{"podcast":{"title":"Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast","slug":"journey-beyond-divorce-podcast-517749","podcast_index_feed_id":517749,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/82070/rss","website_url":"https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/5/8/4/0/5840e7273510ac1c88c4a68c3ddbc4f2/Journeybeyonddivorcepodcast.png","author":"Karen McMahon","episode_count":468,"summary":"The Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast is your trusted companion through every stage of divorce—emotional, legal, financial, and parental. With over nine years of impactful episodes, this top-ranked podcast supports men and women navigating the challenges of divorce, especially those facing high-conflict dynamics, co-parenting struggles, emotional overwhelm, or legal uncertainty. Hosted by Karen McMahon, Certified Divorce Coach® and founder of Journey Beyond Divorce, the show offers strategic guidance, expert interviews, and real-life stories designed to help listeners move from confusion and chaos to clarity and confidence. Each episode is packed with insight and inspiration to help you make informed decisions, protect your children, safeguard your finances, and heal emotionally—so you can create a life you truly love post-divorce. If you're on the fence about whether to stay or go, have just been told your marriage is ending, or are actively working through the messy middle of litigation, negotiation, or co-parenting, this podcast meets you where you are. 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The reasonable husband. The dad who kept the peace. And somewhere along the way... you lost yourself. If that sentence just hit you somewhere quiet, this episode is for you. Karen McMahon sits down with Ralph Brewer, founder of Help For Men and creator of Dad Starting Over, for one of the most honest conversations about men, marriage, and divorce that you will ever hear. Ralph has worked with thousands of men navigating struggling marriages, dead bedrooms, and the identity crisis that comes with divorce, and he is bringing all of it to this conversation. This episode is about what Ralph calls the nice guy trap. The slow, invisible process by which good men lose their power, in marriage, in divorce, and in themselves. If you have been the guy who said yes when you meant no, who kept the peace at the cost of your own needs, who did everything right and still watched your marriage fall apart, Ralph is going to name exactly what happened to you. And more importantly, he is going to show you the way out. You will learn why being a nice guy is not kindness, it is codependency wearing a good husband costume. Why the women in your life have been telling you what the problem is for years and you have not been hearing it. Why swinging to the opposite extreme after divorce creates a different kind of chaos. And why the moment your marriage ended, as devastating as it is, might actually be the most important invitation of your life. Ralph and Karen also get into the uncomfortable truth about what staying in an unhealthy marriage is actually teaching your children. The real reason divorced men struggle to build community the way women do. Why men jump into new relationships too fast and what it costs them. And what genuine transformation actually looks lik…","meta_description":"You've been the good guy. The reasonable husband. The dad who kept the peace. And somewhere along the way... you lost yourself. 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