The Big D
If you've ever been in love, and ever broken up, this podcast is for you. Younger generations aren’t approaching marriage in a traditional way, so why should we approach divorce in a traditional way? This podcast is a combination of honest stories about real relationships ---- and interviews with experts, some you might guess like a therapist, lawyer, financial advisor, and some surprises like a chef and meditation guide. It is practical, political, personal. It’s a serious topic, with a not-so-serious host.
Episodes
In this episode I chat with Samantha Bitty about her own divorce story, how a relationship with an ex can evolve, how divorce impacts us in relationship to and with our communities, astrology, intimacy after rejection, healing... and her glam divorce photoshoot.
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samantha bitty (she/her) is an award-winning, interdisciplinary sexual health and consent educator, speaker, certified Emotional Intelligence coach and social change Entr...
This episode is full of bravery and mega flavours.
I interview Chef Joshna Maharaj, and we talk about comfort food, food as a trigger, healing through food, and finding our way back to ourselves through food. I also go on a bit of a pre-ramble about my own journey with food post-divorce.
ANNOUNCEMENT - My season finale recorded with a live studio audience (you?!) will be Thursday, January 19th, 2023 in downtown Toronto, and my gues...
This episode features Kat Foldvari, and we’re talking about mental health. Kat also shares some of her own divorce story.
She talks about her own high expectations of herself to navigate her mental health through divorce, stigma, stress responses, triggers and ways we can pull ourselves through.
Recognizing that there is a huge gap in mental health services and support, especially for people going through separation and divorce, Ka...
I’m so excited to share this chat with you, it’s a fun one.
In this episode I’m interviewing Lynzie Kent from Pop Up Chapel and Mad Bash Group, getting the tea on wedding planning when it’s your second time around. I share the conversation with my wedding photographer - Eyekah Foto - that inspired this episode. Lynzie and I talk about traditional and modern weddings, what it's like when couples break up, suffocating expectati...
In this episode, Nancy shares her divorce story.
"I help people hear themselves into being."
We talk about growing up in conservative Christian homes, all the ways we come out of different closets, the role of therapy in keeping a relationship together or its dissolution, knowing when to quit, and how her life coaching practice has informed her relationship evolution (and vice versa).
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In this episode I chat with my pal, Elamin Abdelmahmoud about the best breakup music. We talk about ‘crying appointments’, music that softens us, brings us back, teaches us about love and holds us during the worst. Ranging from Rent and Bruce Springsteen to The Chicks and Adele to many, many more - we pack it in!
The Big D’s Ultimate Break-up Playlist on Spotify and Apple Music.
The Playlist He Didn’t Listen To on Spotify...
This episode is short and sweet. Very sweet and earnest. This is Britt’s story, the real life Parent Trap.
This is that real shit twist of life and love.
My parents have been married for 35 years so I don’t know what it’s like to be a child of divorce. I live vicariously through my friends. A lot of them still talk about the impacts of it, in their adult lives. Britt’s story though, it’s unique. She's a child of divorce, and ...
*Siri, play Believe by Cher* Do you believe in life after love?
In this episode I reflect on my experience as a single gal, and have the opportunity to interview Nadine on her experiences of dating post-divorce. We talk about cold showers, making out in the summer, sexting, the expectations we set for ourselves and others - and the stories that define how we approach dating.
Read Nadine's article In Chatelaine here: It's Neve...
My bestie Rachel interviews me based on questions I received through an anonymous link on the @BigDPod instagram. I didn't know what to expect, and you all did not hold back!
We tackle all of these questions:
Why did you get married in your teens?
Do you regret getting married?
What do you miss about your ex?
Do you think infidelity can be okay if a person is trying to get their needs met so they can stay in a partnership? (Rachel ...
In this episode, Danny shares her polyamorous breakup story.
What is polyamory? According to the Oxford dictionary, it's the practice of engaging in multiple romantic (and typically sexual) relationships, with the consent of all the people involved. When we recorded this episode, Danny was in the midst of planning her wedding to her nesting partner, which is already a sensitive, emotional, process to go through - which made me even...
This is a personal one for me. Yes, all the episodes are personal but this one involves some of my own grief. This episode is the Ultimate D, a title bestowed by my guest, one of my close friends, Zach. The ultimate D being death. Last year, my friend and Zach's wife Tarin, died.
In this episode, Zach shares his love story, and about his grief, we talk about what it’s like to be alone, after having the future you hoped for erased. ...
In this episode I talk to Chris Lafazanos, a celebrant or officiant, and ceremony guide, about her own love and divorce story, how she created a divorce ceremony for herself. We do a deep dive into all the ways the hetero, white supremacist, capitalist, colonial patriarchy builds up marriage, to warp our perspective, experiences, and ultimately set us up for failure. Even how these systems define and put a value judgement on what '...
Hello everyone, I’ve missed you.
This is a special bonus episode of The Big D, a crossover with Sister On!
In this episode I'm joined by sister one-of-two, Nat Davey, to talk about reframing divorce. How can we put this painful process in a new light and learn to choose ourselves over relationships? We each share pivotal moments where our understanding and approach to the divorce has changed - Nat, 10+ years out, and me, 1.5.
“Why did he cheat on you?”
“B!tch, you tell me!”
This is the season one finale, featuring Bee Quammie, a musical performance by POESY, and MC'd by Bailey Greenspon. Recorded on December 14th at Reid’s Distillery.
In this episode we talk about infidelity, honouring our anger, and terrible first dates. Bee gets into the writing of her own story, choosing a better life, what it means to evolve, and truly embodying being full of hersel...
This is my divorce story.
In this episode, my oldest and closest friend Rachel interviews me. We reminisce about meeting in high school, and chat about getting married young and navigating trauma, how I owned my sexuality within my marriage, bell hooks, and what I want for myself in the future. We also check on Justin Bieber's trust issues.
Content warning: Medical trauma, abortion.
In this episode I chat with my pals Maria and Julia at Matinée podcast about the tropes, types, ins and outs of divorce movies, and all the sub-genres - revenge movies, single dad movies, and all the iterations of eating, praying and loving under the tuscan sun. We do a bit of a deep dive into Kramer Vs. Kramer and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Which leads to the story of how I, your host Miranda, got spat on by Taye Diggs. What ...
This is bonus content from episode eight "But no man is ever worth the paradise manifest" in conversation with my guest Alicia Mathlin aka Meditation Pusher.
We chat about how mindfulness can be useful in healing from a breakup, and Alicia shares an exercise you can do on your own time to focus on self-forgiveness.
"But no man is ever worth the paradise manifest"
Put on your peppermint oil and get ready! We’re about to get a masterclass on healing through mindfulness and being present in relationships.
I chat with my friend Alicia Mathlin aka Meditation Pusher- a self described child of divorce - about the lack of representation in fairy tales, self-compassion, self-denial, tenderness… this episode has something for everyone! We talk about be...
“I want you to unmarry me”
The pandemic was declared the same week Tina and her ex moved into separate houses. Her kids entered a custodial agreement the same week they got sent home from school in the lockdown. We chat about dealing with your own shit so you don’t pass it onto your kid, sitting with your own feelings, and your kids’ feelings, becoming the ‘fun mom’ and deserving to be happy - not by merit - but for being a human.
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