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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Finance Pete Wright Finance Pete Wright

Navigating Financial Infidelity with Wealthspire’s Aviva Pinto

Infidelity is never a word someone wants to hear when it relates to their own marriage, but did you know that could apply to the bank accounts too? Today, we talk with Aviva Pinto, a Managing Director and member of the Advisory Committee at Wealthspire Advisors, about financial infidelity. We also dig into rebuilding your credit and alimony as well.

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Trauma & Recovery Pete Wright Trauma & Recovery Pete Wright

Codependent No More! with Licensed Mental Health Counselor Mary Joye

Seth and Pete look at co-dependency in relationships today with their guest Mary Joye, licensed mental health counselor and Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator. What happens when support in a marriage turns unhealthy? How can co-dependent behavior impact the marriage process? And the divorce process? And why don’t we start calling it pathological altruism, which is what it is?

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Divorce Process Pete Wright Divorce Process Pete Wright

So Similar Yet So Different: Check Your Local Jurisdiction with Courtney Shepard

We say it in pretty much every episode – “Check your local jurisdiction.” But what does that really mean? Why are there such diverse differences from state to state? Family law specialist Courtney Shepard joins us from so we can dig into why laws are so different from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and how you can navigate them in your own divorce.

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Pete Wright Pete Wright

On Grief, Loss, and Family

Both Pete and Seth lost a parent in the last year. This week, they address the experience of grief and loss and how that experience impacts your day-to-day reality in some unpredictable ways.

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Pete Wright Pete Wright

A Post-Divorce Valentine's Day to Remember

Whatever your position on Valentine's Day as a holiday, there's no denying the cultural charge of romantic expectation around us. What do you do when you run into your first post-divorce Valentine's Day? Stories from listeners who've done it this week on the show.

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Bonus Pete Wright Bonus Pete Wright

The Toaster Hollywood Holiday Special

Happy New Year! In our season break we brought the team together to talk about divorce in the movies. From hyper-stylized to hyper-real, how well do filmmakers capture divorce? Producer Andy Nelson joins Pete and Seth as we build our divorce movie watchlist.

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Pete Wright Pete Wright

Redesigning Your Life with Jamie Blumenthal • Rebroadcast

We’re on a short break as we celebrate the holidays with our families and gear up for season five coming in 2022. While we’re away, we thought it might be nice to take another trip down memory lane and share some of our favorite episodes from our early seasons of the Toaster. This week, we’re talking about your space.

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Pete Wright Pete Wright

Bride in Reverse with Writer Becca Bycott

This week on the show we’re talking all about brand YOU with Becca Bycott, writer behind Bride In Reverse, a personal branding and lifestyle blog that celebrates how to reclaim autonomy after this big life change.

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