Episode 304: Lessons from Divorce and Living a Kick-Ass Life with Andrea Owen
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Andrea Owen is back, and I'm thrilled to share this inspiring conversation. If you're navigating life's messy moments, like divorce, this episode is a must-listen. Andrea, a keynote speaker, life coach, and bestselling author, is a force in women's empowerment. She helps high-achieving women maximize unshakeable confidence, master their mindset, and magnify their courage.
She's here to discuss the re-release of her bestseller, 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life, now updated to strip away toxic positivity and include reflective coaching questions that spark real change. Andrea also shares her journey through her second divorce, offering insights into what's different, what's the same, and the lessons she's learned.
You'll also hear:
- Your spouse's reactions to your divorce may reveal someone different from the person you thought you married (12:48)
- Managing the emotional and mental toll of divorce (15:13)
- Building friendships, asking for help, and finding community in tough times (27:04)
- How relationships shift during transitions and the challenges of navigating those changes (29:16)
Learn more about Andrea Owen:
Andrea Owen is an author, global keynote speaker, and professional certified life coach who helps high-achieving women maximize unshakeable confidence, master their mindset, and magnify their courage. She has taught hundreds of thousands of women tools and strategies to be able to empower themselves to live their most kick-ass life through keynote speaking, her books, coaching, and her wildly popular podcast with over 4 million downloads.
She is the proud author of How To Stop Feeling Like Shit: 14 Habits That Are Holding You Back From Happiness, published in 2018, then updated and re-released in 2022 (Seal Press/Hachette Books) which has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 23 countries, as well as Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength (TarcherPerigee/Penguin Random-House), and 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life: BS Free Wisdom to Ignite Your Inner Badass and Live the Life You Deserve, (Adams Media/Simon & Schuster).
Andrea is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) from The Coaches Training Institute, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, a SHE RECOVERS® coach, as well as a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator; a modality based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown.
When she's not juggling her full coaching practice or writing books, Andrea is busy riding her Peloton bike, or hanging out with her two teenagers. She is also a retired roller derby player having skated under the name "Veronica Vain".
Resources & Links:
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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. |
| 0:46.3 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. I'm excited to bring you this first episode of 2025. Holy moly. Today I have with me, my dear friend Andrea |
| 0:58.3 | Owen, back on the show. It's been a minute. And we are having a great conversation about |
| 1:04.2 | her divorce and the re-release of her best-selling book, 52 Ways to Live a Kickass Life, which has been |
| 1:15.0 | updated and is an amazing great book. And this is Andrea's second divorce. So she's offering us |
| 1:23.8 | some insights into what's different, what's the same, and all the lessons that she has |
| 1:28.4 | learned. Before I bring you to the episode, I want to remind you that we have coming up at the |
| 1:35.1 | end of April, the Unbreakable Retreat in Sedona, Arizona. So head on over to the show notes or to my website, |
| 1:47.2 | katanthony.com slash unbreakable to learn all the details and sign up to join us. And here's Andrea. |
| 1:58.3 | Andrea, thank you so much for coming back on the show. It's been a while. It has been a while. You've been on my show many times, us laughing and, you know, being our wise selves. I'm excited about this conversation for a number of reasons, first and foremost, because we get to talk, which we do anyway. But there's a |
| 2:19.9 | couple of things happening in your life right now, one of which is that your first book, 52 ways |
| 2:28.4 | to live a kick-ass life, is being re-released. I know. The title just tells you everything about when that came out. |
| 2:36.9 | Exactly. |
| 2:37.7 | Exactly. |
| 2:38.2 | Exactly. |
| 2:38.5 | I was thinking about that too. |
| 2:39.8 | I was like, oh. |
| 2:41.2 | So 52 ways to live a kick-ass life. |
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