Join Susan Guthrie as she welcomes back Amy Polacko! Amy shares invaluable insights on how to take control of your divorce journey and become the CEO of your divorce. In fact, understanding divorce's emotional, legal, and financial aspects is crucial to avoid costly mistakes. 

In this episode, Amy highlights the common misconceptions surrounding divorce and the role of a divorce attorney. She emphasizes that relying solely on legal counsel may not provide adequate education about the divorce process and advocates for proactive education and empowerment before embarking on the journey. 

With her extensive background as a divorced single mom, award-winning journalist, and empowerment coach, Amy Polacko provides invaluable guidance to women seeking independence and empowerment during and after divorce. 

You’ll hear:

• Why proactive education about divorce processes empowers individuals to navigate their journey effectively.

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About this week's special guest: Amy Polacko

Amy Polacko is a Freedom Warrior - and is committed to helping women live life on their own terms during/after a toxic relationship or divorce. As a divorced single mom, she is passionate about coaching women one-on-one and founded the empowerment group Strong Savvy Women to provide support, inspiration, and guidance to single women. Amy is also an award-winning journalist who sheds light on women's issues including divorce, domestic abuse, coercive control, and singlehood. 

Her recent journalistic work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, NBC News THINK, and Ms. Magazine. After graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Amy worked as a newspaper reporter for Newsday and was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team covering the TWA Flight 800 crash. She then transitioned to television journalism, working as a writer and producer in New York City. Amy was an award-winning on-air reporter in Fargo, ND, where she traveled to Kosovo for a series on the North Dakota National Guard, and in Philadelphia, where she covered the national D.C. Sniper story. She also headed up an investigative reporting unit in Albany, NY, where she uncovered consumer scams, crime, and government corruption as part of her I-Team Investigations -- one of which exposed a loophole in the state's sex offender registry. 

Amy has spoken publicly on women's issues, empowerment and entrepreneurship at Yale University, the Women's Forum in Ridgefield, CT, the Women's Center of Greater Danbury, CT, the Hayvn co-working space for women, the Believe Inspire Grow national empowerment organization for women, and many other groups both virtually and in person. 

Website: www.freedomwarrior.info 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freedomwarriortribe/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freedomwarriortribe/

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SUSAN GUTHRIE®, ESQ., the creator and host of The Divorce and Beyond® Podcast, is nationally recognized as one of the top family law and divorce mediation attorneys in the country.  Susan is the Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and is a sought-after keynote speaker, business and practice consultant, coach and trainer. You can find out more about Susan and her services here:  https://neon.page/susanguthrie

Internationally renowned as one of the leading experts in online mediation, Susan created her Learn to Mediate Online® program and has trained more than 25,000 professionals in how to transition their practice online.  Susan recently partnered with legal and mediation legend, Forrest "Woody" Mosten to create the Mosten Guthrie Academy which provides gold-standard, fully online training for mediation and collaborative professionals at all stages of their careers.  

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