Catt Sadler
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Oh, sure. Wow. It's interesting because I hadn't really thought about that story for many, many years. And it wasn't until a recent Golden Globes that I kind of jogged my memory. It was such a seismic moment in my life. So yes, I'm happy to share the story. I was back in 2007. And I was working for the E channel, E entertainment at the time.
And I was heading off to cover the golden gloves for the first time in my career, which for a girl from Indiana who had dreamt of going to Hollywood and had, you know, engineered this broadcasting career, that was like, the epitome of like the creme de la creme kind of opportunity for me.
What people didn't know at the time was that I was in the middle of a split with my husband, the father of my kids, Kyle, I'm sure we'll refer to him a couple of times. So I'll just give him a name, Kyle, but I was heartbroken, you know, professionally, all these wonderful things were happening in my life and being realized for the first time. But at the same time, my family was, was crumbling.
And what was really going on inside of me was just like, feeling like a failure and feeling just so depleted and exhausted and devastated really with what was unraveling in my personal life and what was happening to my family.
And so I get into this car with my driver because, you know, on the national level, one of the perks is, you know, they send you a car to get you to the big, you know, award show. And I had my sweats on, I had my coffee in my hand, and I was heading off to go do my job.
And as glamorous and exciting and thrilling as that day seemed to be or appeared to be or I had anticipated it to be, I really didn't know if I could pull it off. I was the shell of a person. I felt like I was dying on the inside. And so I get in this car to go to work, and I'm kind of... feeling quite weak. And this man, the driver, and for the life of me, I can't remember his name.
I think it might be Monroe. He just bestowed upon me like this kind of wisdom for the moment I was in that felt really ordained. Actually, it felt really like this divine energetic moment where I felt like he was sent to me in that moment, on that day, during that drive for 45 minutes where he, he kind of reframed my idea about my divorce in a new way. You know, he was asking me questions.
I was a complete stranger. He was a complete stranger. I started telling him my story because it was so raw and it was so of the moment that I just kind of unloaded on this guy. And he was, he was, You know, like now Morgan Freeman is popping in my mind because he like he was like playing God. And then what came out of his mouth was even more beautiful.
And he just spoke to me in a way which essentially was, you know, did you ever consider that all of this? happened for a reason and that Kyle came into your life for a reason to have these two remarkable children. And then maybe that job was done. Maybe that's where your story would end with Kyle.
And while you have this idea that a family looks a certain kind of way with these four people until the end of time, that maybe that wasn't meant to be your story. And if you can make a kind of peace with that and let go in a freeing way, Then, you know, this other story that's unwritten for you has all the potential in the world.
And I wish for the life of me I could replay that day, but it completely comforted me. And a lot of my pain melted away in that moment. And it gave me the strength to literally go forward into my day and do what I needed to do. So I reflect back.
on that is just a really poignant, profound life experience that really led me on my way on this new path to how we would dissolve our lives together and all of the many choices that we all have in those moments as we move forward and create the next story.
Hmm. Well, anyone who's been a child of divorce, I mean, divorce is such like a dirty word or it used to be. And it's, you know, no one ever gets married hoping to be divorced. You know, that's not what you go into it thinking about. And I had watched my parents divorce and there had been a lot of remarriages in my life. And so had Kyle, by the way, his parents had divorced also.
And so I think the reality of one end, it was definitely an end. an ending can be really challenging. I just, maybe I hadn't considered a more hopeful narrative following all of that. I was still so raw. Like I said, it was still so new. Maybe I would have gotten to that, you know, down the line after grieving and doing work on myself and all those things.
But, you know, I think he's circumvented a lot of my own work and just at least planted that seed for me that made me realize that, that I really did have a choice and I had some power in the situation to create however that was going to look like the reality is over here. But we always in our suffering still have an opportunity to to shape things how we want to.
We are the co-creators of our lives. I always say that all the time. I didn't know it then. I was only like this was like almost 20 years ago. I just turned 30. And yeah, it was it was really beautiful.
Mm hmm. Yeah. Well, and to your point, luckily for me, the procedural formalities of divorce, that was the easy part. Like that was really clean. And I know a lot of people who aren't as lucky who, I mean, I hear some stories and I'm sure, you know, some stories that can be really, really, really harrowing for people.
So, so the whole thing was emotional, really, you know, I had mostly, it was my kids, my kids, my kids, I, they were six and two at the time. And again, I I think I had had a rocky experience personally as a child. My parents, my biological mother and father, just, you know, they were angry at each other for years. And so... I just didn't want them to have a similar experience growing up.
I wanted their birthday parties to be fun. I didn't want there to be animosity or bitterness. So at first I had to make that kind of decision. And luckily with Kyle, right away, that was the one thing we agreed on. Listen, we had some things we had to work through and there was some therapy involved and that kind of thing. But the one thing we definitely agreed on was
We're going to do this differently. And eventually we're going to have to figure out our co-parenting situation. We're going to have to figure out how that looks. But no matter what, it's a kid's first approach.
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