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Not So Molly Mormon

Minisode 59: Mormonism and Multi-Level Marketing

Not So Molly Mormon

Not So Molly Mormon Podcast

Society & Culture

4.4775 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Cults (like the Mormon church) have A LOT in common with MLMs. Article referenced: https://laconteconsulting.com/2018/11/02/11-ways-multi-level-marketing-is-like-a-cult/ Email us: notsomollymormonpodcast@gmail.com

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0:00.0

Hi friends. Welcome to Not So Molly Mormon podcast mini-sode. This is Katie and I'm really happy to be back here doing this with you. I haven't done any minisodes yet this year, 2021.

0:17.8

It's been a little busy, but thank you so much for for all of your stories you've still

0:23.8

been sending them in both sarah and i have been reading them they're wonderful and i am going to

0:30.7

get around to sharing them on the air uh so thanks for your patience um Let me just get right in to this story. You will see

0:42.4

it's going to get my blood boiling. My poor active Mormon mom is trying to sell new skin and it

0:51.2

makes me so angry at the lady who introduced her to it. My mom is 70 and single

0:57.7

after three failed marriages. She already has had financial problems. She still pays a full tithing

1:04.4

barf and now she thinks she's going to get rich on new skin. I'm going to pause here for people who maybe don't know. New Skin is a

1:14.8

multi-level marketing company, and if I'm not mistaken, it's based out of Provo, Utah. So it's a very

1:22.4

Mormon company, and it's a, I would call it a pyramid scheme. And I know personally so many people,

1:35.2

members of my own family included, who have lost money to new skin. And we all know how

1:42.8

both Sarah and I feel about multi-level marketing, MLMs,

1:47.0

which I will also get into a little bit later. But I just wanted to clarify that's what it was.

1:52.3

They sell like skin care, makeup, quote unquote, health and wellness products.

2:01.4

Okay.

2:02.9

She continues.

2:03.5

She says,

2:08.1

She keeps buying me stuff like the baby wash and the body butter,

2:09.9

and I always tell her not to.

2:12.3

She wants me to fall in love with the products, I guess.

2:16.4

The worst part is she wants to talk to my friends about it and my in-laws whom I love and it makes me so mad.

2:21.8

Of course, if I don't want her to tell all my people about it, then she thinks I'm, quote,

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