Single Mother Survival Guide

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Julia talks about being a single mum on Mother's day. She discusses why she loves being a single mum, and why single mums need to celebrate too. She also shares her tips for getting through Mother's Day for those having their first Mother's Day as a single mum, and for those feeling vulnerable or emotional. 

To contact Julia, email: [email protected].

For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Services.

Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.  

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide. 

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Julia talks with Marcia Watts. Marcia is a counsellor in the private practice Transform to Lead based in Brisbane, Australia. She offers clients a compassionate, solution-oriented counselling service, enabling them to overcome obstacles and achieve their full potential. She is passionate about helping adults and couples improve their personal lives, marriages, and family relationships and she has a special interest in re-partnering and step families, as well as her own personal experience of marriage breakdown and five years as a single parent of 3 boys, before marrying her now husband, Ian, and creating a blended family.

In this episode Marcia shares her own story from divorce to remarriage. We also discuss:

• how divorce can affect women and how we react, respond and recover;
• strategies for surviving and thriving as a single parent;
• common fears for the single mum entering into a new relationship and how to overcome them;
• how to keep the ex out of the new relationship;
• common issues that arise in a blended family;
• the role of a stepmother;
• and LOTS MORE!

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• http://www.goodtherapy.com.au/marcia_watts

• http://www.transform2lead.com.au

• Marcia Watt's Book: A step up for step families – coming soon

• To contact Marcia, email: [email protected], or connect with Marcia on Facebook (Marcia Watts Relationships & Wellbeing Counsellor).

• to contact Julia, email: [email protected].

• For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Services.

• Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Julia talks with Marcia Watts. Marcia is a counsellor in the private practice Transform to Lead based in Brisbane, Australia. She offers clients a compassionate, solution-oriented counselling service, enabling them to overcome obstacles and achieve their full potential. She is passionate about helping adults and couples improve their personal lives, marriages, and family relationships and she has a special interest in re-partnering and step families, as well as her own personal experience of marriage breakdown and five years as a single parent of 3 boys, before marrying her now husband, Ian, and creating a blended family.

In this episode Marcia shares her own story from divorce  to remarriage. We also discuss:

• how divorce can affect women and how we react, respond and recover;
• strategies for surviving and thriving as a single parent; 
• common fears for the single mum entering into a new relationship and how to overcome them;
• how to keep the ex out of the new relationship;
• common issues that arise in a blended family;
• the role of a stepmother;
• and LOTS MORE!

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• http://www.goodtherapy.com.au/marcia_watts

• http://www.transform2lead.com.au

• Marcia Watt's Book: A step up for step families – coming soon

• To contact Marcia, email: [email protected], or connect with Marcia on Facebook (Marcia Watts Relationships & Wellbeing Counsellor).

• to contact Julia, email: [email protected].

• For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Services.

• Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.  

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide. 

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Julia talks with Clarissa Rayward. Clarissa is a family lawyer, wife and mum who is passionate about relationships, people and family. Clarissa is the Director of Brisbane Family Law Centre, a boutique Family Law practice.

Clarissa uses her industry knowledge and skill to change the way Australian families experience divorce and separation. She is known as 'The Happy Family Lawyer' as she believes that your divorce can be a part of your marriage you can look back on with pride. She is the author of the successful 'Happy Family Lawyer' blog, providing weekly commentary and tips on issues relating to divorce and the book 'Splitsville- How to separate stay out of Court and stay friends'.

In January 2017 Clarissa published her second book- 'Happy Lawyer Happy Life- How to be happy in law and in life' for lawyers looking for better ways to practice law after launching a successful podcast by the same name. Clarissa has now turned her attention to addressing the high rates of depression and anxiety amongst lawyers by opening a positive dialogue on how lawyers can find happiness in their careers.

In this episode we discuss how to have a happy, kind, calm and respectful divorce; how to get things off on the right foot when first separating, how to deal with an ex-partner who is hostile or uncommunicative; how to avoid the court process; how to amicably negotiate with our ex-partners; how to look after ourselves throughout the divorce process; what to look out for when choosing a family lawyer, and LOTS MORE!

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• Brisbane Family Law Centre

• The Happy Family Lawyer

• BOOK: Happy Lawyer Happy Life: How to Be Happy in Law and in Life

• BOOK: Splitsville: How to Separate, Stay Out of Court and Stay Friends

• To contact Clarissa, email: [email protected], or connect with Clarissa on Instagram (@thehappyfamilylawyer), Facebook (@thehappyfamilylawyer) or Twitter (@clarissarayward)

• to contact Julia, email: [email protected]

• For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Services

• Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

Disclosure: Some of the links in these notes are "affiliate links". This means if you click on the link and purchase an item, Single Mother Survival Guide will receive an affiliate commission.

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Julia talks with Clarissa Rayward. Clarissa is a family lawyer, wife and mum who is passionate about relationships, people and family. Clarissa is the Director of Brisbane Family Law Centre, a boutique Family Law practice.

Clarissa uses her industry knowledge and skill to change the way Australian families experience divorce and separation. She is known as 'The Happy Family Lawyer' as she believes that your divorce can be a part of your marriage you can look back on with pride. She is the author of the successful 'Happy Family Lawyer' blog, providing weekly commentary and tips on issues relating to divorce and the book 'Splitsville- How to separate stay out of Court and stay friends'.

In January 2017 Clarissa published her second book- 'Happy Lawyer Happy Life- How to be happy in law and in life' for lawyers looking for better ways to practice law after launching a successful podcast by the same name. Clarissa has now turned her attention to addressing the high rates of depression and anxiety amongst lawyers by opening a positive dialogue on how lawyers can find happiness in their careers.

In this episode we discuss how to have a happy, kind, calm and respectful divorce; how to get things off on the right foot when first separating, how to deal with an ex-partner who is hostile or uncommunicative; how to avoid the court process; how to amicably negotiate with our ex-partners; how to look after ourselves throughout the divorce process; what to look out for when choosing a family lawyer, and LOTS MORE!

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• Brisbane Family Law Centre

• The Happy Family Lawyer

• BOOK: Happy Lawyer Happy Life: How to Be Happy in Law and in Life

• BOOK: Splitsville: How to Separate, Stay Out of Court and Stay Friends

• To contact Clarissa, email: [email protected], or connect with Clarissa on Instagram (@thehappyfamilylawyer), Facebook
  (@thehappyfamilylawyer) or Twitter (@clarissarayward) 

• to contact Julia, email: [email protected]

• For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Services 

• Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.  

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide. 

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

Disclosure: Some of the links in these notes are “affiliate links”. This means if you click on the link and purchase an item, Single Mother Survival Guide will receive an affiliate commission.

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Julia talks with Joanna Leng. Joanna is a single mum, a financial adviser, the author of an upcoming book on financial empowerment for single mums, and founder of A Story for Her.

We discuss her story of becoming a single mum, the stigma of being a single mum in Singapore and how it compares to the stigma in Australia, A Story for Her and how it came about, the value of being grateful, her new book "Financial Empowerment for Single Mothers" and the motivation behind it, and LOTS MORE!

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• www.joannalwleng.com

• www.financialempowermentforsinglemothers.com

• www.astoryforher.com

• We need to let go of the single mother stigma by Julia Hasche

• 17 reasons why being a single mum is awesome by Julia Hasche

• To contact Joanna, email: [email protected], or connect with Joanna on Instagram (@joannleng or @astoryforher), Facebook (@joannaleng or @astoryforher) or Linkedin (@lengjoanna)

• to contact Julia, email: [email protected]

• For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Services

• Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Julia talks with Joanna Leng. Joanna is a single mum, a financial adviser, the author of an upcoming book on financial empowerment for single mums, and founder of A Story for Her.

We discuss her story of becoming a single mum, the stigma of being a single mum in Singapore and how it compares to the stigma in Australia, A Story for Her and how it came about, the value of being grateful, her new book "Financial Empowerment for Single Mothers" and the motivation behind it, and LOTS MORE!

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• www.joannalwleng.com

• www.financialempowermentforsinglemothers.com

• www.astoryforher.com

• We need to let go of the single mother stigma by Julia Hasche

• 17 reasons why being a single mum is awesome by Julia Hasche

• To contact Joanna, email: [email protected], or connect with Joanna on Instagram (@joannleng or @astoryforher), Facebook
  (@joannaleng or @astoryforher) or Linkedin (@lengjoanna) 

• to contact Julia, email: [email protected]

• For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Services 

• Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call here.  

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide. 

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Julia talks with Farrah Millar. Farrah was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer when her daughter was just 14 months old and her son was less than 24 hours old. Recovering from a caesarean section, Farrah began 4 months of intense chemotherapy, and then further treatment (including a double mastectomy), all whilst parenting two babies and dealing with the breakdown of her relationship.

We discuss her journey over the past two years - how she dealt with her cancer diagnosis and treatment whilst looking after her children, the downward spiral of her relationship, winning 2016 Mum of the Year, the amazing work that Breast Cancer Care WA and Cancer Council do, and the support she got from these wonderful organisations, the importance of breast self examinations and breast cancer awareness, handling single motherhood whilst battling a major health issue, what she has learnt through her cancer journey and her journey of becoming a single mother, and LOTS MORE!

If you haven't already, listen to Part 1 (Episode 034) before this one.

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• Cancer Council are the leading independent funders of cancer research in Australia; provide evidence-based, up-to-date information about all aspects of cancer; coordinate a network of cancer support groups, services and programs to help improve the quality of life of cancer patients, people living with cancer, their families and carers, and so much more!

• Breast Cancer Care WA is a WA charity that provides personalised emotional, practical and financial support and care to people affected by breast cancer.

• Ad campaign use man boobs in video to show women how to spot breast cancer

• To contact Farrah, email: [email protected], or to contact Julia, email: [email protected]

• For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Services

• Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Julia talks with Farrah Millar. Farrah was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer when her daughter was just 14 months old and her son was less than 24 hours old. Recovering from a caesarean section, Farrah began 4 months of intense chemotherapy, and then further treatment (including a double mastectomy), all whilst parenting two babies and dealing with the breakdown of her relationship.

We discuss her journey over the past two years - how she dealt with her cancer diagnosis and treatment whilst looking after her children, the downward spiral of her relationship, winning 2016 Mum of the Year, the amazing work that Breast Cancer Care WA and Cancer Council do, and the support she got from these wonderful organisations, the importance of breast self examinations and breast cancer awareness, handling single motherhood whilst battling a major health issue, what she has learnt through her cancer journey and her journey of becoming a single mother, and LOTS MORE!

If you haven't already, listen to Part 1 (Episode 034) before this one. 

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• Cancer Council are the leading independent funders of cancer research in Australia; provide evidence-based, up-to-date information about all aspects of cancer; coordinate a network of cancer support groups, services and programs to help improve the quality of life of cancer patients, people living with cancer, their families and carers, and so much more! 

• Breast Cancer Care WA is a WA charity that provides personalised emotional, practical and financial support and care to people affected by breast cancer. 

• Ad campaign use man boobs in video to show women how to spot breast cancer

• To contact Farrah, email: [email protected], or to contact Julia, email: [email protected]

• For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Services 

• Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call here.  

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide. 

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Julia talks with Farrah Millar. Farrah was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer when her daughter was just 14 months old and her son was less than 24 hours old. Recovering from a caesarean section, Farrah began 4 months of intense chemotherapy, and then further treatment (including a double mastectomy), all whilst parenting two babies and dealing with the breakdown of her relationship.

We discuss her journey over the past two years - how she dealt with her cancer diagnosis and treatment whilst looking after her children, the downward spiral of her relationship, winning 2016 Mum of the Year, the amazing work that Breast Cancer Care WA and Cancer Council do, and the support she got from these wonderful organisations, the importance of breast self examinations and breast cancer awareness, handling single motherhood whilst battling a major health issue, what she has learnt through her cancer journey and her journey of becoming a single mother, and LOTS MORE!

Look out for Part 2 coming next week!

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• Cancer Council are the leading independent funders of cancer research in Australia; provide evidence-based, up-to-date information about all aspects of cancer; coordinate a network of cancer support groups, services and programs to help improve the quality of life of cancer patients, people living with cancer, their families and carers, and so much more!

• Breast Cancer Care WA is a WA charity that provides personalised emotional, practical and financial support and care to people affected by breast cancer.

• Ad campaign use man boobs in video to show women how to spot breast cancer

• To contact Farrah, email: [email protected], or to contact Julia, email: [email protected]

• For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Services

• Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.