Episode 150: After The Talk: How to Prepare for Your Divorce with Susan Guthrie, Esq.
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this week on The Divorce and Beyond Podcast with Susan Guthrie, she and I spoke about how to have the most difficult conversation of your life with someone: the "I want a divorce," conversation. Today, Susan joins me to discuss what happens next. Together we explore some of the things you should do right after having the talk, including how to build your divorce team and considerations for divorce proceedings or mediation.
Susan Guthrie is nationally recognized as one of the Top Family Law and Mediation Attorneys in the country. She 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. If you missed part one of our conversation, visit Susan's website to listen!
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Show Highlights
- Why is January "divorce month"? (11:20)
- What is the first thing you should do after you share with your spouse that you want a divorce? (14:50)
- The biggest fallacy in the divorce process is that building a good team is going to cost you more money. (16:08)
- If the end goal is that you want to mediate, what is the correct path? (23:26)
- The key to collaborative or mediated divorce is working together. (28:33)
- Some approaches to divorce mediation and building a mediation team. (34:06)
- When you rush into your divorce and the emotions are high, you make your divorce take longer. (43:21)
- A reasonable expectation of a timeline for your divorce. (46:36)
Learn More About Susan:
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.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side |
| 0:34.2 | of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:42.8 | Hey everyone. Happy New Year. I hope you all had a really wonderful and relaxing and rejuvenating restorative holiday season. And for many of you, |
| 1:00.7 | I'm sure it was also anything but, you know, let's not deny the reality there. Anyway, |
| 1:05.7 | as you can hear, I'm not sick. I don't have COVID. Again, believe me. If I had COVID again, you guys would have |
| 1:13.9 | heard about it over on, you know, Instagram or in the Facebook group. But I actually have had a |
| 1:21.7 | horrible, allergic reaction. You guys, this is so embarrassing. But I'm going to tell you, |
| 1:27.3 | because, you know, here we are. I think you guys, most of so embarrassing, but I'm going to tell you because, you know, |
| 1:28.3 | here we are. I think you guys, most of you know, I think I've talked about this before, |
| 1:32.8 | you may know or not, but I have like super, super, super high sensitivities to all sorts of |
| 1:38.3 | things, right? Many of you know that I was hospitalized from maca root, which is like an herbal stimulant. |
| 1:45.9 | I was in the hospital for two days with like symptoms of a heart attack. |
| 1:49.4 | I recently had to finally quit coffee because it was having the same effects on me |
| 1:57.1 | and like not being able to catch my breath and things like that. |
| 2:00.7 | So anyway, I have been a |
| 2:03.4 | fan of eyelash extensions for a while. I had stopped getting them, obviously, during the, |
| 2:10.2 | you know, worst of the pandemic in 2020. And I started to go again and I started to get these weird, like, |
| 2:20.3 | allergies. Like suddenly, like the day after I would get allergies. And it took like a few times |
| 2:24.5 | before I was like, oh, that's weird. It's correlated to the eyelashes. So then I stopped |
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