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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Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 4min
Divorce Roadmap: Children and Divorce: When Special Needs Kids Are Involved
Raising special needs children has a unique set of gifts and challenges. When negotiating divorce, it is essential that you can advocate for the support they will continue to need. Guest, Randi Karmel specializes in this area and discusses the pitfalls inherent and possibilities available through the negotiation process. Randi shares negotiation danger signs to be aware of as well as resources, organizations and advocates ready to assist you, financial support available for schooling and what you need to do to receive it. This is a must listen show for anyone entering divorce with special needs children. For more information about Broken To Brilliant: https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/brokentobrilliant For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.JourneyBeyondDivorce.com.
Feb 4, 2022 • 37min
Life After Divorce: How to Live a Bucket List Life with Karen Cordaway
Today we are discussing How to Live a Bucket List Life. With all the stress and pressure of divorce and coparenting post divorce, your ability to think about play and leisure and create a bucket list of FUN, is probably not at the top of your list. Today we invite you to change that and begin crafting your EVERYDAY bucket list…things you can do with and without children, ways to enjoy new and creative experiences. Bucket List Living is not about the dream vacation on the Greek Islands, although…that too! It is about expanding and enhancing our lives by stepping out, trying new things and most importantly, balancing the work of everyday life with fun, play, leisure and pleasure. As a busy working parent, Karen Cordaway struggled to find free time & money for herself. Once she discovered how to reclaim both, she infused more fun into everyday life. Karen She has written for US News Money, Huff Post & Clark Howard & now combines her money know-how with bucket list topics. As the author of The Everyday Bucket List Book, Karen shares her step-by-step process to turn dreams into reality. Your SM URLs : http://karencordaway.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Bucket-List-Book-Experiences/dp/0578507439/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Free Giveaway you are offering our listeners Free 15 minute consult for those looking for coaching - Reference JBD Podcast http://karencordaway.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/KarenCordaway (@KarenCordaway) Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/EverydayBucketList/ Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Jan 31, 2022 • 47min
Divorce Roadmap: Children and Divorce: Negotiating Custody to Create a Win Win
Today's show acknowledges the tender emotions you experience while negotiating custody. We encourage you to notice the nightmare stories that create fear and tension, derailing your negotiations. Our guest, Josh Hecht, shares strategies to cut through the acrimony, negotiate for both the current and the long term needs of your children, and insure 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. For more on Karen and Journey Beyond Divorce visit: JourneyBeyondDivorce.com To grab your free copy of Divorce Survival Kit: https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/divorce-recovery-plan
Jan 28, 2022 • 48min
JBD Team Talks: The Power of Faith over Fear
In this episode Karen and Lisa discuss the role faith plays in being able to feel divorce pain and fear yet regain and reignite composure again and again. The awareness of an impending divorce emerges slowly, giving time to prepare as much as possible or seems to show up out of nowhere. Regardless of how divorce shows up, the reality is painful, chaotic, and panic inducing. What will happen when the familiar is stripped away? Who will you be when it's all done? How will you live? What impact will it have on the children's lives? The fear and insecurity of not knowing is tremendous. Once you tune into faith and entertain the idea that this transition will change you more profoundly than success or good fortune, your suffering will transform you in ways you can't imagine...life enhancing ways. It becomes easier to smile and be hopeful...despite how much is still unknown will continue to be for quite a while, and the inevitable fear that the unknown triggers. We are, after all, creatures of habit. For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com Lisa Brick Email: lisa@journeybeyonddivorce.com Calendar: calendly.com/lisa-brick-jbd
Jan 24, 2022 • 1h 4min
Divorce Roadmap: Children and Divorce: How to Navigate a Child-Centered Divorce Standard vs. High Conflict
In today's show we discuss how to choose the best legal approach 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, discusses the choices available and the impact of those decision when fighting for custody during the legal process. We cover both a standard divorce as well as the challenges in a high conflict scenario. For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: Journey Beyond Divorce.
Jan 19, 2022 • 46min
Voices of Celebration: My Worst Experience and Greatest Gift
Marilyn struggled in her high conflict marriage and with a 2 year old toddler she made the difficult and often criticized decision to divorce. Her ex was certain he would win primary custody and a large portion of her assets which she brought into the marriage. As the primary earner, her fear of both finances and parenting time were overwhelming. Tune in as Marilyn describes what happened through both the legal process and her personal journey of healing and transformation. She shares how she went from fearful to fearless and how she now coparents with her ex without being triggered by his behavior, and so much more. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Jan 17, 2022 • 56min
Divorce Roadmap: Children & Divorce: The Child's Bill of Rights
Today's show focuses on your children and how you can parent through divorce in a way that protects them from the animosity between you and your spouse and honors their rights. We talk with Dr. Mark Banschick, a child psychiatrist who share 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 without filters in front of our children 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. Dr. Banschick provides us with a Child's Bill of Rights to guide us. Tune in and you will also receive his free eBook which includes the bill of rights and other tips and strategies. If you have kids, you do not want to miss this show! For more information on Karen McMahon visit Journey Beyond Divorce. For more podcasts on divorce and life after divorce visit Divorce Source Radio.
Jan 14, 2022 • 35min
JBD Team Talks: Grey Divorce: Too Old or Perfectly Timed?
Over the past several years, there has been an upward demographic trend of couples over 50 years old ending long-term marriages. This trend has been coined "the gray divorce". Divorcing later in life brings unique emotional and financial challenges. It also creates amazing opportunities for personal growth and choice about how you want to live your life going forward. Join us for tips on how to confidently navigate the unique challenges you may be facing and how to make it to the other side stronger and more confident. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Jan 10, 2022 • 57min
Divorce Roadmap: Living with Your STBX: The Secret to Surviving the Stress
Once the decision to divorce has been made one of the greatest daily difficulties is how to live under the same roof with your STBX and all the contention that you are each feelings. The most effective way of approaching this stage is refining your communication and problem solving skills. Dr. Dan Thomason explains how easy it is to get caught in arguments about how you are communicating and lose the opportunity to actually communicate effectively. He shares a tool he has created to help couples stay on topic, solution oriented and effective in traversing difficult and triggering topics. Dr. Dan also offers listeners a free eBook that outlines his communication tool, so make sure to tune in! For more information visit Journey Beyond Divorce.
Jan 7, 2022 • 56min
Life After Divorce: Improve Your Mindset, Mood and Movement with Healthy Nutrition
Welcome back to Life After Divorce. In today's episode, Improve Your Mindset, Mood and Movement with Healthy Nutrition, we dive into the connection between what we eat and how we feel. Our tendency to go for 'comfort foods' when stress is high and time is short undercuts our desire to have clarity of mind, control over our emotional reactions and the energy to navigate our post divorce life. Eating healthy for many seems like a great idea but the time and effort to do so makes it unattainable. Today's guest shares his journey from the pain of poor eating habits to his now vibrant healthy life, rooted in healthy nutrition. Listen in as Scott shares the immense value in healthy nutrition while debunking the belief that healthy eating is too time consuming for our busy schedules. Scott Harvell is a Nutrition and Health Coach at Health by Design. Through nutrition, he has been able to conquer severe depression with suicidal thoughts and eliminate all chemical medications. Today he boasts an immune system that's powerful enough to beat any illness within days and is more energized and productive than ever. Scott shares his passion for helping others discover how they too can live their optimal life through nutrition and personal care. Scott and his wife, Dr. Kristy Harvell have an eBook called "How to Maximize Your Health Potential" and online 12-week nutrition program called 90/10 Lifestyle. How to Maximize Your Health Potential FREE eBook 9010lifestyle.com Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com For more information about Soberlink visit: https://www.soberlink.com/partners/jbd
