{"podcast":{"title":"Divorce Happens","slug":"divorce-happens-6931880","podcast_index_feed_id":6931880,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/divorce-happens/","website_url":"https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/divorce-happens","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4ef67130-0ef6-4ddc-8223-01a75a67ba34/show-cover.jpg","author":"Fresh Starts Registry","episode_count":299,"summary":"Welcome to Divorce Happens, the podcast where we inspire, educate, and support you through divorce and beyond so that you can start fresh on the next phase of your journey. Produced by Fresh Starts Registry, the only divorce registry platform for everything you need to begin again, including home items, hype team, and everything in between. Remember, divorce happens...and then, we start fresh. We're here to support you before, during, and after divorce. Hosted by Olivia Dreizen Howell, the co-founder and CEO of Fresh Starts Registry.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-10T04:24:06.385376+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divorce-happens-6931880"},"episode":{"title":"Nobody Tells You How Awkward Divorce Is with Olivia Howell","slug":"nobody-tells-you-how-awkward-divorce-is-with-olivia-howell","published_at":"2026-07-03T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divorce-happens-6931880/nobody-tells-you-how-awkward-divorce-is-with-olivia-howell","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divorce-happens-6931880","url":"https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/divorce-happens","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4e7fcb6d-5037-43a5-b8b3-17caec9e5df3.mp3","summary":"There's a version of divorce we talk about a lot — the heartbreak, the grief, the legal logistics — and then there's the version almost nobody prepares you for: the sheer, relentless awkwardness of it. In this solo episode of Divorce Happens, host Olivia Howell turns her attention to the strange, small, almost comedic moments that fill the space between the big milestones of divorce. The Target run-in with someone who knew you as a wife. The invitation addressed to both of you by accident. The insurance card that still has his name on it. Olivia makes the case that naming how genuinely weird this process is — not just how painful — is its own form of relief for anyone living through it. Olivia walks listeners through the specific textures of post-divorce awkwardness: the exhausting social corrections of learning to say \"my ex\" like a new language, the administrative unwinding of a life built around an \"us\" that no longer exists, and the quiet strangeness of moving through your own home like an archaeologist of a life you used to have. She also names something rarely talked about in divorce recovery spaces — the awkwardness of joy. The guilt that can show up when you catch yourself laughing too loudly, sleeping diagonally across the bed, or feeling a flash of peace you're not sure you're allowed to keep. Olivia's insight here is a powerful one: freedom can arrive wearing the same shoes as grief, and relief and sadness are allowed to live in the same body on the same day. What makes this episode so validating is its permission to laugh, wince, and exhale all at once. Olivia's core takeaway is that divorce isn't one big dramatic ending — it's hundreds of tiny, weird, unglamorous endings, and starting over after divorce happens quietly, in ordinary places, not in a single…","meta_description":"There's a version of divorce we talk about a lot — the heartbreak, the grief, the legal logistics — and then there's the version almost nobody prepares yo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":435,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/divorce-happens-6931880/episodes/nobody-tells-you-how-awkward-divorce-is-with-olivia-howell/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divorce-happens-6931880/nobody-tells-you-how-awkward-divorce-is-with-olivia-howell.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}