Episode 61: LuLaBitch - Maelen - Part 2

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

*The stories shared in LuLaBitch are our own personal experiences, opinions and allegations of our time in the cult LuLaRoe. Some accounts may be triggering. Please listen at your own discretion. This is meant as a companion series to the Amazon Docuseries, LuLaRich, and is in no way affiliated with the film.* We continue Maelen's story after the disaster of Vision 2017 broke the straw, and her dealing with leaving LuLaRoe and the 100% Buy Back cancelation nightmare. We discuss the culture in LuLaRoe, and what it was like being outside the target demographic, the tokenism, two faced lies and how culty it really was. Even as a small fish, who put her everything into it, she just couldn't make it work for her despite every attempt at making Mark's rotten lemons into lemonade. After watching LuLaRich, Maelen just couldn't unsee the truth anymore and needed to share her experience in the cult with us. Show Notes Watch LuLaRich on Amazon Prime Video! - https://amzn.to/3k68Axs Did Agnes & Dora Close? - https://www.sassydirect.com/articles/did-agnes-and-dora-close Tokenism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenism The BITE Model by Dr. Steven Hassan - https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/ The Cult of Trump by Dr. Steven Hassan - https://amzn.to/3zSKD1h Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath - https://www.aetv.com/shows/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-aftermath Ponzinomics by Robert L. FitzPatrick - https://amzn.to/3q16oJb How can you help? Report false income and health claims here: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ Or go to: https://www.truthinadvertising.org You can also report to your state Attorney General's office! https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/ Not in the U.S.? Go here: https://www.ftc.gov/policy/international/competition-consumer-protection-authorities-worldwide Support the Podcast! Buy me a Taco and leave me a note! 🌮💖 - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robertablevins Follow me on TikTok for Anti MLM content, education, and humor! - https://www.tiktok.com/@bertalikewhoa & https://www.tiktok.com/@bertalikewhoa2.0 Follow us on Instagram for visual show notes, FAQ, and updates! - https://www.instagram.com/lifeaftermlmpodcast/ Like us on Facebook and join our show fan page to jump in on the conversation! - https://www.facebook.com/lifeaftermlmpodcast *Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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	Hey, welcome to Life AfterMLilems, Lula Rich Companion Series, Lula Bitch, a place you can come to find all the
0:28.9	tea and everything that was left on the cutting room floor.
0:33.0	You're about to hear the personal accounts
0:36.2	of the people affected by the MLM Thularow.
0:39.6	These stories are our own personal opinions, accounts, and allegations of our experiences within the cult.
0:46.0	Some stories may be triggering.
0:48.0	Please listen at your own discretion. expression. So I was just like if I saw someone like hey hey let's hang out for a little while
1:11.6	it was crazy.
1:13.7	I mean, we even were finding people that didn't have groups and we were adopting people
1:17.9	into our like mishmosh group.
1:19.5	It was crazy.
1:20.5	I know and honestly I feel like they spent so much money on like all of the
1:25.9	decorations and the different showrooms that had all these big beautiful like
1:36.4	like all these all beautiful like all these crazy decor that they had they had spent so much money on that and they spent so much money on like the glist and
1:39.8	the glam of it all that like they could have just put a little bit more into actually
1:44.7	organizing it and like hiring the correct type of coordinators like anything
1:50.3	anything that they have a lot of potential but there's like a lot of women going to this thing.
1:55.0	They could have broken it up into a couple different weekends like there was so many things they could have done that they didn't do and even after the year before they didn't learn, so it was like just and especially with all the exponential growth over that entire year, you would think that, okay, we have so many people in the company now.
2:12.0	We definitely have to make things a little bit different for this convention, but now.
2:15.0	No. So I went to that beach party. I didn't get food. And I hope that this doesn't just sound like bitching because so many people didn't get food but like honestly it was it was really sad like we were all there hot on the beach just standing in line like the entire time I was with a group of ladies that I had met and we were kind of just standing in line chatting and stuff and we were together in that line for like three hours and we didn't enjoy anything else on that beach just in line the whole time and then when it was time to leave because we didn't give food we're like well we just better just go home and maybe
2:52.8	we'll like get to food on the way home or something it's like an hour and a half to get home.
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