These were active around 2006-07, and dealt with problems in Quixtar/Amway, and MLM more generally, in a (mostly) serious way. The first was run by Eric Janssen (sp), who IIRC was tragically killed in an accident a few years back. The other was run by "Truth", real name unknown. I'd be curious to know what he is up to these days.

There were a few other podcasts and blogs pretty active around the same time. It was a golden age for anti-MLM podcasts as I recall.

Gros rassemblement Pruvit ce we à Québec avec 2 mentors américains. Ils attendent 500 personnes !!!
Mon amie a laissé son emploi pour faire ce MLM a temps plein. Mais ça ne lui rapporte pas beaucoup à date . Et elle travaille fort .
Vous en pensez quoi?

I’m furious, I’m applying for a pre employment program for women in trades that supports removing barriers for women trying to get financial freedom through the trades

And when talking about options for affording the program outside of the funding they have available was to A. Bake and then sell your baking B. Get creative with home businesses and C. Straight to our face she says sell mlm products, my jaw hit the floor thank god my camera was off bc I can’t make waves because I realllyyyyy need this program bc no one is hiring for first year pipefitters and I desperately want it but like damn lady that is the worst thing to say to vulnerable women

Of course all of the comments are telling how her much they love it, what a great idea it is. It looks like there were some blunt comments that ended up being deleted.

Also, I didn’t see a Norwex flair?

If anyone is looking for a clear, focused rundown of the recent FTC case against Amway, here’s a great article to checkout.

I went to an interview for hmg careers. It wasn’t an interview but a woman talking to us without answering any questions. Then we were transferred to a man who was talking a lot without answering a lot of questions.

What made me hang up on the meeting was this phrase,

“We are the McDonald’s of insurance companies.”

I heard the almost exact same phrase when I went to a similar meeting for Primerica. Of course all they wanted was that you buy their course first before you make any money.

I think it’s the same thing for HMG.

Literally Primerica rebranded.

Started a new job with a legitimate company but they gave us a referral sheet that if someone applies we fill it out and turn it in if they get hired and stay or some shit i get 50 or thousand dollars i cant remember exactly how the amounts worked but made me all 😬 if I didnt know any better id run right now lol

I’m just curious. Will it ever go under? My social media feed is flooded with shaklee huns. It seems like most of them used to do Beachbody which makes it even more cringe. Is this sustainable long term or will this one eventually fold as well?

Anyone else on here getting sucked into a youth camp by their parents?
I was made to go by my parents for 3 years to the team mak youth camp in Australia 12-15 years ago and while it was fun at times, it included a lot of fun activities like surfing and high ropes. I look back at it now and holy crap the manipulation was insane.

My mom is a psychologist and she told me MLM sometimes function as literal cults with ranks, leader worship, secular(?) rituals, peer pressure, brainwashing (sic), and so on.

I studied a lot about my Republic's youth political landscape with the stuff about redpill, alpha courses, such discourses which are pipelines to selling scam or faulty products and services. I even knew a person whom was scammed and involved in, Generacion Zoe (imo that was more of a ponzi scheme tho?).

Is this a real thing? Do MLMs devolve into irl cults, or is it just very isolated instances of this happening?

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