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Women in Money Podcasts.

Suzy Orman here. Welcome to the Women in Money Podcasts as well as the Men's Smart

Enough to Listen. Today, I want to circle back and talk about a topic that's very near in

dear to my heart and that many of the listeners of the Women in Money Podcasts are responding to

big time and that's the topic of financial abuse. Still to this day, when I talk to people

about financial abuse, they so often still say to me, what is that? What is that? And if you

listen to past podcasts over the first and second season, we are now in the third season

of the Women in Money Podcasts. You will hear the definition of it. You will hear stories of women.

You will understand far more about it. And I just want to read an email that I got today

because it is possible to heal from abuse, whether it is physical, emotional, verbal,

psychological or financial abuse. It is absolutely possible to cure yourself from it,

to change the situation around. But you first have to know if you're in that situation, believe it

or not, to know that you need to get out of it. You know, when you're in a relationship,

where you are physically abused, oh, you know you're being physically abused. You know when you

are being verbally abused. What you normally do not know is that you are being financially abused.

And this all started for me over a year ago when Avon and the National Domestic Violence Hotline

asked me to interview seven women who had survived domestic violence. Every one of them had been

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