Gabriella Pomare is an award-winning author, family lawyer, international keynote speaker, podcast host and media commentator whose work sits at the intersection of modern relationships, communication, conflict and human behaviour.

For close to two decades, Gabriella has built a career spanning family law, business, writing, television, radio, podcasting, speaking and thought leadership.

Her work has been recognised in Australia and internationally through legal, business and thought-leadership awards, while her commentary on relationships, separation, co-parenting, family law and modern family life has appeared across major television, radio, print and digital platforms.

This page brings together selected media appearances, awards and professional recognition from across that work.

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Gabriella is regularly invited to provide commentary on the issues shaping modern relationships and families.

Her media work draws on close to two decades in family law alongside her broader work as an author, relationship expert, speaker and host of Before It Breaks.

She provides clear, accessible commentary across:

• modern relationships;
• dating and relationship trends;
• marriage and separation;
• emotional affairs and infidelity;
• relationship burnout and resentment;
• motherhood and mental load;
• family law;
• divorce;
• parenting after separation;
• co-parenting;
• blended families;
• celebrity relationships and divorce;
• work and relationships;
• social media and modern love;
• AI, dating and intimacy; and
• changing expectations of relationships and family life.

Gabriella has appeared across Australian and international television discussing relationships, family law, separation, co-parenting and contemporary family life.

Selected appearances include:

NBC News Daily New York

Good Day New York

CBS / KCAL Los Angeles

Good Day LA

Pix 11

Good Day DC

Good Day Sacramento

Bloom TV

Morning Blend

Fox 32 Chicago

ABC Talk of Alabama

DC News Now Living Local

FOX 5 Atlanta

FOX 2 San Francisco

FOX 24 News Now

ABC Your California Life

KSAT SA Live

Margie’s Mindset

FOX 4 DC In the Courts

TVNZ Breakfast

KATU Afternoon Live

KFOR News 4

Today Extra Australia

The Morning Show

SBS Insight

Her television commentary ranges from breaking relationship and family-law stories to longer conversations about co-parenting, marriage, dating, modern relationship culture and the way technology is changing intimacy.

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Gabriella's commentary has also appeared across Australian and international radio, print and digital publications.

Selected media includes:

ABC Radio

3AW Melbourne

The Australian

Marie Claire Australia

The Guardian

Forbes

Take 5

Mamamia

Kiss FM

USA Today

MSN

Body & Soul

Her media approach combines professional authority with accessible, contemporary commentary designed to make complicated legal, relational and cultural issues understandable to a broad audience.

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Gabriella's work across family law, communication, relationships and thought leadership has been recognised through Australian and international awards.

Thought Leader of the Year

Recognising Gabriella's broader body of work across relationships, communication, books, media, podcasting and public thought leadership.

Thought Leadership Excellence

International recognition for Gabriella's work translating professional expertise into broader conversations about relationships, communication, conflict and modern family life.

Top 50 Leading Female Lawyers — 2026

Recognition of Gabriella's leadership and contribution to the legal profession.

Family Law Finalist — 2026

Part of a continuing run of recognition as a finalist in the Family Law Partner of the Year category from 2022 to 2026.

Finalist — 2026

Gabriella was selected as a finalist for two Before It Breaks entries:

Before It Breaks: Redefining How We Understand Relationships, Conflict and Family

and

Before It Breaks: The Voice Rewriting Modern Relationships

Most Influential Family Law Changemaker — 2026

Recognition of Gabriella's work across family law, relationships, communication and public education.

Top 50 Leading Female Lawyers — 2024

Partner of the Year — SME Finalist, 2023–2025

Family Law Finalist, 2022–2026

Rising Star Finalist — 2020

Finalist — 2019

Awards are only one measure of a career.

For Gabriella, the significance lies less in the trophy or finalist badge and more in what the recognition represents: the evolution of work that began inside family law and has increasingly moved into much broader conversations about how people communicate, navigate conflict, build relationships and respond when life changes.

Over time, Gabriella's work has expanded from legal practice into books, podcasting, keynote speaking, international media and relationship commentary.

That growth has been driven by one central question: What can we learn from breakdown before we reach it? The answer now shapes Gabriella's work across relationships, workplaces, leadership, family life and communication. 

Gabriella's perspective has been shaped by close to two decades working with people navigating some of the most emotionally charged moments of their lives.

Family law gave her a view into what happens when communication fails, resentment becomes entrenched, relationships fracture and people are required to negotiate fear, identity, children, money, uncertainty and major change.

Increasingly, Gabriella's work asks how those lessons can be used earlier.

Through her books, speaking, media and podcast, she explores:

• communication before conflict becomes crisis;
• why people avoid difficult conversations;
• how resentment develops;
• how fear influences communication and decision-making;
• why relationships break down quietly;
• what conflict teaches us about human behaviour;
• how relationships and workplaces mirror one another;
• the impact of ambition, burnout and mental load;
• how technology is changing modern relationships; and
• what meaningful repair can require.

Published by Simon & Schuster, Before It Breaks explores the quieter stages of relationship change — emotional disconnection, resentment, motherhood, work, emotional affairs, technology, staying, leaving and repair.

Rather than beginning at separation, the book asks: What happened before it broke?

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Gabriella's first book explores what happens after separation.

Built around her Collaborative Co-Parent philosophy and Four Pillars of Communication — Listen. Pause. Reflect. Respond. — the book provides separated parents with a practical framework for communicating differently, reducing unnecessary conflict and keeping children at the centre without placing them in the middle.

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Gabriella speaks in Australia and internationally across corporate, professional, legal, relationship and women's leadership audiences.

Her speaking sits at the intersection of:Communication. Conflict. Relationships. Human behaviour. 

Her signature keynotes include:

The Conversations That Change Everything

The Four Pillars of Better Communication

What a Family Lawyer Can Teach Us About Human Behaviour

The Cost of Avoiding Difficult Conversations

Her speaking experience includes international women-in-business engagements in the United States, professional conferences and legal and industry events.

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Gabriella is the creator and host of Before It Breaks, a podcast exploring modern relationships and the period before breakdown.

Through solo episodes, listener questions and conversations with guests, the podcast examines emotional affairs, resentment, relationship burnout, motherhood, work, intimacy, dating, technology, separation and repair.

The show extends the central idea behind Gabriella's broader work:

the conversations people often have too late.

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Gabriella Pomare is an award-winning Australian author, relationship expert, family lawyer, international keynote speaker, podcast host and media commentator.

For close to two decades, her work in family law has placed her inside complex relationship and family conflict, giving her a distinctive perspective on communication, human behaviour, negotiation and what happens when relationships reach breaking point.

Today, Gabriella takes those lessons beyond the courtroom through her books, keynote speaking, media commentary and Before It Breaks podcast.

Her work has received recognition in Australia and internationally, including awards for thought leadership and recognition among Australia's leading female lawyers.

She regularly provides commentary across television, radio, print, podcasts and digital media on modern relationships, dating, separation, co-parenting, family law and the cultural forces shaping contemporary family life.