Survivors of Financial Abuse: A Conversation With Vicky May
Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Suze Orman Media
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🗓️ 3 November 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
One of the main focuses of the Women and Money Podcast is shining the light on financial abuse. In 2018, The National Domestic Abuse Hotline teamed up with Avon and asked Suze to speak with several survivors.
We have been releasing encore presentations of these conversations, and on this episode, we share Suze’s conversation with Vicky May.
If you are suffering abuse of any kind, you can visit the following resources:
The National Domestic Violence Hotline
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| 1:11.6 | As you know, a big part of the Women in Money Podcast is dedicated to financial abuse. |
| 1:19.4 | Once again, everywhere I go and I talk to somebody about financial abuse, I am still asked to this |
| 1:29.0 | day, what is that? My God, that's my situation. I never knew that there was a name for it. I just |
| 1:36.2 | thought it was normal. So I'm going to continue to play interviews with women who survived financial |
| 1:43.4 | abuse. So today's interview is with the woman by the name of Vicki May. And Vicki now is 44-45. |
| 1:53.3 | And when I say she is an incredible woman, I'm really putting it mildly. She has this fabulous |
| 2:01.2 | positive spirit and I loved the time that I spent with her. Let me tell you a little bit what |
| 2:09.2 | Vicki says in her own words. She said that her abuser forbid her to work for anyone but him |
| 2:17.6 | and would not allow her to make her own money. He refused to give her money to pay for necessities. |
| 2:24.9 | He closely watched how she spent every penny. What does her take away? For all of you, |
| 2:32.5 | look for red flags such as being domineering, limiting access to family and keeping you in the dark. |
| 2:40.8 | I won't tell you anymore because Vicki in this interview should tell you what she went through. |
| 2:48.9 | But I play these interviews for you because I want you to hear them in case you are in that situation, |
| 2:56.6 | in case you don't know quite what to do or you have friends that are in that situation. |
| 3:02.6 | But too many women today as well as men by the way are being financially abused. |
| 3:12.3 | We have to put an end to it. So let's start right here by listening to Vicki. |
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