Episode 237: From Divorce to Debt Freedom with Patti Handy
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, Patti Handy joins me on the podcast to discuss financial management after divorce and ways to regain financial stability. Patti is a Financial Coach for Women with over 20 years of experience as a Financial Advisor and Mortgage Advisor. Her journey into financial coaching was born out of a passion for teaching and empowering women with money smarts.
In this episode, Patti shares practical strategies for paying off debt, the key differences between creating a budget and utilizing a spending tracker, and advice for women navigating the complexities of financing a divorce without accumulating excessive debt. Patti also outlines three essential steps when managing finances post-divorce and guidance on where to begin investing.
Featured topics include:
- Recommendations for paying off debt (8:12)
- Creating a budget versus a spending tracker (10:40)
- Advice for women walking the line between financing divorce and piling on debt (13:13)
- Three steps divorced women should take when it comes to their money (19:49)
- When it comes to investing, where should someone start? (26:51)
- Ideas and inspiration to create your side job to help with finances (39:34)
Learn more about Patti Handy:
After spending a combined 20 years as a Financial Advisor and Mortgage Advisor, and having countless conversations with women, I decided to pursue my dream of Financial Coaching for Women. I'm a teacher at heart and I love to educate and empower women with money smarts!
Understanding that money can be an overwhelming topic for many, I'm audaciously passionate about creating financial confidence when it comes to your well-being. This has been the catalyst to follow my passion of empowering and educating women in their financial journey.
I am a Certified Executive Coach, Certified Life Coach, hold a Real Estate Brokers license and published author of four books.
Full disclosure, I'm a self-proclaimed chocoholic, I love to read, and the beach is my happy place.
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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. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:45.2 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. So this is a reminder that October is Domestic Violence Awareness |
| 0:51.8 | Month. And as you may or may not have seen on the Graham, |
| 0:58.3 | Susan Guthrie and Beverly Price and I have sort of joined forces |
| 1:03.1 | and created something called the Divorce Coalition. |
| 1:05.6 | And we are raising awareness and doing more things together on combating domestic violence. And there will be more on |
| 1:17.4 | that coming down the pike. But I'm also really, really busy with my book launch. And my book |
| 1:25.5 | comes out at the end of the year. And it may seem like that's kind of far away, |
| 1:30.4 | but oh my God, you guys, it's the middle of October. So there's a lot to do there. And I just |
| 1:35.4 | sort of went, you know what? Basically all I do is talk about domestic violence. In one form |
| 1:42.8 | or another, almost all of my work is focused on domestic violence. |
| 1:46.1 | So for me to say, I'm going to take time out of my regularly scheduled programming to talk about |
| 1:52.9 | domestic violence is a little bit disingenuous because really that's all I talk about. |
| 1:57.8 | So I just decided that I was going to keep what was in the pipeline so that I could keep my focus on rather than creating new content for the podcast for this month, really just keep it on what I had already planned. |
| 2:13.9 | So that's what's happening over here. |
| 2:17.7 | And so today I am joined by Patty Handy. |
| 2:22.2 | And Patty was spent 20 years as a financial advisor and mortgage advisor. |
| 2:28.4 | And after having countless conversations with women and also going through her own divorce, she decided to pursue her dream |
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