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Genevieve “Jenny” Dreizen | Fresh Starts & Modern Etiquette

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🌿 coo/cofounder @freshstartsregistry
✨ joy & little treat enthusiast
🎉 modern day etiquette expert
📖 writing Divorce Happens, pub Aug 27
📍Edinburgh

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We have 4 free events this October! 🗓️⁠
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🎄 Oct 7 — Holiday Budgeting with Heart with Maria Natapov and Donna Cates: letting go of the Pinterest-perfect holiday to focus on presence and peace.⁠
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🌿 Oct 12 — Designing a "Child-Centric" Infrastructure with David Fein: rethinking custody as a collaborative blueprint, not a courtroom battle.⁠
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⚖️ Oct 21 — The Productive Divorce: Breaking Up Without Breaking Down with Diana Loomis: what mediation actually involves and how it protects your co-parenting relationship.⁠
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🗣️ Oct 28 — 6 Truths About Divorce & Kids That Might Make You Mad At Me with Tracy Galloway: six common assumptions divorcing parents carry, lovingly challenged.⁠
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Sign up for all of them at once: freshstartsregistry.com/hosting⁠
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Or, DM us and we will sign you up, or click the link in our bio! ⁠
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#FreshStartsRegistry #FreshStartRegistry #FreeEvents by @genevievedreizen

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The October issue of Divorce Guide Magazine is here. 🍁⁠
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Inside this issue:⁠
💜 The part of healing nobody prepares you for⁠
🤝 The trust you have to find in yourself before you can ask for it from others⁠
📖 A divorce coming-of-adulthood novel spotlighted on Divorce Happens⁠
📋 The checklist that turns chaos into a plan⁠
💭 Figuring out what you value, now that it's just you⁠
👨‍👩‍👧 A podcast feature on single-parenting with connection, not perfection⁠
🧭 Choosing a vision instead of just reacting⁠
⚖️ The mediation risk no one warns you about⁠
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Whatever season of rebuilding you're in, this issue meets you there.⁠
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Always free at DivorceGuideMagazine.com — or purchase a beautiful print edition on the website. ⁠
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Divorce Guide Magazine is the national voice for modern divorce. 🗞️⁠
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#DivorceGuideMagazine #DGM #DivorceSupport by @genevievedreizen

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14 days ago

I accidentally unpinned my last intro post so let’s do this again, we’ve got some updates anyway. Please excuse the typos. I am on a train. by @genevievedreizen

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4 months ago

Sometimes a fresh start begins when you stop living by someone else’s expectations and start creating a life that feels like your own. ✨💕

For Genevieve Driezen, that journey meant stepping away from the life she thought she was supposed to have and embracing the courage to build something new. After a major life transition led her to question what she truly wanted, Genevieve found herself creating a new chapter in Scotland, finding love, and founding Fresh Starts Registry- a business inspired by the beauty and possibility of new beginnings.

Her story is a powerful reminder that you don’t have to follow the path everyone else recognizes. You can let go of old expectations, trust your own decisions, and create a future that reflects who you truly are. Sometimes, the most beautiful beginnings come after we give ourselves permission to start over. ✨💕

🎧 To listen to the full episode, check it out on YouTube! Out now: Bring Your Big Energy: S4,E10 Stop Trying to Graduate Life with Honors by @genevievedreizen

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Wow… the time to share this is really here 🤯 Excited to announce the official lineup for Season 1 of A Soft Place to Land!

From Minnesota to Illinois, Amsterdam to Scotland, it has been an absolute honor to sit with these nine incredible human beings. To be trusted with someone’s hard seasons; their detours, heartbreaks, reinventions, and wins, whether big or small, is a gift I will never ever take for granted.

Episode 1 hasn’t even officially dropped yet, and my heart is already so full with gratitude and purpose.

Swipe through to meet the voices carrying us through Season 1:

✨ Ep. 1: Shelby Larson
✨ Ep. 2: Hilary Ward
✨ Ep. 3: Antwan Taylor
✨ Ep. 4: Genevieve Dreizen
✨ Ep. 5: Annie Lux
✨ Ep. 6: Vasily Yurenkov
✨ Ep. 7: Kiersten Case
✨ Ep. 8: Andrea Pettaway
✨ Ep. 9: Stori Luft

Episode 1 officially drops tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM CST. Tap the link in bio to subscribe so you don’t miss the premiere.

Thank you for being here, and welcome to your soft place to land… 🤎 by @genevievedreizen

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Me making a relatable statement about why the way we talk about things in public is important and implicitly saying marriage/long term relationships shouldn’t be “hard” and that contempt is actually not a necessary element of a marriage situation. Versus me making a very Liz Lemon statement about cheese. by @genevievedreizen

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Sometimes we all need a little motivation to get through the week—so swipe through for your gentle reminders. 💛⁠
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Save the ones that feel like a warm hand on your back, and don’t forget to screenshot your favorites for the moments you need them most. by @genevievedreizen

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Sometimes I look at Fresh Starts and think: this is absolutely wild.

Because this started as a journal entry. I had just gotten divorced, and I wrote down what I wished had existed for me.

I wanted to eliminate some of the overwhelmingness of divorce.

I wanted people to be able to find vetted experts without having to Google their way through one of the hardest moments of their lives.

And I wanted there to be a divorce registry — a completely free way for someone starting over to say, Hey, I need help rebuilding my home and my life.

There wasn’t one. So Jenny and I built the first one.

Literally, the world’s first divorce registry. 🤯

And somehow, that little journal entry has grown into something so much bigger than I could have imagined.

We now have the only divorce magazine in America.
A top-ranked divorce podcast.
A book about divorce coming next year.

More than 200 Divorce Registry Fairies — actual human beings who buy things off strangers’ divorce registries simply because they want someone going through a hard time to know that another person sees them.

And, yes, I am going to keep saying it: stay tuned for the television show. 🫢

At some point, Fresh Starts stopped being just a divorce registry and became what I can only describe as a media empire entirely devoted to changing the way we talk about, support, educate around, and move through divorce.

And we are still doing the exact thing I wrote down at the very beginning.

Make divorce less overwhelming. Help people find the right support. Make starting over feel a little less lonely.

I am so fucking proud of what Jenny and I have built.

And I am endlessly grateful to every expert, Registry Fairy, reader, listener, friend, journalist, partner, team member, and person who has said, Yes, this should exist.

It does now.

And there is so, so much more coming. 🩷

#freshstartsregistry #freshstartregistry #divorceregistry by @genevievedreizen

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9 days ago

It's officially cozy season — and the October issue of Divorce Guide Magazine is here to meet you with it. 🍂☕⁠
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This issue covers:⁠
💜 The part of healing nobody prepares you for⁠
🤝 Finding the self-trust to ask for support, before you can lean on anyone else⁠
📖 A coming-of-adulthood novel, spotlighted on Divorce Happens⁠
📋 A checklist to turn chaos into a plan⁠
💭 Figuring out what you value, now that it's just you⁠
👨‍👩‍👧 Single-parenting with connection — not perfection⁠
🧭 Choosing a vision instead of just reacting⁠
⚖️ The mediation risk nobody warns you about⁠
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Pour something warm, curl up, and dig in.⁠
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Always free at DivorceGuideMagazine.com — or purchase a beautiful print edition on the website. ⁠
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Divorce Guide Magazine is the national voice for modern divorce.⁠
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#FreshStartsRegistry #FreshStartRegistry #DivorceGuide by @genevievedreizen

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9 days ago

To answer the question: yes we have always been like this. by @genevievedreizen

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9 days ago

Sometimes we all need a little motivation to get through the week—so swipe through for your gentle reminders. 🧡⁠
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Save the ones that feel like a warm hand on your back, and don’t forget to screenshot your favorites for the moments you need them most.⁠ by @genevievedreizen

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12 days ago

Five years since I stumbled out of the baggage claim at Edinburgh airport, leaning on my big red suitcase because my knees were knocking. He was there with a coffee to share and arms to hold me. Grateful he’s never let go and still brings me coffee. by @genevievedreizen

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