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The Good Divorce® Show

The Good Divorce® Show

Karen McNenny, The Good Divorce® Show 110 Episodes Sep 10, 2026

The Good Divorce® Show challenges common misconceptions about divorce. Host and divorce coach Karen McNenny offers guidance on navigating divorce without conflict or debt. The podcast features advice from relationship experts and stories of couples who achieved a good divorce. It aims to help listeners not only get divorced but also thrive afterward.

Episodes

The Financial Mistakes That Wreck Divorce Settlements
The Financial Mistakes That Wreck Divorce Settlements Sep 10, 2026 2385 A divorce isn’t just a legal process—it’s an emotional, financial, and logistical transformation. In this episode, Karen welcomes Amy Colton, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA), wealth advisor, and family law mediator, for a deep and eye‑opening conversation about the financial side of divorce that so many people overlook.Amy explains why divorce truly requires three professionals
Bonus Parents, Big Feelings: Christina McGhee on Introducing New Partners with Intention
Bonus Parents, Big Feelings: Christina McGhee on Introducing New Partners with Intention Aug 27, 2026 3155 In this episode of The Good Divorce, host Karen McNenny welcomes back internationally recognized divorce educator Christina McGhee, MSW — author of Parenting Apart, lead trainer and founder of the Co‑Parenting Specialist Certification Training Program, and Education & Training Director for the award‑winning documentary project Split. Drawing from more than 20 years of professional exp
Summer Encore: Childhood Sweethearts, Co-Parents — Kelly and Kyle on Choosing Love
Summer Encore: Childhood Sweethearts, Co-Parents — Kelly and Kyle on Choosing Love Aug 13, 2026 3021 Kelly and Kyle met in preschool in Lake Forest, Illinois, lost touch for 25 years, reconnected in Missoula — and then found themselves unexpectedly expecting. They never married, but they built something most married couples would envy: a genuinely loving, cooperative co-parenting family centered on their daughter Charlotte. In this encore, both join Karen to talk honestly about the early
Future You Deserves Better: Kathryn Grady on Intentional Divorce and Financial Literacy
Future You Deserves Better: Kathryn Grady on Intentional Divorce and Financial Literacy Jul 30, 2026 3239 Adult child of divorce Kathryn Grady joins host Karen McNenny for a candid, deeply human conversation about what divorce looks like through the eyes of a child — not just in the moment, but decades later. Kathryn reflects on being raised in the 1970s by a single mother who stepped into independence during the early era of no‑fault divorce. As Karen notes, “your mom really was this warrior
Summer Encore: What Happens When the Marriage Ends and the Band Breaks Up?
Summer Encore: What Happens When the Marriage Ends and the Band Breaks Up? Jul 16, 2026 3570 Jake and Jenny met in their early twenties, made music together across two decades, and then had to figure out how to dissolve a marriage without destroying everything they'd built. In this encore conversation, the Bozeman-based musicians share how Jake's family history — a sprawling, amicable blended family that gathered together every Christmas — gave them both a blueprint for what was
Kate Liles on Growing Up Across Two Homes When Nothing Was Shared
Kate Liles on Growing Up Across Two Homes When Nothing Was Shared Jul 2, 2026 2611 What does divorce look like through the eyes of a child — and decades later, through the eyes of an adult? This week, Karen welcomes Kate Liles, who grew up navigating life across two households after her parents divorced when she was just a year old. Kate shares her story with honesty and grace, offering a rare, firsthand look at the lasting impact of the decisions parents make during an
Summer Encore: For the Dads — Patrick Duganz on Father Engagement After Divorce
Summer Encore: For the Dads — Patrick Duganz on Father Engagement After Divorce Jun 18, 2026 3602 Karen revisits a Father's Day conversation with Patrick Duganz, who has spent over a decade as the father engagement specialist at the Gallatin City-County Health Department in Bozeman, Montana. Patrick talks candidly about why dads often arrive at parenthood underprepared, how a lack of targeted support for fathers shows up in everything from home visiting programs to divorce proceedings
The Weight of Two Losses: A Child and a Marriage
The Weight of Two Losses: A Child and a Marriage Jun 4, 2026 3145 Divorce coach Kelly Myers knows what it looks like when the system fails families — because she lived it. When Kelly and her husband divorced in 2011–2012, their three boys were six, eight, and ten years old. What followed was two years of litigation and more than $100,000 in legal costs — a path she didn't fully understand she was choosing when she stepped into it.In this candid and deep
The Book Is in the World — Now the Real Work Begins (Part 3 of 3)
The Book Is in the World — Now the Real Work Begins (Part 3 of 3) May 28, 2026 1535 On April 26th, 2024, an email arrived asking Karen if she'd ever thought about writing a book. Exactly two years later to the day, a box of 300 copies landed on her front porch.In the final episode of this behind-the-scenes mini-series, Karen picks up where the manuscript ends and the movement begins. She talks about her first major book launch — a keynote for 250 HR professionals in her
Tearing It Apart and Sewing It Back Together: Writing The Good Divorce (Part 2 of 3)
Tearing It Apart and Sewing It Back Together: Writing The Good Divorce (Part 2 of 3) May 21, 2026 1549 She had a book deal. Now she had to write the book.In Part 2 of this behind-the-scenes series, Karen walks through what it actually took to get The Good Divorce from outline to print — nine months of writing squeezed around a graduating son, a daughter heading to Europe, divorce clients, speaking gigs, and a single-income household with no one to walk the dog. She bought a van, hired back
The Book That Was Chasing Me: How The Good Divorce Found Its Way Into the World (Part 1 of 3)
The Book That Was Chasing Me: How The Good Divorce Found Its Way Into the World (Part 1 of 3) May 14, 2026 1904 At 18, Karen McNenny wrote in a pageant essay that her greatest ambition was to write a bestselling book. She had no idea what it would be about. She certainly never guessed divorce.In this first of three special episodes, Karen tells the origin story of The Good Divorce — from that Miss Montana essay to a publishing offer from Wiley/Jossey-Bass that arrived faster than anyone in the indu
Gray Divorce, Adult Children, and the Myth That They'll Be Fine — with Dr. Carol Hughes
Gray Divorce, Adult Children, and the Myth That They'll Be Fine — with Dr. Carol Hughes May 7, 2026 3314 What happens when parents wait until the kids are grown to divorce — and then discover their adult children are not fine with it? In this rich and eye-opening conversation, Karen sits down with Dr. Carol Hughes, clinical psychologist, two-time Fulbright Scholar, and one of the true pioneers of the collaborative divorce movement, to challenge one of the most pervasive myths in divorce: tha

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