The Book Everyone's Talking About (And Why It's Terrifying).
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Hi and welcome to The Curve Weekly. Today I am joined by a very special guest and friend, Emma Louise Boynton. Hi! Today we are doing a deep dive on a book that everyone has been asking us to do a book review, Belle Burden's Strangers, a memoir of marriage where essentially, spoiler, The husband ups and leaves after 21 years. It is terrifying and there has been so much research that's come out in the last couple of weeks around long-term ghosting and what this means for women financially all over the world.
New research shows that 31% of teenagers aged between 16 to 18 report being in a financially abusive relationship. And really, to me, Strangers is a book about financial abuse amongst other things.
What is Belle Burden’s Strangers and why is it causing a cultural conversation?
So this is kind of the framing, the background, which we're having this conversation around one of the most talked about books of the year.
Whether you are in a relationship, happily married, happily single, these conversations are so important to have. And we round off the conversation with Emma and I talking about practical steps to actually get on the same page financially as your partner, which, spoiler, both of us currently are not. I'm Sophie Hall-Wright, ex-radio TV producer who was very tired of not understanding money, investing or the economy.
Hi, my name is Emma-Louise Boynton and I'm a writer, a newly published author, a broadcaster and everything else that comes in the title of multi-hyphenate. I'm standing in for Vic Harris who is currently working on a very special secret project and I am delighted to be here.
Did you know Generate have a team of advisors who will actually meet with you and help you make sense of KiwiSaver? You can book a no-cost KiwiSaver advice session via the link in our podcast show notes. And thanks to Generate for sponsoring this episode of The Curve Weekly. Today, we're joined by author, writer, broadcaster, and friend, Emma-Louise Boynton. I love that you've brought your new book on.
I am on it. press tour. I bring my book everywhere. So it's like my wallet or something, but it's got like attached to my hip.
You could ask Emma about anything and she will find a way to bring the book. Did I mention I've got a book?
Sorry, I might not mention when I came in the room. I actually am a published author now. I might not mention, but in case you need reminding.
So I'm a published author. I think we need to give this a plug before we get into today's episode, because I've read this book. It's been two days reading, which... For anyone that knows me, I'm not a great reader. It's kind of embarrassing how long it takes me to get through books. This, I feel like I ate. It was so good. And not in the kind of Gen Z I ate, you know, saying, by the way. It was kind of like I inhaled the whole thing. Yeah.
let's for anyone that hasn't heard of the book or six talks obviously you're the founder of six talks let's give an overview as to what you have spent the last three years building and how this book came about yes so well thank you so much and you know what that's actually been a kind of primary piece of feedback I've got from people who messaged me about the book saying they just inhaled it and that's what I really wanted because I think you know I'm a first-time author I wanted this book to be something that you inhale that you just cannot put down So I set up a platform called Sex Talks about five years ago now. It's the time has really passed. And I set that up. I have no background in sex.
This is not my thing. I used to work in the newsroom. I worked in like with similar backgrounds. I worked at Sky, BBC, Petunia Brown, Media in New York, always covering kind of political issues, really interested in gender equality. But during the pandemic, I went to sex therapy personally and found the experience overwhelming. utterly transformative I realized in that process that I was so disconnected from my body and hence my sexuality and while I thought that was something that I couldn't fix about myself I thought your relationship to sex was sort of this immutable fact about yourself it was just you were sexual or you weren't and I just wasn't but I went to sex therapy on the recommendation of a woman I met at a
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:42
2
What is Belle Burden’s Strangers and why is it causing a cultural conversation?
0:42–12:52
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How did Emma Louise-Boynton build Sex Talks and what inspired her book Pleasure?
12:52–44:04
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How do Sophie and Emma assess their current finances — who’s in the red or the green?
44:04–1:02:30
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What new research links teenagers and economic abuse and why does it matter?
1:02:30–1:03:28
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