The Good Divorce® Show

What if the most important part of divorce isn't the legal process, but how you move through it? In this special episode, Karen welcomes Pegotty Cooper, co-founder of the CDC Certified Divorce Coach® program and one of the pioneers of the divorce coaching profession. Together, they explore how divorce coaching is changing the way families navigate separation, conflict, co-parenting, and life after...

In this episode, Karen McNenny sits down with Leah Marie Mazur, divorce recovery coach, speaker, and founder of Mindfully Ready . Leah has lived through three divorces and a profound early-life loss, and she brings hard‑earned wisdom to the conversation about rebuilding identity, emotional stability, and self‑trust after major transitions.  Karen and Leah explore the “in‑between space” after divor...

What if we supported people through divorce the same way we support them when they get married? In this episode, I’m talking with Genevieve “Jenny” Dreizen, co-founder of Fresh Starts Registry,  the world’s first divorce registry. What started as a way to help people rebuild a home after divorce has grown into something much bigger: a community of resources, vetted professionals, education, and pr...

In this episode of The Good Divorce Show , Karen sits down with fellow disruptor Olivia Howell: CEO and co-founder of Fresh Starts Registry, clinical hypnotherapist, certified divorce coach, and award-winning podcast producer. Olivia takes us back to the morning in the shower when she knew her marriage was over, and to the cascade of small decisions that followed. She speaks candidly about the fea...

A divorce isn’t just a legal process—it’s an emotional, financial, and logistical transformation. In this episode, Karen welcomes Amy Colton, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA), wealth advisor, and family law mediator, for a deep and eye‑opening conversation about the financial side of divorce that so many people overlook. Amy explains why divorce truly requires three professionals: emotio...

In this episode of The Good Divorce , host Karen McNenny welcomes back internationally recognized divorce educator Christina McGhee, MSW — author of Parenting Apart , lead trainer and founder of the Co‑Parenting Specialist Certification Training Program, and Education & Training Director for the award‑winning documentary project Split . Drawing from more than 20 years of professional experienc...

Kelly and Kyle met in preschool in Lake Forest, Illinois, lost touch for 25 years, reconnected in Missoula — and then found themselves unexpectedly expecting. They never married, but they built something most married couples would envy: a genuinely loving, cooperative co-parenting family centered on their daughter Charlotte. In this encore, both join Karen to talk honestly about the early friction...

Adult child of divorce Kathryn Grady joins host Karen McNenny for a candid, deeply human conversation about what divorce looks like through the eyes of a child — not just in the moment, but decades later. Kathryn reflects on being raised in the 1970s by a single mother who stepped into independence during the early era of no‑fault divorce. As Karen notes, “your mom really was this warrior woman co...

Jake and Jenny met in their early twenties, made music together across two decades, and then had to figure out how to dissolve a marriage without destroying everything they'd built. In this encore conversation, the Bozeman-based musicians share how Jake's family history — a sprawling, amicable blended family that gathered together every Christmas — gave them both a blueprint for what was possible....

What does divorce look like through the eyes of a child — and decades later, through the eyes of an adult? This week, Karen welcomes Kate Liles, who grew up navigating life across two households after her parents divorced when she was just a year old. Kate shares her story with honesty and grace, offering a rare, firsthand look at the lasting impact of the decisions parents make during and after d...

Karen revisits a Father's Day conversation with Patrick Duganz, who has spent over a decade as the father engagement specialist at the Gallatin City-County Health Department in Bozeman, Montana. Patrick talks candidly about why dads often arrive at parenthood underprepared, how a lack of targeted support for fathers shows up in everything from home visiting programs to divorce proceedings, and wha...

Divorce coach Kelly Myers knows what it looks like when the system fails families — because she lived it. When Kelly and her husband divorced in 2011–2012, their three boys were six, eight, and ten years old. What followed was two years of litigation and more than $100,000 in legal costs — a path she didn't fully understand she was choosing when she stepped into it. In this candid and deeply perso...

On April 26th, 2024, an email arrived asking Karen if she'd ever thought about writing a book. Exactly two years later to the day, a box of 300 copies landed on her front porch. In the final episode of this behind-the-scenes mini-series, Karen picks up where the manuscript ends and the movement begins. She talks about her first major book launch — a keynote for 250 HR professionals in her hometown...

She had a book deal. Now she had to write the book. In Part 2 of this behind-the-scenes series, Karen walks through what it actually took to get The Good Divorce from outline to print — nine months of writing squeezed around a graduating son, a daughter heading to Europe, divorce clients, speaking gigs, and a single-income household with no one to walk the dog. She bought a van, hired back her gho...

At 18, Karen McNenny wrote in a pageant essay that her greatest ambition was to write a bestselling book. She had no idea what it would be about. She certainly never guessed divorce. In this first of three special episodes, Karen tells the origin story of The Good Divorce — from that Miss Montana essay to a publishing offer from Wiley/Jossey-Bass that arrived faster than anyone in the industry sai...

What happens when parents wait until the kids are grown to divorce — and then discover their adult children are not fine with it? In this rich and eye-opening conversation, Karen sits down with Dr. Carol Hughes, clinical psychologist, two-time Fulbright Scholar, and one of the true pioneers of the collaborative divorce movement, to challenge one of the most pervasive myths in divorce: that adult c...

What does it look like when a divorce attorney goes through his own divorce — and comes out the other side with a blended family, a co-parenting partnership, and a whole new perspective on his practice? That's exactly what Karen McNenny explores in this conversation with Raiford Dalton Palmer, Illinois divorce attorney, bestselling author, and CEO of STG Divorce Law. Raiford's own 2015 divorce aft...

Divorce is a death — of a marriage, an identity, a family, a home — and yet our culture offers almost none of the support it would for any other kind of loss. In this solo episode, Karen gets honest about the grief of divorce: why we wildly underestimate it, why we're often left to navigate it in isolation, and what it actually looks like to move through it with intention. Karen introduces the con...

In this episode, Karen is joined by the "Freedom Team" — Keri Gwynne , CDC Certified Divorce Coach and CEO of Starting Point by Freedom, and Ryan Finley , CPA, CDFA, CVA, and founder of Freedom Financial Services Group. Together, they bring a uniquely holistic perspective to divorce: coaching, financial forensics, and mediation — all under one roof. Both Keri and Ryan are survivors of high conflic...

In this powerful episode of The Good Divorce Show , host Karen McNenny sits down with Dr. Debi Silber — founder of the Post Betrayal Transformation Institute, creator of National Forgiveness Day, and one of the world's leading experts on betrayal recovery — to explore why betrayal is a distinct form of trauma, and what it actually takes to fully heal from it. Drawing on her groundbreaking PhD rese...

One of the most overlooked — and potentially explosive — topics in divorce is also one of the most personal: when is it okay to start dating again? In this episode, Karen McNenny, divorce consultant and co-parent specialist, makes the case that the timing of that question matters less than whether both partners have actually agreed on the answer. Karen walks through real-life examples from her wor...

Have you been wondering if love is still possible after divorce — and how to avoid repeating the same patterns? In this episode, Karen sits down with Bela Gandhi, renowned dating and relationship expert and founder of the Smart Dating Academy, to talk about how to approach dating after divorce with intention, self-awareness, and real strategy. Bela shares why most people's "people pickers" are bro...

What if you could actually insure your child support and alimony? In this episode, Karen sits down with Ron Platt, co-founder of the National Association for Single and Divorced Families (NASDF), to introduce a first-of-its-kind organization built to support people at every stage of divorce — before, during, and long after the paperwork is signed. Ron shares the origin story of NASDF's groundbreak...

Living across two homes doesn't have to feel like navigating a minefield — but it does take intention, communication, and a willingness to loosen your grip a little. In this episode of The Good Divorce Show , Karen McNenny gets practical about the day-to-day logistics of co-parenting, sharing real strategies that make life smoother for both parents and kids. Karen introduces the "boomerang 🪃 fold...

Strategy, Lending, and Faith with Jody Bruns In this episode, host Karen McNenny sits down with Jody Bruns, founder of the Certified Divorce Lending Professional (CDLP) designation and the Divorce Lending Association. With over 35 years in mortgage and finance — and having navigated her own divorce — Jody shares how she turned personal pain into a profession dedicated to helping divorcing homeowne...