How do we respond to virtually insane behavior by vital, creative women who devote their lives to petty shysters and hoodlums who rip them off and destroy their livelihoods, families, lives? We can issue warnings about checking out online hook-ups. But the signs are always there, background checks or no (hints: when they say they are secret agents, ask endlessly for money, cut off your family connections, etc.) Yet brilliant women still go down the tubes. 

Take the case of “The Bad Vegan,” Sarma Melngailis, who conquered New York and the world with a new veganism, and ended up on the lam in anonymous motels, in prison, $millions in debt, and even ripped off her mother for $hundreds of thousands. All for an obese con man who “brainwashed” her into loving him.

Keyword: Values

Added bonus: How to raise a child who will not likewise succumb.

OTHER DISCUSSION TOPICS FROM THE EPISODE: 

- How did Elizabeth Holmes fool the world? 

- How did Bernie Madoff get people begging to invest their money for them? 

- How did the Tinder Swindler manage to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars from women who didn't have the money to begin with? 

- How in the world could the otherwise pro-social Sarma Melngailis be convinced to run from the law and steal money from her family? 

- HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO ADDICTION? 

- How can we addiction-proof ourselves and our children?

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