How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships

If your divorce turned you into your own private detective as you peeled your marriage to pieces, our guest this week is your Spirit Animal. Gabrielle Stone is and actor, podcaster, and writer. She wrote the book “Eat, Pray, #FML” which released in 2019, and the upcoming sequel due to drop in just a few weeks.

Show Notes

Gabrielle Stone pulled on the threads of her own marriage, until it came apart. At the other end, she'd discovered spare phones, receipts, emails, and an extraordinary web of social media posts that came together to paint a picture of her husband's extensive affair with a younger woman.

In her day job, Stone is filmmaker. Her films It Happened Again Last Night and After Emma earned her awards for writing, directing, and acting. With the discovery — and recovery — through her husband's infidelity and ultimately divorce, she put pen to paper and produced Eat, Pray, #FML, a book chronicling three months of her life of struggle, exploration, and reward.

Gabrielle Stone in the Toaster

We loved the book. It's vulnerable, enlightening, and above all a red-hot page-turner. Welcoming Gabrielle to How to Split a Toaster gives us the opportunity to explore some legal concepts that can lead to anxiety. For example, what do you do when approaching your spouse for divorce might put you in harm's way? How do you mitigate risk in process serving? Does your lawyer really recommend you act as your own private investigator?

But more important, Gabrielle helps us understand her healing process. In the spirit of letting her experience serve others, she talks about her journey through love bombing, recovery, solo travel and finding a space for healing alone.

The sequel is coming in just a few short weeks. In the mean time, click through to pick up Eat, Pray, #FML on Amazon to get yourself caught up and ready for more. Our great thanks to Gabrielle Stone for joining us this week on How to Split a Toaster.

Links & Notes

  • (00:00) - Welcome to How to Split a Toaster
  • (00:24) - Introducing Gabrielle Stone and Eat, Pray, #FML
  • (01:59) - Gabrielle's Detective Story
  • (06:49) - Wearing Toxic Love Goggles
  • (08:32) - Putting Yourself At Risk in the Separation Process
  • (11:25) - "You've Been Served" • The Ins and Outs of Process Serving
  • (15:36) - Heartbreak is Universal
  • (18:26) - Making a Choice to Help Others
  • (24:12) - "Love Bombing"
  • (27:19) - Healing Alone
  • (29:13) - On the Hunt for Empathy
  • (30:41) - Sequel Inbound

Creators & Guests

Host
Pete Wright
Podcaster and co-host, Pete Wright brings years of marriage and a spirit of curiosity to the divorce process. He's spent the last two decades interviewing experts and thinkers in emotional healing and brings that with him to the law, divorce, and saving relationships in the process.
Host
Seth R. Nelson
Seth Nelson is the founding attorney and managing partner at NLG Divorce & Family Law. He is a Tampa-based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems.
Producer
Andy Nelson
Hailing from nearly 25 years in the world of film, television, and commercial production, Andy has always had a passion for storytelling, no matter the size of the package.

What is 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.