Dirty Laundry: The Divorce Podcast

About Dirty Laundry: The Divorce Podcast

Honest, expert-backed conversations about divorce, co-parenting, and moving forward. Hosted by professional mediators Alex Howard and Amanda Silver, Dirty Laundry dives into the real questions women ask when navigating separation, custody battles, toxic relationships, and dating again. This is your safe space to learn, reflect, and take back control — no shame, no sugarcoating. ✨ New episodes weekly. 🧺 It’s time to air it all out.

Publisher

Alex Howard, Amanda Silver, RTF Productions

Category

education · kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

3 Feb 2023

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

163 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Why Victims Don’t Report: Kathryn Marshall on Cornell, Hockey Canada and Court Delays

   Send us Fan Mail The Cornell 7 case got national attention only after the woman at the centre of it filed a civil lawsuit, about two years after the alleged assault. Kathryn Marshall is an employment and human rights lawyer at Marshall Law who represents survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence. She joins divorce mediators Alex Howard and Amanda Silver to talk about why cases like Cornell and Hockey Canada often only become public through civil lawsuits. Kathryn is suing th...

2. 

   8 Oct 2026

   S5 E1 Is 50/50 Custody Fair? Parallel Parenting vs Co-Parenting and More Divorce Myths

   Send us Fan Mail Is 50/50 custody really fair? Should you co-parent or parallel parent? In the Season 5 premiere, divorce mediators Alex Howard and Amanda Silver share the divorce myths they believed when they started, and why hundreds of cases changed their minds. Why a 50/50 default can shortchange kids when one parent carried the load, why the conflict often changes instead of ending after divorce, why you don't need cheating or abuse to leave, and why Alex now starts from parallel parent...

3. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Encore: Break the Attack-Defend Loop — How Insight Mediation Is Changing the Way Families Divorce

   Send us Fan Mail Mary Anne Popescu is the Executive Director of the Ontario Association for Family Mediation and a practicing family mediator of over two decades. In this encore episode, she introduces the concept that changed both her practice and her own marriage: the attack-defend loop, and how naming it in real time can stop a conversation from spiraling. She and Alex and Amanda dig into insight mediation, why she prefers the phrase "families experiencing high conflict behavior" over the ...

Who has been a guest on Dirty Laundry: The Divorce Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Christie
• Chantal Landreville
• Mary-Anne Popescu
• Dr Melissa Hershberg
• Danielle

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

2.3 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

20 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

69

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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