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UK True Crime Podcast

Selling the Dream: Episode 414

UK True Crime Podcast

UK True Crime Podcast

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.42.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The dream of owning property in The Caribbean plus gaining a large financial gain on your investment. For many of us it is the dream. And Essex businessman David Ames played on this as he lured investors with the promise of a Caribbean dream, but, the reality was a fraud he perpetrated which left thousands with the nightmare of losing life-savings and pensions.

Through glossy brochures, slick marketing events and the pulling power of so-called celebrities, he persuaded people to invest in off-plan holiday cabanas and apartments across the Caribbean and in Brazil. They lost everything whilst he and his family lived a life of luxury.


This week, I look at the scandal of Harlequin Properties.


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We all have our fears, don't we?

0:37.0

I've one pretty common one, which is Heights.

0:40.0

And recently, Milan, I was persuaded to climb to the top of the cathedral via the stairs rather than the outside like Superman I should add.

0:48.0

And looking down, oh my goodness, it made me push back as far as I could and I felt very very strange.

0:54.0

The other less common fear I have is corks on bottles of champagne or similar.

0:59.0

I've no idea at all why.

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And as we approached this time of year, Halloween lets us have fun with what scares us. But what about those fears that don't involve zombies and ghosts? Those fears that we soften don't face as tall.

1:13.0

Therapy is a great way to face those fears we all have

1:17.0

and most importantly, figure out ways to overcome them.

1:20.0

A simple example of this might be if you feel you're struggling to be yourself at work.

1:25.0

Maybe you don't feel confident with your boss or a co-worker.

1:28.0

Therapy can really help you work on strategies to deal with the situation. Therapy can help all of us with these daily struggles that we all face.

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