Episode 281 : Joline Atkins

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In the fall of 2024, the MLM world was rocked when Beachbody/BODi announced they were dropping the MLM aspect and going affiliate. Our guest, Joline Atkins was there to witness every rise and fall in her 14 year stint with the company. From nearly ruining her family vacation hitting 5 Star Diamond, to simply asking too many questions, Joline ethically struggled and made decisions she wasn't proud of. So without further ado, we present The Joline Atkins Apology Tour! Show Notes Connect with Joline : Instagram Notification for BODi Partners in the United States r/antiMLM - Beachbody Drops MLM Model 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 2025. 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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1:12.7	Join us as we dive 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.
1:30.3	Thank you. The The Thank you. I'm you know,
1:45.0	I'm
1:47.0	the Hey, go. Hey, HunBuds and Hunbrose.
2:22.9	Happy New Year.
2:24.1	We have an excellent episode today.
2:27.0	We're going back to our roots.
2:28.7	We've got an MLM episode, and it is about the implosion of Beachbody, which is one of my favorite topics, specifically
2:36.0	just really any MLM imploding and shutting down and ceasing to exist. So we talk about the
2:42.1	implosion of Beach Body, sort of the affiliate movement that MLMs are going this way. And we also
2:47.5	get into the difference of how to build a pyramid deep versus wide.
2:52.2	So it's a really fun episode.
2:54.0	I think you guys are going to love it.
2:55.5	I think anybody who has been affiliated with Beachbody in any way is going to love it.
3:01.5	And I'm just so happy we're back to our roots.
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