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Life After MLM

Episode 291 : Katie

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

*Content Warning : This episode deals with eating disorders and disordered eating. Please use discretion when listening.* After many successful years on a popular weight loss program, corporate changes lead Katie to no longer seeing the results she wanted. As a marathon runner, Katie always been physically active, until a spinal surgery left her unable to exercise at all. After gaining more weight that she would have liked, she found herself battling with body dysmorphia again, and that's when Optavia came knocking. Show Notes Billionaire Oprah Makes Bank On Weight Watchers Windfall Joy Anna Duggar Promotes Optavia 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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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Roberta Blevins, 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.

0:20.1

Join us as we dive into the real lifelife stories of survivors, experts, and advocates as we debunk

0:26.0

the common myths and fallacies of cults, frauds, scams, and multi-level marketing.

0:31.6

Thank you. The

0:40.3

The The The

1:13.6

The Hey, HunBots and Hun Bros. We have another health and wellness episode today. And real quick, before we get into it, I want to let you know that we're talking about eating disorders and disordered eating and toxic diet culture.

1:47.9

I know it has been a while since we had a toxic diet culture episode, but with health and

1:52.4

wellness as a main topic this year, it's going to come up a lot.

1:56.5

And this episode puts us right back in that space.

1:59.3

So if you're in recovery for eating disorders and this episode is triggering for you,

2:03.4

please feel free to skip it or skip around.

2:06.0

Katie is a super fun guest.

2:07.5

And we talk about not only Weight Watchers and Beach Body, but Optavia.

2:12.3

So many of you guys ask me for Optivia episodes.

2:14.5

So here you go.

2:15.6

It's a tough one, but here you go. Secondly, I want to say

2:18.8

thank you to everybody who's been sending me FireFest 2 and Billy McFarland updates. I have been swamped

2:24.6

and really just like so not in the headspace to make content on social media. But I am following

2:31.1

what's going on. We do have some movement.

2:43.1

So previously, Billy had decided to have Fire Fest in the Caribbean Sea in Mexico at Ila Muheras.

2:53.8

But when people started looking into the property, realized that it's a very small location and probably having the alleged 3,000 people wouldn't work there. Also, a lot of people were like checking

2:58.7

accommodations and none of the hotels knew anything about the event. And so surprise,

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