Episode Details

After divorce, something powerful happens. Women get moving. They lose weight, start businesses, start dating, build something new. The results are real. The progress is real. The accomplishments are genuinely theirs.

But sometimes the fuel behind all of that action has nothing to do with them.

In this episode of Better Because of Divorce, host and certified divorce life coach Julie Steed introduces a concept she calls dirty fuel - when you take real action and achieve real results, but the catalyst behind everything you are doing is anger, resentment, hurt, or the desire to impact someone else instead of genuinely benefit yourself.

Dirty fuel works. That is what makes it so complicated. It gets you out of bed. It builds things. It produces outcomes you are proud of. But it keeps you tethered to the very person and the very pain you are trying to move past. And at some point, dirty fuel stops being the thing that moves you forward and starts being the thing keeping you stuck.

This episode is not about shame. It is about one of the most honest conversations you can have with yourself about what is really driving you and what becomes possible when you convert that fuel to something cleaner.

You did not go through all of this just to keep running a race with someone else's finish line. There is a version of everything you are building that is entirely, completely, quietly yours.

And that version is worth fighting for.

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About Julie:

After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.

Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.

She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.

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