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The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast

[Encore Episode] After The Talk: How to Prepare for Your Divorce with Susan Guthrie, Esq.

The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast

Kate Anthony

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.4573 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

New episodes return in September! In this final encore episode for the month of August, you'll hear part two of a special crossover series with The Divorce and Beyond Podcast. This episode picks up where my conversation with Susan Guthrie left off: how to have the most difficult conversation of your life: "I want a divorce."  To hear the first part of our conversation, be sure to visit Susan's website to listen.

Throughout this episode, we talk about what happens after "the talk,"- everything from building your divorce team to understanding your options for mediation or litigation. Susan brings decades of experience and grounded wisdom to this conversation, making it a must-listen if you're preparing for what comes next.

What you'll hear about in this episode:

  • Why January is notoriously dubbed "divorce month" 

  • The first thing you should do after you share with your spouse that you want a divorce

  • The biggest fallacy in the divorce process 

  • How to find the best path forward towards mediation

  • Some approaches to divorce mediation and how to build a mediation team.

  • A reasonable expectation of a timeline for your divorce. 

Learn more about Susan Guthrie: 

Susan Guthrie, nationally recognized as one of the Top Family Law and Mediation Attorneys in the country, has been helping individuals and families navigate separation and divorce for 30 years. Susan provides online divorce mediation and legal coaching services to select clients around the world. As a leading dispute resolution professional, Susan is honored to serve on the Executive Council of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Section of Dispute Resolution as the Membership Officer and to be a Co-Chair of the Mediation Committee.

After a year and half of co-hosting the award-winning podcast, Breaking Free: A Modern Divorce Podcast, which reached over 3 million listeners, Susan recently launched her fresh and inspiring new podcast, The Divorce and Beyond Podcast with Susan Guthrie, Esq. which debuted on iTunes "Top Podcasts" List for self-help podcasts. Divorce & Beyond is focused on pulling back the curtain on the mysteries of the divorce process and bringing tips and resources to help people to thrive and shine in their new future beyond divorce.

Susan has been featured in and on media outlets such as CNBC, Market Watch, News Nation,  Forbes, the ABA's Just Resolutions Magazine, Thrive Global, Medium, and many more.

She is licensed to practice law in the States of California and Connecticut as well as before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Resources & Links:
Divorce Roadmap
Focused Strategy Sessions with Kate
The Divorce Survival Guide Resource Bundle
Phoenix Rising: A Divorce Empowerment Collective
Kate on Instagram @kateanthony_divorcecoach
Kate on Facebook
The D Word: Making the Ultimate Decision About Your Marriage

Susan's website
Susan on Instagram
The Divorce and Beyond Podcast:
WE NEED TO TALK: How to Have the Most Difficult Conversation of Your Life with Kate Anthony

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DISCLAIMER:  THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL ADVICE.  YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY, COACH, OR THERAPIST IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN ADVICE WITH RESPECT TO ANY PARTICULAR ISSUE OR PROBLEM.

Episode link: https://kateanthony.com/podcast/encore-episode-after-the-talk-how-to-prepare-for-your-divorce-with-susan-guthrie-esq/

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome back. I am taking the month of August off from releasing new podcast episodes. So for this

0:08.7

month, while I move and get my animals and my son and everybody situated in our new home,

0:17.0

I am going to be rebroadcasting some of your favorite episodes.

0:21.5

So I hope you stay tuned this month.

0:23.8

If you're new to the podcast, you might actually be new to some of these repeated episodes.

0:29.1

So I hope you enjoy.

0:30.8

And I will see you back on September 4th with brand new episodes and a new format because I will be introducing video in September.

0:41.9

Stay tuned. Have an amazing summer. I love you all so very much. And remember, you,

0:47.8

my love, deserve to be happy. Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about

1:01.2

co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should

1:07.5

you go.

1:08.8

I'm Kate Anthony, your Divorce Surv survival guide, and I'm here to help you

1:13.2

navigate some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions.

1:19.3

I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other

1:24.8

side of this process with your sanity and your heart intact.

1:35.1

All right, so to today's episode with Susan Guthrie.

1:39.7

Susan had me on her podcast, which was the Divorce and beyond podcast. So I urge you to, before listening

1:45.9

to this episode, go back and listen to that episode because in that episode, we talked about

1:52.0

how to have the I Want a Divorce Conversation. And it was actually, you know, I've talked about it

1:58.4

in other places and in other ways, but I love

2:01.7

this conversation with Susan because she asked such great questions and we sort of teased out a lot

2:05.7

more nuance.

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