Michelle McPhee
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Podcast Appearances
And it's like we have achieved the ultimate anonymous shopping experience, but we see this very early history of it in the 1600s.
Jacob Kingston grew up in an isolated polygamous sect.
We were God's chosen kingdom on earth.
He felt destined for greatness.
So when a swaggering Armenian businessman catapults Jacob into an extraordinary world, he doesn't look back.
I'm Michelle McPhee, and this is one of the most shocking criminal conspiracies I've ever come across.
When Jacob met Levant, this went to a billion-dollar fraud.
But with two kings from entirely different worlds, just how long can their empire survive?
Jacob told LaVon, you're ruining my life.
Just then, we felt the plane turn in the air, so much so that the bags that were under people's seats just kind of flew into the aisle.
Each week, we dive headfirst into the complex power of secrecy.
how it shapes our identities and relationships, and how it ultimately can reveal to us our truest selves.
It mattered more for women than for men, for sure.
And it comes back to what we were talking about earlier about blame.
There was a double standard in this society.
It was a deeply patriarchal society.
And a woman's reputation was intimately tied up in her sexual reputation.
So a diagnosis of this disease, if you're a married woman, there would be suspicions of adultery.
If you were a servant, let's say an unmarried single woman working in someone's home as a servant, you would probably lose your job.
And there's a case that I talk about at length in the book that's exactly what happens.