Episode 160 : Cori Smelker

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Cori was never in a MLM, but she got a front row seat to the circus of Amway when she met her soon-to-be in-laws and saw their basement. Throughout almost their entire marriage, Cori watched them struggle when they didn't have to, sacrificing everything they had for a dream that was only out of reach while funneling their money into Amway. Cori shares her story of watching the aftermath of putting your MLM before your family. Show Notes Amway : The Comments - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Amway/AUS/commen39.htm Amway Ruined my Childhood - https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/8wuyue/amway_ruined_my_childhood/ Amway : Technically Legal - https://medium.com/agastya-zayant/amway-multilevel-marketing-technically-legal-but-will-ruin-your-life-8d792c20e9d7 Out of MLM - https://outofmlm.info/ 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 How can you help? Report false income and health claims here: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ Or go to: https://www.truthinadvertising.org You can also report to your state Attorney General's office! https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/ Not in the U.S.? Go here: https://www.ftc.gov/policy/international/competition-consumer-protection-authorities-worldwide Support the Podcast! Join the Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/robertablevins Buy me a Taco and leave a note! 🌮💖 - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robertablevins Follow on TikTok for Anti MLM content, education, and humor! - https://www.tiktok.com/@bertalikewhoa Follow on Instagram for visual show notes, FAQ, and updates! - https://www.instagram.com/lifeaftermlmpodcast/ Like on Facebook and join our show fan page to jump in on the conversation! - https://www.facebook.com/lifeaftermlmpodcast *Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Robert of Lovins, and this is Life After Emolim, a podcast where we worked
0:10.0	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
0:21.3	to debunk the common myths and fallacies of colts, scams, and multi-level marketing.
0:27.0	Hey Humbots and Hunroes, I am in DC this week. I am presenting at the Consumer Awareness
0:38.4	Conference or the MLM Conference. It is the third year and I know a lot of you registered. I wanted to say thank you for the support.
0:45.4	So I hope you guys tune in. I've been working on this presentation for a while and I'm really proud of it.
0:51.0	So I hope you tune in and you get to check it out. Other than that I
0:55.5	don't really have a lot to share. There aren't any content warnings on this
0:58.7	episode. It's a really fun episode actually. We talked to Corey who is the daughter-in-law of some amway victims and
1:09.6	it's a really unique perspective that I think you guys will really enjoy. I love really in them to look at their perspective and to understand what they saw and sort of put all those pieces together because it is such a huge puzzle.
1:29.0	And I think the more pieces that we can add to it, the more we can see the whole picture and make effective change going forward.
1:37.6	So like I said, I'll see you guys at the MLM conference this week and enjoy this episode.
1:45.0	Welcome back to another episode of Life after MLM.
1:48.0	I am so excited.
1:50.0	We're doing so much like just really cool education in 2023 and it wouldn't be an
1:56.1	episode of life after I'm a LEM without an Amway episode here or there and so I got an
2:01.2	email from a listener who's coming on the show today.
2:04.3	Here she is, her name's Corey.
2:05.6	She's gonna tell us the story of like her in-laws
2:09.5	and coming into an established Amway family and sort of watching from the wings of what Amway does to people and how it really changes people and families and just the destruction that it causes on a completely different level that we've never really talked about before. So thank you so much for coming on the show. Welcome. I'd like to introduce Corey Smelker. Welcome to the show Corey. How are you? Thank you so much for having me. I'm great and I've been really
2:37.1	looking forward to talking to you. I am so excited to talk to you. There's so many times where people will email me and this was sort of the case.
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