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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Oct 14, 2022 • 59min
Healthy Romantic Relationships: How to Find and Keep Love: A Look at Attachment Styles
Welcome back to Healthy Romantic Relationships! Today we dive into Attachment Theory and how it can help us Find and Keep Love based on the Science of Adult Attachment My desire is that you will emerge from today's conversation understanding that each of us behaves in relationship in one of three distinct ways, anxiously attached, avoidant attached or securely attached. So what does that mean? Today's guests explain the difference in attachment styles, the interplay that occurs when you and your partner have different styles and how that plays out in love and conflict. It is our hope that you will be able to identify your own style and that of those you are in relationship with so that you can either find a compatible partner or improve your current relationship. A little about our guests…Drs. Kimberly Murray and Gregory Seibert are licensed marriage and family therapists with over 20 years combined clinical and research experience in the world of relationships. They share these experiences on their podcast entitled Relationships Inside Out where they dive into topics such as sex, conflict, happiness, and family dynamics. It was such a great time recording with you today! We truly hope that we can get together again and do some deeper dives. As promised, here are some links to provide listeners: Attachment Style Quizes: https://quiz.attachmentproject.com/ https://fetzer.org/sites/default/files/images/stories/pdf/selfmeasures/Attachment-OriginalAttachmentThreeCategoryMeasure.pdf https://www.yourpersonality.net/relstructures/ How to Reach us: https://www.safehavenfamilytherapy.com/ https://www.hrlcenter.com/ https://www.facebook.com/relationshipsinsideoutllc Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Oct 12, 2022 • 20min
Voices of Celebration: One Dad Finds the Silver Lining in Divorce
Kevin is a deeply dedicated family man, primary earner with a high pressure career and two young girls that he adores. When he was facing divorce, he reached out for both emotional and practical support. Kevin struggled with his wife's changing behavior as she pulled away from her primary care taker role and re-engaged in her career as a stewardess taking her away from her girls and the family for days at a time. Kevin was struggling with frustration and unbelief as he took on more of the primary parent role and tried to keep a level head as they began divorce negotiations. Family was always his primary value and he had worked hard to provide a good home, schools and lifestyle. He feared what people in his small community would think and how the dissolution of his marriage would affect each family member in the social circles they had built. He was, of course, concerned about the financial toll divorce would take as well. Keven found a surprising silver lining as he began to balance work and home life differently, leaned into his dad role even more and found grace and mercy for his soon to be ex. Tune in as he shares his struggles and lessons. Top 15 Child Custody Podcasts Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Oct 7, 2022 • 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. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Sep 30, 2022 • 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 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. How to find Karisa: https://www.iloveusintimacy.com/ Instagram & Facebook: @ilurelationships Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Sep 23, 2022 • 31min
Meet JBD's Divorce Coach: Rachel Goldman
Divorced over twenty years ago when her three sons were very young, Rachel personally experienced the challenges and the many growth opportunities that arise during the divorce process and beyond. In our conversation Rachel shares her unique experience, perspective and skill set. She brings not only her personal divorce experience to each coaching conversation, but her three plus decades of experience as a collaborative divorce attorney and mediator as well. Rachel's passion has always been supporting and guiding people through life transitions. Listen as Rachel shares and reflects on her professional and personal journeys, including some unexpected twists and turns along the way. Rachel Goldman Email: rachel@journeybeyonddivorce.com Calendar: calendly.com/rachel-jbd Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Sep 16, 2022 • 43min
Healthy Romantic Relationships: Reclaiming Your Sensuality
Welcome back to another episode of Healthy Romantic Relationships. Today we engage in a conversation around the titillating topic of Sensuality, how to understand your relationship with it and reclaim it!! Dr. Elizabeth Cohen is back with me again and helps us understand the definition of sensuality and how it can get numbed out as a result of trauma or grief. We discuss whether another person is needed for you to feel sensuous and what happens to our sensuality and how to develop it if you have never felt sensuous…and so much more!! Dr. Elizabeth Cohen Dr. Cohen received her PhD in clinical psychology from Boston University. She was the recipient of the prestigious American Psychological Foundation Research Award for her research on the emotional effects of 9/11. She has been featured on the Tamron Hall Show, the Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Women's Health, Huff Post, Thrive Global, Daily Beast and Good Housekeeping, contributes weekly to Psychology Today and hosts the Divorce Doctor podcast. Finally, Dr. Cohen has published a book based on her Afterglow program entitled, "Light at The Other Side of Divorce: Discovering the New You". The Divorce Doctor Podcast Dr. Elizabeth Cohen's Website Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Sep 14, 2022 • 49min
Voices of Celebration: I'm Healing From Regret, Resentment and Codependence and Living My Best Life!
When Maria reached out for support she was still resentful at her ex and regretting staying so long in a marriage that had been over for 2 years. Maria shares her journey to self awareness and acceptance of herself and her circumstances. In a short time, Maria developed an understanding of codependence and began shifting her behavior to more self loving and less fearful about what other's thought about her. Maria also shares her 'hot pepper moment' and the powerful impact our signature Emotional Energy tool had on both her healing and her new romantic relationship. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Sep 9, 2022 • 38min
Meet JBD's Divorce Coach: Diane Dempster
Become a coach made Diane a better person, mom and wife. It also prompted her to examine her marriage and ultimately to hire JBD to determine if she should mend or end her marriage. Diane shares the value of having coaching skills and still needing her own coach to help her navigate the emotional and practical aspects of this difficult decision. In this episode you will learn what led Diane to become a coach and how her primary business, ImpactParents.com fit her life experience, professional skill set (outside of coaching) and her desire to be part of a team. A decade into coaching and now navigating life as a single mom in a new romantic relationship, Diane shares her passion for helping parents and individuals struggling in their marriages. We touched on a number of JBD episodes Diane has recorded. You can find them below. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call with Diane at: calendly.com/diane-jbd Email: diane@journeybeyonddivorce.com Podcasts discussed: Voices of Celebration with Diane Dempster Team Talks Triggers Series with Diane: Part I - Trigger Series Part II - Trigger Series Part III - Trigger Series Part IV - Trigger Series Team Talks - Are you emotionally out of step with your spouse with Diane
Sep 2, 2022 • 50min
Healthy Romantic Relationships: An Unconventional Approach to finding oneself and love after divorce
Welcome back to another episode of Healthy Romantic Relationships. We have a very special guest today, her expertise is as a divorced mom and the title of today's episode teases our content. An Unconventional Approach to Finding Oneself and Healthy Love After Divorce is exactly what Laura did. I am excited to share Laura's journey with you and the delicious experiences she had while finding herself and new love… Before we jump int, Laura Friedman Williams is the author of Amazon #1 bestseller Available: A Very Honest Account of Life After Divorce. She has been a featured guests on dozens of podcasts about divorce, dating, sex and midlife and writes a blog on these subjects for Medium. Insta, FB, Medium, LinkedIn: @LauraFriedmanWilliams Twitter: LauraFW212 Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Aug 26, 2022 • 49min
JBD Team Talks: Untamed
Today we discuss Part Two of the book based on the author's personal story of choosing divorce, Untamed by Glennon Doyle. In this section, Ms. Doyle outlines her Four Keys, which are Feel, Know, Imagine and Let It Burn. Part 2 begins with the author sharing her story discovering she is unmarried & pregnant at age 26. This was when she began to live in a story she created about how to do motherhood & family "right". She held tightly to the perfect image of how she "should be" and how she lost herself within her marriage. By acknowledging her emotions, intuition, imagination & courage, she rebuilt her life into the truest, most beautiful version possible. Her story could easily be a guide for the tools needed through all big life transitions including & especially divorce. Tune in while Karen & KP discuss this beautifully written and impactful book. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
