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.

I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate

some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions.

I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other

side of this process with your sanity and your heart intact.

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast. Hi, y'all doing.

We are continuing on along in our legal month.

And this week I have with me a very special guest, Sean Lehman.

Sean is the host of the Divorce and Your Money podcast.

He's also the author of the book, Divorce and Your Money,

How to Avoid Costly Divorce Mistakes, which I highly, highly, highly recommend everyone get.

And he is an MBA, a certified divorce financial analyst.

And we have a really great discussion today about, well, divorce in your money.

And one of the things I love about Sean is, you know, when I talk to women and I hear all the time women saying, you know, well, I've been to stay-at-home mom and I haven't had any money of my own and I have basically no financial agency, Sean was the very first person that I knew I had to book as a guest to talk about this topic and how women can start to

empower themselves financially, even if you have had no financial power in your marriage,

even if you haven't had a job in 10 or 20 years. There are things you can do. You are not stuck. Now, you know, the reality is that for many of

us, especially women, especially women who have been stay-at-home moms, we can be really

financially disempowered and the systems are really set up to work against us. And it can be harder.

It can definitely be harder for us to dig ourselves out of that

hole. As I always say, you know, when we make the choice to become a stay-at-home mom, we think

that it is that we are making an investment. We think that we're entering into a joint venture

with our spouses, with our husbands. But the return on that investment is really, really, really not equal.

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