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.

From an early age, he has always wanted to help people. After law school he found that he could do the greatest good by helping people through one of the most difficult times of their lives.  Being a divorcee himself, as well as a father, he understands what you’re going through.

“I have been through a divorce and have a young child. As difficult as the divorce process can be, especially when there are kids involved, things will get better.”

In his practice, Seth focuses on Florida divorce law, Florida family law, and Florida family law mediation. On the Toaster, however, he offers a platform for exploring the extraordinarily wide range of topics that impact you through your divorce, all with an eye on saving your most important relationships.

Season 9

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Release, Recalibrate & Renew with Gabrielle Hartley

Gabrielle Hartley is a nationally-recognized divorce attorney, online mediator and divorce strategy coach with a strong focus on conflict resolution. She is the author of “Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate” and she joins us today to share how she brings mindfulness to the divorce process.

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The Difficult Divorce

The healthy post-divorce is a perennial favorite around these parts. But what happens when the divorce process is not so peaceful? We’re taking on the antagonistic divorce on the Toaster this week.

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A Divorce Lawyer’s Guide to Dating Apps

Heart? Swipe? Like? When it's time to get back into the sea after your divorce, how do you know where to find the right fish? This week on the show, divorce lawyer Seth Nelson shares his experience and insight into getting yourself back out there.

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Mediation for a Reduced Conflict Divorce with Tami Sbar

After experiencing her own divorce, Tami Sbar became interested in the practice of family law, and in particular, the value of mediation as a priceless benefit for divorcing couples and their families. Today, she dedicates her time and expertise to divorcing couples full time. This week on the show, she shares some of the intricacies involved with mediation.

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Our Happy Divorce: Building a Strong Post-Divorce Family with Ben Helfond and Nikki DeBartolo

Our guests today have worked hard to craft a loving and tight-knit family. Their effort to create that family has only intensified since their divorce in 2007. In an effort to help others see what’s possible, Ben Heldfond and Nikki DeBartolo created “Our Happy Divorce,” a book, channel, and community dedicated to building a healthy, happy, post-divorce modern family.

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Navigating Gray Divorce in the Family with authors Carol Hughes & Bruce Fredenburg

According to our guests today, late-in-life divorcées represent an unserved population. The complexities that come with navigating the divorce process, from adapting to a legal and financial system to communicating with the myriad relationships in and outside the family. How will you split a lifetime of assets? And most important to authors Carol Hughes and Bruce Fredenburg, how will you help your adult children and their children adapt to this new normal?

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Life as a Divorcée

We've talked to a string of guests, all specialists in some aspect of the divorce process supporting the legal process itself. This week, Jamie Ainsworth sits down in the Toaster to talk about her experience getting divorced to tell us what we missed.

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But What About the Dog? Karis Nafte & Pet Custody Issues

Following up on last week’s conversation about dividing personal property, we realized that pets are considered property too. But you can’t actually split them, so what do you do? Turns out, that’s what the Pet Custody Expert is for. We invite Karis Nafte to the Toaster, a dog trainer and animal specialist who is also an internationally accredited family mediator who helps people figure out what Fido wants.

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