The Divorce Planner

About The Divorce Planner

The Divorce Planner Podcast is your essential guide to divorce preparation and navigating one of life's hardest transitions with clarity and confidence. Built around the four pillars of divorce preparation—emotional, financial, administrative, and practical—each episode gives you actionable strategies for gathering documents, understanding your finances, negotiating well, and reframing this transition as an opportunity to create your best next chapter. Host and divorce prep coach Alex Beattie talks with top attorneys, mediators, financial experts, therapists, and coaches, and shares her own coaching frameworks along the way. Whether you're thinking about divorce or already in the process, this podcast helps you become your own best advocate. Divorce is hard. Preparing for one doesn't have to be.

Publisher

Alex Beattie | The Divorce Planner

Category

education · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Dec 2025

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

38 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   Business Valuation in Divorce: What to Know When Your Spouse Owns a Business with Matt Springer

   If your spouse owns a business, or holds complex assets like stock options, how to value and divide these assets is one of the most important and most challenging parts of divorce. Figuring out what those assets are actually worth can be tricky, and getting it wrong can cost you significantly. In today's episode, I'm sitting down with Matt Springer, a business valuation expert with nearly two decades of experience in valuation and litigation support, to break down what really happens when a b...

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Financial Red Flags in Marriage That Become Landmines in Divorce with Jackie Combs

   Financial abuse is more common than you think. Red flags can show up in how you're frozen out from account access, having to ask for spending money on basics like groceries and gas, and being told "you don't have to worry about that" when you ask any financial questions. These are all signs of a financial power imbalance, and they lead to major issues during divorce. In today's episode, I'm sitting down with Jackie Combs, a California family law attorney, advocate for women's financial ...

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Why Expecting Your Spouse to Change During Divorce Is Keeping You Stuck, And What to Do Instead

   The most damaging mistake I see people make during divorce isn't a legal or financial one. It's expecting their spouse to suddenly behave differently than they always have. And every time they don't, the shock and fury pulls you back into the same loop — one that can outlast your marriage by decades if you don't address it now. In this episode I'm sharing the concept of radical acceptance, specifically what it actually is, what it isn't, and why it's the only thing that genuinely gets you out...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

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