Podcast
The Fight of My Life
Hosted by Cadence Productions · EN
** A top 10 true crime podcast in the USA **
**WINNER of Australian Podcast Awards: "Best New Podcast 2023"**
**WINNER of Shorty Impact Award: "By Content (Human Rights) 2023"**
**GOLD HONOR (2nd place) in Shorty Impact Awards: "Best Podcast"**
**FINALIST of Australian Podcast Awards: "Best True Crime Podcast" & "Best Documentary",**
**FINALIST in Anthem Awards: Humanitarian Action & Services**
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The Fight of My Life is a multi-season documentary-style true crime podcast that tells powerful, true stories of people caught in moments of profound injustice, and exploitation—and the individuals who chose to step in the fight beside them.
Each season spotlights a different fight for freedom, justice, and survival, capturing the resilience of those who refuse to give up and the quiet courage of those who walk with them.
Told through raw storytelling, in-depth investigation, and firsthand accounts, The Fight of My Life reveals how, in the face of overwhelming odds, ordinary people can uncover extraordinary strength—and how one life’s fight can echo far beyond itself.
12episodes
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Escaping Scam City | BONUS | FIGHTING BACK
Oct 3000:27:33Summary readyThere have been some incredible developments these last two months in the fight against forced scamming. For the first time, the world’s most powerful governments are beginning to treat this crisis not as a distant crime, but as a global human rights emergency — one that can be fought with the same tools once used against war criminals and oligarchs. At the centre of that strategy is a man named Bill Browder.From Washington to Phnom Penh, this episode follows how the same weapon Browder helped create is being turned on the crime bosses and corrupt officials profiting from human trafficking and forced scamming in Cambodia.
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Escaping Scam City | AN UPDATE ON AVA
Sep 2600:05:25Summary readyTwo months on from the verdict, Ava's battle continues.LINK TO GIVE TO AVA'S GOFUNDME:https://www.gofundme.com/f/vxg4d-support-avas-legal-battle-in-thailand
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Escaping Scam City | THE VERDICT | (EPILOGUE)
Jul 800:09:33Summary readyAva's verdict was handed down - and it was not what any of us had been hoping for.----LINK TO GIVE TO AVA'S GOFUNDME:https://www.gofundme.com/f/vxg4d-support-avas-legal-battle-in-thailand
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Escaping Scam City | 6 | Stars, Stripes & Scams | (FINAL)
Jun 1600:47:21Summary readyMicah is finally free, but Ava is still trapped. When dramatically she does get released, instead of finding a joyful reunion, she’s handcuffed and charged as a criminal. Both Micah and Ava realize that though they’ve escaped Sihanoukville, there’s a long journey ahead to rebuilding their lives.PLUS: What’s the connection between recent U.S. funding cuts, Chinese crime syndicates, and your bank account? And with hundreds of thousands of people still trapped in scam compounds, what can you, the listener, do to help?Show website: fightofmylifepodcast.com
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Escaping Scam City | 5 | The Rescue
Jun 9, 202500:36:45Summary readyWe discover that the person Micah reached out to for help was none other than our producer Jake. The wheels for rescue are put into motion but the scam boss discovers that Micah has been asking for help, and calls him in to face the consequences.PLUS: Americans lost $12.5 billion in 2024 alone to online scams. How is the government responding? The answer might surprise you.Show website: fightofmylifepodcast.com---Here's that video of the police raid (the bit at DV is ~3:15 onwards): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqzdlLihfjUHere are the news reports referenced:https://nikkei.shorthandstories.com/https://vodenglish.news/thai-police-visit-concludes-with-66-rescued-other-victims-movedhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/world/asia/cambodia-cyber-scam.htmlhttps://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2637946/cyber-scam-industry-booms-in-plain-sight-in-cambodia
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Escaping Scam City | 4 | The City of Falling Men
Jun 2, 202500:41:08Summary readyMicah is sold to another scam center, bigger and more brutal than the last. Tasers. Dark rooms. So-called “suicides,” and co-workers who simply disappear. He’s close to giving up, when he stumbles upon a person on the internet, who might be his last hope of escape.PLUS: We ask transnational crime expert - and show producer - Jacob “Jake” Sims (an American) why governments in Southeast Asia aren’t doing much to stop forced scamming.Show website: fightofmylifepodcast.com
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Escaping Scam City | 3 | The Dance
May 26, 202500:41:34Summary readyConditions in the compound worsen as the scammers are forced to extract more money from victims. An emotional encounter with a victim leaves Ava shaken and depressed. Micah’s escape plan backfires terribly: he’s been caught.PLUS: we speak to an American who lost his life savings, and break down just how “pig butchering” scams work – and why they’re so effective.Show website: fightofmylifepodcast.com
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Escaping Scam City | 2 | The Fourth Floor
May 25, 202500:41:31Summary ready**Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence. Listener discretion is advised.**Trapped with Ava in a heavily guarded compound, Micah learns that escaping won’t be as easy as he thought. He forms a daring plan, but when he sees other workers brutally punished and beaten, knows he’s taking a major risk. Even still, he acts.PLUS: we fly to Sihanoukville, Cambodia, to follow Micah’s footsteps and see for ourselves that scam factories are operating out in the open, and unchecked.Show website: fightofmylifepodcast.com
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Escaping Scam City | 1 | I’m Coming For You
May 24, 202500:41:02Summary readySeason 2 of the multi-award-winning podcast The Fight of My Life returns with Escaping Scam City—a six-part true crime series about love, deception, and survival inside Southeast Asia’s hidden scam compounds.Young couple Micah and Ava apply for what they think is a dream job in Cambodia. Ava arrives first and realises it’s in fact a scamming factory, targeting people overseas like you and me. She warns Micah not to come, but he decides to follow her in – and hopefully get them both out.PLUS: we speak to leading experts on the highly sophisticated recruitment strategies employed to trick hundreds of thousands of people like Micah and Ava into this exploding criminal industry.Show website: fightofmylifepodcast.com
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Season 2 Trailer | Escaping Scam City
May 19, 202500:02:44Summary readySeason 2 of the multi-award-winning podcast The Fight of My Life returns with Escaping Scam City—a six-part true crime series about love, deception, and survival inside Southeast Asia’s hidden scam compounds.Season 2 of The Fight of My Life - Escaping Scam City delves into the alarming rise of forced scamming, exploring what has been termed the "pig butchering epidemic and its global impact.Produced as a six-episode immersive podcast, Escaping Scam City centers around the true story of a young Malaysian man named Micah*. In an attempt to save his girlfriend, Ava*, from imprisonment in a Cambodian scamming compound, he finds himself trapped in a dark criminal underworld he knows he must escape. Even if it means risking his life to do so.We journey with Micah from the moment he applies for what he believes is a customer service job, through the deceptive journey to Cambodia, the torturous months he spent imprisoned and abused in an online scamming compound, and finally to his daring escape and ongoing attempts to seek justice for himself and Ava.Alongside Micah’s journey we engage experts to uncover the root causes and second-order consequences of forced scamming, as well as the victims who have themselves been scammed, and the organisations and individuals advocating for survivors and systemic reform.Show website: fightofmylifepodcast.com
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