Leslie Bradford-Scott grew up inside a story so spectacular it felt unreal. Her father drove a Rolls-Royce. A promoter, he brought Pink Floyd and Paul Anka to Hamilton, moved through a world of million-dollar diamonds, and lit up every room he entered.
Then the story cracked.
At twelve, Leslie came home to the police on the lawn. At fifteen, she had a gun pressed against her arm. At sixteen, she lost her brother, the one person who made her feel less alone.
Trying to outrun her father’s shadow, Leslie joined the Coast Guard to save lives and fight crime, only to find corruption there, too. Later, she married a man who felt familiar in the worst possible way: charming, dangerous, and destructive.
But Leslie kept moving. She wrote screenplays on Post-it notes while selling cars, built a business from a farm, and reinvented herself again and again.
Years after his death, her father’s 175,000-word prison manuscript surfaced, reopening everything she thought she had buried.
Was he a villain, a victim, a con man, a hero, or all of the above?
This is a gripping conversation about crime, Family myth, buried truth, and what happens when the story that shaped you collapses. Leslie’s lesson is unforgettable: where you are born, and whom you are born to, may shape you, but they do not get to define you.
As she says, “My entire life, I didn’t feel I mattered. And now I know that I matter.”
And then please stick around for an important announcement about Chatter that Matters.
To buy Leslie’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Liars-Playbook-Memoir-Family-Crime/dp/1668069393
