Tracy Hall: The Woman, Not The Crime

You may think you know Tracy Hall's story. It has been told as true crime more than once. We are not telling it. The man at the centre of it has had enough of her life, and he is not getting this hour, either. What is left when you take him out of it turns out to be far more interesting. Twenty-five years building brands for eBay, Virgin, GoDaddy and Afterpay. A father who died three weeks after a leukaemia diagnosis when she was in her twenties, which she says plainly was the hardest thing she has ever been through. A boss who handed her his credit card and told her to go home to her family. And a young woman walking around Sydney on her lunch break, crying, wishing there was a grief room. Duncan asks what shame was telling her about herself, and what it felt like at two in the morning. She answers all of it. Then she turns outward, which is where she now spends her life. Everybody is a target. There is a scam for everybody. The thing under attack is not your firewall, it is you. And the crime she most wants parents to understand is the one aimed at their kids, which moves in hours, targets boys more than girls, and is run by organised crime rather than by anyone in a basement. If your child ever tells you, she has the first words for you: this is not your fault, you have been targeted by a criminal, thank you for telling me. She brings five songs, from The Cure to The Doors, two of which belong to her dad. beerwithDuncan doesn't just tell other people's stories. It changes the way you see your own. Listen from Saturday 22 August at beerwithduncan.com