Episode 306: The Accidental Sisterhood with Julie Edelman
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What happens when life throws you curveballs like breast cancer, midlife dating, and unexpected sisterhoods? You turn them into stories, humor, and inspiration—and that's exactly what Julie Edelman has done.
I'm thrilled to welcome author and humorist Julie Edelman for an empowering and laugh-filled conversation about love, resilience, and the unexpected sisterhoods that form through life's detours. Julie shares the inspiration behind her latest novel, The Accidental Sisterhood, and opens up about her personal journey through breast cancer, dating after 50, and finding joy in life's chaos.
You'll also hear:
- Why women over 50 are more likely to be single—and why that's not a bad thing (4:31)
- How Julie turned life's detours—like surviving breast cancer—into creative inspiration (10:35)
- The challenges of midlife dating, including spotting "red flags" (14:47)
- Why sisterhood is such a powerful force for healing, growth, and joy (16:44)
Learn more about Julie Edelman: Julie Edelman is the bestselling author of the how-to book, The Accidental Housewife: How to Overcome Housekeeping Hysteria One Task at a Time. She is a well-known lifestyle expert and has appeared on The Today Show, The View, Rachael Ray, Fox & Friends, The Doctors, ABC Audio Networks and iHeart Radio. She lives in Florida, close to her son, who is her heart and testament to a blessed life lived fully.
Julie speaks publicly with heart, humor, and in high heels about the value of sisterhood and not letting life's detours define nor stop us from achieving our dreams. The Accidental Sisterhood is her debut novel, and a testimony to embracing a life detour with hope and determination following her triumph over breast cancer.
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| 0:00.0 | women coming together when they are more mature, recognize that they were victims of a sense. |
| 0:08.1 | And it wasn't one woman against the other woman, but that together their collective strength, |
| 0:13.1 | their collective understanding of why they got caught in this web was really something that |
| 0:19.8 | they all contributed to because they began to understand |
| 0:22.7 | why they got caught in. But they also began to understand that together they would be stronger |
| 0:27.6 | to unravel what was going on. |
| 0:34.4 | 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. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of the roughest waters |
| 0:54.9 | you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to hell and back, |
| 1:01.1 | and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process with your |
| 1:06.6 | sanity and your heart intact. |
| 1:23.8 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. So first of all, I want to say thank you to everybody who's reached out. We are okay. We are safe from the wildfires, and it's been a really, |
| 1:32.8 | really, really rough and rocky week. For those of you who are on my email list, I did |
| 1:39.0 | send out an email earlier this week about it, but I just want to, you know, reassure everybody that my |
| 1:46.1 | family and I are safe. Our homes remain untouched. We do live just a few miles away from the |
| 1:52.5 | eaten fire, but we are thankfully outside of the evacuation and contamination zones, although it was a couple of days of touch and go and not |
| 2:03.7 | knowing and, you know, having the cars packed up ready to evacuate. Anyway, a lot of my friends |
| 2:10.3 | have lost everything, a lot of them. Altadena is very close to here. It's an extension of our community. Our kids grew up there. They went to school there. All of their schools are gone. Their friends' homes are gone. The homes that they grew up playing in are gone. The entire neighborhood is just simply gone. It is an emotional and very traumatizing time for us |
| 2:40.0 | here, and, you know, it feels like a combination of the worst of 9-11 and COVID happening all |
| 2:49.5 | at once. For those of you who remember what 9-11 was like, |
| 2:53.7 | it's like that here. Less loss of life, but far more destruction and devastation. Anyway, |
| 3:02.5 | we're doing okay. I'm continuing to move forward. I'm taking, it's going to take a little time for things to |
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