Wings of a Phoenix Podcast
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<p><strong>Wings of a Phoenix </strong>is the podcast for high-achieving women 40+ navigating life after divorce. Whether you have led in the boardroom, the non-profit sector, or within your own home and community, host Trena Briscoe Matthews helps you move through the chaos, reclaim your power, and intentionally design your next chapter — through the Phoenix Protocol framework.</p> <p><strong>Keywords: </strong> Divorce Recovery, Women Over 40, Life After Divorce, Women's Empowerment, Post-Divorce Coach, Divorce Recovery Coach.</p>
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June 25, 2026
What Your Ex Could Still Inherit: Legal & Financial Blind Spots After Divorce | Matt Meredith | Wings of a Phoenix
If you've been putting off updating your estate plan after divorce — this episode is your wake-up call. Attorney, CFP®, and tax strategist Matt Meredith of Meridian Legal Advisors joins host Trena Briscoe Matthews to break down the exact legal and financial moves divorced women need to make — and what's silently at risk when they don't. In this episode, you'll learn: Why your divorce decree does NOT mean your legal work is done The #1 estate planning mistake divorced women make (and it's not what you think) What happens to your business, beneficiaries, and assets if you become incapacitated The difference between tax accounting and tax strategy — and when strategy starts saving you money Why you should never give a 20-something an inheritance outright How to build a legal, financial, and tax team that actually works together ABOUT THE GUEST Matt Meredith is an attorney, CFP®, and tax strategist and the founder of Meridian Legal Advisors — a one-stop firm built to serve clients at the intersection of legal, financial, and tax planning. Matt specializes in estate planning, asset protection, and post-divorce financial strategy, helping clients close the legal and financial gaps that too often go unaddressed after a major life transition. He works with divorced women navigating the critical first years after separation, ensuring their estate plans, beneficiary designations, business documents, and tax strategies reflect their new reality — not their old life. Connect with Matt Meredith: 🌐 meridianlg.com 📧 matt@meridianlg.com ABOUT THE HOST Trena Briscoe Matthews is a coach, author, and host of the Wings of a Phoenix Podcast. After more than 20 years at the CIA — including 13 years in executive leadership — and nearly a decade at Cisco Systems — she turned one of the hardest chapters of her own life into her life's mission: helping high-achieving women rebuild with intention after divorce. She is the founder of Silverline Publishing, creator of the Phoenix Protocol — a four-pillar coaching framework for women ready to move from survival to design — and the author of Self-Love for Women and the forthcoming The Phoenix Path. Resources: 📌 Free Virtual Event — Starting Over Smart: The Financial Moves That Matter Most for Post-Divorce Women — June 30th. Register here → https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hRfHMMNbQxCdOr0H9wQR5Q#/registration 📋 Free Post-Divorce Financial Checklist: free.silverlinepublishing.cloud/checklist Wings of a Phoenix is hosted by Trena Briscoe Matthews — divorce recovery coach for high-achieving women 40+ ready to rebuild with intention. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode and leave a review — it helps more women find this show. #WingsOfAPhoenix #divorce #DivorceRecovery #EstatePlanningAfterDivorce #FinancialFreedomWomen #DivorceFinances #AssetProtection #TaxStrategy #PostDivorce #WomenAndMoney #HighAchievingWomen #DivorceCoach #EstatePlanning #MattMeredith #MeridianLegalAdvisors #TrenaBriscoeMatthews #WealthBuilding #DivorceLife #LegalAdvice #FinancialPlanning #CFP
June 19, 2026
She Turned Heartbreak Into Art: Nikki Allen on Love, Loss & Reclaiming Yourself
What happens when the relationship that costs you the most becomes the story you were always meant to tell? In this episode, I sit down with Nikki Allen — singer-songwriter, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and founder of The Empress Company and Lyrical Content Entertainment Group. Nikki is a woman who has turned every hard thing into art, and this conversation reflects exactly that. She opens up about losing her mother, finding herself deep in a relationship that cost her more than she expected, and how she transformed that pain into music, film, and her debut novel Loved You, Hated You. What struck me most was that even in the hard parts, Nikki never lost sight of who she was — and she made sure we talked about the healing, not just the heartbreak. We cover how grief shaped her early life and career, the story behind her novel, what it really means to be a soul-led woman, and the tools that helped her rebuild and build an empire on the other side of loss. This one is for every woman who has ever loved someone at the cost of herself — and is ready to come back to who she was before. 0:00 – Introduction & Episode Teaser 0:30 – Meet Nikki Allen: Singer, Filmmaker, Author & Founder 1:22 – Welcome to Wings of a Phoenix Podcast 2:33 – Who Was Nikki in Her 20s? Life Before the Relationship 3:55 – Moving to LA & Losing Her Mom — Her North Star Was Gone 5:05 – How the Toxic Relationship Started Slowly 6:46 – The Representative Has an Expiration Date 6:47 – From Song to Screenplay to Novel: Why Loved You, Hated You Needed to Be Written 9:42 – Identity Erosion: When Love Slowly Costs You Yourself 10:38 – The Spiritual Sign She Took as Confirmation 12:57 – Controlling Behaviors That Crept In Unnoticed 14:19 – Physical Abuse & Why She Stayed 16:07 – He Came After Her With a Gun 21:43 – People Only Treat You the Way You Allow: Doing the Inner Work 23:01 – Soul Surgery: Healing Childhood Trauma & Breaking Patterns 26:39 – Creative Expression as Healing: Song, Film & Fiction 29:39 – The Woman Still in It: Nikki's Message of Grace 32:01 – He's Still in Her Life Today — How Boundaries Changed Everything 32:30 – Where to Find Loved You, Hated You & Connect With Nikki 33:08 – Final Words & Call to Action from Trena Meet the Guest — Nikki Allen Nikki Allen is a multi-hyphenate artist, entrepreneur, and author whose life's work sits at the intersection of creativity, healing, and impact. As a singer-songwriter, filmmaker, and philanthropist, she has built a career dedicated to telling the stories that most people are afraid to say out loud. She is the founder of The Empress Company and Lyrical Content Entertainment Group, and the author of the debut novel Loved You, Hated You — a raw, unflinching look at love, loss, and the journey back to self. Connect with Nikki Allen: https://officialnikkiallen.com/ Meet the Host— Trena Briscoe Matthews Trena Briscoe Matthews is a coach, author, and host of the Wings of a Phoenix Podcast. After more than 20 years at the CIA — including 13 years in executive leadership — and nearly a decade at Cisco Systems — she turned one of the hardest chapters of her own life into her life's mission: helping high-achieving women rebuild with intention after divorce. She is the founder of Silverline Publishing, creator of the Phoenix Protocol — a four-pillar coaching framework for women ready to move from survival to design — and the author of Self-Love for Women and the forthcoming The Phoenix Path. 🔗 Connect with Trena: https://tcbriscoe.my.canva.site/ Subscribe to Wings of a Phoenix for new episodes every week. This is your season to rise. — Trena
May 25, 2026
One Hour a Week: How Kate Markland Turned a Court-Ordered Separation Into a Global Children’s Movement
What do you do when a court tells you that you get one hour a week with your child? Kate Markland didn’t fall apart. She asked her son Gabriel one question: “Do you want to be the hero of your own story?” That question built a world. Kate is a former physiotherapist, children’s author, award-winning innovator, and founder of StoryQuest™ — a storytelling methodology that has achieved 100% engagement among 465 children in 9 schools, with zero behavioral incidents, and has every single child become a published author. It has been presented to the British Psychological Society and considered by UNICEF. In this episode, Kate shares what her 20 years as a physiotherapist taught her about listening — not to symptoms, but to the story beneath them. She walks us through the night her son Gabriel was removed from her home by armed police, how she survived the darkest chapter of her life one small win at a time, and how one hour on FaceTime became a #1 Amazon bestselling children’s book series and a global movement connecting children across continents. This conversation is for every woman who has ever felt like someone else was writing her story — her divorce, her judge, her ex. Kate’s journey is proof that you are always the author. No matter what chapter you’re in. “You own your story. Nobody else owns your story.” — Kate Markland. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 — Hook: What do you do when a court limits you to one hour a week with your child? 1:00 — Welcome to Wings of a Phoenix 2:00 — Introducing Kate Markland 4:00 — 20 years as a physiotherapist: learning to hear what people carry, not just what’s broken 5:00 — Why the answer is always in someone’s story — and how to help them find it 10:00 — The night armed police removed Gabriel from their home — and a mother’s decision not to quit 12:00 — The court hearing that changed everything: “do or die.” 13:00 — When the system tried to silence her — and the moment she stopped negotiating 15:00 — One hour a week: what the court didn’t realize it handed her 17:00 — “Shall we make up a story where you’re the hero?” — one question on FaceTime 18:00 — Writing their story week by week, like Dickens 20:00 — From a Word document on a messy desktop to a #1 Amazon bestseller 22:00 — Helen Fielding at Cheltenham, and the moment Kate realized she had something real 23:00 — How 20 years of physiotherapy became a literacy methodology: the StoryQuest™ process explained 26:00 — What the stories gave Gabriel — and what they gave Kate 30:00 — The phoenix quest in the books — and what Kate has had to become 31:00 — “Use all your skills, Mum” — rowing, endurance, and Gabriel’s advice 33:00 — Becoming a whistleblower — researching the system that failed her 34:00 — Finding gratitude in the darkest place — and trusting Gabriel when she couldn’t protect him 38:00 — Stories Without Borders: one question to one little boy now connects children from Bradford to Lahore to Buenos Aires 40:00 — Kate’s message to women who feel their story was written by someone else + Trena’s closing FEATURED GUEST: KATE MARKLAND Kate Markland is a former physiotherapist, children’s author, and advocate for every child’s right to tell their own story. She is the creator of StoryQuest™ — a storytelling methodology that has achieved 100% engagement across 465 children in nine schools, turning every reluctant, resistant, or disengaged learner into a published author. When Kate faced a court-ordered separation from her son Gabriel, she transformed their weekly hour together into a collaborative storytelling adventure — one that became a #1 bestselling children’s book series before Gabriel turned twelve. That same insight — that healing begins with being heard — became the foundation of StoryQuest™. The methodology has been presented to the British Psychological Society, considered by UNICEF, and covered by BBC News, Times Radio, and publications across four continents. Kate received the PhysioTimes Women in Leadership Award in 2026, a
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- What is Wings of a Phoenix Podcast?
<p><strong>Wings of a Phoenix </strong>is the podcast for high-achieving women 40+ navigating life after divorce. Whether you have led in the boardroom, the non-profit sector, or within your own home and community, host Trena Briscoe Matthews helps you move through the chaos, reclaim your power, and intentionally design your next chapter — through the Phoenix Protocol framework.</p> <p><strong>Keywords: </strong> Divorce Recovery, Women Over 40, Life After Divorce, Women's Empowerment, Post-Divorce Coach, Divorce Recovery Coach.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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