Ep19: Financial Abuse, Emotional Manipulation & the Courage to Walk Away – With Sarita Chauhan

In this powerful Friendsgiving edition of The Raz Patel Show, Raz sits down with Sarita Chauhan, VP of Human Resources at YRCI, for a conversation every woman needs to hear.

Sarita opens up about her devastating experience inside a marriage filled with financial abuse, emotional manipulation, isolation, and resilience. From discovering unpaid mortgages to rebuilding her entire life from zero, this episode dives into:

✨ The red flags women often ignore
✨ The financial signs of manipulation
✨ Emotional abuse in marriages
✨ Why women stay longer than they should
✨ How cultural pressure (“log kya kahenge”) traps South Asian women
✨ What it takes to start over after losing everything
✨ Why peace is more important than pleasing the world
✨ The real do’s and don’ts of red flags
✨ How pain shaped her leadership and her voice

This conversation is vulnerable. Necessary. Healing.
A reminder that you can rise—even from the deepest hurt.

If you’ve ever stayed too long, blamed yourself, ignored your intuition, or felt ashamed to start over…
this episode is for you.

Join Raz and Sarita for truth, tears, laughter, and the courage to choose yourself again.

If this episode spoke to you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with a woman who needs this reminder.
Your support helps this message reach more women rebuilding their voice and their life.

00:00 – Intro to Sarita
04:20 – How the marriage began
10:01 – Early red flags
16:43 – Financial manipulation
23:52 – The breaking point
31:11 – Filing for divorce
36:40 – Homelessness
40:22 – Rebuilding her life
47:55 – The red flag do’s & don’ts
55:30 – Sarita’s message to women

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