

Nationally acclaimed family law attorney, mediator and award-winning podcaster, Susan Guthrie is the voice you can trust on your divorce journey. After guiding countless numbers of people through the perilous world of divorce for almost 35 years, and speaking to a podcast audience of over 5 million listeners, Susan brings you the top-rated The Divorce & Beyond® Podcast, ranked in the top 1% of the more than 3.5 million podcasts in the world, to help you successfully navigate the choppy waters of divorce so you can sail into your beautiful BEYOND.
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Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Fresh off her visits with Good Morning America and The Today Show (among others), America's Favorite Dating Expert, Bela Gandhi, stops in to chat with Susan Guthrie about the very human drama of falling in love with the wrong person and how we can "fix our picker" to find a lasting love.
We have talked about the fact that Peak Dating Season is ongoing in January each year but for many people all that dating leads to making poor choices in partners, sometimes over and over again. In fact, although we may think that we would select better spouses after going through a divorce, in reality, with each subsequent marriage, the chances of divorce greatly increase. The numbers break down like this:
- 41% of first marriages end in divorce.
- 60% of second marriages end in divorce.
- 73% of third marriages end in divorce.
So why do we continue to make poor choices in mates and much more importantly, HOW DO WE FIX OUR PICKER?
Bela Gandhi, the Founder of Smart Dating Academy knows and she shares it ALL. The red flags vs. the green flags and why we ignore them both. The fact that we are hard-wired for the hormone rush but that oxytocin glow can derail our real desires, and bottom line, how to identify the elevator people in your life so that you can find the right one for your love life!
It's all here and trust us, when you are done listening to this episode, you WILL be psychotically optimistic about your chances of find real and lasting love too!
To hear more about the elevator people in our lives check out Bela's recent phenomenal TEDx Chicago Talk and listen to her BRAND NEW PODCAST! Smart Dating Academy: The Podcast with Bela Gandhi. Susan is Bela's first guest: Listen to the episode here: https://audioboom.com/posts/8006156
Find out more about Bela and Smart Dating Academy at www.smartdatingacademy.com
More About Bela:
Bela Gandhi is the Founder of the Smart Dating Academy. She has an uncanny sixth sense about people, and what they need. Her intuition has been responsible for several marriages (and children)! The Huffington Post and Steve Harvey call her "The Fairy Godmother of Dating!"
Bela has been connecting people all of her life. Prior to founding the Smart Dating Academy, Bela worked for 12 years as a top global executive for Akzo Nobel, a large multinational corporation. Bela has two degrees from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Finance & German), and has been happily married for 20 years with 2 children.
You can find out more about Bela, her date coaching services and her FREE GIFT the 7 Clues You are in a Relationship with a Narcissist Quiz at www.smartdatingacademy.com.
Follow Bela on Instagram @smartdatingacademy and be sure to join her on Thursday nights at 7pm ET for her famous Instagram Lives!
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MEET OUR CREATOR AND HOST:
SUSAN GUTHRIE®, ESQ., the creator and host of The Divorce and Beyond® Podcast, is nationally recognized as one of the top family law and divorce mediation attorneys in the country. Susan is a member of the Executive Council of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and is the Founder of Divorce in a Better Way® which provides a curated selection of resources and information for those facing divorce and other life changes.
Internationally renowned as one of the leading experts in online mediation, Susan created her Learn to Mediate Online® program and has trained more than 20,000 professionals in how to transition their practice online. Susan recently partnered with legal and mediation legend, Forrest "Woody" Mosten to create the Mosten Guthrie Academy which provides gold standard, fully online training for mediation and collaborative professionals at all stages of their career.
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New Year | New Look | Same Great Content!
Welcome to 2022 Listeners and in honor of the New Year I am so excited to launch a brand new, fresh look for the podcast! I also have some new and exciting features for listeners like the Monthly Headline Roundup Episode that will air each month with insights taken from the divorce cases in the headlines! First Headline episode coming soon!
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