Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast
Karen McMahon
The Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast is your trusted companion through every stage of divorce—emotional, legal, financial, and parental. With over nine years of impactful episodes, this top-ranked podcast supports men and women navigating the challenges of divorce, especially those facing high-conflict dynamics, co-parenting struggles, emotional overwhelm, or legal uncertainty.
Hosted by Karen McMahon, Certified Divorce Coach® and founder of Journey Beyond Divorce, the show offers strategic guidance, expert interviews, and real-life stories designed to help listeners move from confusion and chaos to clarity and confidence. Each episode is packed with insight and inspiration to help you make informed decisions, protect your children, safeguard your finances, and heal emotionally—so you can create a life you truly love post-divorce.
If you're on the fence about whether to stay or go, have just been told your marriage is ending, or are actively working through the messy middle of litigation, negotiation, or co-parenting, this podcast meets you where you are. You'll learn how to emotionally regulate through triggers, explore your divorce process options (mediation, collaboration, litigation, arbitration), and prepare to work effectively with legal and financial professionals. Topics include how to gather your financials, navigate custody issues, and negotiate complex decisions around property, retirement assets, and business valuations.
For those already in the process, episodes offer real-time guidance on how to cope with personality disorders in your co-parent, how to protect your children from toxic dynamics, and how to negotiate settlements strategically. You'll hear from certified divorce financial analysts, attorneys, parenting coordinators, therapists, and coaches who share proven tools and tips. Professionals in the divorce field—including family law attorneys, therapists, and financial experts—also listen in to better support their clients and stay up-to-date on best practices.
And when the divorce is final? The podcast continues to serve as a roadmap for building your next chapter. Learn how to close out the financial and legal loose ends—such as QDROs, life insurance, beneficiary changes, and estate updates—while beginning to design a life aligned with your values, goals, and inner peace. Episodes cover healing from betrayal trauma, understanding your emotional patterns, rediscovering your identity, and navigating the complexities of post-divorce dating and parenting.
This podcast also answers the most searched divorce-related questions, including:
How do I co-parent with a narcissist?
What are the steps in the divorce process?
Should I litigate or mediate?
What is a QDRO and do I need one?
How do I protect my kids emotionally?
What is the role of a certified divorce financial analyst?
How do I move on after infidelity or betrayal?
Listeners benefit from expert-vetted strategies, free resources, and supportive insights grounded in both experience and compassion. The Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast is more than just content—it's a lifeline. Whether you're seeking calm in the storm, tools to advocate for yourself, or support rebuilding your life, each episode helps you grow stronger, wiser, and more empowered.
Subscribe today and begin your journey beyond divorce with guidance you can trust.
www.jbddivorcesupport.com/podcast
Hosted by Karen McMahon, Certified Divorce Coach® and founder of Journey Beyond Divorce, the show offers strategic guidance, expert interviews, and real-life stories designed to help listeners move from confusion and chaos to clarity and confidence. Each episode is packed with insight and inspiration to help you make informed decisions, protect your children, safeguard your finances, and heal emotionally—so you can create a life you truly love post-divorce.
If you're on the fence about whether to stay or go, have just been told your marriage is ending, or are actively working through the messy middle of litigation, negotiation, or co-parenting, this podcast meets you where you are. You'll learn how to emotionally regulate through triggers, explore your divorce process options (mediation, collaboration, litigation, arbitration), and prepare to work effectively with legal and financial professionals. Topics include how to gather your financials, navigate custody issues, and negotiate complex decisions around property, retirement assets, and business valuations.
For those already in the process, episodes offer real-time guidance on how to cope with personality disorders in your co-parent, how to protect your children from toxic dynamics, and how to negotiate settlements strategically. You'll hear from certified divorce financial analysts, attorneys, parenting coordinators, therapists, and coaches who share proven tools and tips. Professionals in the divorce field—including family law attorneys, therapists, and financial experts—also listen in to better support their clients and stay up-to-date on best practices.
And when the divorce is final? The podcast continues to serve as a roadmap for building your next chapter. Learn how to close out the financial and legal loose ends—such as QDROs, life insurance, beneficiary changes, and estate updates—while beginning to design a life aligned with your values, goals, and inner peace. Episodes cover healing from betrayal trauma, understanding your emotional patterns, rediscovering your identity, and navigating the complexities of post-divorce dating and parenting.
This podcast also answers the most searched divorce-related questions, including:
How do I co-parent with a narcissist?
What are the steps in the divorce process?
Should I litigate or mediate?
What is a QDRO and do I need one?
How do I protect my kids emotionally?
What is the role of a certified divorce financial analyst?
How do I move on after infidelity or betrayal?
Listeners benefit from expert-vetted strategies, free resources, and supportive insights grounded in both experience and compassion. The Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast is more than just content—it's a lifeline. Whether you're seeking calm in the storm, tools to advocate for yourself, or support rebuilding your life, each episode helps you grow stronger, wiser, and more empowered.
Subscribe today and begin your journey beyond divorce with guidance you can trust.
www.jbddivorcesupport.com/podcast
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May 16, 2023 • 39min
Voices of Celebration: My Emotionally Vacant Marriage Transformed into a Compassionate CoParenting Partnership with Nicole
After 2 decades in a marriage that was kind and amicable yet completely lacking the emotional intimacy Nicole desired, she made the difficult decision to divorce. What followed was a painful negotiation that left her questioning if her then husband even cared about her. As someone who always searches for meaning and growth, Nicole reached out for coaching support to try to hold to her desire to keep the divorce peaceful and save her family from being torn apart. Nicole shares the emotional rollercoaster, how she is grateful for the entire journey, what she learned about herself and the relationship she and her ex now share as a result of the hard work invested in maintaining both their coparenting relationship and their friendship. We talk parenting, finances, dating and whether or not her greatest fears came true. Contact Journey Beyond Divorce Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at http://rapidreliefcall.com/ For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
May 9, 2023 • 56min
Healthy Romantic Relationships: Healthy Sex - How Past Experience Informs Future Pleasure
In Today's episode of Healthy Romantic Relationships we discuss "The Psychological Aspect of Healthy Sex - How Past Experience Informs Future Pleasure. We are exploring What is the healthiest way to engage your sexuality as you enter dating and healthy relationships? Karisa opens with a powerful statement of the connection between sex and spirituality, the beauty of the act when connected and the many challenges we face when triggered or navigating past traumas. We look at expectations, discernment and timing when deciding with who and when to become sexually intimate and the reality that intimacy begins with physical touch that does not necessarily lead to sex. Karisa also shares about the differences in men and women regarding beliefs, and physical reactions both during and after sex…and so much more! Karisa Kaye, MAMFT is a Sex & Marriage Therapist located in Chattanooga, TN. She's been in practice since 2011 and currently owns her own private practice- I Love Us: Relationship & Intimacy Counseling. Karisa loves traveling, spending time with loved ones, and is working toward her Ph.D in Clinical Sexology. Contact Karissa Kaye below: https://www.iloveusintimacy.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ilurelationships/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ILURelationships/ Contact Journey Beyond Divorce Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at http://rapidreliefcall.com/ For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
May 3, 2023 • 1h 15min
Life After Divorce: A Roadmap to Deep Inner Peace Using the Four Characters in your Brain
Today Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and I are discussing "A Roadmap to Deep Inner Peace: Understanding the Four Characters in your Brain". We are exploring Jill's concept that our brain has "Four Characters". She shares the role (dare I say personality) of each of these characters. She also shares a powerful tool she has created called the Brain Huddle. This tool guides us to consciously invite all our characters into conversation with one another. We can then tap into their respective strengths and choose which one to be led by in any given situation. Dr. Jill was a brain scientist at Harvard when she experienced a severe stroke that wiped out the left hemisphere of her brain. It took eight years for her to completely recover and her new book 'Whole Brain Living' is what she learned from that experience. You might recognize her as the author of My Stroke of Insight, her TED talk on the topic was the first to ever go viral. If you would like to join us on a call with author Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD, grab your spot here: http://journeybeyonddivorce.com/wholebrainliving Contact Dr. Jill below: Email: drjill@drjilltaylor.com Website: https://www.drjilltaylor.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJillBolteTaylor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjillboltetaylor/ Contact Journey Beyond Divorce Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at http://rapidreliefcall.com/ For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Apr 28, 2023 • 49min
All Things Parenting: The Business Partnership Approach to Successful CoParenting with Janet Price
Welcome to The Business Partnership Approach to Successful CoParenting. Parenting is one of the most difficult jobs we are called to do. In healthy marriages, parents come from different parenting experiences and values and can be challenged to find common ground, how are you to co parent when divorcing when there is so much that is not aligned? Today's guest shares the vital importance of shifting your parenting paradigm from the highly intimate relationship of parenting with your spouse to the business partnership of parenting your children. It replaces the old relationship dynamic, fraught with emotion and conflict and creates an entirely new dynamic, the business partnership. In a business partnership you each have your responsibilities without micromanaging each other. Janet Price is a Certified Divorce Specialist, Conscious Co-Parenting Coach, Certified Co-Parenting Specialist, & Certified Life Coach who empowers loving parents to rise above the 'crazy making', learn the tools to navigate co-parenting, and build skills so they are able to keep their children out of the middle! Janet's practice focuses on educating and supporting individual parents shift their mindset from the intimate partner mindset to the business partnership called: The Children! Contact Janet Price below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpcoachingandconsulting/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jpcoachingandconsulting Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jpcoachingandconsulting/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JPCoaching2 Free Giveaway: Free On-Demand Video Training: How to Guarantee Your PEACEFUL NEW Life...In Spite of What Your Soon To Be Ex May Do Contact Journey Beyond Divorce Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at http://rapidreliefcall.com/ For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Apr 25, 2023 • 45min
Divorce Roadmap: Negotiating Child Custody to Create a Win Win
Your emotions are tender and your fears heightened while negotiating custody. Notice your nightmare stories around custody that fan your fear and create tension and conflict, derailing your negotiations. Matrimonial attorney Josh Hecht shares strategies to cut through the acrimony, negotiate for both the current and the long term needs of your children, and ensure that you consider the nitty gritty details to guarantee a rock solid agreement. This is one of the most stressful aspects of your divorce negotiation, listen in, take notes and make sure your attorney understands that the emotional health of your children is your #1 priority. CONTACT JOURNEY BEYOND DIVORCE: Request a Free Rapid Relief Call with Diane Dempster: http://rapidreliefcall.com/ For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Apr 19, 2023 • 38min
JBD Team Talks: When Your Spouse Shows Up Like A Kid
How do you handle coparenting when your spouse (or soon to be ex) is behaving more like a kid? There may be underlying issues like substance use, neurodiversity or they just may be (much) less responsible than you wish they were. How do you navigate things like shared custody and lifestyle decisions for your kids, when they just aren't in the same place? Karen & Diane challenge our listeners to explore their part in the dynamic, and discuss the fine line between having compassion and caretaking (or even co-dependency!) They also will provide some concrete tools to make solid decisions from a place of discernment rather than from fear. CONTACT JOURNEY BEYOND DIVORCE: Request a Free Rapid Relief Call with Diane Dempster: http://rapidreliefcall.com/ For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Apr 19, 2023 • 1h 2min
Divorce Roadmap: Children and Divorce: How to Navigate a Child-Centered Divorce Standard vs. High Conflict
How do you choose the approach to negotiating custody with your children's mental and emotional health front and center? Children can experience significant emotional damage as a result of divorce, but they don't have to. While it is understandable that you want to fight for your fair share of time with the kids, we want you to understand the risks that accompany a legal fight wherein children are dragged through the court process and strangers make parenting decisions for you. Our guest, Larry Sarezky, a matrimonial attorney and producer of film, "Talk to Strangers - Keeping Children off the Custody Battlefield" discusses the choices available and the impact of those decisions when fighting for custody during the legal process. This program covers both the standard divorce as well as the challenges of a high conflict scenario. Contact Journey Beyond Divorce Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at http://rapidreliefcall.com/ For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Apr 17, 2023 • 55min
All Things Parenting: The 3 A's to Conscious CoParenting with Mikki Gardner
I am so excited to chat with today's guest about her 3 A's to Conscious CoParenting. How you VIEW your child and their behavior, your ability to self regulate amidst the storm and the skill of presence and responsiveness as you address your child's behavior is a brilliantly powerful way to parent…yet by no means easy. Today's Guest, Mikki Gardner walks us through the 3 A's, the importance of each step and the immensely valuable impact this practice has on your daily life as a parent and your relationship with your child. Mikki Gardner is a Certified Life + Conscious Parenting Coach, and the host of the Co-Parenting With Confidence Podcast. Driven by her own struggles of overcoming divorce, Mikki helps moms move past the divorce drama and conflict to become calm, confident co-parents, even without their ex's participation. Contact Mikki Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/co-parenting-with-confidence/id1591303883 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikkigardner/ Website: https://mikkigardner.com/ Free Giveaway: Conscious Co-Parenting Masterclass - 3 Steps to turn your co-parenting chaos into calm - www.mikkigardner.com/masterclass Contact Journey Beyond Divorce Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at http://rapidreliefcall.com/ For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Apr 11, 2023 • 35min
Meet the Coaches: My High Conflict Divorce changed the Trajectory of my Life w/ JBD Coach, Tammy Oswald
Tammy shares her personal and professional experiences related to divorce in this episode. She grew up as a child of divorce with an absentee father, living in poverty and experiencing physical and emotional neglect as a result. Having no contact or support from her father, Tammy's mother worked 3 jobs to make ends meet, making her unavailable physically, mentally and emotionally while struggling financially to care for two children on her own. Tammy shares her story of the day her heart for service was born and some of the struggles she overcame growing up in relation to divorce and the impact it had on her life. Tammy took her experiences and her heart for service and spent nearly three decades in the child welfare system as a social worker and child advocate before branching out into life and wellness coaching, and eventually, divorce and relationship coaching. Being a child of divorce, being Catholic and seeing marriage as a sacrament, and being a social worker who worked to help families every day, she talks of that being a trifecta for her staying in a marriage that she would never have left. It took serious and painful experiences that could not be undone, along with a high conflict divorce process to get her to face her fears and take a look in the mirror and see who she really was. That was the day she set out to make some changes, in her life and in herself. Tammy shares that everything she has learned to be an expert in are areas she has experienced personally, which fueled her desire to learn, grow and heal and use what she learned professionally to help others. Her passion is for helping others to empower themselves during crisis or conflict and to take a journey of self-discovery and self-love to reach their true and authentic self and get to a place of thriving! CONTACT JOURNEY BEYOND DIVORCE: Request a Free Rapid Relief Call with Tammy Oswald: http://rapidreliefcall.com/ For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Apr 7, 2023 • 30min
Divorce Roadmap: Children & Divorce: The Child's Bill of Rights
Learn how you can parent through divorce in a way that protects your children from the animosity between you and your spouse and honors their rights. Dr. Mark Banschick, a child psychiatrist shares the negative impact and long term affects children experience when parents do not protect them from the hostility. Dr. Banschick discusses why we tend to act out and react in front of our children without filters and how hard this season is for mom's and dad's to navigate consciously. After explaining why it makes sense, he offers specific strategies for curbing destructive conversations with your kids. You will be invited to download a Child's Bill of Rights to guide you through this difficult time as well as a free eBook which includes the bill of rights and other tips and strategies. If you have kids, you are going to want to tune into this show! CONTACT JOURNEY BEYOND DIVORCE: Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at http://rapidreliefcall.com/ For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
