Episode 187 : Steve

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Steve joined Amway over 20 years ago, as a young naive man, looking for a steady income. Back then he was focus on building his products business, eventually making it to Emerald, but not seeing the same profits from others around him who had more of a "Tools" focus. It wasn't until Steve started asking questions nobody wanted to answer that he started taking a closer look at where the money was coming from. Show Notes Amway Systems - https://www.amwaywiki.com/Active_Amway_Business_Support_Systems Amway in the 1990's - https://amwayconnections.com/amway-celebrates-60-years/amway-in-1990s-magic-begins/ Rubbermaid & Amway - https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/07/business/rubbermaid-amway-deal.html MCI & Amway - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1985/10/15/amway-representatives-sell-mci-door-to-door/5e20d214-7ac6-4bdf-a9ee-0f5a1c175a3f/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2d168a3565d8 Amway in the 90's : Organic Farming - https://amwayconnections.com/amway-celebrates-60-years/amway-in-1990s-acquiring-certified-organic-farms/ 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, Hahnbots and Hahnbrows. We're back with another Amway episode like Promised.
0:37.0	I'm really excited for you to meet Steve. He was in Amway 20 years ago, and he is a really interesting perspective that we don't hear about too often.
0:45.0	But before we get into the episode, I have some housekeeping updates.
0:49.2	So the first is I want to give you guys an update about Pastor Rob.
0:53.2	I got so much great reception and so many of you were like,
0:56.1	where can I find Pastor Rob?
0:57.8	Is he on social media?
0:59.1	And he wasn't.
0:59.8	I reached out to him and I said, hey, Pastor Rob,
1:02.1	is there anywhere that my listeners can find what you've
1:04.5	written and the things that you mentioned and he said that we inspired him to open up a
1:09.9	sub stack so you can find pasta rob substack in the show notes and you can check out all of his
1:15.9	writings and what he's up to now. Secondly we also got a ton of great response to Emma's episode about Grand Rapids and after Steve
1:25.9	listened to it he reached out to me and gave me even more information about the
1:30.4	little store and I want to read that text to you right now.
1:34.1	Steve says the Amway store she is referring to is legit because you have to use an
1:39.2	IBO number to connect the sales. Amway used to have a personal shoppers catalog in the 1990s.
1:45.0	This catalog had very overpriced name-brand products like TV's, radio, clothing, etc.
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