Well, I've got a fun one for you here today. Thanks for tuning in. It's Chris

Gillibout with Side Usal School. And this is, of course, our weekly collection of

short stories under the heading failure Friday. It's all about mistakes,

missteps, disasters, and of course failure. All those things that don't go so

well, right? So you get to hear directly from a side usalor who has struggled in

some way or otherwise had some difficulty. And I'm really excited about today's

because it's about network marketing. If you've been listening for a long time,

you know that I hate network marketing. I hate multi-level marketing. I don't

think there's anything good about it. It is a predatory industry. So wherever I

get the chance to kind of point out why it doesn't work so well, then I'm going to

jump on it. And today I don't have to do it much myself because one of our

listeners is going to share her story. And it's not the whole story of why

network marketing is a disaster, just to be clear. But just one particular part

of it, she tries to host a party for some friends, a network marketing party. And

she learned kind of a hard and awkward lesson. Nobody wants to come to that,

right? Nobody wants to do that, so don't bother. But let's let her tell the story.

Her name is Jordan. I'll have a brief wrap up at the end, but first over to her.

Hi, this is Jordan from Arlington, Virginia. My failure Friday story is also a

confession. I got sucked into an MLM. I know you're not a fan of network

marketing, but I guess I just thought this program I found would be different.

Long story short, it wasn't. I wasted close to a thousand dollars getting set up

and buying train materials from my mentor, who was nowhere to be found once I

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