Beth Shuey’s name first reached a national audience through her marriage to NFL head coach Sean Payton. But the more current answer to who her husband is today points to a real estate broker in Raleigh, North Carolina — and a chapter of her life that has nothing to do with football.
Here is the full story, from Indiana to the Super Bowl to a second marriage and a ministry that operates entirely debt-free.
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A Small Town, a Marketing Degree, and Indianapolis
Beth Shuey was born in 1968 in Morocco, Indiana, a small Newton County town. She grew up there with her parents, Thomas Milton Shuey and Joyce Antcliff Shuey, alongside her sister Debbie Shuey Doyle.
She graduated from North Newton Junior-Senior High School in 1986 and went on to Indiana State University in Terre Haute, earning a bachelor’s degree in marketing. After graduating, she moved to Indianapolis and worked in business sales — and that move brought her into the same world as a young coach just starting out.
How Beth Shuey Met Sean Payton
In 1990, Sean Payton joined Indiana State University as a running back and wide receivers coach. Beth was in the area, connected to the university, and the two met on campus. They began dating, and on July 11, 1992, they married.
Twenty-Two Years as an NFL Household
The marriage played out across nearly two and a half decades and several cities as Sean’s coaching career climbed steadily through the NFL ranks.
Key moments across those years:
- 1997 — Daughter Meghan Payton born on March 21 in Philadelphia, while Sean was on the Eagles coaching staff
- 2000 — Son Connor Payton born on May 31 during Sean’s time as quarterback coach for the New York Giants
- 2006 — Sean named head coach of the New Orleans Saints; the family relocated to Mandeville, Louisiana
- February 7, 2010 — The Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV in Miami
Beth was present through all of it. Every relocation, every season, every transition.
Bountygate, a Season-Long Suspension, and the End of the Marriage
The years after the Super Bowl win brought a very different kind of pressure.
From 2009 to 2011, the New Orleans Saints ran an illegal bounty program — players received cash payments for injuring opposing players. The NFL publicly announced its findings on March 2, 2012, and the punishment for Sean Payton was severe.
He was suspended for the entire 2012 NFL season without pay. According to ESPN and Wikipedia’s documented record of the scandal, it was the first time a head coach had been suspended since Chuck Fairbanks in 1978. The Saints organization was also fined $500,000 and lost second-round draft picks in both 2012 and 2013. Payton was reinstated on January 22, 2013.
During his suspension, Payton returned to Argyle, Texas, where he coached his son Connor’s sixth-grade football team at Liberty Christian School. That real-life stretch became the basis for the 2022 Netflix film Home Team.
The marriage did not survive what came before it. In June 2012, shortly before their 20th anniversary, Beth and Sean filed for divorce at a Tarrant County, Texas court. The petition described the reason as “discord or conflict of personalities between Petitioner and Respondent that destroys the legitimate ends of the marriage relationship and prevents any reasonable expectation of reconciliation.”
Beth sought sole physical custody of the children, the right to determine where they would live, child support, and payment of medical expenses. Sean requested joint custody and a private settlement of their assets. The process ran for nearly two years.
The divorce was finalized in 2014.
Sean returned to Louisiana to resume coaching with the Saints. Meghan and Connor remained in Texas with Beth.
Beth Shuey’s Husband Today: Jamie McGuire
Six years after the divorce was finalized, Beth remarried. On September 20, 2020, she wed Jamie McGuire, a real estate broker based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Who Is Jamie McGuire?
Jamie has worked in real estate for over 20 years as a broker with The Jim Allen Group, a Coldwell Banker affiliate that holds the rank of number one Coldwell Banker team in North America. He specializes in properties across the Triangle area of North Carolina, with a particular focus on golf course community homes.
Outside of work, Jamie volunteers at the Raleigh Dream Center, a community organization running addiction recovery programs, a food warehouse, and a mobile food pantry delivering essentials to neighborhoods across the Raleigh area.
In his own words, from his official Jim Allen Group profile: “My wife Beth and my 2 daughters Maggie and Molly are the 3 girls that keep me going.”
Those daughters — Maggie and Molly McGuire — came from a previous relationship. Beth’s children, Meghan and Connor, complete the household.
Where they live: Raleigh, North Carolina. Their free time runs toward hiking and exploring the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Netflix connection: In Home Team, the character representing Jamie is played by Rob Schneider.
Beautiful Ashes — The Book and the Active Ministry
After the divorce, Beth served as a Divorce Care Leader and one-on-one Care Coach at Cross Timbers Church in Argyle, Texas, and worked as a Court Appointed Special Advocate. Both roles placed her directly alongside people in the middle of painful life transitions.
In September 2022, she co-authored a 140-page book titled Beautiful Ashes with her friend Victor Fadool, published through Beautiful Ashes Book, LLC (ISBN: 9798986848334). The book falls under the Religion/General category and centers on rebuilding through faith after personal loss.
That book became the foundation for Beautiful Ashes Ministries, which runs at beautifulashesministries.org and remains fully active as of March 2026.
What the ministry actually does:
- Hosts retreats for women near Mineral Wells, Texas, just outside Dallas-Fort Worth — a city recognized as the wellness capital of Texas
- Retreats run with limited cell service, creating a deliberate separation from outside noise
- Sessions include Scripture meditation, journaling, prayer walks, bonfires, praise and worship, and chef-prepared meals
- Every attendee is fully sponsored — no participant pays to attend; all costs are covered through alumni donations and supporters
- Year-round local workshops are led by Emily Fadool, LPC-S (a clinical program manager at The Menninger Clinic in Houston) and Jayme Dixon, a Bible teacher
- The ministry also runs a podcast and a growing alumni network
Where Meghan and Connor Are in 2026
Both of Beth’s children have stayed tied to the sports world.
Meghan Payton graduated from Pepperdine University in 2019 with a degree in Media Production and Sports Broadcasting. She interned at the NFL Network, worked as a Saints preseason sideline reporter, and built a career that has included Fox Sports, FanDuel TV, the Action Network, and SportsGrid. She is an Emmy Award-winning producer for her work on an NFL 100 show. In June 2025, she officially joined Cllct Media.
She is married to Christopher Titone, a comedy writer and director who is also the man who co-wrote the screenplay for Home Team — the Netflix film based on the Payton family’s own story.
Connor Payton attended Liberty Christian School in Argyle, played football for the team his father coached during the 2012 suspension, and appeared in Home Team (2022). He works in the Saints Scouting Department and has spoken about building a long-term career in an NFL front office. He stays deliberately out of the spotlight.
Sean Payton moved on to coach the Denver Broncos and married former Miss West Virginia Skylene Montgomery on June 21, 2021. Beth Shuey McGuire is in Raleigh, running women’s retreats in Mineral Wells where every participant walks through the door fully sponsored by people who already found their own way through.
That, not the Super Bowl or the Bountygate headlines, is the chapter that defines who Beth Shuey is in 2026.
Sources: Google Books (Beautiful Ashes, ISBN 9798986848334), beautifulashesministries.org, The Cinemaholic, ESPN, Wikipedia (New Orleans Saints Bounty Scandal), Sports Illustrated, The Jim Allen Group (jimallen.com), Yahoo Sports, EssentiallySports.
