How to Split a Toaster
A Divorce Podcast about Saving Your Relationships
Seth Nelson is a Tampa-based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems. In How to Split a Toaster, Nelson and co-host Pete Wright take on the challenge of divorce with a central objective: saving your most important relationships with your family, your former spouse, and yourself.
From an early age, he has always wanted to help people. After law school he found that he could do the greatest good by helping people through one of the most difficult times of their lives. Being a divorcee himself, as well as a father, he understands what you’re going through.
“I have been through a divorce and have a young child. As difficult as the divorce process can be, especially when there are kids involved, things will get better.”
In his practice, Seth focuses on Florida divorce law, Florida family law, and Florida family law mediation. On the Toaster, however, he offers a platform for exploring the extraordinarily wide range of topics that impact you through your divorce, all with an eye on saving your most important relationships.
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Mediation for a Reduced Conflict Divorce with Tami Sbar
After experiencing her own divorce, Tami Sbar became interested in the practice of family law, and in particular, the value of mediation as a priceless benefit for divorcing couples and their families. Today, she dedicates her time and expertise to divorcing couples full time. This week on the show, she shares some of the intricacies involved with mediation.
Our Happy Divorce: Building a Strong Post-Divorce Family with Ben Helfond and Nikki DeBartolo
Our guests today have worked hard to craft a loving and tight-knit family. Their effort to create that family has only intensified since their divorce in 2007. In an effort to help others see what’s possible, Ben Heldfond and Nikki DeBartolo created “Our Happy Divorce,” a book, channel, and community dedicated to building a healthy, happy, post-divorce modern family.
Mediation Online: How the pandemic made your divorce less stressful with Susan Guthrie
The pandemic has been hard. On everyone. But one surprising silver lining: enterprising mediators have made the process easier, faster, and cheaper in many cases as a result of moving online. Susan Guthrie is a premier trainer in the space and mediator in her own right and joins us in the Toaster to share how!
Navigating Gray Divorce in the Family with authors Carol Hughes & Bruce Fredenburg
According to our guests today, late-in-life divorcées represent an unserved population. The complexities that come with navigating the divorce process, from adapting to a legal and financial system to communicating with the myriad relationships in and outside the family. How will you split a lifetime of assets? And most important to authors Carol Hughes and Bruce Fredenburg, how will you help your adult children and their children adapt to this new normal?
Connecting — and RE-connecting — After Separation with Connection Coach Rachael Jaye
When one of us suffers, we all suffer. So says our guest, Rachael Jaye. Jaye is a certified Connection Coach and today she’s going to talk to us about her work helping to rehabilitate intimacy lost in separation.
The Emotional Divorce with Dr. Margaret Rutherford
Today on the show, clinical psychologist Dr. Margaret Rutherford joins us to talk about how the stresses of divorce can sneak up on us in ways we might not expect.
Staging your Epic Comeback with Divorce Coach Nikki Bruno
Are you ready to stage your Epic Comeback? Then it’s time for you to meet Nikki Bruno, divorce coach.
An App for Saving Your Relationships with Fayr founder Michael Daniels
A journey that started with divorce led home designer Michael Daniels to a career change, a long escalator, and a drive to reduce conflict for everyone facing the challenge of co-parenting. Today he joins us in the Toaster to tell us all about the fruits of his work: Fayr.
Life as a Divorcée
We've talked to a string of guests, all specialists in some aspect of the divorce process supporting the legal process itself. This week, Jamie Ainsworth sits down in the Toaster to talk about her experience getting divorced to tell us what we missed.
But What About the Dog? Karis Nafte & Pet Custody Issues
Following up on last week’s conversation about dividing personal property, we realized that pets are considered property too. But you can’t actually split them, so what do you do? Turns out, that’s what the Pet Custody Expert is for. We invite Karis Nafte to the Toaster, a dog trainer and animal specialist who is also an internationally accredited family mediator who helps people figure out what Fido wants.
The Momentous Matter of Material: Dividing Personal Property
You have split your schedule. You’ve untangled custody. You feel like you’re on top of the thousand tiny decisions that face you during your divorce process. And still, you stare down the bear: how do you split your stuff? This week on the show, strategies for approaching your personal property.
Protecting the Smallest Voices: Courtney Bowes and the Guardian ad Litem
From deep in the files labeled, “people you didn’t know you needed in your corner during your divorce,” we bring you the Guardian ad Litem. We welcome Courtney Bowes to the Toaster, a Guardian ad Litem who works with children to ensure their voices don’t get lost in an otherwise noisy process.
Healthy Financial Conversations for a Healthy Divorce with Rhonda Noordyk
Rhonda Noordyk is the host of the Divorce Conversations for Women Podcast and CEO of the Women’s Financial Wellness Center. In her work, she helps women ask tough questions so that they get the answers that they need to navigate the divorce process.
How Not to Be an A-Hole In Your Marriage with Brian Ronalds
Author Brian Ronalds joins us to talk about his series of books designed to guide you through your marriage assuming that you don’t actually want it to end: "How Not to be an A-Hole Husband and Lose Your Wife," and (among others) it’s partner, "How Not to be an A-hole Wife and Lose your Husband."
CrossTalk Holiday Bonus: The Law in Film
It’s time to cross wires! This week on the show, Pete and Seth bring Andy Nelson of The Next Reel Film Podcast to talk about their favorite experiences of the law in film. Part of CrossTalk from TruStory FM.
The Pieces of Your Divorce Puzzle
This week on the show, we’re talking all about the puzzle that is your divorce. Start with the edges, find the corners, and move forward one piece at a time.
How Do You Break the News to Family & Friends?
This week on the show, we’re talking all about breaking the news to friends and family and how to manage boundaries appropriately with each as you reach for the end of the divorce process.
Post-Divorce Relationships
This week on the show, we’re talking all about the tapestry of relationships you have made and will undoubtedly unravel as you wind your way through the divorce process.
Pre-Divorce Paralysis
Love hurts. And when you’re on the precipice of divorce, specific circumstances of your relationship don’t matter as much as the grief and loss you feel as you prepare to walk away from your relationship. This week on the show, we’re talking about the push and pull that comes when you realize you’ve reached the end, but you’re not sure how to start the next chapter.
Redesigning Your Life with Jamie Blumenthal
You’re newly divorced. You’ve moved into a new place. Let’s say, to really put a cap on this exercise of imagination, you’re sitting on the floor one night eating sesame chicken straight out of the take out container by the light of a single lamp and you’re wondering — perhaps aloud — what am I going to do next?