083: From The Cop Shop To Stepmom/Mom Best Friends
The KICK-ASS Stepmom Podcast
Jamie Scrimgeour
4.9 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
If you are in a high-conflict co-parenting situation this episode is for you!
I sat down with April and Loren Kirk, past high-conflict new wife and ex wife duo who are now best friends. That's right - it wasn't always this good with them. Believe it or not, their relationship and custody battle was so high-conflict that pick up and drop off used to take place at the police station with supervision.
Today, they are best friends and neighbours who now podcast and blog all about how they got here.
In this interview we dive into:
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What it was like back then
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How they went from being enemies to best friends
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Their advice to parents who are in a high-conflict situation
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The lessons they learned along the way
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and more
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is coming out at the end of 2020. Chances are you have been thinking about 2021 and are setting some goals and resolutions and intentions or whatever you want to call it for the new year. If you're a stepmom, you may also be thinking about ways you can minimize stepfamily stress and improve relationships next year. Chances are COVID amped up your stepfamily stress this |
| 0:23.1 | year and you are not sad to say goodbye to 2020. If any of this resonates with you and you are |
| 0:29.6 | looking for change, I just released a free ebook with 16 questions that stepmoms should ask themselves |
| 0:35.3 | before 2021. As Dr. Phil says, you can't change what you don't |
| 0:40.5 | acknowledge. And this is a really good time to do an audit on your stepfamily life so you can set |
| 0:44.7 | the foundation to improve things next year. Now, if you're content, feeling overwhelmed and like |
| 0:50.0 | you have no control of your life, damned if you do, damned if you don't, like you don't know your |
| 0:54.0 | place, like your stepfamily stressors are consuming your life. And you know, you're fine in your high conflict co-parenting situation. Just keep doing what you're doing. Don't download this guide. But if you are ready to feel happier and confident and more in control amongst the extra stress, you can download your copy at www. |
| 1:12.2 | jamescrimmter.com forward slash stepmom audit. |
| 1:21.9 | Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 1:24.5 | If you are in a high conflict co-parenting relationship or even one that's like, |
| 1:30.2 | me, it's not great, you're going to take so much from this episode. In this episode, I interview |
| 1:37.0 | April and Lauren Kirk, the hosts of co-parenting past chaos podcast. These two badass women, they share one thing in common, |
| 1:46.5 | the same husband. Well, not currently the same husband. April is married to Lauren's ex-husband, |
| 1:53.3 | so they've shared the same husband just at different points in time. And now they all co-parent |
| 1:59.0 | six children. |
| 2:07.1 | April and Lauren are also, obviously, podcast hosts, like I just said, but they are also best friends. |
| 2:11.1 | And you may be like, okay, well, that's so cute, good for them. |
| 2:15.1 | Just another one of those hearts and sparkles co-parenting relationships floating around my Facebook news feed. |
| 2:16.4 | We've all seen them, right? |
| 2:18.5 | And they're great and they're amazing. And you just think it's always been that way. But get this. A few years ago, |
| 2:24.9 | these two were up to their ears and lawyers bills and in such a high conflict co-parenting |
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