Episode 24: Divorce Financial Mistakes with Christina Lynn
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
I always love talking to professionals who have been through the process of divorce. So I'm really happy today to have Christina Lynn, of Lynn Financial, join me on the podcast. Christina was a stay-at-home mom until she got divorced. After her divorce, she re-invented herself and went from having nothing to creating a thriving financial practice. She and I have a really great conversation today about some of the biggest financial mistakes that people tend to make when getting divorced. Christina has some really good advice and tips to offer you. She also has a really great story to tell, so listen in!
Christina used to be oblivious to her family finances. After reaching her lowest point while unraveling a really complex divorce, however, she decided to invest in educating herself so that she could become the person she needed to be for herself and her kids. She chose to specialize in divorce financial planning. And this changed her life completely. She became a financial consultant, Certified Estate Planner®, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst®, tax preparer, and retirement planner. The mistakes Christina made in the past now inform and have been translated into solutions for her customers at Lynn Financial. Listen in today to find out what Christina has to share with you about divorce and money.
Show Highlights:
- When Christina filed for divorce, she did pretty much everything wrong.
- She wanted other people to learn from her experience and from the mistakes she's made.
- Christina's experience of custody issues.
- Some mistakes she made at the time of her divorce.
- Giving dads the space to figure things out for themselves.
- Being objective about a father's parenting capabilities.
- Finding your second career later in life — like a phoenix rising from the ashes!
- Some common financial mistakes women tend to make when getting divorced.
- Collaborative divorce as an alternative — and it can save you a lot of money too!
- Christina gives her best financial tip.
- Employing a team of professionals could cost you less than only relying on your attorney.
- Some tips for protecting your kids through the divorce process.
- Christina explains the way that she helps people through the process of divorce.
Links:
Christina's website: www.lynnfinancialllc.com
Christina's email: christina@lynnfinancialllc.com
Links to all Christina's social channels:
https://www.facebook.com/lynnfinancial/
https://www.instagram.com/lynnfinancial/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4S9-c9ngRYtjgiaf-j_1LQ
https://twitter.com/LynnFinancial?lang=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-lynn-365633a0/
For Christina's promotional offer for the educational course, she offers for individuals facing divorce, to help protect their credit and avoid common financial pitfalls. https://lynnfinancialllc.com/overcomer-course-49-promotion/. For listeners, she has reduced the price from $99 to $49.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have real, honest, smart, and sometimes even hilarious conversations about co-parenting, separation, and divorce, and all that goes along with that. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Kate Anthony, your Divorce divorce survival guide, certified life and relationship coach, |
| 0:23.8 | and happily divorced mom who helps women decide if they should stay in or leave their marriages |
| 0:28.1 | and then guides them through the process one step at a time. |
| 0:33.7 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:35.4 | Thank you for joining me yet again. I, spending a little bit of time with me. |
| 0:39.5 | Today on the podcast, I am joined by Christina Lynn of Lynn Financial. And we have a really |
| 0:48.4 | great conversation about the financial pitfalls, some of the biggest financial mistakes that people make when getting |
| 0:56.8 | divorced. And she has some great tips and advice. And, you know, one of my favorite things |
| 1:03.3 | about Christina is that she's also a stay-at-home mom who got divorced. So she has been through |
| 1:09.0 | this. And she reinvented herself and her story is great. |
| 1:14.0 | She really went from having nothing to creating this wonderful thriving financial practice. |
| 1:22.1 | And I always love talking to professionals who have also been through the process of divorce. I think |
| 1:28.5 | it lends itself for such a rich conversation. So that is what is up today on the podcast. And I just |
| 1:36.8 | wanted to talk a little bit about, I was talking to a client today. And we were talking about all |
| 1:43.9 | of the hows, right? Well, how am I going to do this |
| 1:46.1 | and how am I going to do that? And this was actually, she's still in the should I stay or should I go |
| 1:50.9 | process, right? And I noticed that all of her hows were getting in the way of her making her |
| 1:58.3 | decision. And it's a very real truth that we will stay in discomfort. |
| 2:06.7 | We feel more comfortable in sadness, in pain, in all of the things than we do with the |
| 2:15.7 | unknown. We will choose to stay in uncomfortable situations or |
| 2:20.9 | situations that hurt us or make us feel bad about ourselves, about our lives, about our futures, |
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