Episode 218 : Heather Tobin

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Heather Tobin has been involved with MLM one way or another for the past 33 years. The farther Heather got away from The MLM Complex, the easier it was for her to see connections between the business model and the stress, depression, anxiety, and other issues she was facing. Now, as a mental health advocate she looks back on her time in MLM with a clearer eye and understanding of the systemic ways MLM's prey on not only our physical and financial health, but our mental health as well. Show Notes The Living R3 Webinar Can We Stop Ignoring How MLMs Prey on Emotionally Vulnerable Women? The Psychology Behind MLM Mental Health in MLM by Brandie Hadfield Out of MLM The BITE Model LAMLM Book Club MLM Dupes How can you help? MLM Change Report Fraud Truth in Advertising Report to your state Attorney General's office! Not in the U.S.? No Problem! Support the Podcast! Website | Patreon | Buy Me a Taco | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Discord | Merch! Life After MLM is produced by Roberta Blevins. Audio editing is done by the lovely Kayla Craven, video editing by the indescribable RK Gold, and Michelle Carpenter is our Triple Emerald Princess of Robots. Life After MLM is owned by Roberta Blevins 2024. Music : Abstract World by Alexi Action *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 Blovins, and this is Life After Emile, a podcast where we worked and the stigma
0:16.4	of failure in an industry systemically designed for you to fail.
0:20.3	Join us as we dive into the real life stories of survivors, experts, and advocates
0:25.3	as we debug the common myths and fallacies of colts, frauds, scams, and multi-level marketing. Oh, Oh, the the Hey, Humbots and Humbots and Humbrows. It is raining in San Diego and I am soaking in the cozy weather.
1:42.0	I'm really excited for this episode today because I've
1:44.7	been wanting to talk about this topic in depth and that is mental health and the
1:49.2	ways that MLMs affect your mental health. It's a great episode for those of you that love it
1:54.7	when I drag my soapbox out and just sort of go off on subjects. I go off on
2:00.0	quite a few tangents and soapboxes in this episode and I get rather passionate.
2:05.1	So if that's your favorite Roberta, like you're in for a treat.
2:10.1	I also want to say thank you to everybody who has joined the discord. We have great episode discussions going on over there and I just am blown away with the really cool discussion that's happening on Dr. Amy's episode. It was a really big hit. I got so
2:24.7	many people reaching out and saying thank you for talking about this subject and
2:28.1	being excited that we're going to go down this avenue this year so I'm really excited that you
2:33.7	guys are excited about this I already have been talking to people about coming on the
2:37.2	show and so it's yes full steam ahead if you're interested in discord and you want to join it, all of the links can be found in
2:45.1	the show notes and on the website.
2:48.3	Aside from talking about mental health, I will say in this episode there aren't a
2:51.7	ton of trigger warnings. and Heather and I are both
2:54.8	proud MLM haters but I do want to give you a trigger warning because I talk about the
3:01.2	MLM living R3 which I think I had mentioned in the housekeeping a couple weeks back.
3:06.0	Was this MLM that I couldn't find the name of?
3:08.0	So after I made my video on Tik-Toc and they sort of like saw it and attacked me in the
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