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What Came Next

4: [Ron Schnackenberg - Netflix's Dirty Money] View From the Top

What Came Next

Broken Cycle Media

Documentary, Education, True Crime, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.4627 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

*Content warning: This episode includes discussion of coercive control, professional abuse, and financial fraud.

Ron Schnackenberg is a father, husband, pilot, and business leader who appeared in Netflix’s Dirty Money. Ron’s rocky experience as a salesperson at Trump University only lasted eight months, but his resulting advocacy for fraud & professional abuse victims has continued over the last decade and a half.

For free and confidential resources, please visit: somethingwaswrong.com/resources 

Sources: 

Netflix’s Dirty Money
https://www.netflix.com/title/80118100

Ron’s LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/schnack23

ABC News on the Trump University settlement
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-finalizes-25-million-settlement-victims-donald-trumps/story?id=54347237

USA Today on Trump University
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/04/10/trump-university-settlement-judge-finalized/502387002/

Transcript

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0:00.0

What came next is intended for mature audiences only.

0:03.9

Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering, such as emotional, physical, and sexual

0:08.3

violence, suicide, and murder.

0:10.9

I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor.

0:14.2

If you're in need of support, please visit Something Was Wrong.com forward slash resources

0:18.7

for a list of non-profit organizations that can help.

0:22.2

Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent

0:27.0

the views of myself or broken cycle media. Resources and source material are linked in the

0:32.6

episode notes. Thank you so much for listening.

0:44.3

Ron Schnackenberg is a father, husband, pilot, and business leader residing in New York.

0:50.3

His rocky experience as a salesperson at Trump University only lasted eight months.

0:56.4

But Ron's resulting career in advocacy for fraud and professional abuse victims has continued over the last decade and a half. Stay tuned to find out what came next for Ron

1:02.7

after ending his toxic working relationship with the fraudulent company of the former

1:07.8

president of the United States of America.

1:38.3

Thank you. of the former president of the United States of America. I'm a proud girl dad to two wonderful daughters. Almost 13 year old and going on six year old, they're amazing and they keep me going every day, and married to the same amazing person, Celeste, over the last 17 years.

1:50.0

It's crazy that she has stuck it out with me this long. Credit is all to her. I like to spend a lot of time with my family.

1:57.2

Outside of that, I love to be outdoors playing golf, skiing.

2:01.6

I've fairly recently learned how to fly airplanes, and so that's now a really, really big hobby for me.

2:06.6

We took our first family vacation in the airplane for Thanksgiving. We went back to Colorado. I'm originally from Steamboat Springs.

2:14.6

It was fun landing at my home airport to visit some family for Thanksgiving.

2:19.5

That was kind of a childhood dream of mine as piloting my own plane. I was very early in my career.

2:24.6

It was my second corporate gig. I had previously spent a couple years at the University of Phoenix

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