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Better Because of Divorce
You built a life. Divorce dismantled it. Now what?
Better Because of Divorce is the podcast for women who are ready to stop surviving and start building a real, full, unapologetically-their-own life on the other side of everything they've lost.
Hosted by Julie Steed, certified life coach, health and wellness coach, founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood, and divorced empty nester, this podcast exists for the woman who did everything right and still found herself starting over after divorce, wondering…
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Episode 105: Sister Stories with Julie - From Victim to Victor After Divorce & Empty Nest
"Instead of being a victim, it has definitely made me a victor." That is what Julie W. said when I asked her how the FIERCE Sisterhood helped her rewrite her…
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🔥 Episode 104: Sister Stories and Why You Keep Pushing Down the Feeling That More Is Possible After Divorce
Sister Stories: Why You Keep Pushing Down the Feeling That More Is Possible After Divorce Something happens when women hear the Sister Stories on this podcast…
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🔥 Episode 103: Sister Stories with Randa - From a Mattress on the Floor to Reclaiming Her Strength After Divorce
"I forgot that I could make decisions on my own." That is what Randa said when I asked her what surprised her most about the life she has created since her…
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🔥 Episode 102: Sister Stories with Kim - From Barely Existing to an Extraordinary Life After Divorce
"I was just barely existing. There was no light at the end of my tunnel." That is how Kim Wyman describes where she was before she found the FIERCE Sisterhood…
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🔥 Episode 101: I'm 55 Today - What 5 Years of Not Waiting Actually Looks Like
Five years ago today was my 50th birthday. I had just filed for divorce less than a month prior. And today, on my 55th birthday, I want to show you what five…
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🔥 Episode 100: What Starting Over After Divorce Actually Looks Like Two Years Later
One hundred episodes. Two years of showing up every single week for women who are navigating divorce and empty nest and everything that comes with it. And for…
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🔥 Episode 99 - Milestone Moments After Divorce: How to Show Up Fully When It's Complicated
My daughter received her white coat last week. For those who don't know, a white coat ceremony is the moment a medical student takes the oath that marks the…
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🔥 Episode 98: What If You Convinced Yourself You Don't Deserve More After Divorce & Empty Nest?
What if the life you want after divorce isn't out of reach? What if you just can't see it yet? There is a particular kind of stuck that doesn't look like stuck…
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🔥 Episode 97 - You Are Never Alone: The Healing Power of Community After Divorce
Here's something nobody tells you when your marriage ends. The most dangerous thing you can do right now is try to heal from divorce alone. Not dangerous in a…
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🔥 Episode 96: What Dolly Saw
What Dolly Saw - And What I See in You The world lost Dolly Parton this week. And I couldn't let this moment pass without talking about what she meant, not…
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🔥 Episode 95: Rebuilding Identity After Divorce. The Ripple Effect of Who You Choose to Become
Every choice you make right now is sending a ripple. Into your children, your grandchildren, your friends, and all of your relationships. And the ripple…
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🔥 Episode 94: Why Is My Life So Hard? What the Highest Highs and Lowest Lows Taught Me About Being Alive After Divorce
This summer I was in the room when my daughter got the call that she was accepted to medical school. And I was also the one who had to tell my other daughter…
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🔥 Episode 93 : Sara Fisk on Communication After Divorce - How to Say What You Mean and Finally Get What You Want
Most women know what they want to say; they struggle with feeling safe enough to say it. If that sounds like you, keep reading! In this episode I'm joined by…
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🔥 Episode 92: Finding Purpose After Divorce - Why Living a Life You Love Is the Most Generous Thing You Can Do
What if finding purpose after divorce doesn't start with a plan? What if it really starts with permission to put yourself first? In this episode we're…
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🔥 Episode 91: The Most Toxic Relationship After Divorce Isn't With a Man - It's With This
Are you waiting to move forward after divorce? Waiting until life settles down. Until you have more money. Until you have it figured out. Until you feel ready…
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🔥 Episode 90: How to Rebuild Self Trust After Divorce and Empty Nest (Replay)
After divorce, one of the most devastating losses isn't the marriage. It's trust in yourself. "I chose wrong." "I stayed too long." "How did I miss the signs?"…
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🔥 Ep 89: You Are Free to Choose After Divorce and Empty Nest
Do you ever feel like your life is something you're surviving instead of choosing? Like you're handling everything, showing up, getting through the days and…
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🔥 Episode 88: What Healing After Divorce Actually Looks Like Inside the FIERCE Sisterhood
This episode is for the woman who is still in the thick of it. The one who cries in the car. The one who isn't sleeping. The one who is scared of what comes…
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Episode 87: The Four Words Costing You More Than Money After Divorce and Empty Nest
"I can't afford it." Four little words that sound completely reasonable. Four words nobody ever pushes back on. Four words that end the conversation every…
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🔥 Episode 86: Stop Healing and Start Living: The Trap Keeping You Stuck After Divorce
You're doing everything right. Therapy. Journaling. Talking it out with friends who understand. You are healing, and you have been for a long time. So why do…
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🔥 Episode 85: Stop Reacting and Start Building: How to Take Control of Your Life After Divorce
For decades, I reacted to my life. I thought I had a temper. I thought that was just who I was. The truth was harder and simpler than that. I had never learned…
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🔥 Episode 84: Divorce Didn't Destroy Your Self Confidence, This Did
So many women tell me that one of the biggest hurdles after divorce is the loss of self confidence. The inability to trust themselves. The feeling that the…
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🔥 Episode 83: Dirty Fuel - Are You Building Your New Life for You or for Them?
After divorce, something powerful happens. Women get moving. They lose weight, start businesses, start dating, build something new. The results are real. The…
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🔥 Episode 82: When Ok is Not Ok: Why Strong Women Get Stuck After Divorce
Strong independent women are really good at okay. And from the outside, okay looks like enough, but it's really survival mode in disguise. In this episode of…
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🔥 Episode 81: Three Questions That Will Help You Meet Yourself After Divorce
After divorce, staying busy feels like strength. A full schedule, a packed calendar, falling into bed exhausted every night. It looks like resilience. It looks…
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🔥 Episode 80: The Real Reason You Aren't Moving Forward After Divorce & Empty Nest
If you've been divorced for a while and you're still stuck in the same patterns, still talking yourself out of the same decisions, still waiting for the right…
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🔥 Episode 79: Show Up Anyway: How to Navigate Your Ex and His New Partner at Family Events After Divorce
One of the hardest situations divorced women face is showing up to a family event — a wedding, a graduation, a birthday party — when your ex is going to be…
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🔥 Episode 78: Financial Recovery After Divorce: How to Take Control of Your Money with Dr. Barb Provost of Purse Strings
If you're going through a divorce or recently divorced and feeling overwhelmed, lost, or ashamed about your finances, this episode is for you. Julie sits down…
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🔥 Episode 77: What If? The Question That Changes Everything When You're Rebuilding After Divorce
What if the life you actually want is still available to you? Not the life you had before. Not a consolation prize version of it. The real thing. The…
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🔥 Episode 76: Why Playing Isn't Optional When You're Rebuilding After Divorce
What if one of the most powerful tools for healing after divorce wasn't therapy o or journaling or another self-help book? What if it was play? In this episode…
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🔥 Episode 75 - The New Rules of Dating After Divorce & Empty Nest
Are you dating after divorce and empty nest and wondering why it feels so hard? Most women who are ready to date again after divorce are still playing by the…
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🔥 Episode 74: Three Signs You're Ready To Rebuild After Divorce
I talk to a lot of women who want to "wait until they're ready" to move forward after divorce. What they don't see is that being "ready" isn't a message that…
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🔥 Episode 73: The Hidden Cost of Being Strong After Divorce
The Hidden Cost of Being Strong After Divorce Are you stuck after divorce even though you're doing everything right? The strength and independence that carried…
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🔥 Episode 72: Money After Divorce: How to Make It Feel Less Overwhelming
What if the way you feel about money right now isn't permanent? Not fixed. Not fate. Not just the way it is because of your divorce. If you've been stuck in…
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🔥 Episode 71: Taking Back Control of Your Money After Divorce
Divorce doesn't just divide your assets. It destroys the system and when that system collapses, your brain doesn't register it as an inconvenience. It…
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🔥 Episode 70: The Grief Nobody Talks About After Divorce: Grieving the Family You Still Love
When I asked women in my online community what divorce stole from them more than anything else, the overwhelming majority of women said: my family. If you're…
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🔥 Episode 69: Building Safety and Self-Trust with Ali Ryan, Sisterhood Coach
Do you feel like you're in an identity free-fall after divorce? If so, you want to hear this episode where Julie introduces Ali Ryan, the newest member of Team…
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🔥 Episode 68: Dating After Divorce with Guest Dating Coach Sade Curry
When is the right time to date after divorce? How do you navigate online dating apps? How do you date safely? In this episode, Julie sits down with Sade Curry…
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🔥 Episode 67: You're Not Going Backwards - You're Spiraling Upward
You're doing well, making progress - and then a trigger hits and the pain floods back. You think: "I'm going backwards. I'm failing. I haven't healed at all."…
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🔥 Episode 66: When You're Not Enough
Ready to stop white-knuckling through "I'm enough" affirmations and start doing the deeper work? Learn more about the FIERCE Sisterhood - a community of…
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🔥 Episode 65: Building Your Trust Fund
When your marriage ends, it's normal to question everything: "I chose wrong." "I stayed too long." "How did I miss the signs?" Your brain uses the divorce as…
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🔥 Episode 64: The Power of One Word & The Relief It Brings in Moments
Julie introduces a powerful alternative to New Year's resolutions: choosing ONE WORD to embody throughout 2026. This practice creates laser-sharp focus that…
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🔥 Episode 62: Presence is the Present
About this episode: In this holiday episode, Julie challenges the lie we've all been sold: that living in the present moment is a luxury we can't afford. As…
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🔥 Episode 63 Three Ways to Start Your New Year Without Resolutions
Ready to stop setting resolutions and start choosing growth? Join the FIERCE Sisterhood - a community of divorced empty nesters choosing growth over…
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🔥 Episode 61: The Growth Formula
"You can do hard things. But here's what's more accurate: You can FEEL hard things." If you've been avoiding uncomfortable emotions, staying stuck in your…
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🔥 Episode 60: The 3 R's of a Fully Resourced Holiday Season (And Life)
What if the key to thriving isn't about doing more—it's about becoming more resourced? If you're dreading the holidays because divorce and empty nest have left…
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🔥 Episode 59 - Deep Self-Care for the Holidays and Beyond
Getting a pedicure isn't self-care—it's grooming. Real self-care looks completely different. If you're dreading the holidays because you know they'll be…
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🔥 Episode 58 - Bonny Scott - Family Estrangement Coach
More about Bonny: Get her free Strategies for Happier Holidays here: https://bonny-scott-life-coach.aweb.page/happier-holidays-guide $50 OFF Mini Course…
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🔥 Episode 57: Why Positive Thinking Doesn't Work - And What to Do Instead
Apply for the Sisterhood here. "Just think positive!" "Be grateful!" "Look on the bright side!" We've all heard it—and we've all tried it. But forcing positive…
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🔥 Episode 56: How to Create CALM During the Holidays (And Everyday)
Calm doesn't just happen—you have to create it on purpose. In this episode, you'll learn a practical 3-step process for creating calm during the holidays (and…
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🔥 Episode 55: Worry Is A Thief That Steals Your Joy - Here's How to Stop It
Worry is a thief that steals your joy—especially during the holidays. In this episode, we explore how worry robs you of precious moments with loved ones…
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🔥 Episode 54: [REPLAY] From Stuck to Shining: Christi's Story
In the reply of this popular episode, we meet Christi and learn about her healing journey. She is continuing to shine as a member of the FIERCE Sisterhood. "I…
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Episode 53: Meet Your Sisterhood Coaches - Keri Lonny Breath Work Coach
Breath work goes beyond mindset—it releases what you're holding at a subconscious level. In the final episode of our Team FIERCE coach series, meet Keri—breath…
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🔥 Episode 52: Meet Your Sisterhood Coaches - Natalie Hunt Leadership and Reinvention Coach
"What would love do? That's the question that changes everything." In Part 4 of our Team FIERCE coach series, meet Natalie Hunt—master certified leadership…
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🔥 Episode 51: Meet Your Sisterhood Coaches: Healing Betrayal and Trauma with Gia Huff
In this episode of "Better Because of Divorce," I sit down with Coach Gia Huff, a certified professional life coach specializing in the subconscious mind…
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🔥 Episode 50: Meet Your Sisterhood Coaches: Revitalize Your Body with Elizabeth Sherman
Do you feel like your body is betraying you? Like the mirror has become your enemy and your energy has completely disappeared? You want to feel confident and…
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🔥 Episode 49: Meet Your Sisterhood Coaches: Yoga and Meditation with Kristy Souto
Part 1 of 5: Meet the coaches who make the FIERCE Sisterhood a one-stop shop for divorced empty nesters. Welcome to a new podcast series introducing the five…
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🔥 Episode 48: Happy, Sad and Healing Beautifully
Healing isn't linear—and this weekend reminded me why that's actually beautiful. If you've ever felt like you should be "over" your divorce by now, or…
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🔥 Episode 47: Seven Benefits of Divorce + Empty Nest
Register for the Better Because of Divorce Challenge here. What has been the most exciting or reinvigorating part of divorce and empty nest for you? What, you…
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🔥 Episode 46: What If This IS the Plan? And how that changes everything.
"What if your divorce isn't a deviation from your life plan—what if it IS your life plan?" If you're exhausting yourself fighting reality, arguing with what's…