Episode 136 : The Amway Tools Cult

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Education, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This month we are teaming up with igotout.org, throughout the month of November, follow along with us as we share education, survivor stories and ways you can join in on the movement. Each episode this month will include stories of cult survival, including the abuses described in Dr Steven Hassan's BITE Model.

Everyone knows about Amway, but what about the Tools Cult? It's been mentioned in many Amway episodes, but it's entire weight was largely unknown. So when fan of the show, and American Historian Sean Munger reached out with an episode idea, I was game. And after Paul talked so much about the tools in Britt World Wide, this episode seemed the perfect follow up! If you were ever curious about the cult of the motivational tapes, and the showdown with Amway that ensued, you gotta listen to this episode.

Show Notes

Sean's YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/SeanMunger

Sean's Substack - https://seanmungerhistory.substack.com/

The Tools Cult: History of the Amway Motivational Tape Scam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9nA3pqSaf8

Doug Wead - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wead

Dexter Yager on 60 Minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xwE0VG-H44&list=RDLV9xwE0VG-H44&start_radio=1&t=1237s

60 Minutes Transcript - http://thefactsabouttheamwayopportunity.blogspot.com/2010/10/amway-on-60-minutes-soap-and-hope.html

The Postma Memo - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Amway/postma-memo-1983.pdf

Amway : The Untold Story - The Tools Scam - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Amway/AUS/tools.htm

AmQuix.info Archive - https://web.archive.org/web/20161120060052/http://www.amquix.info/

Rich DeVos "Directly Speaking" - https://web.archive.org/web/20161118055618/http://www.amquix.info/amway_directly_speaking.html

Amway Cult Resources - https://freedomofmind.com/group-information-resource/amway/

Cultish by Amanda Montell - https://amzn.to/3Q7owx9

Dr. Steven Hassan's BITE Model - https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/

Ponzinomics by Robert L. FitzPatrick - https://amzn.to/3q16oJb

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Robert of Lovins, and this is Life After Emolim, a podcast where we worked
0:10.1	and the stigma of failure in an industry systemically designed for you to fail.
0:14.6	Join us as we dive into the real life stories of survivors, experts, and advocates
0:21.1	to debunk the common myths and fallacies of colts, scams, and multi-level marketing.
0:30.0	This month we are teaming up with I got out.org a consortium of cult survivors supporting the I got out movement of activism and education to help shine light on the commercial colts more commonly known as multi-level marketing.
0:45.0	Throughout the month of November, follow along with us on social media as we share
0:49.6	MLM statistics, cult education, survivor stories, and ways that you can join in on the movement.
0:56.0	Visit I got out.org to share your Emileem experience and share your I got out
1:01.6	selfie using the hashtags I got out and I got out selfie using the hashtags I got out and I got out of an
1:05.4	MLM on social media. Freedom of thought is a universal human right.
1:10.3	Hey Humbots and Humbros, we have another bonus episode for you.
1:15.0	Today we are going to be talking about the Amway Tool Cult scam.
1:20.0	We've heard it talked about before, the tapes and seminars and all the things.
1:25.0	In fact, Paul mentioned it quite a bit in the last episode.
1:29.0	And so when Sean Munger reached out to me and said,
1:32.0	hey, I've got a great bonus episode for you.
1:35.4	I was like, yes, let's do this.
1:37.6	This would be perfect for November.
1:39.6	It is a really fascinating story, and I want to give you a heads up that I do have the audio
1:46.0	from the Miami tape that we talk about in this and it is in the episode so hopefully
1:52.3	it's not too jarring when it pops in I tried to make
1:54.8	the sound like the same I'm still learning and figuring all that stuff out so
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