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202. MLM Cults Took My Life From Me - Josie Naikoi

heretics.

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is a cautionary tale about multi-level marketing companies. Josie Naikoi was in one of these MLMs. She has since started her own brilliant YouTube channel with documentaries about cults – it’s called Not The Good Girl – go check it out. Josie Noikoi links: https://www.youtube.com/c/JosieNaikoi Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:24.2

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0:26.7

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0:30.9

Kowduk.

0:31.5

Born with 300 bones, 10,000 taste buds, and the ability to make you smile in an instant.

0:38.0

Babies development fascinates us.

0:42.0

That's why SMA nutrition has been pioneering baby nutrition research for

0:46.1

over 100 years. We believe that breast milk is best for babies and breastfeeding

0:51.5

should continue for as long as possible.

0:54.0

We also understand everyone's journey is different.

0:57.0

SMA follow-on milk is the babies over six months as part of a varied weaning diet,

1:02.0

not intended to replace breastfeeding.

1:04.5

SMA nutrition, pioneering baby nutrition since 1919.

1:10.1

The beginning of a cult is so much fun.

1:13.0

Or people wouldn't join, but once you start peeling back the layers of the onion, peeking behind the curtain, it's dark and it's scary.

1:22.0

Everyone who joins these companies is a victim who then becomes a perpetrator.

1:27.1

I was first a victim and then I became a perpetrator the moment I started to recruit.

1:39.2

Today's episode is a cautionary tale about multi-level marketing companies, also known as MLMs and being slightly different to a pyramid scheme or Ponzi schemes.

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