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Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)

Survivors of Financial Abuse: A Conversation With Leslie

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)

Suze Orman Media

Investing, Business

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

One of the main focuses of the Women and Money Podcast is shining the light on financial abuse. About a year ago, The National Domestic Abuse Hotline teamed up with Avon and asked Suze to speak with several survivors.  

Recently, we presented some of those conversations here on the Women and Money Podcast. Today’s is with Leslie. 

If you are suffering abuse of any kind, you can visit the following resources:

The National Domestic Violence Hotline

Purple Purse


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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. I want you all to take advantage of the incredible interest rates that a

0:05.7

Lyon Credit Union is currently offering 4.5% for a three-month certificate, 4.75% for a six-month

0:15.2

certificate. But best of all, in my opinion, is 5% for a one-year certificate of deposit.

0:24.4

You can also purchase these in a retirement account. So go to my

0:29.9

alliance, alilant.com slash ultimate and check it out now.

0:53.9

If you want to get your life, then you have come to the right place.

1:24.8

As you know, one of the main topics that I am focusing really my entire life on right now

1:35.5

is financial abuse. So many people still have no idea what the definition of financial abuse

1:44.2

happens to be. The National Domestic Violence Hotline

1:48.8

joined forces with Avon and they asked me would I interview seven women who have survived

1:56.4

domestic abuse? And I said, of course I would. So I am going to play those interviews for you

2:04.4

over the next few weeks and few months. So on this episode, we will hear from Leslie.

2:13.5

So Leslie, girlfriend, tell us your story. So I was about 24 years old, a couple of years out of

2:19.7

college and one day I was going to the hairdresser and as I was walking in, I met this guy outside

2:27.2

in the parking lot. So the time he was a painter, so he's putting his supplies up and somehow we just

2:32.8

struck a conversation. And so from then on, I just found him charming and he's cute. And he looked

2:40.5

around my age or maybe about five years older than me. And so we exchanged numbers and he called

2:46.2

me a couple of days later and we just started talking and seemed like we had kind of similar

2:50.7

personalities. Typical dating type. Yeah, no big deal. Yeah, no big deal. And so we started going

2:55.6

out maybe about a week or two later, he revealed that he was actually 39 and not 29. And at first,

3:04.0

I was like, I don't know, you know, that's a little old for me at 24. But you know, there was just

3:10.0

something about him that he was that guy that's like, I'll take you out, wine and then dying you,

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