Episode 75: A Divorce Story with Miry Whitehill, founder of Miry's List
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week I am sharing the story of Miry Whitehill, a divorcee who founded the non-profit organization Miry's List. During a painful time in her marriage, Miry found herself in a spot where she could help a refugee family who just arrived in the United States. Today, she shares how volunteering and starting Miry's List filled her life with gratitude and love, which she had lost so long ago.
MIry's story is one of self-reflection, growth, and compassion - for herself, for her sons, and the community. At a pivotal moment in her life, she asked herself, "What if today I am going to see myself the way the world sees me and not the way one person sees me?" And that was the day Miry decided she was going to live life on her terms.
Show Highlights
- Why the refugee experience is not one built on informed consent. (12:18)
- The survive, hive, and thrive phases of Miry's List. (16:10)
- The story of how Miry's List began, her battle with Postpartum Depression, and her deteriorating marriage. (18:27)
- Turning the idea of seeing divorce as a failure into realizing life in a bad marriage would be the failure. (38:51)
- How Miry began to support herself - a former stay-at-home mom - after her divorce. (53:58)
Learn More About Miry:
In July 2016, Miry Whitehill founded Miry's List, a nonprofit helping families resettling in America as refugees get the support they need to start over by connecting them with their new American neighbors. As Executive Director, she's had the opportunity to learn about refugee resettlement through the eyes of the families we work with. She has spoken at universities, companies of all sizes, schools, and nonprofit organizations helping people learn about how the refugee resettlement system in America works, how it feels for families, and how they can help.
She is the mother of two boys and is passionate about helping people of all ages and abilities become better neighbors. With a background in digital marketing and video advertising, Miry has a thorough understanding of digital and social media, how to create impact using crowdsourcing, and how to turn your life's passion into a movement.
Resources & Links:
The Ultimate Divorce Survival Guide
Should I Stay or Should I Go Facebook Group
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side |
| 0:34.2 | of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. Hey, everyone. Welcome back. How's everyone doing? |
| 1:13.5 | Man, it's been a doozy of a couple weeks, hasn't it? |
| 1:17.8 | And, you know, last week I really talked about it head on. |
| 1:32.7 | I did a Facebook live stream over the weekend with my friends, Susan Guthrie, and Ben Hal F Fond and Dana Michelle, and that was amazing. |
| 1:38.5 | And, you know, we're having these really hard conversations. But today I'm going to do, |
| 1:49.1 | I'm going to slightly depart from that for a couple of reasons. The first is that the timing of this episode actually coincides with the upcoming World Refugee Day, which, you know, is really not much of a |
| 1:59.3 | departure from what's going on in the world right now. The support of and the love of |
| 2:06.3 | all marginalized people in our country is probably the most important thing that we can be talking |
| 2:14.0 | about right now. And my guest this week is an incredible woman, an incredible human, |
| 2:22.0 | who has founded an amazing nonprofit that supports refugees |
| 2:28.8 | as they resettle in the United States. |
| 2:31.9 | And, you know, as we've seen over the last couple of years, that has been |
| 2:36.6 | a harrowing and horrible experience for many refugees. I mean, I think in the best of circumstances, |
| 2:43.0 | and the best of political climates, resettling, moving your entire life to a different country |
| 2:48.5 | is, must be terrifying and just, |
| 2:52.9 | just such a scary experience. |
| 2:54.8 | Um, |
| 2:55.3 | but then to come to the US and be met with the hostilities that so many of, |
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