Keni Silva understands something most people get wrong: divorce isn't an ending. It's a moment of clarity—and a chance to reclaim your entire life.
As a bestselling author, podcast host, and reinvention expert who's built a community of hundreds of thousands of women across YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram, Keni has seen firsthand what separates women who survive divorce from those who actually thrive through it. The difference? It's not about how fast you move forward. It's about how deeply you're willing to grieve, learn, and rebuild on your own terms.
In this honest, vulnerable conversation with host Jodie O'Brien, Keni reveals the real costs of the stories women have been told about divorce, marriage, and choosing themselves. She doesn't just identify the pain—she shows you how to walk through it and come out the other side stronger, clearer, and finally free.
This episode tackles the messy, complicated, beautiful intersection of heartbreak, identity, and reinvention—the conversations women desperately need but rarely have. Keni shares:
- Why 70% of women initiate divorce (and what that reveals about silent suffering) — And why most women don't know what to do once they do
- The emotional labor you've been carrying quietly in your relationship, and why no one ever recognizes it as real work
- How to reframe divorce from failure to opportunity without bypassing the grief or toxic positivity
- Losing yourself in a marriage and how to reclaim your identity
- The shame around choosing yourself (and why it's actually necessary)
- Why unprocessed pain gets stuck in your body and shows up years later
- Reinvention after divorce: returning to yourself vs. becoming someone new
- Knowledge as power: why consulting a family attorney isn't shameful
- Creating space for honest conversations about what women are really going through
- Time and health are your greatest assets
Keni brings raw honesty, cultural perspective (growing up in Russia vs. America), and permission to feel everything—the rage, the grief, the hope, the possibility. She doesn't sell you a quick recovery narrative. She walks you through the tunnel toward the light.
This episode is essential listening for:
- Women navigating divorce or considering it
- Anyone who has lost themselves in a relationship, marriage, career, or role
- Women struggling with guilt around choosing themselves and their own happiness
- Mothers rebuilding identity after major life transitions
- Anyone in the thick of grief and pain right now
- Women seeking permission to feel and process, not just "move on"
- People rebuilding their entire lives after heartbreak
- Women interested in reclamation, reinvention, and coming back to themselves
