The Champagne Girls’ Guide to Living the Life You Love Podcast
Each Sunday, Bonnie, Lauren, and Beth get together on one of their historic porches and discuss how they are creating lives they love on the other side of divorce. Visit BonnieHHurst.com for episode notes.
Each Sunday, Bonnie, Lauren, and Beth get together on one of their historic porches and discuss how they are creating lives they love on the other side of divorce. Visit BonnieHHurst.com for episode notes.
Episodes

Aug 27, 2023
Aug 27, 2023
27 min
What do we do when we are stuck in a rut? Overwhelmed with life? This week we talked about some of the ways we purposefully change things up to help us engage in life again and live in the glass half full instead of the glass half empty. Join us on the porch!

Aug 19, 2023
Episode 17: Powerless
Aug 19, 2023
Aug 19, 2023
41 min
So, we had some weather and trees came tumbling down leaving us without power and making us feel POWERLESS to control the aftermath, the loss of power, fences, and the insurance companies. In this, we realized that we feel powerless A LOT and having an attitude of gratefulness really does make a difference especially when dealing with the loss of control in parenting when divorce happens and we are no longer a parenting 'team'. Welcome back to our porch!

Aug 6, 2023
Aug 6, 2023
49 min
This week the Champagne Girls talk about how they are using their time.
Our lives are precious and that clock is ticking! How are we spending our time? Who are we letting in? What are we doing with this gift of time that we have been given?

Jul 29, 2023
Episode 15: SPACE
Jul 29, 2023
Jul 29, 2023
41 min
Lauren, Beth, and Bonnie discuss the need for space in order to be successful navigating life for themselves and their kids.

Jul 22, 2023
Episode 14: So many things . . .
Jul 22, 2023
Jul 22, 2023
50 min
In this episode we tried to stay on topic discussing how we plan to continue to move forward and engage in self care and moving toward our goals once the new school year begins. However, it turns out we also wanted to talk about custody agreements, how healing from trauma can look like depression, stereotypes of women, talking to our kids about our marriages, how our kids have little memory of some of their childhood spent in the home of a toxic marriage, and several other topics we jumped around. Join us on the porch this week and giggle with us as we discuss living the life we love after divorce!

Jul 16, 2023
Jul 16, 2023
10 min
Welcome to our first Champagne Split - a shorter conversation we feel has insightful discussion worth its own episode but not quite long enough to be considered a full episode.
In this first Champagne Split, Beth discusses the list she made to help her define what was most important to her to use to help guide her to begin building a life she loves. Enjoy!

Jul 9, 2023
Jul 9, 2023
41 min
In this episode Bonnie, Lauren, and Beth discuss strategies to handle that anxiety that creeps in when life is going well. It is not always comfortable to be without the chaos and anxiety we felt in our toxic marriages.

Jul 2, 2023
Episode 12: Living in the here and now
Jul 2, 2023
Jul 2, 2023
36 min
In this episode the Champagne Sunday Girls discuss living in the present and the important role community has in making it easier.

Jun 25, 2023
Episode 11: Feeling judged in divorce
Jun 25, 2023
Jun 25, 2023
14 min
Listen as the girls discuss feeling judged in divorce, the inevitability of losing friends in divorce, and other uncomfortable realities divorce brings. Join us on the porch as they openly discuss some of the unfortunate fall our divorce brings.

Jun 18, 2023
Jun 18, 2023
47 min
This week Lauren, Beth, and Bonnie continue their discussion about dealing with the lives their ex's have created for themselves as well as other topics related to the way life goes on. Making the effort to stay in a positive place is well worth the effort. Join us on the porch!
Meet the Champagne Sunday Girls
Lauren, Beth, and Bonnie are neighbors in a lovely little historic neighborhood. They are all at different stages of life, divorce aftermath, careers, and motherhood. Each Sunday evening they gather on one of their lovely porches to chat about life, love, and their artistic passions. They are big on talking about those things that they have found difficult on the other side of divorce – those things you just don’t expect, those things that only other women who have been there can understand. So, grab your girlfriends and a bottle of Champagne and join us on the porch each Champagne Sunday!
* Find episode notes and reflection questions at BonnieHHurst.com

Bonnie Hedden Hurst
Bonnie is a divorced mom of 3 mostly grown kids. She is an instructional technology coach for secondary schools by day and a mixed media artist by night. She has been an English teacher and a librarian along the way. She has always thrived on creativity and loves travel adventures.

Lauren Cantrell
Lauren is a divorced mom of a one-ling. She is a collegiate level theatre instructor and loves all things performing arts - especially musical theatre. Travel may also be one of her love languages.

Beth Burns Gilbert
Beth is a divorced mom of two. She is an avid needlepoint enthusiast and does not let a day pass without stitching. She is also a registered nurse. In addition to also being bitten by the travel bug she is a foodie and perhaps a one of the biggest sports fans we know.









