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
Episodes
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Nov 11, 2019 • 1h 4min
Co-Parenting Post Divorce With Rosalind Sedacca
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.
Nov 8, 2019 • 56min
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
Nov 6, 2019 • 49min
How to Dress and Step Out in Style for Women
Your new life chapter provides an opportunity to reinvent yourself from the inside out. You have stepped off the 'battlefield of divorce' and now is your time! A time to refresh, renew and decide how you want to present yourself to the world. It helps to understand what looks best on your body type and how to go through your closet to get rid of those items that don't make you feel good about yourself. We look at the new you and how to dress to feel confident, empowered and sexy. Today's guest is Diane Pollack is a fashion aficionado with over 20 years in the fashion industry and founder of Stylempower. Diane educates women to create outfits that make them feel empowered and that enable them to radiate confidence. Listen in as Diane walks us through her client process and shares fun and effective tips for sorting through your wardrobe and creating a look that fits the new you!
Nov 4, 2019 • 44min
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.
Nov 1, 2019 • 52min
Strip Away the Old - Organize and Reclaim Your Space
The business of sorting through years of stuff when divorcing can be overwhelming. The bigger your home, the more space you have to stuff stuff! Now it's time to purge...but you get stuck in every box, free falling down memory lane and getting little accomplished. Today's guest, professional organizer, Sarah Grace has a new and invigorating way of looking at your stuff. She helps you to tap into the emotions embodied in your belongings and guides you to let go of that which does not serve your new life and to honor those items that are special to you. She further explains the importance of a support network, the value of systems and the necessity of storage spaces when it comes to paperwork, bills and necessary but seldom used items etc. You will emerge from today's show with a revitalized plan to sort through your stuff and reclaim your space! Click here for more information on Journey Beyond Divorce. Click here for more information on Sarah Grace.
Oct 31, 2019 • 60min
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 on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.JourneyBeyondDivorce.com.
Oct 25, 2019 • 1h
International Divorce: What to know and how to proceed
If you are in a bicultural marriage and are facing divorce this show is for you! As if divorce is not overwhelming enough, those facing 'international divorce' complexities encounter an entirely unique and complex set of challenges which are even further intensified if there are children involved. Join us as we speak to matrimonial attorneys Nicole Centracchio and Bryan Reed who specialize in international divorce. They share valuable tips on how and when to make the decision to file for divorce, the importance of choosing jurisdiction and how to protect your children's ability to have access to both parents. They discuss the importance of understanding and navigating differing value systems including cultural, religious, schooling and child rearing. Get your pen ready, it will be like sipping from a fire hose! For more on Journey Beyond Divorce Click Here.
Sep 30, 2019 • 48min
The Mediation Approach to Divorce
Mediation is a non-adversarial approach to divorcing outside of the court system. Join us as Andrea Vacca explains who is a good fit for mediation, how it differs from other avenues for divorcing and takes us through a typical mediation case from beginning to end. You will be sure to know if this is the right fit for you and if so what to expect as you enter the mediation process. For more on Karen McMahon and Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.JourneyBeyondDivorce.com.
Sep 27, 2019 • 58min
The Collaborative Approach to Divorce
Collaborative divorce is the newest 'kid on the block' when it comes to divorce. It is a process in which you and your spouse commit to staying out of the court system and working in a spirit of creative problem solving, transparency and trust. Beth Dalena, Esq. shares what a Collaborative Divorce looks like and who is a good couple candidate and who is not. We also explore the emotional, legal and financial benefits of divorcing outside the court system. This show features guest, Beth A. Dalena, Esq. For more on Journey Beyond Divorce visit www.JourneyBeyondDivorce.com
Sep 4, 2019 • 51min
Discovering Infidelity
On this podcast we discuss the tender topic of discovering infidelity and with us is C.J. Grace, author of "The Adulterer's Wife: How to thrive whether you stay or not." During today's show we'll support you to look at three aspects of confronting infidelity so you will understand how to give yourself the space to get clear before taking action about staying, leaving, or kicking your spouse out. We will also share tools to help you heal from the hurt and design your path forward so that regardless of your eventual choice, you'll emerge more confident and clear in yourself and capable of creating a future of your design C.J. shares a few of the gems in her book which is a perfect resource to "tease apart the emotional knots you're experiencing, step back to view your situation with some distance, and understand the what and why of your options - she provides all with the perfect amount of irreverent humor and wisdom." Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
