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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Jul 22, 2022 • 59min
Healthy Romantic Relationships: Fierce Love Demands Fierce Conversations
Welcome back as we continue our conversation around Healthy Romantic Relationships, I am thrilled to be speaking with Susan Scott author of "Fierce Love", about the essential role of conversations. I was first exposed to Susan's work about a decade ago, when beginning my divorce coaching career and came upon her book Fierce Conversations which over the years has helped me help my clients communicate more effectively. In Fierce Love, Susan asserts that "the conversation IS the relationship!" What we talk about and how we talk about it determine whether our relationships will thrive, flatline, or fail. Susan is the best selling author of Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life / One Conversation at a Time / Fierce Leadership: An Alternative to the Worst "Best" Practices of Business Today / and Fierce Love, Creating a Love That Lasts - One Conversation at a Time.. Susan is a popular and sought-after Fortune 100 speaker who has been challenging people to say the things that are hard to say for over two decades. susanscott.io Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Jul 18, 2022 • 1h 14min
High Conflict: The Role of Custody Evaluations
When negotiating child custody in a high conflict divorce, parents sometimes need the assistance of a custody evaluator to help determine the best shared parenting schedule and decision making responsibilities. If that is the path you are on, understanding the role of a custody evaluator and how to best prepare for their process is vital. Today we speak with Mary Carlin, a seasoned NYC custody evaluator who explains in great detail who chooses the evaluator, what their background is, what contact you will have and how to prepare for it, what your children will most likely experience and much more. Dr. Carlin shares immensely valuable wisdom, experience tips and strategies to support you. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Jul 15, 2022 • 31min
JBD Team Talks: The Unwanted Divorce: Insights For the Spouse That Has Been Left
Hearing the words "I want a divorce" from your spouse can feel earth shattering, especially if those words come as a surprise. It is normal to experience feelings of deep rejection, confusion, devastation, depression, anxiety, anger, and fear. Your spouse may be impatient or pressuring you to move on and focus on the mechanics of separating and/or getting divorced. After all, they are way ahead of you…they have been processing the idea of ending the marriage for days, months, maybe even years. This podcast will identify common emotional stages the "leavee" experiences, strategies and tips for moving through them and regaining your strength and equilibrium, and surprising gifts you will discover 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
Jul 13, 2022 • 49min
Voices of Celebration: Devastated at Being Left and now Delighted with Who I Have Become
Just 7 years into her marriage, there were numerous issues rearing their head. Amy would have kept plowing forward, her husband decided he could not. After being devastated by his decision, Amy was initially overwhelmed with anger, hurt, shame, guilt, and fear. She was struggling to understand how their perfect story went so sideways. Fast forward another 6 years and Amy shares that while the journey was tough, it opened her eyes to the prison of limiting beliefs that she was living in and how coaching helped her tear down the invisible walls that were keeping her living small and in fear. Amy beams as she discusses her great coparenting relationship with her ex, her delightful new relationship and most importantly, the freedom that has come with being her authentic self...and teaching her girls to do the same! Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Jul 11, 2022 • 41min
High Conflict: When Your Child Needs an Attorney - What YOU Need to Know
When children are involved in high conflict divorces, often additional experts are brought in regardless of your legal approach. Today we speak with a heart centered attorney who represents children in high conflict divorces. You will learn when an attorney for the child or guardian ad litem is needed. We discuss how that decision is made and by whom, how the attorney is chosen and paid for and what his/her role is. As important, we discuss how you can best prepare for conversation with this legal representative for your child and what to expect from him/her. Joining me is Beth McCormack who practices exclusively in family law matters in Chicago, with experience in complex litigation, as well as mediation and collaborative law. Beth has extensive experience representing the children's best interests in contentious divorce proceedings and believes strongly in the importance of attorneys working collaboratively to create the best outcome for their clients. Beth was named the Most Influential Woman Lawyer by Crian's Chicago Media, along with nominations and awards over the years for Leading Lawyer, Best Lawyer, Super Lawyer all of which speak to the heart and soul she brings to her practice. Reach Beth McCormack at: 312-621-1212 www.beermannlaw.com BMcCormack@beermannlaw.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com
Jul 8, 2022 • 54min
Healthy Romantic Relationships: Getting The Love You Want
As we continue our conversation around Healthy Romantic Relationships, I am beyond excited to introduce today's guests, Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt. They are authors of one of my favorite books, Getting the Love You Want. Their book is so powerful because it's like therapy and coaching in a book, explaining why we fall in love with the personalities we do, the way our childhood wounds play out in our relationship disputes and my favorite, the vital need for a safe space to be vulnerable and share so that we can heal and grow in and through our intimate relationships. Today's conversation will be like sipping from a firehose, so get out your pen and paper and be prepared to take notes! Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt are both Ph.D.s. They are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally-respected as couple's therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic, Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women's Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institute. They have six children and seven grandchildren. Free Giveaway: https://harvilleandhelen.com/podcast-offer/ How can our listeners find you? Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/harvilleandhelen Instagram @harvilleandhelen Twitter @harvillehelen Website: https://harvilleandhelen.com/ Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Jul 4, 2022 • 57min
High Conflict: How and When Mediation is a Viable Option
I used to believe that high conflict divorce and mediation were mutually exclusive, that only amicable couples can mediate their divorce. I was wrong! Listen as Susan Guthrie, Esq. shares how mediation can and does work in high conflict situations. We talk about what you need to know, how to choose the right mediator, other professionals to add to your support team, and how mediation can be significantly less expensive and more beneficial than litigation. You will feel like you are 'sipping from a fire hose' as Susan provides an immense amount of valuable information and guidance. You can reach Susan Guthrie here: Divorceinabetterway.com and at The Divorce and Beyond Podcast How to Get Your Spouse to Mediate even if they are a Narcissist video Here is a link to gift: The Top 5 Mistakes That People Make in Divorce – What NOT to Do! Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Jul 1, 2022 • 37min
JBD Team Talks: Meet our Coach, KP
Tune in as KP shares her life as a southern girl growing up in Louisiana and Alabama, her experience in leadership that began as a child and her intuitive sense that coaching was the right fit for her. KP shares how her coach training opened her eyes to the possibility that her challenging marriage might not be best for anyone in the family and how she navigated her divorce with a compassionate heart and emerged wanting to dedicate her skills to working with men and women navigating the transition of divorce. KP shares some of her favorite books and self growth practices and leaves the listeners with words of encouragement. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at Email: kp@journeybeyonddivorce.com Calendar: calendly.com/kp--34 For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Jun 24, 2022 • 1h 12min
Healthy Romantic Relationships: 4 Pillars of Successful Romantic Relationships
Welcome back to our Series on Healthy Romantic Relationships. Today we are chatting with Emmy Hernandez about the "4 Pillars to a Romantic Relationship'. Emmy shares her FORMULA for engaging in and enjoying an "Epic Relationship." We talk about playfulness, sexiness, nurturing and your 'boss babe' and what the ideal formula is in bringing these different aspects of yourself into your relationship daily and why. A great conversation! Emmy Hernandez is an executive-level love and relationship coach, international speaker, workshop facilitator, and author of the Internationally Bestselling Book "Women Who Lead.". She works with women and couples who are committed to co-create an epic, passionate and fulfilling romantic partnership. AND she is here today to help us continue the exploration of what it takes to be in a Healthy Romantic Relationship. THanks for joining us Emmy!! Free Giveaway: Free Couples Masterclass Video Sessions https://bit.ly/emmycouplesmasterclass Website: emmyhernandez.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lovecoachemmy/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/lovecoachemmy/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/love-coach-emmy/ Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Jun 20, 2022 • 31min
High Conflict: How I Reclaimed My Sanity, Self Esteem and My Life!
While navigating divorce, fear of the unknown often drives us to replace our uncertainty with a catastrophic worst case scenario about our future. However, our greatest fears rarely come true. Today's session is designed to provide you with hope and encouragement as you hear one woman's journey from fear and overwhelm to a post divorce life that is very different from what she feared. Tune in as she shares the struggles she faced with her narcissistic ex, and how while he never changed, she changed so much that she rarely feels anxiety around interactions with him. Elle shares how she is living a peaceful and joyful life in spite of the fact that she has been divorced for 8 years, co-parenting / parallel parenting her school age child with his dad (and has many years left to go before her child is emancipated). Elle shares specific tools and strategies she received from coaching that you too can use to minimize the stress and tension in your situation. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
