The Rewrite...A Podcast about Divorce, Choice & New Beginnings

Melissa Rubenstein transformed her career from sought-after real-estate lawyer into a highly successful residential and commercial realtor with Christie’s Internationals. She helps her clients navigate the challenges that come with buying, selling, or renting a home after divorce. She also coached her clients about the importance of working with a lender who is divorce certified. Melissa is passionate about helping her clients turn their real-estate dreams into reality,

Jennifer Warren Medwin, MS, is a CDC Certified Divorce Coach, Supreme Court of Florida Family Mediator, and a Certified Marital mediator. Through her private practice, Seeking Empowerment: Clarity Through Partnership, Jen counsels couples and individuals who are trying to avoid a high-conflict divorce, as well as those who hope to save their marriages. Author of Strategies & Tips from a Divorce Coach: A Roadmap to Move Forward, Jen specializes in delivering practical and pragmatic advice that helps people cope with the end of their marriages or navigate the reconciliation of their relationships.

Michelle Frankel is a certified matchmaker, dating coach, relationship expert, and founder of NYCity Matchmaking, a premier matchmaking and date coaching service. She’s a member of the Matchmaking Institute and the Matchmaker Alliance and has appeared on countless media outlets. She earned her law degree from George Washington University, but her passion for connecting people led her to focus on matchmaking—she traded law for love. Michelle helps people find love by finding their perfect match.

Tara Eisenhard is a pioneer in the Divorce Coach industry, and author of The D-Word: Divorce Through a Child’s Eyes. She’s a child of divorced parents, an ex-wife, a ‘next’ wife, and the previous partner of a divorced dad. She’s lived it all, and she shares what she’s learned to help others get through it, too. She sees divorce as the solution to a problem, a new beginning, and she teaches her clients how they can feel empowered to live happy, fulfilled lives after divorce.

It’s Part 5 of our sponsored 12-part series, Guidance That Moves Lives Forward, with Attorney Melissa Needle of Needle | Cuda Divorce and Family Law! This episode focuses on financials, including financial affidavits, prenup agreements, valuing assets, and more. Melissa will share her invaluable expertise about how to protect yourself and your assets when you’re planning or going through a divorce. After decades of experience in divorce and family law, Melissa has seen it all and she knows what works. Don’t miss this episode—it’s filled with practical and actionable tips and insights that will help you make smart decisions.

Sadie Marie, the host of the Divorced and Happy podcast, believes it’s better to be real than to be perfect. She’s fierce and funny, and focuses on being relentless and resilient after divorce, and she empowers her listeners to do the same. Sadie grew up a preacher’s daughter, always doing the right thing and playing it safe. She built the life she thought she should live—but she wasn’t happy pretending to be a perfect person living a perfect life. Now, she’s truly living her best life, with all its ups and downs, after divorce.

Vickie Lynn is a fighter. She’s a survivor. Founder of the TheSurvivorCenter.com, she made it through 25 years of abuse at the hands of a narcissist to become a healer and a helper. She’s a high-conflict divorce coach who reaches back into the fire to help women navigate their own high-conflict divorces, empowering them after emotional abuse. Vickie created the Co-Parenting with a Narcissist course to help other women out of the hell she endured for 24 years. She gives her clients confidence, clarity, and the strength to change the course of their lives.

It’s Part 4 of our sponsored 12-part series, Guidance That Moves Lives Forward, with Attorney Melissa Needle of Needle | Cuda Divorce and Family Law! This episode focuses on the most important and difficult issue that most couples face during their divorce: Custody of the Children. Melissa shares some advice from her decades of experience about how to stick to the Golden Rule: What’s in the best interests of the kids. We get some invaluable insights about custody evaluations, what are GALs and AMCs, and the differences between ‘legal’ custody and ‘physical’ custody. Melissa also talks about temporary parenting plans, transitioning from one parent to the other, therapy and mental health, and so much more.

Jenny Stevens, LCPC, knows about change, and how it can impact a person’s mental health. As a child, she attended 9 schools in 12 years and lost her father when she was 19. Later, she navigated her mom’s fading mental health and faced her own breast cancer diagnosis—plus her divorce. A mom of two, Jenny is the founder of createchangeconsultants.com, where she helps people who are going through significant changes in their lives. Through her own experiences, and her decades of work as a professional therapist, Jenny empowers her clients through clarity, inspiration, and accountability to thrive after change.

Author, Parent Coordinator, and Certified Divorce Coach Cherie Morris is Founder of the Dear Divorce Coach website. She helps clients manage conflicts, whether it’s during or after a divorce, or while co-parenting. She focuses on practical tools—including de-escalation support and decision making—that shift behaviors for a new way forward. Her book, Should I Stay or Should I Go, helps people decide if they really want to move forward with a separation or divorce.