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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Sep 24, 2021 • 50min
Life After Divorce: How to Reduce Stress through Mindfulness with Erica Posniak
Today we are discussing the practice of Mindfulness as a path to reducing stress and living a more present life. The impact of stress can be exhausting or even debilitating over the course of years or decades of a difficult marriage, the uncertainty of divorce and the unfamiliarity of life after divorce. There are many ways of dealing with such stress. Mindfulness is a powerful tool that can significantly reduce your stress reaction. Today we discuss the benefits and power of Mindfulness and the specific approach of MBSR, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Our guest, Dr. Posniak shares what happens when we are faced with stress and the mental, emotional and physical reactions that occur. She describes the value of resilience in navigating life and the role mindfulness plays in growing our resilience. Erica also walks us through a lovely short mindfulness experience and shares quick and easy practices that we can engage in every day. Dr Erica Posniak is a board certified physician with more than 30 years experience practicing medicine and teaching in academic medical centers. Erica is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction( MBSR) teacher, trained at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and at the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Posniak coaches and offers mindfulness and mindfulness based stress reduction workshops and classes to individuals and groups around the world and has authored several blogs and lectures on mindfulness topics. Contact information Email: ericaposniak@gmail.com Get a Free Guide on A Daily Mindfulness Practice Request your free 15 minute zoom call with Erica - sign up here Enjoy a 15 percent discount on any class - using the code JBD2021 Follow me on Facebook at A Mindful Life MD https://www.facebook.com/amindfullifemd/ Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Sep 17, 2021 • 48min
JBD Team Talks: The Secret Formula to Crafting a Successful Parenting Plan
Designing a Parenting Plan can feel daunting and overwhelming. The thought of it can trigger anxiety, confusion, and sadness at realizing you will no longer be spending time with your child or children every day. All of this is normal. When possible, it is best for parents to craft a Parenting Plan together. After all, you know your children and your family circumstances better than anyone. Today's Team Talks discusses the many issues to consider including the age of our children, geographic location and work schedules. We also address the best time to craft a Parenting Plan. After listening to the program, you will feel confident and prepared when it comes time for you and your co-parent to design a Parenting Plan uniquely suited for your family. Custody Exchange Resource Page Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Sep 15, 2021 • 44min
Voices of Celebration: Lessons and Silver Linings in His Grey Divorce
After 25 years of marriage, with three adult children, this was supposed to be our time. Yet we had married in our early 20's and over the decades grew apart until there was more contention than ease and no amount of couples counseling seemed to help. John shares his journey through conflict, self doubt and his deep desire to be amicable and protect their adult children. He describes the benefit of the objective sounding board and guide he found in his JBD coach and what he learned about himself, the process of disentangling from a multi-decade marriage and the value he now enjoys in his post divorce life. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Sep 10, 2021 • 1h 22min
Life After Divorce: Mastering the Practices of Curiosity and Surrender w/Adina Tovell
Welcome to today's episode of "Mastering the Practices of Curiosity and Surrender" with my special guest Adina Tovell. As you enter and settle into your life after divorce, Adina invites you to consider where your thoughts take you each day...do you live in fear and judgement or do you slip into curiosity and inquiry? We examine the limits of one and expansiveness of the other and share specific strategies and questions so you can begin the practice of curiosity in all your affairs. Along with curiosity, comes Surrender. Adina and I discuss what Surrender is and is not and how practicing it opens you to possibility. We invite you to notice that when you are suffering, you are most likely 'white knuckling' an outcome you desire. We explore the powerful changes that occur when you put in the effort and then truly surrender. The practice of Surrender provokes a trust or belief that what unfolds is always happening for us, not to us. Adina Tovell is a Life and Leadership Coach, Podcast Host and Internationally recognized curiosity advocate. Through almost three decades of working with people, Adina has discovered the power of Curiosity to heal, catalyze growth, and achieve sustainable levels of happiness and contentment. She is the CEO of Courage to be Curious, host of Courage to be Curious with Adina Tovell podcast and creator of the LIVE, LEAD and LOVE with the Courage to be Curious card decks. Website: www.CouragetobeCurious.com Instagram @CouragetobeCurious Twitter @CurisotySpeaks Facebook - Courage to be Curious Linked In - @Adina Tovell, @CouragetobeCurious Free Giveaway: 5 Game Changing Questions and How they can Transform your Life Request a Free Jump Start Call https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Sep 8, 2021 • 19min
JBD Team Talks: I'm Losing My Mind! Honoring the mental and emotional toll of divorce
If you feel like you are losing your mind as you enter divorce, I want you to know that it's totally normal. Today I share what happens when you begin the journey through divorce and how your mental and emotional overload show up in your life. I discuss the changes you begin to see in yourself and why things like brain fog, ADD tendencies, short triggers, and memory problems arise in the short term. Tune in as I share what you can do to support yourself and what you are ill advised to do. Seeing the value and benefit in all things divorce is hard and yet when you are looking for the hidden gems, you learn more about yourself, grow in ways that bring value to all you do and set yourself up to be more effective and productive through and beyond your divorce. Mentioned in today's episode is an earlier podcast, The Divorce Landscape. I encourage you to tune in to help with your mental and emotional health during the early stages of divorce. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Sep 3, 2021 • 1h
Life After Divorce: You have the power to live your best life. It's time to use it with Tracy Litt
In today's episode, You have the power to live your best life. It's time to use it" we invite you to consciously choose how you want to be in your new life. Today's guest challenges you to notice the difference from your human experience and reactions and your spiritual ones. She states unequivocally that we each have all the power, all the abundance and all the worth we need and it is a matter of believing and accessing it. We apply these truths to your co parenting experiences, your financial challenges and your fears and desires around love. Learn tangible practices to begin accessing and enjoying your power within. Tracy Litt is a leading mindset teacher & spiritual advisor for female leaders and entrepreneurs, rapid transformational hypnotherapist, best-selling author, and TEDx speaker. Tracy is a powerhouse of energy. As you will hear, she is boldly direct while remaining playful, loving, and supportive. Tracy is the creator of Mind Magic and The Choice Method, a powerful methodology to elevate happiness, prosperity, and fulfillment - one choice at a time. Her work has served thousands of women across the globe and has been featured in Entrepreneur, FastCompany, Thrive Global, and Inc.com. Her book Worthy Human is a #1 best seller in Spiritual Growth and Mindset. Find Tracy Litt: Facebook Instagram Linkedin Free Giveaway Website Request a Free Jump Start Call: https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Aug 27, 2021 • 39min
JBD Team Talks: A Powerful Framework for Problem Solving with Carrie Doubts
Divorce is a situation that brings lots of problems to solve. Big and small, we wrestle with them, trying to figure out solutions that will work to get the results we want. The way we approach these problems can make all the difference between a successful solution and one that creates more problems to deal with. In this podcast, Karen and Carrie explore a framework for looking at the problems you face that will help create the best solutions. If a problem is simple, we know how to fix it. If it's complicated, there may be steps involved that need to be followed - and we may need to turn to the experts to get help to understand these steps. However, many of the problems we face are complex. Find out why you can't approach a complex problem in the same way you do with the simpler or complicated ones. And, we talk about how to handle chaotic problems that seem to have no solutions at all! Request a Free Rapid Relief Call with Carrie https://calendly.com/carrie-journey-beyond-divorce/rapid-relief-call?month=2021-08 To watch the video of this podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/JourneyBeyondDivorce
Aug 20, 2021 • 39min
Voices of Celebration: A Journey from Fear and Pain to Freedom and Possibility
After 30 years of being together, Fiona decided to walk away. After decades of trying, dealing with broken trust, and becoming super angry, she decided enough was enough. Fiona shares her journey through rage, deceit, and financial issues as she learned how to calm her storm, come out in peace, and learn to trust her own decision making. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Aug 13, 2021 • 1h 4min
Life After Divroce: Frequently Forgotten Post Divorce Essentials
For many of us once our divorce is finally complete, we move on to our next big challenges of co parenting with our ex, navigating our new finances and generally figuring out this new and unfamiliar chapter of life. Today's show highlights critical business that is often left undone, causing further struggle and frustration down the road. Our guests, Kim and Danielle talk us through the steps we must take to make sure we're protected in their new life chapter. They discuss health insurance, and the opportunities and deadlines involved in Obamacare and Cobra as well as the often ignored and misunderstood disability insurance. You will learn when and why Long Term Care Insurance is valuable to consider and what your options are around life insurance, and how to ensure that your ex's policy remains in good standing. Today's guests do a beautiful job of discussing what many of us consider a rather dry topic of insurance in a way that's relevant and timely for those of you winding down your divorce or stepping into post divorce life. Kim Natovitz has over 25 years experience in the insurance industry professional advisors and clients count on her to ask the right questions to develop insurance solutions that are practical and address their needs. She's been recognized by several publications as a go to insurance advisor Danielle Kirschner is a key member of Kim's team. Very excited to welcome you on the show. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
Aug 11, 2021 • 25min
JBD Team Talks: After the Trigger: What do to when everyone is calm (Part IV)
Today's topic is part four of our four part series on triggers. We're talking about after the trigger and what to do when everyone is calm. Sometimes the triggers are anger and frustration. Sometimes the triggers are guilt and shame and fear and all those other things. And those are things that get in our way and get us stuck and make it hard to move the situation forward. Today we talk about what tools are needed after we have moved past the triggers and trauma and have reached a spot of calm. Once calm, we can move towards navigating conflict in hot topics that often come up with divorce. Join us as we gather the proper tools to navigate through divorce while everyone is calm Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
