Divorce and Separation

Nikki Parkinson is joined by Christina Salvo, CEO and Founder of Simple Separation, an online platform with proven processes that offer a complete service to help you and your former partner navigate through separation and divorce in a respectful and collaborative way from start to finish.

Nikki and Christina discuss -

• From the idea being born whilst sitting in the court room to shaking up the system and helping couples finalise their separation in a less adversarial way.
• Using Simple Separation as an alternative to the traditional methods to finalise your legal separation.
• How does platform reduce the mental load?
• How you can invite your ex to join the platform and why it's beneficial to do so

Host: Nikki Parkinson

Guest: Christina Salvo, CEO and Founder of Simple Separation. Instagram and website

Executive Producer and Editor: Tiffany Richmond. You can contact Tiffany via her website and on Instagram @tiff__richmond.

Nikki Parkinson talks to Melissa Browne about money. Melissa is an ex-accountant, ex-financial advisor & ex-working till she drops. Nowadays she's a best-selling author, financial educator, business strategist & mentor and entrepreneur who is passionate about helping women particularly also live a life by design not default.

Money is another taboo topic that we should be having more conversations about. Nikki and Melissa dive into -

• Financial literacy.
• Getting control your finances.
• How can we help women reduce their financial angst.
• Understanding your financial money type and money story.
• Practical tips to work with your money type.
• Do you have stay in your money story?
• Changing your mindset from lack to investment.
• Tips to become financial savvy.
• Should you keep the family home in a financial settlement? What are the other options?
• Take the money quiz here.

Host: Nikki Parkinson

Guest: Melissa Browne, is an ex-accountant, ex-financial advisor & ex-working till she drops. She is the CEO of the financial education business for women who want to financially grow up, melissabrowne.courses (previously The Money Barre), Director of Business at the long-day Early Learning Communities, Thinkers,inq and up until she sold the business for seven figures in 2019, she was CEO of the award-winning accounting and advisory firm A&TA (Accounting & Taxation Advantage). Three very different businesses that all are pushing the boundaries in their fields, questioning what is possible and disrupting their industry in order to create the best possible results for their communities.

You can connect with Melissa here Email Website Instagram Uncensored Money Podcast.

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Executive Producer and Editor: Tiffany Richmond. You can contact Tiffany via her website and on Instagram @tiff__richmond.

Nikki Parkinson talks with Lisa Winneke The Wholehearted Woman Mentor, author and podcaster, to share her separation story. It is a reflection of self love, liberation and the power of intuition.

Host: Nikki Parkinson,

Guest: Lisa Winneke, Website. Instagram. Facebook. LinkedIn.

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Executive Producer and Editor: Tiffany Richmond. You can contact Tiffany via her website and on Instagram @tiff__richmond.

Children and divorce is one of the most googled topics and for good reason. Parents want to protect their children from the trauma that can come with separation and divorce. In this episode Nikki Parkinson talks to you about -

• Whether the act of separation or divorce will affect your children?
• Things to consider when you plan to tell your children you are separating?
• What to say to your children?
• Should you tell your children why you are separating?

Two must have books in your collection -

• How to Recycle your Feelings - Amy Molloy.
• A Kids Book About Divorce - Ashley Simpo.

Our most trusted co-parenting app is FAYR. Use our code TDHXFAYR for a 20% discount at www.befayr.com.

Host: Nikki Parkinson.

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Executive Producer and Editor: Tiffany Richmond. You can contact Tiffany via her website and on Instagram @tiff__richmond.

Nikki Parkinson talks to Michael Daniels, the CEO and Founder of the FAYR co-parenting app. FAYR is an acronym for Family Advocacy is Your Responsibility.

Michael is a father and co-parenting to his two teenage children. He created FAYR out of his personal need to communicate constructively with his co-parent. Michael is a thought leader in co-parenting in the United States and is making positive steps with the FAYR app for parents to have a happier and healthier divorce.

In their conversation Nikki and Michael discuss -

• What is FAYR?
• How FAYR removes stress from co-parenting and promotes effective communication.
• Removing the subjectiveness of evidence in court proceedings.
• The impact on children in a high conflict divorce.
• How he thinks we can co-parent in a better way.
• What next for the FAYR app.
• And much much more.

Use our code TDHXFAYR for a 20% discount on your subscription. To use the code you need to sign up on the website www.befayr.com and then download the App.

Host: Nikki Parkinson

Guest: Michael Daniels. CEO and Founder of FAYR. You can connect with Michael the website; Instagram and download the app HERE.

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Executive Producer and Editor: Tiffany Richmond. You can contact Tiffany via her website and on Instagram @tiff__richmond.

Nikki Parkinson debunks the myth that parents have the rights under the Family Law Act.

This episode provides you with legal information in relation to children and separation; equal and shared parental responsibility; the best interests of the child and children's right pursuant to the Family Law Act.

Host: Nikki Parkinson.

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Executive Producer and Editor: Tiffany Richmond. You can contact Tiffany via her website and on Instagram @tiff__richmond.

Nikki Parkinson is joined by collaborative lawyer and mediator Marguerite Picard. She is the Director of MELCA and Smart Separation. MELCA is a one stop centre for healthy divorce outside the court system. It was designed and established by Marguerite and her partners Tricia Peters and Dr Tina Sinclair in 2009, to deliver an interdisciplinary service to separating couples and families.

Marguerite is well versed in what individuals, couples and families need when they are going through a separation. She shares -

• What collaborative law is and why couples may choose that as opposed to the traditional family law pathway.
• Why does collaborative law help couples in a better way?
• What does interdisciplinary work means?
• What's the difference between 'settling all my cases' and interdisciplinary work?
• Why does mediation, as opposed to collaboration, get all the headlines?
• How to build optimism after separation.

Host: Nikki Parkinson

Guest: Marguerite Picard. Director of MELCA and Smart Separation.

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Executive Producer and Editor: Tiffany Richmond. You can contact Tiffany via her website and on Instagram @tiff__richmond.

Engaging a family lawyer is likely to be one of the most important decisions you will make. It's important you choose the right lawyer for you. In this episode Nikki shares her tips to help you find and engage a great family lawyer, someone whom you can wholeheartedly place your trust in.

Host: Nikki Parkinson.

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Executive Producer and Editor: Tiffany Richmond. You can contact Tiffany via her website and on Instagram @tiff__richmond.

Nikki Parkinson is joined by Christina Salvo, CEO and Founder of Simple Separation, an online platform with proven processes that offer a complete service to help you and your former partner navigate through separation and divorce in a respectful and collaborative way from start to finish.

Nikki and Christina discuss -

• What is Simple Separation?
• How the platform works?
• Who is the platform for and who it is no.
• The cost to use the platform.
• How is the process impartial?
• How are lawyers used as part of the process?
• How do mediators work with Simple Separation?

It's a fabulous service to assist couples finalise the legalities of the separation simply.

Host: Nikki Parkinson

Guest: Christina Salvo, CEO and Founder of Simple Separation. Instagram and website

Executive Producer and Editor: Tiffany Richmond. You can contact Tiffany via her website and on Instagram @tiff__richmond.

In today's episode Nikki answers the common myth that property settlements are divided 50/50 and what's yours is your own.

She covers -

• What a property or financial settlement is.
• What the property pool consists of.
• Examples of assets, liabilities and financial resources.
• What to do when you don't agree on a value of an asset, liability or financial resource.
• The simple equation to get to your net property pool.
• What contributions are.
• What is "just and equitable".
• Stephen Tester of Somerville Laundry Lomax tells you what the Court's four step process is.

It's a general overview and provided as an understanding of how a financial settlement can be determined and resolved. It is not provided to you to give you legal advice and you should seek legal advice should you need to. You can do so from Legal Aid, a community legal centre or a law firm. You can also seek out an independent family dispute resolution practitioner who can assist you and your ex to come to an agreement.

Host: Nikki Parkinson.

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Executive Producer and Editor: Tiffany Richmond. You can contact Tiffany via her website and on Instagram @tiff__richmond.