How to Co-Parent Without Losing Your Mind or Your Kids featuring Sol Kennedy

Sol Kennedy, founder of Best Interest and host of the Co-Parenting Beyond Conflict podcast, reveals how his own traumatic childhood—marked by a codependent father and a controlling mother—shaped his adult relationships and led to a marriage that mirrored his family’s dysfunction. After years of emotional suppression and codependency, a moment of anxiety triggered by a co-parenting app notification became the catalyst for building an AI-powered solution designed to prevent conflict before it escalates. Unlike traditional co-parenting apps that serve as court-ready evidence logs, Best Interest uses AI to filter out emotional language, enforce personal boundaries, and shield users from reactive communication—essentially acting as an 'AI bodyguard.' Sol argues that men, in particular, are at risk in family court due to societal conditioning that equates anger with strength, when in reality, emotional regulation is the key to protecting both custody rights and mental health. He emphasizes that the most powerful tool isn’t a lawyer, but a divorce coach and therapist—especially one who teaches somatic awareness, where emotions are felt in the body and processed through presence, not reaction.