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Life After MLM

Episode 341 : The Rise of Stormy Wellington

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2026

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Coach Stormy Wellington is in trouble with the FTC, which isn't surprising if you know where she started. In part 1 of this double episode, we dive into the rise of Stormy Wellington, her traumatic backstory and long history in MLM, her failed Lifetime reality show, and her ever constant promise to make people into millionaires. Grab your foofy coffees and low vibrational plates, because this is a wild ride.

Show Notes

FTC Takes Action Against Stormy Wellington

March 2011 Ardyss Intl Rankings

Prop 65 case against TLC

Stormy Shares about Million Dollar Hustle

Million Dollar Hustle Extended Trailer

India Speaks Out

Maniya Speaks Out

BawseLady Speaks Out

BawseLady Apologizes

Stormy Celebrates 10 Years at TLC

Stormy Joins Farmasi

The Influence Continuum

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Transcript

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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

0:57.0

The The

1:13.6

The Hey, HunBuds and Hun Bros.

1:37.9

Hey.

1:38.5

We have a new story, as promised.

1:41.9

It is a two-parter, so bear with us. Today we're going to tell you about

1:45.2

the rise, and next week you will learn about the fall, and we are talking about Stormy Wellington.

1:51.9

Wow. Yeah. I've heard a little bit about her, so I'm excited to learn. Right. You have already

1:57.9

looked at the FTC case against her.

2:01.2

I did, yeah.

2:02.1

And that's what we're going to be talking about next week.

2:04.7

Yeah.

2:05.3

Sort of like the complaint and then the resolution of that and what that means going forward.

2:10.8

And I thought it was more important to tell sort of the rise of Stormy in this episode.

2:16.0

So everybody's on the same page next week when we talk about

2:19.7

what the complaint was, whether or not we believe that it's fair, what the resolution is,

2:24.9

and whether we believe that's just based on what we learned today about this woman's time

2:30.8

in multi-level marketing. Yeah. And from what our discussion was, was that her rise wasn't

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