149. Hun For The Money (MLM & Insta Coaching Deep Dive)
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Summary
This week, Kate takes on the Venn diagram of Instagram “life coaches,” self-help gurus, manifesting babes, and multi-level marketing #girlbosses that peddle the (often) false hope of financial freedom and entrepreneurial dreams through uncomfortable emoji-laden texts and Facebook messages. She discusses the problem with influencers selling one-size-fits-all solutions based on their anecdotal business experience and then reads crowd sourced stories from listeners who have been on the receiving end of MLM and entrenprenHERial outreach. Enjoy!
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Works Cited
https://www.aarp.org/aarp-foundation/our-work/income/multilevel-marketing.html?CMP=RDRCT-FDN-FRAUD-100518
https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_comments/trade-regulation-rule-disclosure-requirements-and-prohibitions-concerning-business-opportunities-ftc.r511993-00010%C2%A0/00010-57283.pdf
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This story says, I signed up for a free crash course in manifesting your insticals. |
| 0:09.6 | Wait, is that serious? |
| 0:12.3 | There's a course in manifesting your Instagram goals. |
| 0:14.5 | Guys, think about that. |
| 0:16.2 | Like, if the universe honestly cares about your Instagram following, what? |
| 0:23.2 | I can handle the universe as your back. |
| 0:27.1 | I cannot back the universe as your handle. |
| 0:30.6 | This turns out to be the meaning of life. |
| 0:32.8 | Like, take me to the lakes where all the poets want to die. |
| 0:35.2 | I don't belong. |
| 0:36.2 | I don't belong. |
| 0:37.2 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:42.2 | Welcome back to the Be There In Five Podcast. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. |
| 0:47.0 | Every few episodes I try to reintroduce myself in case anybody's new here and, you know, |
| 0:52.9 | if anything to clarify that I am not Kate Kennedy, the porn star, not that I don't |
| 0:57.0 | support her work, but we don't look not enough alike to be distinguishable. |
| 1:02.0 | So never hurts to clarify. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm also a 33 year old Chicago based entrepreneur, pop culture commentator, podcast host, |
| 1:10.0 | a book called Twinkle Twinkle Social Media Star. |
| 1:12.9 | But I got my starting kind of the public space when I started this doormat company by accident |
| 1:20.9 | in that I had a very corporate job that I had no plans on leaving. |
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