Having come through what appeared to be a particularly amicable divorce from first husband Cem Habib, Caroline Stanbury decided to share the wisdom she'd gained through the experience with a divorce-themed podcast. In "Divorced Not Dead," Stanbury aims to blow apart the myth that a woman who wound up single in her 40s would stay alone forever, spreading the message that life after divorce can even be better than what came before.
During a 2021 appearance on daytime TV show "The Doctors," Stanbury got into the inspiration for her podcast. "We were sitting and talking about what was the most relevant thing I could do right now, what's the most asked-about question," she recounted. According to Stanbury, the one topic that people were most interested about in her life was her relationship status and her approach to the dissolution of a longtime marriage. After she and Habib separated, she explained, "People ... kept asking me how we did it so elegantly, I suppose."
Another reason that led her to develop the podcast, she added, was that she was over people immediately telling her how sorry they were about her divorce and checking in on her. "And I'm like, there's nothing to be sorry about," she said. The way Stanbury sees it, getting divorced isn't some kind of loss, simply a decision she made. "I was ready by the time I'd announced it, and I feel great," she added.
