Episode 328 : Emmet Mathieu
Life After MLM
Roberta Blevins
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Trigger Warnings - This episode contains topics such as misogyny, child abuse, and labor exploitation. Please use discretion when listening.
Emmet was just a baby when his family sold all of their possessions and moved in with the local Twelve Tribes. In our chat Emmet talks about living his formidable years in a cult, their surprising side hustles, the living conditions within the communities, the Yellow Deli and it's true purpose and what finally got them to leave and never look back.
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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, HunBots and Hun Bros. |
| 1:37.9 | Hey, hello. Happy holidays. |
| 1:40.5 | Yeah, it's December. |
| 1:41.9 | Finally, we made it to the end of the year. |
| 1:44.2 | I know. |
| 1:44.9 | Kind of exciting. |
| 1:45.9 | Where did this year go? |
| 1:47.3 | I feel like I ask that question every year. |
| 1:50.4 | So today's episode is with Emmett. |
| 1:52.0 | He is our Yellow Deli Survivor. |
| 1:54.1 | I want to let everybody know that all of the trigger warnings from last week are still in place here. |
| 1:59.5 | Misogyny, patriarchy, child abuse, labor abuse. |
| 2:03.8 | Lots of labor abuse. |
| 2:05.4 | Lots of labor abuse. |
| 2:06.4 | Yeah, all of it's there. |
| 2:07.8 | So I just want everybody to go into this episode being super super aware. |
| 2:12.1 | Also, as you're listening to this, if you have any questions whatsoever, write them down, |
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