Deep Chats Podcast

We are loving this deep and insightful conversation we had on this episode with Ben Heldfond. Ben and his ex-wife have cultivated the type of post-divorce family that many people do not believe to be possible. After chatting with Nikki last week, we couldn’t wait to talk with Ben. Although it hasn’t been easy, Ben shares vulnerably about how he was able to take an honest look at himself, become the man he aspired to be, and join together with Nikki to do the work it takes to put their son first always.

Ben Heldfond understands the detriment divorce can cause in the lives of children, as his parents’ divorce instilled a deep commitment to do better for his children one day. As Co-Founder of Our Happy Divorce, a service that offers guidance on creating a post-divorce happy, modern family and Author of "Our Happy Divorce - How Ending Our Marriage Brought Us Together,” Heldfond has made it his mission to help families during the turmoil divorce can become.

In this episode we discussed:

• How Ben was able to pivot from anger and conflict to peace and cohesiveness during the divorce process.
• The importance of cleaning up the wreckage of past relationships.
• What growing up amidst a high conflict divorce felt like for him.
• Inspiring men to have the courage to be vulnerable.
• What it really means to put children first in a divorce.
• Singleness of purpose.

Book: Our Happy Divorce: How Ending our Divorce Brought Us Together

https://ourhappydivorce.com/

Instagram: @ourhappydivorce

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About Leah & Jenn

Leah Morris is a Life & Relationship Transition Coach, founder of Life Remade, published writer, and motivational speaker... She helps people to authentically process their feelings, thoughts, and emotions in order to give them a deeper understanding of themselves and others.

Using a range of modalities including art, coaching, guided visualization, and even her own story and experience of marriage, divorce, and finding herself again - Leah specializes in helping you gain a solid sense of Self Worth, develop unshakable Confidence, and heal after emotional Heartbreak. The biggest lesson she's learned in life thus far is that "there is no greater place to begin putting your life together than when it's been broken apart.

Connect with Leah at www.LifeRemade.com or on Instagram @leahemorris

Jennifer Butler is a Love and Transformation Coach who is dedicated to helping women fall deeply in love with themselves and awaken to their own internal power to create joy, love, and freedom in their lives. Working with women in three areas: Conscious Uncoupling, Calling in “The One,” & Self-Discovery, Jennifer teaches clients to identify and transform internal obstacles and expand their capacity to love and be loved.

Jennifer received her Masters in Clinical Social Work from New York University in 2002. After working as a trauma social worker in the hospital system, she took time off to become a mom and write a book. Jennifer authored Excerpts from the Heart of a Mom, inviting readers into her personal life and parenting journey, and sharing fundamental insights to a conscious approach to parenting. She also began “Live Through the Heart,” a blog that inspires readers to live more consciously in their daily lives.

Connect with Jennifer at www.jennjoycoaching.com or on Instagram @jennjoycoaching

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We are extremely inspired by the deep chat we had on this episode with Nikki DeBartolo. She and her ex-husband have cultivated the type of post-divorce family that many people do not believe to be possible. Although it hasn’t been easy, Nikki very honestly shares about the journey that she’s been on and how the life she has now is one that she wouldn’t trade for the world.

Nikki DeBartolo understands the impact of a loving family and how it creates a solid foundation for the future for a person navigating through life, love, marriage, and motherhood. As Co-Founder of Our Happy Divorce, a service that offers guidance on creating a post-divorce happy, modern family and Author of "Our Happy Divorce - How Ending Our Marriage Brought Us Together, DeBartolo has made it her mission to help families in every way possible.

In this episode we discussed:

• The newer/better dream that happens after divorce
• How putting the child at the center of the journey makes all the difference
• Children are extremely aware during these experiences... more than we give them credit for
• The baby steps that needed to be taken in order to get to where she is now
• Both parties need to be interested in a common goal

Book: Our Happy Divorce: How Ending our Divorce Brought Us Together

https://ourhappydivorce.com/

Instagram: @ourhappydivorce

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About Leah & Jenn

Leah Morris is a Life & Relationship Transition Coach, founder of Life Remade, published writer, and motivational speaker... She helps people to authentically process their feelings, thoughts, and emotions in order to give them a deeper understanding of themselves and others.

Using a range of modalities including art, coaching, guided visualization, and even her own story and experience of marriage, divorce, and finding herself again - Leah specializes in helping you gain a solid sense of Self Worth, develop unshakable Confidence, and heal after emotional Heartbreak. The biggest lesson she's learned in life thus far is that "there is no greater place to begin putting your life together than when it's been broken apart.

Connect with Leah at www.LifeRemade.com or on Instagram @leahemorris

Jennifer Butler is a Love and Transformation Coach who is dedicated to helping women fall deeply in love with themselves and awaken to their own internal power to create joy, love, and freedom in their lives. Working with women in three areas: Conscious Uncoupling, Calling in “The One,” & Self-Discovery, Jennifer teaches clients to identify and transform internal obstacles and expand their capacity to love and be loved.

Jennifer received her Masters in Clinical Social Work from New York University in 2002. After working as a trauma social worker in the hospital system, she took time off to become a mom and write a book. Jennifer authored Excerpts from the Heart of a Mom, inviting readers into her personal life and parenting journey, and sharing fundamental insights to a conscious approach to parenting. She also began “Live Through the Heart,” a blog that inspires readers to live more consciously in their daily lives.

Connect with Jennifer at www.jennjoycoaching.com or on Instagram @jennjoycoaching

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We are in the midst of a civil rights movement that is spanning the globe sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and the long list of people of color who have been murdered and lynched for too many years to count.

It is imperative that we be in conversation and lean into any of the discomforts being felt. It is essential that we learn how to own our white privilege and use our voices to create a country where once and for all, every human is equal under the law. Leah and Jenn have a deep and heartfelt conversation about ending white silence, owning white privilege, and standing for black lives matter.

#endwhitesilence

#blacklivesmatter

#whitesilenceisviolence

#amplifymelanatedvoices

In this episode we discussed:

• Each person needs to start learning and contributing from wherever they are.
• The importance of not shaming one another.
• Learning the truth about black history and the black experience in America.
• Leaning into the difficult and uncomfortable conversations.
• Allowing the discomfort to guide you toward healing yourself.
• Talking to children about racism.
• Be vigilant in finding your own narrative.

Resources:

Watch:

13th (Netflix)

Resurrecting Black Wall Street

The Hate You Give

Malcolm X

Selma

Read:

Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell

Get Active:

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) - https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/

8 Can’t Wait - https://8cantwait.org/

Black Lives Matter - https://blacklivesmatter.com/

Grassroots Law Project - https://www.grassrootslaw.org/

NAACP - https://www.naacp.org/

The Obama Foundation - https://www.obama.org/

American Civil Liberties Union - https://www.aclu.org/

Follow:

@shaunking

@blklivesmatter

@jessicawilson.msrd

@blackandembodied

@mnfreedomfund

@aclu_nationwide

@tamikamallory

@rachel.cargle

@showingupforracialjustice

@leemerrittesq

@sistersong_WOC

@unitedwedream

@antiracismctr

Donate:

www.reclaimtheblock.com

www.knowyourrightscamp.com

www.minnesotafreedomfund.org

www.grassrootslaw.org

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In 2008, Lisa Baker Morgan, a thirty-eight-year-old, newly divorced mother, unexpectedly found herself staring down death in a Monaco hospital, nine time zones away from her two young daughters in Los Angeles. After facing mortality and surviving, her life took on a sense of urgency to experience and accomplish all of the things she had ever wanted for herself and her daughters. Top of her list: a life-long desire to live in Paris. The seemingly indulgent and even "crazy" aspiration was part of a journey that set her on the path of recovery of health and of spirit.

In this Deep Chats episode, we get to hear about Lisa’s incredible journey and how it has shaped her life as a result. Beyond inspiring, and yet incredibly humble, this is a conversation that we know will touch you all.

In this episode we discussed:

• How to BE the future that you want.
• Letting go of what you think is supposed to happen.
• Life defies categorization.
• Impermanence and the lessons it teaches us.
• Choosing to dwell on negative versus finding the opportunity.
• Seeing the world through gratitude and presence.

Connect with Lisa

www.chefmorgan.com

IG: @chefmorgan

Lisa's book Paris, Part Time

About Lisa

The first of her family to attend college, Lisa Baker Morgan graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in English Literature. She obtained her Juris Doctorate from Southwestern Law School and her culinary degree from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts. Morgan is the co-author of Homegrown Herb Garden (Quarry, 2014) and the author of Simple Pleasures: Fifty-two weeks of turning ordinary ingredients into extraordinary moments (ciao yummy!, 2012). Morgan has given cooking classes at Chateau Bosgouet in Normandy and worked alongside Chef Bruno Doucet, owner of Paris's La Regalade. She is also the author of a travel and food blog, www.chefmorgan.com, and has written numerous guest articles for food websites and blogs. She was featured in The Mothers of Reinvention (Vanguard Press, 2012) as a mother who faced change in a positive way. In addition to her writing and cooking endeavors, Morgan has taken on humanitarian and philanthropic causes in the United States and internationally, including advocacy on behalf of adults and children who have endured childhood sexual assault and trauma. Her newest book, Paris, Part Time, is out June 1st. She divides her time between Paris and Los Angeles

Stay in Touch

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About Leah & Jenn

Leah Morris is a Life & Relationship Transition Coach, founder of Life Remade, published writer, and motivational speaker... She helps people to authentically process their feelings, thoughts, and emotions in order to give them a deeper understanding of themselves and others.

Using a range of modalities including art, coaching, guided visualization, and even her own story and experience of marriage, divorce, and finding herself again - Leah specializes in helping you gain a solid sense of Self Worth, develop unshakable Confidence, and heal after emotional Heartbreak. The biggest lesson she's learned in life thus far is that "there is no greater place to begin putting your life together than when it's been broken apart.

Connect with Leah at www.LifeRemade.com or on Instagram @leahemorris

Jennifer Butler is a Love and Transformation Coach who is dedicated to helping women fall deeply in love with themselves and awaken to their own internal power to create joy, love, and freedom in their lives. Working with women in three areas: Conscious Uncoupling, Calling in “The One,” & Self-Discovery, Jennifer teaches clients to identify and transform internal obstacles and expand their capacity to love and be loved.

Jennifer received her Masters in Clinical Social Work from New York University in 2002. After working as a trauma social worker in the hospital system, she took time off to become a mom and write a book. Jennifer authored Excerpts from the Heart of a Mom, inviting readers into her personal life and parenting journey, and sharing fundamental insights to a conscious approach to parenting. She also began “Live Through the Heart,” a blog that inspires readers to live more consciously in their da...

Wendy Sterling is a living example of what it means to turn your pain into your superpower. After a powerful moment that she says “woke her up,” Wendy learned how to listen to herself and allow her intuition to lead the way. Within a year, she divorced, left her career and began a new one, and is living her best life.

This episode is packed with powerful tips from Wendy about how to learn the voice of your intuition, how to stay energized, and what is possible. Wendy also discusses her upcoming Beyond Divorce Summit that is free to all who register and is packed with a lineup of experts sharing about how to disconnect, set boundaries, and move forward even during the pandemic.

This is an episode you will not want to miss!

Registration for the Beyond Divorce Summit opens on May 26th and is FREE. You must register to get access to all the interviews each day throughout the summit.

In this episode we discussed:

• Wendy’s powerful 5 Step Divorce Rehab method and how it was created.
• How Wendy learned how to use her voice after a lifetime of silencing herself.
• Why following your intuition is an absolute must!
• How to make the distinction between the voice of your intuition and the voice of your inner critic.
• Why values work is so important.
• The Power of the Pause!
• How being in integrity fuels your passion.

Connect with Wendy:

The Beyond Divorce Summit registration page link is: https://www.wendysterling.net/beyond-divorce

IG: @divorcerehabwithwendy

Website: www.WendySterling.net

Stay in Touch:

Website

Instagram @deepchatspodcast

Watch our interviews recorded live on YouTube

About Leah & Jenn

Leah Morris is a Life & Relationship Transition Coach, founder of Life Remade, published writer, and motivational speaker... She helps people to authentically process their feelings, thoughts, and emotions in order to give them a deeper understanding of themselves and others.

Using a range of modalities including art, coaching, guided visualization, and even her own story and experience of marriage, divorce, and finding herself again - Leah specializes in helping you gain a solid sense of Self Worth, develop unshakable Confidence, and heal after emotional Heartbreak. The biggest lesson she's learned in life thus far is that "there is no greater place to begin putting your life together than when it's been broken apart.

Connect with Leah at www.LifeRemade.com or on Instagram @leahemorris

Jennifer Butler is a Love and Transformation Coach who is dedicated to helping women fall deeply in love with themselves and awaken to their own internal power to create joy, love, and freedom in their lives. Working with women in three areas: Conscious Uncoupling, Calling in “The One,” & Self-Discovery, Jennifer teaches clients to identify and transform internal obstacles and expand their capacity to love and be loved.

Jennifer received her Masters in Clinical Social Work from New York University in 2002. After working as a trauma social worker in the hospital system, she took time off to become a mom and write a book. Jennifer authored Excerpts from the Heart of a Mom, inviting readers into her personal life and parenting journey, and sharing fundamental insights to a conscious approach to parenting. She also began “Live Through the Heart,” a blog that inspires readers to live more consciously in their daily lives.

Connect with Jennifer at www.jennjoycoaching.com or on Instagram @jennjoycoaching

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