Married To The Mormon Madoff: The Ultimate Ponzie Scheme

Activate & Illuminate with Melanie Wakelin · Sep 1, 2026 · 1h 20m

What happens when the life you thought you built was actually built on a lie?

In this powerful episode of Activate & Illuminate, Melanie Wakelin sits down with Andrea Merriman, who discovered after 20 years of marriage that her husband had secretly been running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

Andrea believed she was living a secure, successful life with her husband and their four children. She believed their investments were worth approximately $10 million. Then, in one devastating conversation, her husband revealed that his investment company was a sham, that he had been running a Ponzi…