Juicy Grift: Brandie Hadfield on MLM Recovery

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

Brandie Hadfield woke up from a good-then-ultimately-nightmarish tour through the MLM world, and today she’s telling us her story without naming the organization because, well, you know culty types: They are soooooo lawsuit-happy. She got out, and today she’s a self-described recovering wellness influencer on her way to becoming a Registered Psychotherapist. She’s also working on her cult memoir, titled The MLM Recovery Handbook. She’s on a mission to warn people, new moms especially, about the dark side of the wellness space. We’ll also chat with her about her take on influencers, recruitment, and wellness coaches - and what happens when those things come wrapped in a glossy celebrity seal of approval. And hey, we love a wellness supplement, and even have some show sponsors from that space that we trust and can really stand by. But we also have no problem with calling bullshit on the culty side of the wellness world, and the MLM we’re going to discuss in this episode has been on our radar for a while. Let’s do this.

NOTES:
Brandie Hadfield is a mother, writer, speaker, and advocate speaking out about commercial cults, wellness scams, and legalized labor trafficking. She believes everyone deserves freedom of mind, so she speaks out about abuses of power and coercion perpetrated by MLM scams. Her memoir is forthcoming. In the meantime, you can read her writing on on Substack and find her profile on Instagram with especially relevant-to-us hashtags #commercialcult #MLMrecovery #igotout.

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The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad.

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0:00.0	This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal, medical, or mental health advice.
0:05.2	The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast
0:10.0	and are not intended to malign any religion group club organization business individual anyone or anything.
0:17.0	I'm Sarah Edmondson and I'm Anthony air quotes nippy Ames and this is a little bit
0:30.5	guilty a podcast about what happens when things that seem like a great thing at first go bad.
0:35.6	Every week we chat with survivors, experts, and whistleblowers for real cult stories told directly by the people who live through them.
0:42.6	Because we want you to learn a few things we've had to learn the hard way.
0:46.1	Like if you think you're too smart to get sucked into something culty,
0:49.7	you're already prime recruitment material.
0:52.2	You might even already be in a cold.
0:54.0	Oops, you better keep listening to find out.
0:56.6	Welcome to season depths of the ocean
1:05.0	hanging on to win my love.
1:09.0	If I let go of it all I could leave, but I know. Welcome back everyone to a little bit to a little bit of the ALBC. That means a little bit of the ALBC. That means a little bit of
1:22.0	called. That's so true bit called. Sir.
1:23.0	That's so true.
1:24.0	Thanks for spelling that out for us.
1:25.0	What we got on the docket today?
1:27.0	Well, we have a legitimately juicy episode.
1:31.0	That's a little reference to the Twin Flames
1:33.4	Rift, but we, it's true, we are excited about this and let me back up a little bit.
1:40.4	Let it be known and if you don't know this you have not been listening to our
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