When you open your bank account, what is the number made of?

Is it all money you've earned from working?

Is some of it from your parents or other family members?

Maybe some of it is child support or from a partner you share money with.

Maybe some is from a loved one who died.

The money we have is made of stories. Some we're proud of, others we feel

more complicated about. Recently we got a voice memo from a listener who got a large amount

of money from a settlement that made national news a few years ago.

Hi Anna, hi sex, and money.

I'm sending a voice memo to propose a topic.

I have questions and things to share about receiving a lot of money as the result of a settlement

as the result of trauma. as the result of trauma.

I wonder how people manage this money, what they do with it, how they feel with it,

if it's healing, if it's triggering, all these things.

I myself got over a million dollars after being sexually assaulted by a gynecologist at USC,

which assaulted many other patients.

And I got all kinds of feelings and thoughts about becoming much richer out of a very bad experience.

When we got this voice memo, I remembered this news story but had to look up the details again.

In 2018, the LA Times published an investigation into Dr. George Tyndall, a gynecologist at the University

of Southern California, finding that he had sexually abused hundreds of student patients

dating back as far as the 1990s. USC was accused of knowing about his behavior and still allowing him to see student patients,

some of whom, like our listener, were abused just a few years before Dr. Tyndall was asked to quietly resign in 2017.

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