Episode 45: "Tallulah"
Life After MLM
Roberta Blevins
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
"Tallulah" dodged a bullet when she saw the red flags at a World Financial Group recruitment event and decided to turn down "the opportunity". After making that decision, she was harassed and bullied by her recruiter with vicious texts and voice messages. We also discuss different red flags to look for when trying to figure out if the opportunity being offered is a scam or not, the differences between MLM and "Corporate America" and what to expect from a legitimate job offer.
Show Notes
World Financial Group - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Financial_Group
Betting on Zero - https://amzn.to/3DNlg4e
Transamerica Pyramid - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transamerica_Pyramid
Infiltrating A Pyramid Scheme: WFG - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flugTRSTZoo
Dr. Steven Hassan's BITE Model - https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/
Ponzinomics by Robert L. FitzPatrick - https://amzn.to/3q16oJb
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Roberta Blovins, and this is life after M. L. M. L. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. A. A podcast where we work to end the stigma of failure in an industry designed for you to fail. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to another episode of Life after MLM. Today we have a very interesting perspective. We're talking to somebody who was targeted and was lucky enough to see the signs and not sign on that dotted line. |
| 0:36.0 | But we're going to talk to you today about different red flags to look for. |
| 0:39.8 | Just different things, keep your eyes open about and make sure that you don't get, you know, stuck in one of these scams. So I'm going to introduce to Lula, hey to Lula. |
| 0:50.0 | Would you like to introduce yourself and talk to us about where you were in your life when this |
| 0:58.4 | MLM came and targeted you? So I was in kind of a transitional period for since I finished grad school |
| 1:08.5 | around 2006, 2007 I had actually pursued off and on a career as a teacher of English as a foreign |
| 1:17.7 | language in different countries. So I had done contracts in other countries |
| 1:22.3 | North Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and, you know, kind of every |
| 1:28.8 | time I finished a contract kind of question, oh, do I want to come back to the states and like kind of pursue something there and then do something there and then do something |
| 1:36.7 | later. |
| 1:37.9 | And the longest contract I had was four years. |
| 1:40.3 | I was in Saudi Arabia. |
| 1:41.7 | I was teaching at a university and I came back and decided you know I've been away from my family my friends my best friend had just adopted children and so I wanted to kind of maybe see at least for you know |
| 1:55.2 | settle down some maybe by a house and then if I wanted to in the future sublet |
| 2:00.1 | the house if I wanted to do another contract abroad. |
| 2:03.6 | But that was really, I wanted to be an education |
| 2:07.0 | in international studies, in training and development, |
| 2:11.1 | something like that. |
| 2:11.9 | So I was looking to kind of integrate back into getting. training and in the Bay Area, California. |
| 2:23.0 | And so I was having kind of trouble |
| 2:27.2 | because a lot of really good jobs are through networking |
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