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Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

True stories and conversations with survivors, advocates and experts on the insidiousness of cults, frauds, scams and pyramid schemes. Through compassionate and educational informal chats, we work to end the stigma of "failure", in an machine systematically designed for you to fail. Hosted by Roberta Blevins, star of LuLaRich.Life After MLM is a part of True Native Media. Visit https://truenativemedia.com for more.

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01:05:48

Episode 292 : Cassandra

Life After MLM ·

2025/04/06

Cassandra was working in a gym when she tried Zyia leggings for the first time. With a built in customer base and a background in sales, she decided to jump into the company and see what she could make of it. Like most of us who join pyramid schemes, she didn't gain the financial freedom she was promised, but that didn't stop her from bouncing from MLM to MLM until she finally opened her eyes. Show Notes Connect with Cassandra : Instagram Was I In A Cult : Mary Kay Cosmetics: “Faith First, Family

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71:18

Episode 292 : Cassandra

Life After MLM ·

2025/04/06

Cassandra was working in a gym when she tried Zyia leggings for the first time. With a built in customer base and a background in sales, she decided to jump into the company and see what she could make of it. Like most of us who join pyramid schemes, she didn't gain the financial freedom she was promised, but that didn't stop her from bouncing from MLM to MLM until she finally opened her eyes.Show Notes Connect with Cassandra : Instagram Was I In A Cult : Mary Kay Cosmetics: “Faith First, Family

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00:53:32

Episode 291 : Katie

Life After MLM ·

2025/03/30

*Content Warning : This episode deals with eating disorders and disordered eating. Please use discretion when listening.* After many successful years on a popular weight loss program, corporate changes lead Katie to no longer seeing the results she wanted. As a marathon runner, Katie always been physically active, until a spinal surgery left her unable to exercise at all. After gaining more weight that she would have liked, she found herself battling with body dysmorphia again, and that's when

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59:02

Episode 291 : Katie

Life After MLM ·

2025/03/30

*Content Warning : This episode deals with eating disorders and disordered eating. Please use discretion when listening.* After many successful years on a popular weight loss program, corporate changes lead Katie to no longer seeing the results she wanted. As a marathon runner, Katie always been physically active, until a spinal surgery left her unable to exercise at all. After gaining more weight that she would have liked, she found herself battling with body dysmorphia again, and that's when

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01:14:38

Episode 290 : Tasha

Life After MLM ·

2025/03/23

Have you ever heard that some MLMs are willable businesses, that you can pass down to your children so they can inherit your income? Have you ever wondered what that meant and if there was any legitimacy to those claims, or if it was just another MLM lie? Today we have Tasha, an attorney who focuses on estate planning and estate administration, including trust administration and probate, to answer all our questions! Show Notes r/AntiMLM Is Arbonne a "Willable" business? Out of MLM The BITE

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80:08

Episode 290 : Tasha

Life After MLM ·

2025/03/23

Have you ever heard that some MLMs are willable businesses, that you can pass down to your children so they can inherit your income? Have you ever wondered what that meant and if there was any legitimacy to those claims, or if it was just another MLM lie? Today we have Tasha, an attorney who focuses on estate planning and estate administration, including trust administration and probate, to answer all our questions!Show Notes r/AntiMLM Is Arbonne a "Willable" business? Out of MLM The BITE

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57:42

Episode 289 : Jen Borruso

Life After MLM ·

2025/03/09

*Content Warning: This episode deals with Toxic Diet Culture and mentions disordered eating and orthorexia. Please use caution when listening.*When I first put out a call to action for this season's main theme of Health and Wellness, SO MANY of you reached out and told me that I needed to chat with Jen Borruso. Not only is Jen now a Personal Trainer & Nutrition Coach, but she used to be a BeachBody Hun, so she knows a thing or two about how MLMs manipulate our minds with toxic diet culture. We chat

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00:52:12

Episode 289 : Jen Borruso

Life After MLM ·

2025/03/09

*Content Warning: This episode deals with Toxic Diet Culture and mentions disordered eating and orthorexia. Please use caution when listening.* When I first put out a call to action for this season's main theme of Health and Wellness, SO MANY of you reached out and told me that I needed to chat with Jen Borruso. Not only is Jen now a Personal Trainer & Nutrition Coach, but she used to be a BeachBody Hun, so she knows a thing or two about how MLMs manipulate our minds with toxic diet culture. We

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01:13:14

Episode 288 : MLM Mini Dive : FermaGlo

Life After MLM ·

2025/03/02

Today Platinum Chelsea joins us to talk about the newest MLM in pre-pre-launch, FermaGlo. It's a fun MLM Mini Dive episode loaded with nonsense, zoom calls, sound effects, deep speculation, professional advice and an AI song singing FermaGlo's praises. Jump in, grab yourself a snack and a drink and be prepared to learn everything we know about the fermented plant beauty product MLM FermaGlo so far. Show Notes Connect with Chelsea : Instagram | YouTube Fyre Fest 2 r/AntiMLM - Paparazzi & WA

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78:44

Episode 288 : MLM Mini Dive : FermaGlo

Life After MLM ·

2025/03/02

Today Platinum Chelsea joins us to talk about the newest MLM in pre-pre-launch, FermaGlo. It's a fun MLM Mini Dive episode loaded with nonsense, zoom calls, sound effects, deep speculation, professional advice and an AI song singing FermaGlo's praises. Jump in, grab yourself a snack and a drink and be prepared to learn everything we know about the fermented plant beauty product MLM FermaGlo so far.Show Notes Connect with Chelsea : Instagram | YouTube Fyre Fest 2 r/AntiMLM - Paparazzi & WA

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01:13:21

Episode 287 : Mariah

Life After MLM ·

2025/02/23

Mariah spent almost her entire 20's in Amway, in a pyramid filled with family members. Throughout their time in LTD, Mariah and her husband faced a multitude of health and wellness struggles including miscarriage, an emergency bowel restructuring, and a scary mystery illness and diagnosis. The most common denominator? Amway. Show Notes Adverse reaction to a dietary supplement in an elderly patient (PubMed) Health hazards caused by Amway Nutrilite (Reddit) Amway making false, misleading health

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78:51

Episode 287 : Mariah

Life After MLM ·

2025/02/23

Mariah spent almost her entire 20's in Amway, in a pyramid filled with family members. Throughout their time in LTD, Mariah and her husband faced a multitude of health and wellness struggles including miscarriage, an emergency bowel restructuring, and a scary mystery illness and diagnosis. The most common denominator? Amway. Show Notes Adverse reaction to a dietary supplement in an elderly patient (PubMed) Health hazards caused by Amway Nutrilite (Reddit) Amway making false, misleading health claims

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67:32

Episode 286 : Samantha

Life After MLM ·

2025/02/16

Samantha started using Young Living Essential Oils because she believed they would be a safer alternative to mainstream household cleaners and products. She quickly found herself with a shelf full of EO vials and deeply immersed in the #oilylife, throwing away all the "negative" products and replacing them with Young Living dupes. As she built a team, she began to understand the gamification of MLM; commodifying friendships and turning her downline into a bonus check, that she started to realize

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01:02:02

Episode 286 : Samantha

Life After MLM ·

2025/02/16

Samantha started using Young Living Essential Oils because she believed they would be a safer alternative to mainstream household cleaners and products. She quickly found herself with a shelf full of EO vials and deeply immersed in the #oilylife, throwing away all the "negative" products and replacing them with Young Living dupes. As she built a team, she began to understand the gamification of MLM; commodifying friendships and turning her downline into a bonus check, that she started to realize

en

64:36

Episode 285 : MLM Mini Dive : Make Wellness

Life After MLM ·

2025/02/09

In our first ever podcast based MLM Mini Dive, Julie Anderson is here to help us understand the new MLM Make Wellness and some of it's shadier history. If you've been haggled about "BioActive Precision Peptides" this is the episode for you, and while you're listening, go ahead and send it to 3 friends who need to hear it too. This episode also features audio from actual public videos posted by Make Wellness affiliates, plus an update on the "Scentsy Trip to Greece"!Show Notes Julie's Make Wellness

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00:59:06

Episode 285 : MLM Mini Dive : Make Wellness

Life After MLM ·

2025/02/09

In our first ever podcast based MLM Mini Dive, Julie Anderson is here to help us understand the new MLM Make Wellness and some of it's shadier history. If you've been haggled about "BioActive Precision Peptides" this is the episode for you, and while you're listening, go ahead and send it to 3 friends who need to hear it too. This episode also features audio from actual public videos posted by Make Wellness affiliates, plus an update on the "Scentsy Trip to Greece"! Show Notes Julie's Make

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01:26:23

Episode 284 : Matt & Tracey

Life After MLM ·

2025/02/03

Who doesn't love a good and juicy MLM story about the dangers of dating in your downline? Now add Amway to the mix, and we've got a hilariously honest and vulnerable origin story about Matt and his wife Tracey, and all the sick mind games the IBOs in LTD played with them along the way. It's been over 16 years since they've relived some of these stories, so thanks for taking us on this journey and being so real. Show Notes r/AntiMLM : Color Street How to Stop Worrying and Start Living Out of

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91:53

Episode 284 : Matt & Tracey

Life After MLM ·

2025/02/03

Who doesn't love a good and juicy MLM story about the dangers of dating in your downline? Now add Amway to the mix, and we've got a hilariously honest and vulnerable origin story about Matt and his wife Tracey, and all the sick mind games the IBOs in LTD played with them along the way. It's been over 16 years since they've relived some of these stories, so thanks for taking us on this journey and being so real. Show Notes r/AntiMLM : Color Street How to Stop Worrying and Start Living Out of MLM The

en

01:25:07

Episode 283 : Tracie Bezerra

Life After MLM ·

2025/01/26

Because we're focusing a bit more on the Health and Wellness MLMs this year, we've got an educational episode for you today. Folks on the neurodivergent spectrum tend to get targeted often by MLMs offering anecdotal promises of cures and quick fixes, so it felt important to provide empathy and context. When we're deep in MLM, we often don't take a second to really understand someone's journey and why targeting them could be predatory. Meet Tracie, the amazing mom to Rachel, a 30 year old woman with

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90:37

Episode 283 : Tracie Bezerra

Life After MLM ·

2025/01/26

Because we're focusing a bit more on the Health and Wellness MLMs this year, we've got an educational episode for you today. Folks on the neurodivergent spectrum tend to get targeted often by MLMs offering anecdotal promises of cures and quick fixes, so it felt important to provide empathy and context. When we're deep in MLM, we often don't take a second to really understand someone's journey and why targeting them could be predatory. Meet Tracie, the amazing mom to Rachel, a 30 year old woman with

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