The Dream Team is taking the week off.

So here's a fan favorite from our very first season where we explored everything

multi-level marketing.

Here's episode eight, Destination Amazing.

Previously on the Dream.

MLMs came to the attention of the FTC.

They went after them pretty hard for about 15 years.

Well, they were saying enough is enough. You know what enough means. I know what it means.

It means there's nothing credible to discuss any longer. Oh, there's one word, Amway. The Amway decision

by the Federal Trade Commission changed everything. It invented what it called rules.

Who came up with the Amway rules?

Amway.

I always assumed it was the FTC that came up with them.

No.

No. In this post-Amway decision world, it seems like MLMs are everywhere.

And as we told you earlier in the season, we wanted to find out what they look like from the inside.

So we joined one, a makeup company called Limelife, formerly known and referred to in our tape as Lime Light. Remember, they had to change their name mid-reporting when they went international.

Our producer, McKenzie, signed up, got a starter kit, and ordered a bunch more makeup at the urging of her upline.

So last we heard from her, she was struggling to kickstart her limelight career. She had zero sales from anyone other than herself.

Her posts on social media were going largely ignored by everyone but me, her mom, and her upline.

And that opening party?

I sent out invitations on Facebook, individualized invitations to everyone.

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