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Thank you so much for listening. Tracy Hall is a mother, author, speaker, business marketing expert, and victim of financial and intimate fraud from Australia.

After a series of traumatic events and life changes, Tracy found herself unexpectedly single in her early 40s.

Although she had a full life, she sought an activity partner to grow with. That's when

she met Max Tevita, a Bondi beach businessman with an active lifestyle and a deepening love for Tracy.

Over the next year and a half, he would carefully cultivate a relationship that promised to

fulfill all of Tracy's romantic, personal, and even financial dreams.

However, it would all come toppling down upon his December 2017 arrest,

which brought the realization that Max, whose real name was Hamish, wasn't who he said he was.

Since navigating a long criminal justice process and sharing her story via podcast, book, and beyond, Tracy has made it her mission to bring awareness to the intricacies and stigmas of intimate fraud. The Broken Cycle Media team is immensely grateful for Tracy's openness, expertise, and advocacy in the following two episodes.

My name is Tracy Hall. These days, I am an author, a speaker, an educator and an advocate for victims of scams and fraud,

particularly intimate fraud.

But prior to that, I spent 25 years in corporate marketing, mostly working for US-based

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