Better Because of Divorce
Your divorce didn't break you—it cracked you open. Now what?
Most divorced women spend years stuck in the messy middle—not quite healed, not quite whole, wondering if they'll ever feel like themselves again. They're tired of the emotional rollercoaster, exhausted from trying to do it all alone, and secretly terrified they've already lived their best years.
But what if your divorce wasn't the end of your story? What if it was the beginning of the most authentic, powerful version of yourself you've ever known?
Join Julie Steed—certified life coach, divorced empty nester, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood—as she helps women transform their greatest heartbreak into their most beautiful breakthrough. Each week, Julie delivers raw, real conversations about the emotional, physical, and practical realities of rebuilding after divorce, along with proven strategies to help you reclaim your identity, reimagine your future, and create a life you don't just survive—but absolutely love.
This isn't about getting over your divorce. It's about getting better because of it.
Because the woman you're becoming? She's worth fighting for.
Episodes
91 episodes
Ep 89: You Are Free to Choose After Divorce and Empty Nest
Do you ever feel like your life is something you're surviving instead of choosing? Like you're handling everything, showing up, getting through the days and still somehow feel completely trapped?There's a reason for that. Mos...
🔥 Episode 88: What Healing After Divorce Actually Looks Like Inside the FIERCE Sisterhood
This episode is for the woman who is still in the thick of it.The one who cries in the car. The one who isn't sleeping. The one who is scared of what comes next and doesn't quite recognize her own life anymore. But also, the one who, und...
Episode 87: The Four Words Costing You More Than Money After Divorce and Empty Nest
"I can't afford it." Four little words that sound completely reasonable. Four words nobody ever pushes back on. Four words that end the conversation every single time.And sometimes they're simply true. But a lot of the time, those four w...
🔥 Episode 86: Stop Healing and Start Living: The Trap Keeping You Stuck After Divorce
You're doing everything right. Therapy. Journaling. Talking it out with friends who understand. You are healing, and you have been for a long time.So why do you still feel stuck?In this episode of Better Because of Divorce, host a...
🔥 Episode 85: Stop Reacting and Start Building: How to Take Control of Your Life After Divorce
For decades, I reacted to my life. I thought I had a temper. I thought that was just who I was.The truth was harder and simpler than that. I had never learned how to manage or process my emotions. And everyone around me lived inside the ...
🔥 Episode 84: Divorce Didn't Destroy Your Self Confidence, This Did
So many women tell me that one of the biggest hurdles after divorce is the loss of self confidence. The inability to trust themselves. The feeling that the woman they used to be — capable, certain, grounded — somehow disappeared along with the ...
🔥 Episode 83: Dirty Fuel - Are You Building Your New Life for You or for Them?
After divorce, something powerful happens. Women get moving. They lose weight, start businesses, start dating, build something new. The results are real. The progress is real. The accomplishments are genuinely theirs.But sometimes the fu...
🔥 Episode 82: When Ok is Not Ok: Why Strong Women Get Stuck After Divorce
Strong independent women are really good at okay.And from the outside, okay looks like enough, but it's really survival mode in disguise.In this episode of Better Because of Divorce, host and certified divorce life coach Julie Ste...
🔥 Episode 81: Three Questions That Will Help You Meet Yourself After Divorce
After divorce, staying busy feels like strength. A full schedule, a packed calendar, falling into bed exhausted every night. It looks like resilience. It looks like keeping it together.But busyness is one of the most socially acceptable ...
🔥 Episode 80: The Real Reason You Aren't Moving Forward After Divorce & Empty Nest
If you've been divorced for a while and you're still stuck in the same patterns, still talking yourself out of the same decisions, still waiting for the right moment to finally move forward, this episode is for you.The reason you're not ...
🔥 Episode 79: Show Up Anyway: How to Navigate Your Ex and His New Partner at Family Events After Divorce
One of the hardest situations divorced women face is showing up to a family event — a wedding, a graduation, a birthday party — when your ex is going to be there with his new girlfriend, fiancée or wife. The anxiety starts before you even walk ...
🔥 Episode 78: Financial Recovery After Divorce: How to Take Control of Your Money with Dr. Barb Provost of Purse Strings
If you're going through a divorce or recently divorced and feeling overwhelmed, lost, or ashamed about your finances, this episode is for you.Julie sits down with Dr. Barb Provost, founder of Purse Strings, to talk about financial recove...
🔥 Episode 77: What If? The Question That Changes Everything When You're Rebuilding After Divorce
What if the life you actually want is still available to you?Not the life you had before. Not a consolation prize version of it. The real thing. The relationship.The financial freedom.The trips, the work that excites you, t...
🔥 Episode 76: Why Playing Isn't Optional When You're Rebuilding After Divorce
What if one of the most powerful tools for healing after divorce wasn't therapy o or journaling or another self-help book?What if it was play?In this episode I'm talking about something that disappears almost immediately when divo...
🔥 Episode 75 - The New Rules of Dating After Divorce & Empty Nest
Are you dating after divorce and empty nest and wondering why it feels so hard?Most women who are ready to date again after divorce are still playing by the old rules. Wait to be chosen. Hope he likes you.
🔥 Episode 74: Three Signs You're Ready To Rebuild After Divorce
I talk to a lot of women who want to "wait until they're ready" to move forward after divorce.What they don't see is that being "ready" isn't a message that drops from the sky. Instead, it shows up in subtle ways - ways that are easily i...
🔥 Episode 73: The Hidden Cost of Being Strong After Divorce
The Hidden Cost of Being Strong After DivorceAre you stuck after divorce even though you're doing everything right?The strength and independence that carried you through the hardest season of your life might be the very thi...
🔥 Episode 72: Money After Divorce: How to Make It Feel Less Overwhelming
What if the way you feel about money right now isn't permanent? Not fixed. Not fate. Not just the way it is because of your divorce.If you've been stuck in financial scarcity thinking after divorce, this episode is going to shift somethi...
🔥 Episode 71: Taking Back Control of Your Money After Divorce
Divorce doesn't just divide your assets. It destroys the system and when that system collapses, your brain doesn't register it as an inconvenience. It registers it as a threat to your survival.If you're struggling with financial anxiety ...
🔥 Episode 70: The Grief Nobody Talks About After Divorce: Grieving the Family You Still Love
When I asked women in my online community what divorce stole from them more than anything else, the overwhelming majority of women said: my family.If you're navigating grief after divorce, the loss of your family unit, your sense ...
🔥 Episode 69: Building Safety and Self-Trust with Ali Ryan, Sisterhood Coach
Do you feel like you're in an identity free-fall after divorce? If so, you want to hear this episode where Julie introduces Ali Ryan, the newest member of Team FIERCE. Ali is an integrative coach and yoga teacher who specializes in ...
🔥 Episode 68: Dating After Divorce with Guest Dating Coach Sade Curry
When is the right time to date after divorce? How do you navigate online dating apps? How do you date safely? In this episode, Julie sits down with Sade Curry, a life Coach for Divorced Women and host of the Extraordinary L...
🔥 Episode 67: You're Not Going Backwards - You're Spiraling Upward
You're doing well, making progress - and then a trigger hits and the pain floods back. You think: "I'm going backwards. I'm failing. I haven't healed at all."But what if you're not sliding backwards - you're spiraling upward.Julie...