Jennifer Sanchez
Senior producer of Scott Galloway's podcast at Prof G Media in New York, previously with Pushkin Industries, WNYC, WNYU, and Futuro Media.
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APPEARANCES
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PODCASTS
May 26, 2026
JenniferGUEST
Coincidentally, one of the messages that she sent me had a screenshot of a post from Reddit.
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Jaimie BeebeHOST
Once you have this group of people, what were your next steps to full on investigate this person and stop her?
4:57
So I guess to start, just tell us about you and your drinking and what it looked like.
JenniferGUEST
Got busted the first time I drank with my friends, telling my other good friend about the night before, and my dad, who worked graveyards, thought he was sleeping, was not sleeping, overheard me, and got busted.
JenniferGUEST
I felt like, I don't know, like I had this sense of hope when I went there because I thought, "This will make her leave me alone." And then it was completely just shot down, and I just felt defeated.
JenniferGUEST
So my next steps were trying to figure out if sh- it was legal that she was working in Massachusetts.
JenniferGUEST
And I was trying to figure out, 'cause when you initially went to France, I was like, because where this is located in Piemonte, France is right there.
JenniferGUEST
Well, and, and I'd say, like, the other thing is that you go into the location, right, where we got our credentials, and they have got a picture.
JenniferGUEST
Everything's in Spanish, right? They've got a, you can't bring this, you c- you know, you...
JenniferGUEST
It's not like there's a list of these are all the things that you could drop off, or this is where you would buy the things, or this is what you can't drop off.
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JenniferGUEST
And it, it's a little bit of a misnote or a misstatement for me to say I didn't talk to my husband about it at all.
JenniferGUEST
I didn't talk to him about it before signing up, because I knew, um, that I had, I had some money that was just mine that I could do with what I wanted, and I was willing to do that.
JenniferGUEST
But when I did talk to him, what I said was, "If I could pay the weight loss fairy this amount of money and wake up tomorrow in the body of my dreams, I would do it.
JenniferGUEST
I would be throwing the money at the weight loss fairy." And if I'm willing to pay for the result, I just have to understand that it's not a free lunch, right? Like, I am gonna have to do the work, but I'm willing to pay for the result.
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JenniferGUEST
So like for the first thousand customers that come through this year, we give a free Crazy Daisy to everybody.
JenniferGUEST
Um, so every, every month we're doing something a little different to just kind of give back, um, in appreciation for the 20 years of supporting us and doing, you know, coming up, coming up there.
JenniferGUEST
And from Superior you can head south on the 77 through what we call the Copper Corridor and visit some of our other little towns in Pinal like Kearny, uh, Winkelman, Mammoth, San Manuel, Oracle, and they all have some relation.
JenniferGUEST
And then that takes you, you finish, uh, you, you meet up with the 79, uh, literally just about a mile north of the Pinal County-Pima County border, and it's actually Tucson.
JenniferGUEST
So they're part of Tucson, what we call the census-designated place of Tucson.That is in Pinal County and nobody ever knows that until you-
JenniferGUEST
... fir- serious time trying to quit drinking, but it wasn't successful, right? So but when I was out here with Brad, I, I didn't drink at all, but my God, like, the, it was, it was just the way I, I...
JenniferGUEST
It was so, I had s- so high anxiety because I wanted to drink, but I didn't want to, and he was-
JenniferGUEST
And we had rented a Lincoln Town Car so we could get the wedding dress and the tuxedos and the groceries and things, um, in the car.
35 MINS LATER
Luis EscobarHOST
Well, where are you, where are you right now, and what's your story? Why, how did you find us?
JenniferGUEST
Um, I kind of ran just different parts of my life, like, just go out and start running.
speaker_3CORRESPONDENT
[gentle music] She began life in a very tough situation.
JenniferGUEST
My mom was in the foster system, and then she married my dad to become, I guess, legally an adult and not be in the foster system anymore, and then they had me a year later.
JenniferGUEST
I think my father flew me to Alabama, left me with some family who were also alcoholics, and, um, I had this one Jesus-loving grandmother in all of the world [chuckles] that was my world who actually ended up getting custody of me and raising me.
speaker_3CORRESPONDENT
She describes what her childhood was like.
Ari TaubliebHOST
So these different things that you've tried out, is it mainly, "Hey, I want something to do?" Is it mainly financial? Is it a little of both? How do you look at-
JenniferGUEST
But the thing about being retired too at my age, I'm 57 years old, is I'm too young to be retired, to be honest with you.
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speaker_13UNKNOWN
Yeah.
JenniferGUEST
I guess the only bad thing that happened was it was kinda rude and weird of him to eat some of my food that I ordered.
speaker_13UNKNOWN
Cool
JenniferGUEST
I didn't really want any of what he ordered for himself, so he, he ended up eating all of his food and basically half of mine.
speaker_19UNKNOWN
Yeah.
JenniferGUEST
I guess the only bad thing that happened was it was kinda rude and weird of him to eat some of my food that I ordered.
speaker_7UNKNOWN
[laughs] What, no, what was it?
JenniferGUEST
I mean, he kept talking about how he's not into the casual dating scene, and he wants to have something really serious and wants to find his soulmate.
15 MINS LATER
Ashley FlowersHOST
That is until one day in 2007, when the deeply painful memories from May 27th, 1984 came flooding back for Jennifer.
JenniferGUEST
I was working in healthcare, and we were getting ready for shift change, and I was preparing my report.
JenniferGUEST
And I was on a computer, and I hear, "Jenny," Kristi's mom, "If anyone has any information about the disappearance of, of my daughter, please come forward." And I- Yeah, she would come out every year on the anniversary, and they would air something ...
JenniferGUEST
Um, yeah, and it wasn't like a, you know, a voice, you know, from behind me or around me or even like a, a different voice in my head.
JenniferGUEST
Um, and a- at this particular time, [clears throat] excuse me, um, I was just kind of coming out of a challenging time in my life, um, kinda coming out of some postpartum depression and anxiety, and I had been doing a lot of, um, you know, self-reflection, self-help kinda stuff.
JenniferGUEST
And so I was really trying to lean into my intuition and, um, you know, personal power.
George KamelHOST
Did you guys have a, a, a goal of, "We're gonna do this in under two years," or was this just, you guys went so hard you didn't realize it?
JenniferGUEST
Um, we watched the video, and any time that I would make a bad decision, he would remind me, he would say, "Cheetah," and I would have to stop.
JenniferGUEST
Cheetah, and I would, I'd know what he was talking about, and I'd have to refocus.
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A Non-Speaker and A Family Secret | Talk Tracks
Mar 4 · 35m
Kai DickensHOST
So Jennifer, when did you start to notice that Ethan might be different from other kids?
JenniferGUEST
He was just so flat and helpless that I thought he was gonna, you know, die in his sleep.
JenniferGUEST
He's my baby, and he's with me." And everyone, you know, acts like, "Oh, we knew he was so smart." We didn't really know he was so smart.
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JenniferGUEST
If we were in the main living room or family room, he would be in the other room or back in his bedroom.
34 MINS LATER
JenniferGUEST
Looking back, maybe, you know, it is best to just be forthcoming and not try to protect them.
JenniferGUEST
[upbeat music] When we first bought the house, um, I was aware that there had been a death at the home because my husband actually went to school with the young lady that, that passed away there, Libby.
JenniferGUEST
They were friends, and he would go pick her up at her house, which became our house, and they were close for a while.
JenniferGUEST
He was aware that she had passed, and there was always something kind of mysterious about her death.
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speaker_2NARRATOR
And then...
JenniferGUEST
Uh, then I, uh, was, you know, working on the different repairs-Um, for the house, saving up that fund.
JenniferGUEST
They were ridiculous, wanting 60, $70,000 to rebuild a porch, or $100,000 for 18 windows.
JenniferGUEST
And I felt like I wasn't making progress, so I, I asked the Lord, I'm like, "What do I do? Like, I've got all this money saved." And he said, "Pay off the house in one year." And my jaw dropped on the floor, 'cause at that time, my mortgage balance was about 145,000.
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