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The Hey, hon bots and hon bros, we have part two of Kelly's episode today.

But before we start, I just want to say that I don't know if I've ever got as many messages

about this episode as I have on any other episode. And it was pretty interesting because it was

kind of split down the middle. Half of you were like, whoa, that episode was kind of churchy.

And then the other half of you were like, thank you so much for talking about spiritual abuse

and for bringing up Ariel because there's lots of drama going on with Ariel right now.

So I kind of wanted to address it.

I do understand that it was a little churchier than usual.

And for me, I think it was important to kind of share Kelly's story and who she is as a person

because she was so spiritually

abused and so many of these MLMs used spiritual abuse to manipulate and hurt their participants.

This story was just so egregious in that that for me it felt really important to kind of

show you who she was and how they

hurt her and then in part two kind of share all the juicy MLM Goss that's happening in

this company right now. Yeah, I get it. I mean, I'm a cradle Catholic. Grew up Catholic,

Catholic school, the whole nine yards. When I hear a lot about Jesus, it's kind of a big, I wouldn't say it's a red flag,

but it's kind of like, okay, you know, I get it, I get it, I understand, I know what you mean,

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