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Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating

Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating

Tracy Schorn, Sarah Gorrell

Real talk about cheating, delivered by friends who get it. Your hosts are Tracy Schorn, aka Chump Lady who runs the advice site ChumpLady.com, and Sarah Gorrell, a BBC radio journalist and mighty single mum of four. We talk with resilient people who survived infidelity and to experts about cheaters, relationships, parenting, and, of course, mightiness. Sarah brings the dulcet tones. Tracy brings the snark. New episodes every week.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating - 34. Ask Chump Lady Anything

34. Ask Chump Lady Anything

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03/19/24 • 26 min

Ever wonder about the life of an infidelity advice columnist? This episode is an Ask Chump Lady Anything where Tracy Schorn takes your questions. How often do mistresses contact you? How soon do you tell someone you're dating you were once cheated on? Is too much chemistry a red flag?

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Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating - 27. Spiritual Abuse and Infidelity: An Interview with David Derksen, the Divorce Minister
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01/30/24 • 42 min

It's hard to be cheated on. It's even harder when your faith community blames you for it or thinks divorce is a bigger sin than the cheating. In this episode, Sarah and Tracy talk with Rev. David Derksen, a prison chaplain, Yale Divinity school graduate, and creator of the DivorceMinister.com blog that helps victims of infidelity navigate spiritual abuse.

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Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating - 20. How to Prepare for a High-Conflict Divorce: An Interview with Regina DeMeo
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11/28/23 • 32 min

How do you know if you can mediate a divorce, or if you're dealing with a high-conflict individual and it's going to court? Tracy talks with family law attorney Regina DeMeo about all things messy divorce: custody, litigation abuse, and infidelity. This is an earlier recording, broadcast for a special edition of Tell Me How You're Mighty.

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Our guest Jenny Ball had four kids under 10 when her husband walked out for his affair partner and then later quit his job. At one point, she was owed $40K in back support. Jenny sold stuff on eBay to survive, had her house foreclosed upon, filed for bankruptcy and needed food banks to feed her children -- experiences that inspired her to create a support community for other single moms -- The Happy HausFrau Porch.

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Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating - 18. Open Marriage, an Esther Perel 'Gift', and GPS Tracking a Cheater

18. Open Marriage, an Esther Perel 'Gift', and GPS Tracking a Cheater

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11/14/23 • 32 min

Sarah and Tracy react to three FW of the Week submissions -- a woman whose husband suggested a "quad" with his current affair partner; an unwanted gifted Esther Perel book; and a Texan who GPSed her husband's car and broadcast the discoveries.

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Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating - 21. Abandoned Wives and Runaway Husbands: An Interview with Therapist Vikki Stark
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12/05/23 • 54 min

After 21 years of marriage, one day therapist Vikki Stark's husband walked out on her. Unbeknownst to her, he'd been having an affair for six years. She thought they were happily married. The experience changed her life and her therapy practice. "He inadvertently gave me a gift. When I scraped myself up off the floor, I knew I had to help other women pick up the pieces and rebuild a better life and that has been my mission ever since!"

Sarah and Tracy ask Vikki about recovering from abandonment, her book, Runaway Husbands, and Vikki weighs in on the FW of the Week.

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Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating - 23. Cheaters with Dark Triad Personality Disorders: An Interview with Sandra Brown
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12/19/23 • 47 min

Sandra Brown is a pioneering therapist in narcissistic abuse recovery and the author of 12 books related to pathological love relationships. She talks to Sarah and Tracy about how to recognize dark triad personalities and why such people make dangerous partners. Her advice: it's a fool's errand to do therapy with abusers -- they don't change. But you can.

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Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating - 9. Don't Get Mad, Build an Organization

9. Don't Get Mad, Build an Organization

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08/25/23 • 36 min

After Christina Pavlina went through her own divorce, she helped create a nonprofit to make it easier for women to navigate the process. Pavlina is the cofounder and the executive director of Jane Does Well, a national outreach organization. Beyond social meet-ups, single mom support groups, yoga, and divorce education workshops, Jane Does Well also advocates for legislation and changes to make the family courts more accessible and fair to women. Mighty!
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Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating - 13. Infidelity, Divorce, and Cancer: The Suck Trifecta

13. Infidelity, Divorce, and Cancer: The Suck Trifecta

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10/10/23 • 38 min

Tracy and Sarah speak with Martina, a woman who divorced her cheating husband, gained a life -- only to receive a terminal cancer diagnosis a few months later. She's still here. Solo parenting her teenagers, riding horses, having adventures, and crossing many things off her bucket list. It's an emotional conversation about abandonment -- and getting your life back -- however long that is.

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Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating - 43. Sarah's Take on the Ashley Madison Netflix Documentary

43. Sarah's Take on the Ashley Madison Netflix Documentary

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06/11/24 • 38 min

Following up from last week's episode, Sarah weighs in on her observations (and revulsions) on the Ashley Madison Neflix series. Is it possible this many serial cheaters exist? Does that guy in the pink flamingo shirt sunning himself by the poolside have any conscience? Is Noel Biderman's wife a chump or an accomplice? It's a deep vein of snark and commentary.

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How many episodes does Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating have?

Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating currently has 65 episodes available.

What topics does Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating cover?

The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Podcasts, Relationships and Sexuality.

What is the most popular episode on Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating?

The episode title '34. Ask Chump Lady Anything' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating?

The average episode length on Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating is 38 minutes.

How often are episodes of Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating released?

Episodes of Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating?

The first episode of Tell Me How You're Mighty: Real Talk About Cheating was released on Jun 20, 2023.

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