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Life After MLM

Episode 270 : Carl Rehnborg

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

For our Cult Month bonus series we are diving into the History of Amway, starting with Carl Rehnborg, the inception of Nutrilite, and the earliest beginnings of The American Way. Stay tuned as we dive into all the sordid details of the Grandfather of MLM. Show Notes 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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Adobe Express, the quick and easy create anything app. Hey, I'm Roberta Blevins, and this is live after MLM, a podcast where we worked and the

0:46.1

stigma of failure in an industry systemically designed for you to fail. Join us as we dive

0:51.2

into the real life stories of survivors, experts, and advocates as we debunk the common myths and fallacies of cults, frauds, scams, and multi-level marketing. The

1:13.6

The The I'm Hey, HunBots and Hunbrose. I am on location, so I apologize for the less than perfect audio.

2:13.2

I am up in Ontario hanging out with Mr. F. We're having a great time eating delicious food and

2:18.8

we're going to a hockey game tonight. But I wanted to make sure that I got this bonus episode

2:23.5

out for you guys. I want to say thank you to all of the great feedback that I've gotten

2:28.0

from the last episode that we did. So excited that Colt Month this month is about Amway.

2:33.5

And so I wanted to give you guys a little bit

2:35.8

of the history of Amway, courtesy of Ponziomics, which is seriously if you have not read Ponziomics

2:41.7

and you want to know more about this stuff, you absolutely should. There is a link in the show notes

2:46.8

to the book and you should definitely grab a copy if you are anti-MLM or wanting to learn

2:52.5

more about everything that encompasses this wild movement that we're all about.

3:13.9

I wanted to talk about the history of Amway, sort of interspersed between these stories that we're going to be telling all month, because I think it's really important and I've never really sat down

3:17.4

and done it. Today, we're going to be talking about Carl Renborg. And if you've read Ponzionomics, that name probably sounds incredibly

3:26.4

familiar to you. You may know about him, but I'm going to tell you a little bit about him,

3:30.8

and you will get accustomed to him and sort of what he did and how he plays into this story.

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