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 moment to finally move forward, this episode is for you.

The reason you're not moving isn't what you think it is.

It's not your circumstances. It's not bad timing. It's not that you're not ready.

It's something else entirely. 

In this episode, Julie Steed shares her own story of rationalizing her way out of the very thing that changed her life and and breaks down three signs that fear, not wisdom, is making your decisions after divorce and into the empty nest years.

If you've ever known exactly what you needed to do and talked yourself out of it anyway, you'll want to hear this.

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✓ Uncover the story that has been running (and potentially ruining) your life since your divorce. 

✓ Feel the shift from powerless to powerful through a live exercise that shows you how to get back behind the wheel of your own life.

✓ Discover the specific gap standing between where you are now and where you want to be. You will leave the workshop knowing exactly what to do to close that gap. 

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About Julie:

After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.

Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.

She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.

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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 there with his new girlfriend, fiancée or wife. The anxiety starts before you even walk in the door. And for many women, the answer is simply: don't go.

But avoidance isn't healing. 

In this episode of Better Because of Divorce, host and certified divorce life coach Julie Steed shares a raw, personal story from a recent family wedding and breaks down exactly how she navigated it with her dignity, her grace, and her sense of self fully intact.

Because here's what Julie wants every divorced woman to hear: when you choose not to show up, she is still controlling your life. You deserve to be in the room. You deserve to take up space in your own family's life. And you can learn how to do that, even when it's hard. Especially when it's hard.

If you've been skipping family events, dreading co-parenting milestones, or letting fear of running into your ex's new woman keep you from living your life, this episode will give you the tools, the mindset, and the permission to show up anyway.

You don't do this by being the person you've always been. You are somebody new now. And somebody new has to be willing to do things she has never done before.

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🎯 REGISTER FOR THE FREE BETTER BECAUSE OF DIVORCE WORKSHOP where you will:

✓ Uncover the story that has been running (and potentially ruining) your life since your divorce. 

✓ Feel the shift from powerless to powerful through a live exercise that shows you how to get back behind the wheel of your own life.

✓ Discover the specific gap standing between where you are now and where you want to be. You will leave the workshop knowing exactly what to do to close that gap. 

Click here to register for the free workshop now.

About Julie:

After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.

Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.

She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.

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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 with Dr. Barb Provost, founder of Purse Strings, to talk about financial recovery after divorce.

Dr. Barb holds a doctorate in adult education and spent over two decades in the financial services industry watching women get overlooked, talked over, and underserved. After navigating her own divorce and listening to hundreds of women share their fears around money, she built Purse Strings, a free platform that gives women financial education and access to a vetted directory of financial professionals who actually prioritize women.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why women are the wealthiest market on the planet.
• Three practical steps to start reclaiming financial control after divorce right now
• How to know if you actually have credit in your own name, and what to do if you don't
• How to find and interview a financial professional
• Why knowing your numbers is the single most powerful thing a divorced woman can do for her financial future

Free resources from Purse Strings: pursestrings.co

• Free budget worksheet
• Free Family Emergency Financial Guide
• Vetted directory of financial professionals who specialize in serving women

LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR & WANT TO GO DEEPER?

🎯 REGISTER FOR THE FREE BETTER BECAUSE OF DIVORCE WORKSHOP where you will:

✓ Uncover the story that has been running (and potentially ruining) your life since your divorce. 

✓ Feel the shift from powerless to powerful through a live exercise that shows you how to get back behind the wheel of your own life.

✓ Discover the specific gap standing between where you are now and where you want to be. You will leave the workshop knowing exactly what to do to close that gap. 

Click here to register for the free workshop now.

About Julie:

After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.

Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.

She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.

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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 relationship.

The financial freedom.

The trips, the work that excites you, the version of yourself you can barely picture right now but can feel somewhere underneath all of this.

What if that life is closer than you think?

What if?

In this episode, I cover:

Why women stop dreaming after a long marriage, especially one that ends in betrayal or disappointment, and what that costs them when they're trying to rebuild. The neuroscience behind why your imagination is not a luxury but a neurological necessity when you're rebuilding after divorce. Why you cannot build a life you cannot picture. And how one question, asked out loud even when it feels completely unreasonable, can set off a cascade of events that change everything.

One year ago I was employed full time, stretched thin, and the Sisterhood didn't exist.

I asked what if.

And then I answered it.

This episode is your permission slip to do the same.

LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR & WANT TO GO DEEPER?

🎯 REGISTER FOR THE FREE BETTER BECAUSE OF DIVORCE WORKSHOP where you will:

✓ Uncover the story that has been running (and potentially ruining) your life since your divorce. 

✓ Feel the shift from powerless to powerful through a live exercise that shows you how to get back behind the wheel of your own life.

✓ Discover the specific gap standing between where you are now and where you want to be. You will leave the workshop knowing exactly what to do to close that gap. 

Click here to register for the free workshop now.

About Julie:

After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.

Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.

She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.

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What if one of the most powerful tools for healing after divorce wasn't therapy or journaling or another self-help book?

What if it was playing?

In this episode I'm talking about something that disappears almost immediately when divorce hits, and why getting it back is not optional if you're serious about rebuilding your life.

Play is not frivolous. It is not something you earn. It is not something that has to wait until you're on the other side of divorce.

It is medicine.

We cover what the science behind play actually does to your brain and body during the hardest seasons of life, including how it reduces stress hormones, releases endorphins, and wakes up the part of your brain responsible for imagining your future. 

Play is where your new life starts to take shape.

Healing after divorce doesn't always look the way you think it does.

LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR & WANT TO GO DEEPER?

🎯 REGISTER FOR THE FREE BETTER BECAUSE OF DIVORCE WORKSHOP where you will:

✓ Uncover the story that has been running (and potentially ruining) your life since your divorce. 

✓ Feel the shift from powerless to powerful through a live exercise that shows you how to get back behind the wheel of your own life.

✓ Discover the specific gap standing between where you are now and where you want to be. You will leave the workshop knowing exactly what to do to close that gap. 

Click here to register for the free workshop now.

About Julie:

After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.

Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.

She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.

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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 old rules. 

Wait to be chosen. 

Hope he likes you. 

Build your life around whoever shows up.

Those rules are never going to get you what you actually want.

In this episode we're talking about a completely different approach to dating after divorce and empty nest.

And this approach gives YOU all of the power.

LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR & WANT TO GO DEEPER?

🎯 REGISTER FOR THE FREE BETTER BECAUSE OF DIVORCE WORKSHOP where you will:

✓ Uncover the story that has been running (and potentially ruining) your life since your divorce. 

✓ Feel the shift from powerless to powerful through a live exercise that shows you how to get back behind the wheel of your own life.

✓ Discover the specific gap standing between where you are now and where you want to be. You will leave the workshop knowing exactly what to do to close that gap. 

Click here to register for the free workshop now.

About Julie:

After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.

Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.

She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.

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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 drops from the sky. Instead, it shows up in subtle ways - ways that are easily ignored or pushed aside.

That restlessness you keep dismissing? That quiet longing that won't leave you alone? That searching that brought you here?

Those aren't accidents.

Those are signs.

In this episode, I talk about 3 things that happen when you're ready to rebuild your life after divorce.

Plus I reveal the one truth about healing after divorce that most women miss completely.

If you've been waiting and wondering when you're going to be ready for the next chapter, this episode is for you.

LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR & WANT TO GO DEEPER?

🎯 REGISTER FOR THE FREE BETTER BECAUSE OF DIVORCE WORKSHOP where you will:

✓ Uncover the story that has been running (and potentially ruining) your life since your divorce. 

✓ Feel the shift from powerless to powerful through a live exercise that shows you how to get back behind the wheel of your own life.

✓ Discover the specific gap standing between where you are now and where you want to be. You will leave the workshop knowing exactly what to do to close that gap. 

Click here to register for the free workshop now.

About Julie:

After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.

Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.

She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.

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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 you through the hardest season of your life might be the very thing keeping you stuck now. Quietly turning away everything you want.

In this episode we cover three things strong independent women do after divorce that keep them stuck.

Mistaking your armor for your identity

Choosing what feels safe

Waiting to be "ready"

Plus a simple activity to identify exactly where you've been standing guard in your own life.

LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR & WANT TO GO DEEPER?

🎯 REGISTER FOR THE FREE BETTER BECAUSE OF DIVORCE WORKSHOP where you will:

✓ Uncover the story that has been running (and potentially ruining) your life since your divorce. 

✓ Feel the shift from powerless to powerful through a live exercise that shows you how to get back behind the wheel of your own life.

✓ Discover the specific gap standing between where you are now and where you want to be. You will leave the workshop knowing exactly what to do to close that gap. 

Click here to register for the free workshop now.

About Julie:

After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.

Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.

She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.

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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 financial scarcity thinking after divorce, this episode is going to shift something for you.

We're exploring the difference between scarcity mindset and abundance mindset. Making this shift might be the most important financial move you make in your divorce recovery because it allows you to be open to new possibilites.

We take a look at what scarcity thinking actually costs you after divorce: not just financially, but in your relationships, your health, your energy, and your ability to show up fully in your life.

And of course there's the beautiful ripple effect that happens for everyone in your life when you start approaching money with curiosity instead of dread.

Financial abundance never stops with you. It touches everything.

The scarcity story you've been living in since your divorce is not the truth about your financial future. It's just a story.

And a different story is possible, starting right now, exactly where you are.

LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR & WANT TO GO DEEPER?

🎯 REGISTER FOR THE FREE BETTER BECAUSE OF DIVORCE WORKSHOP where you will:

✓ Uncover the story that has been running (and potentially ruining) your life since your divorce. 

✓ Feel the shift from powerless to powerful through a live exercise that shows you how to get back behind the wheel of your own life.

✓ Discover the specific gap standing between where you are now and where you want to be. You will leave the workshop knowing exactly what to do to close that gap. 

Click here to register for the free workshop now.

About Julie:

After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.

Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.

She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.

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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 registers it as a threat to your survival.

If you're struggling with financial anxiety after divorce, you're not weak and you're not bad with money. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

In this episode I'm breaking down exactly why financial fear hits so hard after divorce and what you can actually do to take back control of your money and get out of the spiral.

Here's what we cover:

Why your nervous system responds to financial uncertainty the way it does — and why that response makes complete sense.

Why money is completely neutral and what that means for your financial recovery after divorce.

Why you cannot think your way to financial clarity when your nervous system is in survival mode.

Plus, a simple but powerful exercise that will help you move from financial panic to financial peace. Starting today.

If you're ready to stop feeling controlled by money fear and start rebuilding financial confidence after divorce, this episode is your starting point.

LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR & WANT TO GO DEEPER?

🎯 REGISTER FOR THE FREE BETTER BECAUSE OF DIVORCE WORKSHOP where you will:

✓ Uncover the story that has been running (and potentially ruining) your life since your divorce. 

✓ Feel the shift from powerless to powerful through a live exercise that shows you how to get back behind the wheel of your own life.

✓ Discover the specific gap standing between where you are now and where you want to be. You will leave the workshop knowing exactly what to do to close that gap. 

Click here to register for the free workshop now.

About Julie:

After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.

Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.

She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.

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