Episode 283 : Tracie Bezerra

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Because we're focusing a bit more on the Health and Wellness MLMs this year, we've got an educational episode for you today. Folks on the neurodivergent spectrum tend to get targeted often by MLMs offering anecdotal promises of cures and quick fixes, so it felt important to provide empathy and context. When we're deep in MLM, we often don't take a second to really understand someone's journey and why targeting them could be predatory. Meet Tracie, the amazing mom to Rachel, a 30 year old woman with Autism. In our chat Tracie shares her experiences and frustrations with finding answers, getting diagnoses, being the target of snake oil and confronting denial. Show Notes LiveOps : Avoid Work from Home Scams Follow Tracie : Instagram The Highly Sensitive Person Yuba County Five 2 Knit Lit Chicks Podcast 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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0:45.6	Hey, I'm Roberta Blovens, and this is live after MLM, a podcast where we worked and the stigma of failure in an industry systemically designed for you to fail.
0:49.7	Join us as we dive into the real life stories of survivors, experts, and advocates as we debunk the
0:55.8	common myths and fallacies of cults, frauds, scams, and multi-level marketing. The
1:13.6	The The Thank you. Hey, HunBuds and Hun Bros. We've got a great show for you today. In addition to a brand
2:10.2	new episode, we also have a new segment in the housekeeping and some MLM news. First, we have an educational episode. Now, there's
2:19.9	going to be some educational episodes going into this season. I've already kind of mentioned
2:24.0	that we're going to be focusing a little bit more on health and wellness and also the communities
2:28.9	that are targeted by those health and wellness MLMs. And so today we are talking with Tracy,
2:34.1	who is the mother of an
2:35.4	incredible woman named Rachel who's on the spectrum. So today's episode talks about Tracy's journey,
2:40.8	getting a diagnosis when Rachel was young, being a mom of someone on the spectrum when we didn't
2:46.1	have language for what the spectrum even was back then. And it's not super MLM heavy, but because so often people
2:53.3	who are neurodivergent are targeted to join MLMs or to buy from MLMs, I thought it was really,
2:59.7	really important to tell this story first. If you're not into educational episodes, I totally get it.
3:05.6	I know based on the questions I asked you guys at the end of
3:07.7	last year, there's a good portion of you that do like the educational stuff. And Tracy's episode is
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