How MLMs Monetize Motivation | Multi Level Mondays

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Go to http://mintmobile.com/mlm to get a phone plan starting as just $15 a month. Go to http://shopify.com/multilevel to sign up for a $1-per-month trial period. Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes. You’ve definitely heard it before: those flowery ‘you can do it’ sentiments from MLMs that encourage distributors to keep trying. They may be hollow and meaningless, but people believe in them all too often. But why? As it turns out, those motivational tapes, books, and speakers are part of the scam itself. They keep MLMs alive more than you might realize. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/d45y9 Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.1	Order today at Mitnoble.com slash MLM. I've definitely spoken about the hollow motivational speakers at
0:58.4	MLM events and how MLM team leads themselves can fall into these rules.
1:03.3	Honestly, is network marketing your primary or your secondary focus in life?
1:10.0	And if it's secondary, can you expect to succeed if it stays secondary.
1:14.8	By now many of us just probably assume that this comes along with the turf.
1:18.8	Flowery, vague, you can do it sentiments are all just part of being in an
1:23.0	MLM and that's true without a doubt. Simply being a motivational speaker is a
1:28.3	profession and while some of them may be fantastic, and especially those within the MLM arena, just repeat the same ideas about
1:37.1	empowerment and success over and over and over again without really giving you a clear goal in mind.
1:44.2	Plus, those who talk about MLMs helping them climb out of poverty
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