Episode 216: Find Me the Money! with Tracy Coenen
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Tracy Coenen returns to the show to talk about hidden money, secret spending, and how to win the money you deserve in your divorce. Tracy is a forensic accountant and has been investigating fraud for more than 25 years. She finds money in corporate fraud cases, high-net-worth divorces, and other financial shenanigans. In this episode, she shares information about the ways money can be hidden and how to assert your autonomy, take control, and reach a fair and deserved settlement.
Featured topics include:
- Why it is important to be mindful of the language used around money and divorce. (4:16)
- Tracy talks about her new book, Find Me The Money!, and how it aims to empower women to win a fair divorce settlement. (7:39)
- How to know if your spouse is hiding money, and some ways money can be hidden (such as a secret credit card) (9:59)
- The five secret thieves of divorce: shame, betrayal, isolation, insecurity, and overwhelm (15:06)
- Innocent spouse relief: what it means and how it plays into the divorce process (26:20)
- How to reconcile winning the money you deserve versus the hurdles you'll need to jump to win it - is it worth it? (35:19)
Learn more about Tracy Coenen:
Tracy Coenen has been investigating fraud for more than 25 years, but she didn't always want to be a forensic accountant. With a dream of one day being a prison warden, Tracy went to Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI to get a criminology degree. A class on financial crime investigations reminded her how much she loved Encyclopedia Brown books as a kid. She continued her criminology degree, but added accounting and economics courses so she could sit for the CPA exam… and here Tracy is, finding money in cases of corporate fraud, high net worth divorce, and other financial shenanigans.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:45.5 | Hey everyone, welcome back. I'm excited today to have back on the show Tracy Conan and Tracy and I are having a conversation today about |
| 0:59.2 | finding hidden money. She has a new book out called Find Me the Money, and it's all about |
| 1:04.7 | how to be your own forensic accountant, but also where to look, how to look. |
| 1:13.2 | Lots of great information here. |
| 1:18.4 | So Tracy herself has been investigating fraud for more than 25 years. |
| 1:22.2 | Interestingly enough, she didn't always want to be a forensic accountant. |
| 1:25.0 | She actually wanted to be a prison warden. |
| 1:31.3 | And so with that in mind, she got a degree in criminology. And then it was a class on financial crime investigations that reminded her how much she loved |
| 1:37.3 | Encyclopedia Brown when she was a kid. And so she continued her criminology degree, but added accounting and economics to it and became a CPA. |
| 1:47.8 | And then here she is, combining all of those loves, finding money in cases of corporate fraud, high net worth divorce, and other financial shenanigans. |
| 1:57.2 | Before I give you my conversation with Tracy Conan, I just want to remind you that this coming Friday, Friday, May 12th at 11 a.m. Pacific, 2 p.m. Eastern. I am co-hosting a screening of the film split up the teen years with Christina McGee and award-winning filmmaker Ellen Bruno. You can get tickets to that event. It's a one-time event. |
| 2:21.2 | There will not be a replay, but you can get tickets at kateanthony.com slash split. And without further ado, |
| 2:28.3 | here is my conversation with Tracy Conan. |
| 2:36.1 | Tracy, thank you so much for coming back onto the podcast. |
| 2:40.8 | Always a pleasure. |
| 2:42.6 | I am so happy to be back again. |
| 2:44.3 | I love that I have enough to talk about that we can have a repeat performance |
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