We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Olga Nadal a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Olga, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. How did you come up with the idea for your business?

I had been coaching clients to help them navigate the complicated process of divorce until the pandemic hit and two problems quickly emerged: Most of my clients could not make it to the calls since their partner was now at home 24/7 so I had to find another way to provide them with the help they needed. Secondly, I intuitively knew that there would be a huge surge in divorces due to the strain that the “stay at home” orders put in marriages that were already struggling.

To solve the first problem, I hunkered down and put down on paper the whole methodology I had created to achieve a Holistic Divorce – one where both the emotions and logistics are leveraged to get everything you want from a win/win settlement. I published “The Holistic Divorce: A Practical 10 Step Process For Healing” and quickly reached the Amazon Best Sellers list with those who needed guidance from the privacy of their own homes.

For the second problem, I had to think bigger to be able to help the thousands of people who would be needing Holistic Divorce coaching. The answer was the Holistic Divorce Institute: the platform I founded to train an army of professionally certified coaches to fulfill the mission of having one Holistic Divorce Coach available for each Family lawyer before the end of this decade.

We have now successfully graduated students through our 8 week online certification program and they are now changing the paradigm of divorce by helping individuals complete their marriages being empowered instead of traumatized.

Olga, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Most people look pretty surprised when I describe what a Holistic Divorce coach is and they wonder why it has taken our culture so long to approach divorce in a manner far from litigation and towards resolution out of the court system. My answer is always the same: because our society was not prepared until now to see the truth about most marriages not being a long life commitment. Also, the conditions needed to remove the stigma of divorce have just recently become commonplace: financial independence for women, longer lifespans, the ease of meeting new potential partners and the removal of shaming for those who choose to complete their marriage.
Despite popular belief, most marriages are not ending because they are abusive, toxic or violent. The majority of my clients are women who have grown at a different pace than their partners and their marriage no longer fits the life they truly desire.
They are going from ok, or good enough to mind blowing, great new relationships. Most of them have remarried or are in committed relationships with their soulmates and their family life has only gotten better now that their energy is not spent trying to keep together a partnership that had expired.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

More than a lesson is a pretty pervasive belief that is completely false and we need to set the record straight to avoid unnecessary suffering. We have mistakenly assumed that the longevity of a marriage is the only variable to measure its success and that creates the wrong conclusion that if it ends, it was a failure. The truth is that relationships are meant to help us become the better version of ourselves, regardless of their duration. So many marriages are only kept afloat because people feel immense shame that others will label them as a failure. Yet, the social consensus is changing rapidly and we are waking up to the truth that no relationship is worth keeping you small and unsatisfied. We used to be judged for leaving but now you might be judged for staying when you should have left and become the person you truly are meant to be.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

Being one hundred percent honest about the process of divorce and that not everyone is ready for it but everyone can prepare for it. There are so many well intentioned coaches who are painting a picture that is not one hundred percent realistic and that creates mixed expectations with their clients, sometimes leading to more confusion. That is why we train our students to ensure that they only work with their dream client, follow our methodology to create consistent results and let their client’s raving about their expertise be their sales machine.
When your audience sees you as a leader in the industry because your standards are backed up by superb testimonials, they can’t help but want to work with you and nobody else.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.holisticdivorceinstitute.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/olga.nadal.hdi/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HolisticDivorceInstitute
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-munoz-32a832183/

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