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🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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When Sara looks back on her younger years and the communities she found herself in, she knows now that they were dripping with the telltale signs of coercive control and social pressure. In Part 1 of my conversation with Sara, we take a trip down memory lane, visiting each group starting with her first experiences as a teenager. Through the years looking for community, Sara eventually finds herself climbing the pyramid of Shaklee and realizing it might not be all that it seems.
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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 |
0:25.7 | debunk 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 Hunvats and Hun bros. I am bringing you part one of a two-part episode today. |
1:41.9 | If you remember a few weeks ago, I put out a call to action looking for |
1:44.9 | anybody that had been in the MLM Shackley. I hadn't done an episode about Shackley, and they've |
1:50.8 | been in the news so much because of the Modare merger. I was really interested in learning more |
1:55.7 | about the company. That's where Sarah comes in. She sent me a message saying that she's wanted to |
2:00.2 | tell her story for a while, and when she heard my call to action, she knew that she had to email me. |
2:05.4 | So today we're going to learn about Shackley, along with all of the other types of coercive control that Sarah encountered in her life. |
2:11.8 | So quick heads up, we're going to be talking about disordered eating, the patriarchy, faith manipulation, the social pressure that you feel |
2:19.2 | while you're in an MLM, and then sprinkled with a little bit of the coaching industry as well. |
2:24.4 | Part two will be up next week, but if you are chomping at the bit and won it early, Patreon will |
2:29.0 | have the entire episode soon. Don't forget, we have three, five, and ten dollar tiers, |
2:33.7 | and we also have a free trial. |
2:36.1 | So if you're looking for a little bit of extra anti-MLMLM content, you might want to check it out. |
2:40.8 | Other than that, enjoy this episode, and we will see you next week for part two. Welcome back to another episode of Life After MLM. |
2:59.6 | I love it when I put out just like a call to action and someone reaches out and says, |
3:06.1 | I can tell this story. |
3:07.7 | I can tell you exactly what you want to know. |
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