Ep. 38. Rebekah Jacobs: My Father Ran a Ponzi scheme.

Grief Is My Side Hustle

Join me as I talk with Rebekah Jacobs about surviving the destructive force that was her father who ran a Ponzi scheme and swindled friends and family and left her and her mother and brother financially and emotional bereft before landing himself in jail for fifteen years. You won't want to miss the discussion. Rebekah Jacobs is a writer, reading specialist, and book reviewer. She lives outside of DC with her hubby, 3 kiddos (a teen, a tween, and a preschooler), plus a pandemic puppy. Rebekah's article: https://www.kveller.com/like-bernie-madoff-my-dad-ran-a-ponzi-scheme-heres-why-we-shouldnt-mourn-their-deaths/ Notes to us from Rebekah! Books we discussed during the episode: (that I can remember off the top of my head): Knock At Midnight Inheritance Wild Game Somebody's Daughter The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone in Between Other amazing memoirs about narcissists and/or embezzlers that I have read (and may help readers who have have experienced disenfranchised grief- ) Duped Nowhere Girl The Sociopath Next Door The End of Normal (Mark Madoff's wife) The Survivors Books about parents in jail for kids (that I wish I had) From the Desk of Zoe Washington The Paris Project Milo Imagines the World (a picture book)