The Thrive After Divorce Podcast

Lorna Gale left a 30-year marriage at 63 to step fully into work she could no longer ignore. What led her there wasn't a dramatic falling out. It was the quiet, persistent realization that staying meant slowly disappearing. Lorna is a somatic sexologist and what she calls a sex and spirit alchemist of the feminine-led life. Her work sits at the intersection of body, sexuality, and spiritual r...

Lynda Talley spent decades navigating abuse — and when she finally left her marriage, she was standing in the shower when she felt it: a sense of release, a glimpse of what her life was actually supposed to look like. The moment she walked out of that bathroom, everything blew up. But she knew she was worth more than what was waiting for her on the other side of that door. That moment set her on a...

Ry Duong's parents escaped the Cambodian genocide. She spent nine years in a Thai refugee camp before her family was accepted into Canada. She lost her baby sister to depression at 30, a heartbreak that cracked Ry's world open and made her look hard at the 17-year marriage she was in. She filed for divorce. She started over. And she built a life and a relationship so intentional, so grou...

You can download the habit tracker, start the morning routine, read all the books. And still find yourself right back where you started. That's what happens when you skip the foundation and that's the first thing needs fixing. In this solo episode I'm breaking down why creating new habits after divorce is harder than anyone tells you and what actually has to happen first before any...

Most women going through divorce know they need a lawyer. What they don't always know is that the negotiation happening outside the courtroom, not inside it, is where the real financial decisions get made. And if you don't understand the numbers, you can't negotiate for what you actually deserve. Donna Cates has spent 25 years as a wealth manager working specifically with women in t...

Tammy Scarlett didn't go through one hard thing. She went through several: breast cancer, divorce, a capsule rupture from her implants that left her sicker than the cancer ever had, all within a few years of each other. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, she realized they weren't separate events. They were the same message, delivered louder each time. She just wasn't home eno...

Louise was ready to leave her marriage before she even walked down the aisle. Fear kept her there for years. Fear of being alone, of breaking up her family, of what people would think. The day her husband finally moved out, she drove her kids to nursery school and noticed something she hadn't felt in years: a real smile. Not a performance. The actual thing. That moment set off twenty years of...

The day Sara Fishkin stood in her shower, everything had fallen apart. Her marriage was over. And in that moment, instead of collapsing further into it, something shifted. She decided to stop being the victim of her story and get curious about what was in it for her. What she found changed everything, including what she does now. Sara is a transformational mindset and prosperity coach whose work i...

Grief doesn't wait for the divorce to be final. For many women, it starts long before the papers are signed, sometimes before the decision is even spoken out loud. In this episode, I'm walking you through the five stages of grief after divorce: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But here's what I want you to know going in: the process is not linear. You'll m...