{"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":254,"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":"2026-06-16T10:17:32.089801+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divorce-happens-6931880"},"episode":{"title":"When Your Friends Disappeared After Your Divorce — This Is What It Actually Means with Olivia Howell","slug":"when-your-friends-disappeared-after-your-divorce-this-is-what-it-actually-means-with-olivia-howell","published_at":"2026-05-14T18:10:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divorce-happens-6931880/when-your-friends-disappeared-after-your-divorce-this-is-what-it-actually-means-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/3bebdd0b-b9b3-4ed9-b940-a3ce10e63d31.mp3","summary":"Nobody warns you about this part. The divorce attorneys explain the paperwork. The therapists help you process the grief of your marriage. Your family tells you it’s going to be okay. But almost no one prepares you for the moment you realize that some of the friendships you built your entire social world around — the dinner couples, the group text, the women who knew everything about your life — have quietly, without explanation, disappeared. In this tender and deeply honest solo episode of Divorce Happens, host Olivia Howell names one of the most overlooked losses in the divorce recovery experience: the grief of the friends who couldn’t follow you through. Olivia speaks directly to the disorienting sting of social loss after divorce — the way it compounds the grief you’re already carrying, the story your brain tells about what it means, and why that story is almost always wrong. She untangles the real reasons friends disappear (it’s about their own marriage, their own fears, their own discomfort with what your courage made them face) from the ones we blame ourselves for, and she makes an important distinction between friendships that had genuine roots and those that were always built on circumstance and shared social structure. Understanding the difference, she says, is not a wound — it’s a map. Because now you know exactly who and what to build toward in your life after divorce. The episode closes with something that sits like a hand on your shoulder: the friends who are still standing — even if there are only one or two of them — are showing you what real friendship looks like. And the new ones coming, the ones who will meet this rebuilt and more-honest version of you, are going to be some of the best relationships of your life. The ones who disappeared made room fo…","meta_description":"Nobody warns you about this part. The divorce attorneys explain the paperwork. The therapists help you process the grief of your marriage. Your family tel…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":421,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/divorce-happens-6931880/episodes/when-your-friends-disappeared-after-your-divorce-this-is-what-it-actually-means-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/when-your-friends-disappeared-after-your-divorce-this-is-what-it-actually-means-with-olivia-howell.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}