Live, Laugh, Lie
Scamfluencers
Wondery
4.1 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
As a young girl growing up in Michigan, Gina Champion-Cain dreams of becoming a business woman. After she moves to San Diego, she makes a name for herself as one of the city’s most influential developers. She appears on magazine covers and takes credit for revitalizing downtown. When she starts shilling loans for liquor licenses, investors think it’s a slam-dunk… until they discover the entire scheme is built on a lie.
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| 0:07.0 | Sachi, would you say we're kind of experts in girl bosses? |
| 0:16.7 | Yeah, I think that's how we got here, right? |
| 0:19.1 | Okay, do you think there's like a world in which you could have capitalized on leaning |
| 0:24.5 | in? |
| 0:25.5 | I had a job a couple of jobs ago and when I started, my boss made me read lean in. |
| 0:31.5 | And then you're like, I'm going to do the opposite. |
| 0:34.2 | Yeah, I think he wanted me to lean in and I so resented the suggestion that I even try |
| 0:42.0 | that it made me lean out. |
| 0:43.6 | Well, this scammer I'm going to tell you about really leaned in like a little bit too |
| 0:49.4 | much. |
| 0:50.4 | Get ready for one of the most convoluted girl boss scams we have ever covered. |
| 0:55.9 | On a sunny afternoon around 2016, Gina champion Cain sits down at a Michelin |
| 1:03.0 | starred restaurant in Napa Valley. |
| 1:05.5 | Gina is a successful real estate developer in San Diego. |
| 1:09.4 | She's used to wheeling and dealing at work lunches like this one. |
| 1:12.9 | She's in her early 50s with long black hair, a megawatt smile, and the permatanned skin |
| 1:18.5 | of someone who spends every spare minute on the golf course. |
| 1:22.6 | Jim Peterson sits across from her. |
| 1:25.0 | Kim's got a large forehead and a white mustache. |
| 1:28.0 | He met Gina at a real estate conference a few years earlier. |
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