Multi-Level Manipulator (MLM): “Hey, Hun! Hey, Girl! Hey, sis!”

Was I In A Cult?

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True Crime, Comedy, Talk Radio

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🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Emily Lynn Paulson was a busy, ass-kicking mom to five children when she realized something was missing. Wanting to find a way to enter the workforce again, she met up with an old friend one night who introduced her to some products. Products her friend was selling. Products that Emily could sell too. She could work her own hours, be her own boss, and still spend all the time with her kids. It sounded perfect. And it was. Until… well, it wasn’t. -- Emily’s book, “Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing” was a book of the year pick by NPR for 2023. — LINKS Find Emily: Instagram @emilylynnpaulson Founder of @sobermomsquad Follow us: Instagram @wasiinacult Support Us: https://www.patreon.com/wasiinacult Have a story to share on our show? Email us: [email protected]

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0:00.0	I saw people before me who had left and go into other companies and I think that's a really easy way people get sucked into other cults.
0:08.0	Whether it's MLM or whatever, the MLM must have been the reason I felt good and so I'm going to try a different one.
0:15.3	If I could go back, I would work really hard to look for things that actually fill those needs. Welcome back to Was I in a cult? I'm Liz Iacuzzi. And on this show we highlight personal stories of those who have been through cults or cultic environments and have come out on the other side straight kicking ass. We are
0:44.8	here recording in studio today at the gorgeous podcast one office is right here
0:50.9	in Beverly Hills, California.
0:52.8	And it is quite a nice studio.
0:54.4	It has a pool table, an espresso machine, and fresh flowers.
0:58.2	And the smell of Ozempik is in the air.
1:01.3	Now, today's episode is quite a fun one.
1:04.0	Yep, it's about a survivor of an MLM.
1:07.0	Multilevel marketing companies are thankfully becoming recognized more and more as cults.
1:12.0	Companies like New Skin, Young Living, Rotations. becoming recognized more and more as cults.
1:12.8	Companies like New Skin, Young Living,
1:14.7	Rodinen Fields, Beach Body, and Pampered Chef.
1:18.1	Hampered Chef is an MLM.
1:20.0	I had no idea.
1:21.1	We previously had a guest on our show, Roberta Blevins, who was in an
1:24.9	MLM called Lula Row.
1:27.0	You guys should listen to that because we both get a pair of sexy ass Pam.
1:32.0	We sure do an update on my lula row leggings. I took them home, my wife loves
1:36.7	wearing them, however they are still hideously ugly, so she only wears them in the dark.
1:41.8	And they still smell like farts.
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