Episodes

In this bonus coaching session, Coach Deborah unpacks the most powerful insights from her conversation with self-love coach Jonathan Aslay. Together, they explored how grief, divorce, trauma, and identity loss can disconnect us from our self-worth—and how rebuilding begins from within. This episode gives you simple, practical coaching tools to help you strengthen your emotional foundation and reconnect with your voice, boundaries, and inner clarity. In This Episode You’ll Learn: • Why rebuildi...

In this bonus coaching session, Coach Deborah breaks down the key insights from her conversation with author and filmmaker Nikki Allen, whose story of emotional erasure and recovery resonates with so many women healing from toxic relationships. Deborah explores how emotional manipulation, love bombing, the charm–harm cycle, and self-doubt slowly silence a woman’s voice. She offers practical coaching steps to help you reconnect with your intuition, examine old wounds, release shame, and begin wh...

In this powerful episode, author and filmmaker Nikki Allen shares how a relationship with no bruises—but deep emotional damage—nearly erased her identity. Her novel Loved You, Hated You began as a song, became a screenplay, and ultimately became the story she needed to tell to reclaim her voice. Nikki opens up about the charm–harm dynamic, emotional manipulation, isolation, love bombing, and the slow erosion of self-trust that so many women experience in unhealthy relationships. She reveals how...

In this bonus episode, Deborah breaks down the most powerful lessons from her conversation with award-winning strengths coach and author MaLinda Perry. This short coaching session guides listeners through the emotional recovery process after divorce, especially for women healing from toxic relationships or emotional abuse. Deborah explores the red flags MaLinda ignored, the manipulation that slowly eroded her confidence, and the small steps she took to rebuild her identity. Listeners will lear...

In this inspiring episode, Deborah sits down with MaLinda Perry—KBIS award-winning leader, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, bestselling author, and founder of Happy Girls Don’t Do That. MaLinda shares her powerful divorce story, from ignored red flags and emotional manipulation to rediscovering her identity through strengths-based healing. MaLinda opens up about the moment her bonus daughter told her to run, the unpredictable meanness she lived with, and the “gut feelings” she pushed aside. Sh...

In this bonus episode, Coach Deborah breaks down the most transformative insights from her conversation with Dr. Robin Buckley—executive coach, clinical psychologist, and author of Marriage Incorporated. If you’re navigating divorce recovery, emotional abuse, or starting over after a toxic relationship, this episode gives you practical tools to rebuild with clarity and intention. You’ll learn why your next relationship needs a strategy, how to balance red flags and green flags, and how defining...

In this episode, Coach Deborah sits down with Dr. Robin Buckley, executive coach, PhD in clinical psychology, and author of Marriage, Inc. Dr. Robin blends business strategy, cognitive behavioral tools, and lived experience from two divorces to help people heal after separation and create intentional, healthier relationships. We explore how to move from emotion-driven reactions to strategic thinking, how to evaluate red flags and green flags, and why role clarity and communication are essential...

In this Bent Not Broken bonus coaching session, Coach Deborah expands on the powerful insights shared with therapist and author Oona Metz, LICSW, diving into the emotional and identity shifts women face during gray divorce. This episode explores how long-term marriage shapes a woman’s identity, why the “wasted years” narrative keeps women stuck, and how to release guilt and reframe the past with compassion. Deborah also unpacks the hidden losses of gray divorce—retirement dreams, changing tradi...

Today’s guest is Oona Metz, a licensed clinical social worker, certified group psychotherapist, and Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. With 30+ years of experience supporting women through major life transitions, Una brings deep insight into one of the fastest-growing divorce trends: gray divorce. We explore why divorce rates for couples over 50 have doubled, how identity shifts after decades of marriage, and the hidden losses many women grieve—from retirement dreams to cha...

In this Bent Not Broken bonus coaching session, Deborah breaks down the biggest lessons from her conversation with empowerment teacher David Alan Brown—and turns them into practical tools for anyone rebuilding after divorce, trauma, emotional shutdown, or major life transition. David’s journey from numbness and suicidal ideation to rediscovery and empowerment highlights what happens when we lose our voice—and how we can reclaim it. What You’ll Learn • Why emotional numbness is a warning sign, ...

In this episode of Bent Not Broken, Deborah talks with David Alan Brown, writer, empowerment teacher, and creator of The Convergent Conversation—a method that helps people reconnect with their emotional, behavioral, and spiritual voices to rebuild clarity, confidence, and purpose. David shares his powerful journey from years of depression, numbness, and suicidal ideation to rediscovering his identity, leaving a 24-year marriage, and rebuilding his life with intention. His story offers practical...

In this Bent Not Broken bonus coaching episode, Coach Deborah reflects on powerful lessons from her conversation with author Terry M. Brown and what truly happens after leaving a long-term emotionally abusive marriage. This episode is for anyone navigating emotional abuse recovery, gaslighting recovery, financial control, divorce healing, and post-divorce life. Coach Deborah breaks down how emotional abuse trains you to doubt yourself, making even small decisions feel overwhelming — a common tr...

In this inspiring episode of Bent Not Broken, Coach Deborah sits down with Teri M. Brown, award-winning author and survivor of emotional and financial abuse, to share her powerful journey of healing, self-discovery, and resilience. Teri opens up about leaving a 14-year emotionally abusive marriage, where manipulation, isolation, and financial control slowly eroded her confidence and sense of self. Like many women recovering from toxic relationships, she describes how abuse impacts everyday deci...

In this Bent Not Broken bonus coaching episode, Coach Deborah reflects on key insights from her powerful conversation with Kristen Crabtree, certified divorce coach and creator of the Paramore Paradox. Kristen spent 22 years in a psychologically abusive marriage, and her story sheds light on how emotional abuse and gaslighting quietly impact identity, confidence, and self-trust. In this episode, Coach Deborah breaks down practical coaching insights to help you heal after divorce, release surviv...

In this powerful episode of Bent Not Broken, Coach Deborah sits down with Kristen Crabtree, certified divorce coach, author of Be the You That’s More You Than You’ve Ever Been, and creator of the Paramour Paradox. Kristen shares her deeply personal story of surviving 22 years in a psychologically abusive same-sex marriage, where silence replaced disagreement and survival strategies replaced self-expression. She opens up about how emotional abuse slowly erodes identity, confidence, and self-trus...

In this Bent Not Broken bonus coaching episode, Coach Deborah unpacks the most powerful insights from her conversation with intuitive psychic author and coach Susan Jane, who has over 20 years of experience helping people reconnect with their intuition after emotional abuse, trauma, and divorce. If you’re healing after heartbreak or learning to trust yourself again, this episode offers gentle, practical support for your recovery. You’ll learn: Why intuition is your inner guidance system How ...

In this episode of Bent Not Broken, Coach Deborah explores intuition, resilience, and starting over after divorce with intuitive expert Susan Jane. With over 20 years of spiritual insight, Susan shares how intuition supports divorce healing, heartbreak recovery, and starting over after trauma—especially for women navigating life after divorce, life after separation, or healing from gaslighting and broken relationships. You’ll learn simple intuition practices that help rebuild confidence after d...

In this Bent Not Broken bonus coaching session, Coach Deborah expands on the powerful insights shared by RTT practitioner and trauma survivor Samantha Mandell. This episode is designed to help women navigating divorce recovery, heartbreak healing, gaslighting recovery, or starting over after trauma. Learn how trauma hides in the body, how limiting beliefs formed during childhood shape your relationships, and why perfectionism is often a trauma response—not a personality trait. You’ll also disco...

In today’s episode of Bent Not Broken, Coach Deborah explores a powerful starting over after trauma story with Samantha Mandell, whose journey through functional seizures (PNES) became a profound path toward healing after heartbreak, rebuilding identity, and reclaiming life. Samantha shares how her life-altering diagnosis led her to Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT)—a modality that accelerates emotional recovery, helps release limiting beliefs, heals broken relationships, and restores confid...

In this Bent Not Broken bonus episode, Coach Deborah reflects on her powerful conversation with retired police sergeant and bestselling author Patrick O’Donnell, who shared that after 30 years of service, nothing was more challenging than his divorce. This episode offers insight and divorce healing, guidance for starting over after divorce, navigating separation recovery, and rebuilding life after divorce. You’ll learn how to: • Navigate heartbreak recovery and healing after separation • Prot...

In this powerful episode of Bent Not Broken, I sit down with Patrick O’Donnell — retired Milwaukee police sergeant, bestselling author of Divorced Dad: Kids Are Forever, Wives Are Not, and host of the Cops and Writers Podcast — to talk about life after divorce, starting over after trauma, and rebuilding a life from broken to boldness. Patrick shares raw insight on divorce healing, co-parenting after divorce, rebuilding identity after divorce, finding love after divorce, and stepping into financ...

In this bonus episode of Bent Not Broken, Coach Deborah revisits the most powerful moments from her conversation with award-winning author and survivor Mia J. Hanks, whose memoir Bridemaid reveals the hidden reality of her nearly 30-year marriage to a covert narcissist. This episode is about starting over after trauma, healing from gaslighting, divorce and healing, and rebuilding life after divorce. Through Mia’s story, you’ll learn how to recognize control masked as love, trust your body’s war...

In this special bonus episode of Bent Not Broken, Deborah Griffiths of Broken to Boldness shares her personal journey of starting over after trauma, heartbreak recovery, and divorce healing. After years in a broken relationship and healing from gaslighting, Deborah chose to reclaim her life, begin post-divorce healing, and step boldly into life after divorce. She shares practical recovery strategies for rebuilding identity after divorce, navigating separation, and building confidence after divo...

In this powerful episode of Law Enforcement Talk Radio, retired police sergeant John Jay Wiley speaks with Deborah Griffiths, founder of Broken to Boldness, about her journey of starting over after trauma, healing from gaslighting, and rebuilding life after divorce. After waking up in a psychiatric ward following a suicide attempt, Deborah realized her environment was destroying her mental health and confidence. That moment became her turning point. Through courage and resilience, she left her ...