Demarried Life: Recent Episodes
Erin Skillen & Dee Woods
Two post-married working moms figuring out dating, co-parenting and the other stuff that happens when life takes a divorce detour.
Satya Organic's Patrice Mousseau talks to Dee and Erin about how being a single mom seeking a solution for her baby's skin condition led her to becoming a CEO & Founder with her product in over 900 stores. She shares how she made it happen, how she keeps it socially-conscious and what those TV business pitch shows are really like.
If you're considering starting your own business after divorce but feeling daunted about doing it on your own, Patrice's story is exactly what you need to hear right now.
New York Times best-selling author Christina Lauren (aka Christina Hobbs & Lauren Billings) joins Erin and Dee to find out how they how they unknowingly manifested a leading man - and a boat! - for Dee in real life. They also discuss how romance novels can get us through tough times and why writing with your best friend is the ultimate BFF experience. As a bonus, they also politely reject Erin’s (terrible) title idea for their next book.
Christina Lauren has so many amazing books to choose from but be sure to get their newest one - The Soulmate Equation - a witty and effervescent novel about what happens when two people with everything on the line are thrown together by science—or is it fate? Get it May 18th! Learn more at christinalaurenbooks.com
If you're worrying that a less-than-ideal partner, or lack of a partner, is the end of your pursuit to become a parent, there are options. Hera and Aisha - aka the Mocha SMCs - join Dee and Erin to share their experiences as single mothers by choice. From dating during fertility treatments to unsolicited offers of sperm, they have seen it all on their unique journeys to become solo parents. Dig into what happened when they separated their parenting path from their partner path and why it works for them.
Trigger warning: This episode contains a reference to child homicide.
You can learn more about Aisha and Hera and single parenting by choice by checking out their website at mochasmc.com. Don't miss their fabulous podcast, also on their site or wherever you get your podcasts!
January can be a busy time for divorce lawyers as many couples come out of the holiday season ready for a fresh - and separate - start. So of course we chose to ask a busy divorce lawyer to answer our questions about what to do and what not to do when going into a legal separation. Divorce lawyer, mediator, mother and more Aurora Johannson joins us for what might be the funniest legal conversation you’ve even heard, which is also full of great insights you can use right away. Learn more about Aurora at mindfuldivorcecentre.ca.
Co-parenting can be challenging at the best of times. Co-parenting during an "unprecedented" holiday season is a whole new level of delicate. In Part 2 of our "Divorced for the Holidays" special, counsellor and parenting coach Virginia Ronning joins Dee & Erin to provide her wise and realistic advice for navigating a successful co-parenting holiday.
Thanks to the curse that is 2020, many of us will be spending the holidays alone this year. This can be especially daunting the first time. Registered Clinical Counsellor Virginia Ronning joins Dee & Erin to share her ideas for a happy and fulfilling solo holiday.
Flytographer Founder & CEO Nicole Smith was the canary in the 2020 coalmine, with the pandemic hitting her travel-based company before many had even heard about it. She shares her experience weathering the storm as a divorced single mom, making the tough choices to keep her company alive and how we may all be tucked away in a messy chrysalis, ready to fly into spring with a new perspective on what matters most.
Dee and Erin welcome their good friend and entrepreneur Brad Williams to the podcast. What starts as an inquisition into hasty second marriages turns into an expansive discussion around soulmates, belonging, proving one’s independence and how we define ourselves.
Could virtual dating be the antidote to swipe burnout? Dee digs into how, after almost 4 years of bad dates, Erin finally met an incredible guy ... during a pandemic. They explore why Zoom-centric courtship could be a new way to build a meaningful connection while also respecting social distancing and bubble boundaries.
And now for something a little different. Happily married entrepreneur Humaira Ahmed joins us to tell her incredible story of dodging not one, but TWO arranged marriages as a teenager in Pakistan. We talk about how she did it, the role of family and what divorce looks like in the culture she was raised in.
Recorded remotely in the COVID cluster$*%&.
Morning radio DJ Ryder of play107 in Edmonton joins Erin and Dee to talk about divorcing with respect. He gives his take on coparenting with compassion, what it's like to divorce with an audience and how therapy helped him get through it all. And as a bonus for listening you also get to hear about his time as a spandex-clad Kokanee Freeride Girl and fannypack model.
Recorded in Dee's kitchen with Ryder on Zoom during the COVID shit-tacular.
The entire dating landscape changed massively while we were busy being married. Dating app veteran Erin takes Dee onto Bumble for the first time ever in pursuit of her first first date in 10 years. Our swiping journey brings us face to digital face with the dead fish presenters, hookup hunters and a random oyster licker who have Dee wondering if dating apps are a complete waste of her time.
Recorded in Dee’s nursery while her baby slept down the hall and our other 4 kids played - sometimes loudly - downstairs.
Comedian, actor and fellow divorced human Morgan Cranny joins us to share his take on how it felt when his marriage came to an end. We chat about the Boxing Day breakups trend, the impact of Ryan Gosling movies and why it took 2 vasectomies and one extra kid before Morgan successfully shut down his babymaking department.
Here's your sneak peek of the new "Demarried Life" podcast with Erin and Dee coming soon!