Episode 177 : Sarah VanTassal

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Sarah joined Scentsy because she wanted a family vacation, and somehow found herself in the owner's direct downline, without much help or guidance. As Sarah climbed the ranks to SuperStar Consultant she started to noticed something fishy, consultants breaking the rules, out spending each other on stock, buying ranks, and literally faking it until they make it. When she experiences some huge life changes, Sarah throws herself into Scentsy, and spirals into the darkest time of her life. Show Notes /r AntiMLM : Scentsy - https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/hpacfz/scentsy_is_an_mlm/ The Sam Dee -Scentsy Exposed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZskI2au10jY Tiff's Scentsy Shenanigans - https://mlmtruth.org/2017/12/21/tiffs-scentsy-shenanigans-my-mlm-experience/ 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 cults, scams, and multi-level
0:26.8	marketing.
0:27.8	Hey, Hunbuds and Hunrose, it's been another week and I am excited to get to today's topic.
0:38.0	It is something that we've talked about a bunch and it's something I've been talking about on social media lately and that is
0:44.4	fake it till you make it culture buying your title transitional
0:48.8	relationships it is going to be a really good episode and I am excited to get into it.
0:54.0	But before we get into it, I just wanted to say thank you to everybody for the positive response
1:00.0	over the past couple weeks of all the episodes that we've been doing.
1:02.8	I know we kind of have taken a break from MLM because we were talking about
1:06.9	purity culture and shiny happy people and a couple other things.
1:10.9	This episode is an MLM episode.
1:12.4	We're getting back into that right now for a little bit. But I got so many emails and so many messages and I know that's like such a hunt thing to say, but this is true. And you guys are just reaching out saying, thank you so much for talking about purity culture.
1:24.4	Thank you so much for bringing this into a conversation
1:28.0	so that we can start talking about this.
1:30.0	Thank you for explaining and describing these things that have happened to me or talking about these things, right?
1:37.0	I also had a couple of people reach out to me and say, hey, I have more information on these topics, you know, from this vantage point if you would like to talk.
1:44.7	So there are so many things in the works coming up, more stuff with purity culture, more stuff
1:50.0	with the IBLP. We're going to be talking about so many more things. I'm really, really excited. I love the way that this show sort of grows and weaves with all of these different topics and how even though we're talking about different things we can still see
2:04.7	the same red flags and the same structures and the same abuses. That's kind of the point. It wasn't in the
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