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Financial Feminist

116. Inside the Cult of Multi-Level Marketing with Emily Lynn Paulson

Financial Feminist

Her First $100K

Self-improvement, Education, How To, Business

4.76.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever found yourself on the other side of a Facebook message asking if you “keep your business options open,” we hate to break it to you, but you were the target of an MLM pitch. In today’s episode, we’re talking about the inner workings of multi-level marketing and the shady tactics they use to draw and keep people in. Our guest, Emily Lynn Paulson, author of “Highlight Real: Finding Honesty and Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life and Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing,” joins us to talk about her time spent as a top MLM leader, and the reasons behind her decision to quit even after experiencing massive success. Vote for Financial Feminist for the Signal Awards! https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2023/shows/general/business Read transcripts, learn more about our guests and sponsors, and get more resources at https://herfirst100k.com/start-here-financial-feminist-podcast Not sure where to start on your financial journey? Take our FREE money personality quiz! https://herfirst100k.com/quiz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you care about your friend, who is in an MLM, do not buy her products and do not join

0:07.2

her team.

0:08.7

Because all you are doing, say you buy a $20 whatever spatula, I don't care.

0:14.8

She is getting a very, very small portion of that money.

0:18.1

More of it's going to her upline, her upline, her upline, and the parent company.

0:21.4

So the people who are profiting off of this, not your friend.

0:25.8

It's just driving your friend more into this insular world where she's going to spend

0:29.4

more money and more money and more money.

0:32.1

Hi, financial feminist.

0:35.2

I'm so excited to see you.

0:37.1

Welcome back to the show.

0:38.1

Thanks for being here.

0:39.2

If you are new and maybe because you saw this title this episode and you're like, I need

0:43.1

more.

0:44.1

I'm nom nom nom.

0:45.1

Welcome, my name is Tori.

0:46.2

I'm so excited to see you.

0:47.6

This is a show that teaches you how to be better with money, but also talks about the

0:50.8

way money affects women differently.

0:52.8

And if you're an oldie but a goodie, as always, welcome back.

0:55.6

So way back in season one, one of our first ever episodes of this show, like episode

0:59.2

two, we talked with Jane Marie, who hosts the dream podcast to discuss her extensive work

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