Good Divorce Expert: How to Get Divorced Without Destroying Your Kids

If you're getting divorced, don't call a lawyer until you watch this…

Getting divorced without destroying your family is possible, and most people are never told about it.

In this episode of the Health Pioneers Podcast, Jim Rohr head of marketing at Healthpreneur, talks to Karen McNenny who explains why the divorce system is built for conflict and how families can take a completely different path.

Karen is a divorce consultant with 25 years of experience in corporate mediation and human behavior.

She is the host of The Good Divorce Show, founder of The Good Divorce Academy, and author of the book The Good Divorce: How to End Your Marriage Without Ending Your Family.

She guides couples from the day they decide to divorce through the final decree with less debt and less damage than the traditional process.

In this conversation, Karen shares why calling a lawyer should not be your first step.

She explains how to tell your kids, how to handle living arrangements, when to start dating, and how to keep your co-parenting relationship strong for years to come.

She also breaks down why most couples spend $20,000 to $30,000 per spouse on legal fees when her clients typically spend less than $5,000 total.

What we cover in this episode:

00:00 Why the divorce system is designed to hurt your family
02:13 Why lawyers are built for conflict not cooperation
05:25 How to protect your co-parenting relationship long term
06:30 How business consulting skills fix broken divorce processes
07:58 Why divorce is not covered under family medical leave
11:55 Warning signs your marriage is already over
16:00 The grief of divorce no one talks about
18:36 How to tell your kids about divorce the right way
22:36 Why you should not rush to tell the kids
25:35 When to start dating during a divorce
29:49 How to split assets without destroying each other
39:40 Why you should stop saying mom's house and dad's house
41:19 Best tips for kids transitioning between two homes
44:13 How to get divorced without expensive lawyers
49:37 Divorce is a tool of transformation not a weapon
50:23 What the Good Divorce Academy offers parents


Answered In This Episode:

Should I call a lawyer first when getting divorced?

How do you tell your kids about divorce?

What is a good divorce?


Find Karen McNinney:
Podcast: The Good Divorce Show
Book (2026): The Good Divorce, How to End Your Marriage Without Ending Your Family (Wiley Press)
Website: https://www.karenmcnenny.com/


Health Pioneers Podcast

If you’ve ever left a medical appointment feeling rushed, dismissed, or more confused than when you walked in, you’re not alone.

Health Pioneers is a podcast featuring clinicians and health practitioners who looked at the conventional system and decided to do things differently.

Each episode highlights a practitioner who stepped off the beaten path to build a better way of helping patients…one focused on root causes, deeper thinking, and care that actually makes sense.

These are thoughtful conversations about how great practitioners think, what they see that others miss, and why they chose a different path.

Health Pioneers is a Healthpreneur production hosted by Jim Rohr, our head of marketing at Healthpreneur.

Healthpreneur is on a mission to help the best health experts serve the most people, and Jim has spent the past 20 years as a practitioner, author, and advocate for root-cause medicine.