know that on average, most people spend 4 YEARS trying to decide whether to stay or go.  4 YEARS!  Other times, there is a clear sign...

You loved Laura Friedman Williams when she first joined us in June 2021 to celebrate the launch of her first book " Available: A Memoir of Sex and Dating After A Marriage Ends " and so many listeners found comfort and hope in her candid recount of her journey to finding her inner woman again after her long-term marriage ended with her husband's affair. Well she's back and better than ever although...

This week on Divorce & Beyond , Host, Susan Guthrie speaks with documentary filmmaker, Ginger Gentile , a child of a high conflict divorce herself, about the truly heart-breaking cases of parental alienation and estrangement that cause a parent to lose contact with their child and even more heartbreaking, for a child to lose a loving parent.  Alienation is a form of child abuse wherein on parent m...

Enjoy this special bonus episode featuring Attorney Terri Breer honoring the work and legacy of the late Dr. Constance Ahrons, author of The Good Divorce and We're Still Family.   Dr. Ahrons groundbreaking work including her longitudinal studies of children and families in divorce and her innovative new construct of a "good divorce" helped to start and found the postive divorce movement.  Dr. Ahro...

In an episode right out of the headlines, Susan speaks this week with Celebrity Divorce Attorney, Holly Davis , who represents Dillon Passage, the estranged husband of none other than Joe Exotic, "the Tiger King" of Netflix fame .  Even from behind bars where he is serving a 21 year sentence for attempting to hire a hitman to kill his business rival, Joe Exotic manages to continue to use the media...