Episodes

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!

A woman calls in whose husband of 30 years walked out on her before Xmas -- after his mistress gave him an ultimatum. She wants to know -- was he a nice person who turned nasty? Or was he a terrible person all the time and she was completely mistaken about a man she spent three decades with? Tracy and Sarah untangle the skein of abandonment.

Sarah and Tracy discuss being public with their chump stories. Guest Paul Doncaster takes mightiness to a new level when he tells his D-Day story "The Stranger" at Moth Radio storytelling contest in front of a live audience. And his ex turns up with her boyfriend!

It takes a special kind of resilience to leave a cheater when you're four months pregnant with twins -- but that's exactly what our guest Alyson did. At the time, she had two other small kids at home and was the family breadwinner. She's now a mighty single mother of four and a "boss lady" at a fortune 500 firm where she leads a large team. We discuss the challenges of solo parenting and the particular horror and vulnerability of suffering a D-Day while pregnant. But also the rewards of being th...

Sarah and Tracy discuss the ordinary people they've met who've impressed them with their extraordinary resilience. Teasers for mighty stories to come!

D-Days -- What you do wish you'd done differently when you discovered your partner was cheating? Many of us had gut instincts to leave immediately, but got tripped up with second-guessing and cheater manipulation. Sarah and Tracy tell their surreal D-Day stories, the good advice they got, and the lousy. One listener wishes she'd catfished her ex on a date.

Imagining the unimaginable -- what to do when you suspect cheating. Tracy tells the story how she woke up with another woman's thong stuck to her. And Sarah shares her near miss moving to Devon to "rebuild the marriage." A listener asks if it's possible to gaslight oneself by believing a cheater's lies.

In this first episode, hosts Sarah Gorrell -- a BBC radio presenter -- and Tracy Schorn -- the writer known as Chump Lady -- discuss how they met, their chump stories, and why the world needs a different infidelity narrative. (Hint: More mightiness, less reconciliation with cheaters.)