ICYMI: Inside the MLM to Life Coach Pipeline

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Jane Marie, the host of the award-winning podcast The Dream which recently released it’s highly-anticipated third season all about life coaches. The two discuss the rise of life coaching and it’s connection to the MLM universe, how the internet has accelerated the life coach boom and what exactly the American Dream has to do with any of this. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim. With special thanks to Vic Whitley-Berry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.3	In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:53.3	And happy Wednesday, my beautiful ICY and my listeners, today we are going back, back in time,
1:01.3	to the solo Rachel era.
1:03.2	Do you remember that?
1:04.7	Somehow I'm already nostalgic for it, except not really, because if you knew me in real life, you know that your girl was
1:13.4	struggling through those 10 months. We spent looking for the lovely Candice Lim.
1:23.7	Speaking of Candice, where is she today? Well, I can't give too many details because the job she's working right now, well, it's top secret. All I can say is that Bath and Body Works better watch out and that soon we might know the most closely held corporate secret in the business world. Why was Pearberry
1:48.9	discontinued? In the meantime, we've got a show to do and today is a special one because it begins
1:56.3	to answer a question I've had for a really, really long time, which is why does TikTok keep trying
2:03.8	to get me to buy a shadow work journal? If you haven't had the distinct pleasure of getting
2:11.9	this particular extremely targeted ad on your for you page, allow me to explain. The shadow work journal
2:19.2	follows in the footsteps of the affirmations journal, which is basically a hundred pages of
2:24.7	you as good, you is kind, you is important. And listen, I love an affirmation, love to manifest.
2:32.1	I'm a little bit convinced that I'm psychic. Don't ask any questions, but
2:35.6	the Shadow Work Journal takes it a step too far from me, not least because introduced to me around
2:42.3	the same time as TikTok shop, which means that for a brief period of time, I would get these
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