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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Apr 18, 2022 • 1h 9min
High Conflict Divorce: Understanding High Conflict Personalities
High conflict personalities drive high conflict divorces. If you have been married to and are divorcing this type of personality, today's show helps you to understand the traits common to this personality type. You will begin to understand your spouse's inability to manage his/her emotions, their black and white thinking, extreme behaviors and tendency to blame are common to his/her personality and not about you. Our guest expert, Virginia Gilbert is a family and marriage therapist. She also sheds light on your part in the unhealthy dance of high conflict divorce. Most partners of high conflict personalities are caregivers or codependents, an equally unhealthy role in the relationship dynamic. We discuss the tendency of the codependent to want to change the HCP, keep the peace, be triggered and reactive and take the HCP's behavior personally. Virginia speaks to the trauma of being married to such a personality and the impact it has on your nervous system and therefore your behavior. Learning to trust yourself, put your needs first and heal your broken sense of self are a few of the topics covered in today's conversation. The good news is your high conflict divorce can be a catalyst to focus on yourself, develop healthy perspectives and behaviors, heal and become empowered and renewed. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Apr 15, 2022 • 1h 8min
Life After Divorce: Online Dating I - Creating an Effective Profile
Today we dive into the nuts and bolts of setting up your online dating profile. Our guest Elise is not a dating coach like so many of our other guests. Elise comes at online dating as a former journalist who is divorced and decided to use her journalism skills to investigate what works and what doesn't in terms of dating apps, platforms, profile images and bios. Along with having hosted dating experts at events held by her company, "Untied, Elisa shares her personal experiences and success after implementing what she learned. Elise is the founder of Untied which is a membership organization offering education, resources and camaraderie to women navigating divorce and life afterward. She was a journalist with two young sons when she found herself facing divorce in 2010. The one thing she yearned for above all was a community of other women who had either been through a split themselves or who were currently going through one. In 2013, she founded UNtied.net which offers local and virtual seminars as well as a community of peers. Elise / Untied Contact Info www.untied.net elise@untied.net Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Apr 13, 2022 • 36min
Voices of Celebration: Child of Divorce Shares Struggles and Successes
Veronica was a child of a high conflict marriage who desperately wanted her parents to get divorced. However, once she received news that they were, she realized that she was thrown into a situation she didn't know how to navigate. Today, Veronica walks us through how her parent's divorce affected her on a deeper level than what parents see. The divorce left her with a sense of dread, anxiety, and overwhelm. As Veronica entered adulthood, she realized the anxiety was affecting her adult relationships.Tune in to learn more about how Veronica was able to conquer her anxiety by learning boundaries and communication. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Apr 11, 2022 • 1h 7min
Divorce Roadmap: Co-Parenting Post Divorce
Your Divorce Settlement has been negotiated and agreed upon. Now it is time to step off the divorce battlefield take off your 'coat of armor' and begin the task of coparenting post divorce. The good news is that much of the ongoing stress and tension around the negotiations quickly melts away which provides you with the opportunity to be fully present in attending to your children's needs. But old habits die hard...so today we are going to highlight some of the most important Coparenting Do's and Don'ts. You and your ex were unable to cohabitate. You have differences that are so extensive that you were unable to mend your marriage. These differences will undoubltedly show up in how you each parent. The task and challenge in every situation is putting your children before your need to be right or better. Today's show intended to help you set yourself on the right path. For more info, visit Journey Beyond Divorce today.
Apr 4, 2022 • 58min
Divorce Roadmap: A New Style for Men and How to Attract Women
As we continue our post divorce series, today is all about you guys! As you enter your new life chapter, we will guide you on how to refresh and reinvent yourself through style and image. Today's guest will share tips on how to become your most authentic, magnetic and powerful self. Grab a pen and begin to explore how to hone in on the deeper blocks keeping you from attracting your dream woman! For more info, visit www.JourneyBeyondDivorce.com
Apr 1, 2022 • 53min
Life After Divorce: Be Psychotically Optimistic About Finding Love with Bela Ghandi
Welcome back to another conversation about dating after divorce. Today I am joined by Bela Gandhi, a dating expert and founder of Smart Dating Academy. Bela chats with us about how fun, exciting and fulfilling the dating process can be…under the right circumstances. She shares the three key approaches to dating and yes, online dating remains the most accessible and successful approach. And if you are wondering how to write a true and enticing profile, what images to use and to avoid and how to ensure that you don't waste time with face to face meetups that lead to disappointment and discouragement…Bela has answers to all these questions and more! Bela Ghandi has always had an uncanny sixth sense of love, which she discovered in college. And while she went on to spend years working in a number of industries, she continued a small side gig of helping people find love…until 2009 when she took the leap and began her entrepreneurial dream - Smart Dating Academy. Smart Dating Academy teaches amazing singles to jump start their dating lives successfully after divorce, and find 'the lid to their pots'. Smart Dating Academy has been described by clients as "going to Harvard Business School, but for dating and relationships." Academy graduates have had ZERO divorces in the past 12 years, and become like "personal trainers for their love lives" – making dating fun, inspiring, and avoiding bad potholes along the way. Bela attends more weddings than she can count, and she loves love. How to reach Bela: Bela Gandhi Smart Dating Academy Founder & President Watch: TED Talk - The Secret to Lasting Love! Watch: The Today Show - Smart Dating Academy Watch: Steve Harvey / Bela Gandhi Watch: Good Morning America Website: www.smartdatingacademy.com Subscribe for Free Video Tips: You Tube Channel - Smart Dating Academy Follow us on Instagram: Instagram "Like" Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smartdatingacademy Twitter: @BelaGandhiLove Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Mar 21, 2022 • 46min
Divorce Roadmap: Getting Your Financial LIfe in Order
Once your divorce is final, you are so relieved for it to finally be over, that it is easy to miss the crucial steps that can only be taken after your divorce is final. This vital step allows you to secure and protect what you received in the settlement and sets you up for financial stability post divorce. In today's show Aviva Pinto helps review everything from closing accounts shared with your ex to retitling your policies, investments and accounts to changing your beneficiaries, drafting a new Will and taking care of your estate planning. Regardless of the amount of money you are working with, the advice and guidance from today's guest will enable you to launch into your post divorce life with a sense of financial security and peace of mind. Bronfman E.L. Rothschild, LP is a registered investment advisor (dba Bronfman Rothschild, Bronfman Rothschild Wealth Advisors, and Bronfman Rothschild Plan Advisors). Securities, when offered, are offered through an affiliate, Bronfman E.L. Rothschild Capital, LLC (dba BELR Capital, LLC), member FINRA/SIPC. For more on Karen visit Journey Beyond Divorce.
Mar 18, 2022 • 51min
Life After Divorce: Drop the Mask and Authentically Call in Next Level Love with Junie Moon
As we begin to explore dating, today's guest shares the vital importance of being authentic and what keeps us from doing so. Not surprising, there is a lot going on in our subconscious that can derail effort to enjoy dating and find healthy partners. Love Coach Junie Moon shares the 'shadow work' she does with clients. She helps unearth and tease apart unconscious limiting beliefs and breaks through blind spots so that clients are free to find love again! Junie Moon, The Love Coach, teaches women in midlife how to magnetize their ideal partner and experience Next Level Love. Using her unique heart-centered dating strategies, coupled with some powerful mindset tools that helped her magnetize the love of her own life, women learn to embrace this precious stage of life with confidence, playfulness and ease. Junie's an award-winning international speaker, #1 Amazon Best-selling author of Loving the Whole Package: Shed the Shame and Live Life Out Loud, director/producer of the film Shed the Shame, host of the podcast Midlife Love Out Loud and a Certified Shadow Work®️ Facilitator. Junie's Website CoachJunieMoon.com Facebook: Instagram Linkedin Twitter Free Giveaway Find Fabulous Love After 40 Guidebook:10 Easy Steps Proven to Welcome In Next Level Love Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Mar 16, 2022 • 38min
Voices of Celebration: From Traumatized to Triumphantly Happier than Ever Before
Cheryl was married for almost 3 decades when one day her husband handed her divorce papers, stripped her of all finances and left without explanation. She was so traumatized that she ended up in the hospital. That was two years ago. Today, Cheryl shares that she is the happiest she has ever been and the journey to get here was hard and took time and was the best investment in herself that she ever made. Cheryl found her way to deep self love, re-entered the workforce after 27 years as a stay at home mom, found a new home and is in a healthy loving relationship. Tune in to learn more about her journey and hear her encouraging words of hope and possibility. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Mar 14, 2022 • 54min
Divorce Roadmap: Post Divorce: Taking Back Your Space and Creating a Peaceful Home
Imagine feeling homeless in your home. That is how so many divorcees feel after their ex spouse has moved out of the home. Today we are speaking to the ones who are left feeling disconnected with their home. Today's guest, Jodi Topitz, founder of We2Me guides us in transforming your home from married to single, and she shares fun, easy, and inexpensive ways to create spaces that make you feel good to heal. Click here for more information on Journey Beyond Divorce. Click here for more information on Jodi Topitz, We2Me
