Pushkin.

Hey Dream listeners, if you like this podcast, you're going to love the book.

Yeah, I wrote a book.

It's called Selling the Dream.

And it's coming out March 12, 2024 on Atria.

It's about all of your favorite characters from MLMs and some that you've never even heard of, I hope.

Check it out. Welcome to the Dream. You're about to hear one of my favorite kinds of episodes that we like to do every

season on this show. It's the episode you made and I'm not just saying that because

like it gives me a week off because it doesn't actually but it is fun to hear your stories. So we put out a call a

few months ago for your life coaching stories and boy did you deliver. Here's a

selection of the voicemails you left us, and a little interview at the end.

Enjoy.

I actually stopped being really close friends with a long friend because she became a life

coach. It happened over the pandemic. We had already both graduated from college. We went together and she started following this

Tik-Toc life coach who is mostly selling a lifestyle rather than actual coaching materials, but she kept talking to me about how she paid $3,000 to this woman who was then going to teach her how to become a mindset

spiritual business coach and my friend kept saying that she thought this was

better than going to college because it's only $3,000 and she's going to learn how to create a business online and when I was asking

her like what this woman's credentials were or what the tangible like guaranteed

outcome was she would get really really defensive and say that I was not

supporting her in her new career?

I was like, well, what credentials do you have to be a life coach?

Like, who are you to be charging people for advice,

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