Success, At Any Cost w/ Audrey Brewer, former multi-level marketer - S5E15pt1

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Audrey was formerly a high-ranking member of a multi-level marketing scheme. She was drawn to the opportunity to start paying off her student debts. Because of personal safety concerns, we are keeping some details anonymous. However, many pyramid schemes have successfully marketed themselves as notable brands. It was a group that fostered positivity by pushing each team of hungry entrepreneurs like herself to buy their success in the group through recruitments and sales. Flexing cruises, cars, and conventions on social media was a way to advertise the lifestyle of working for the brand, in order to sell the job. She began to realize that most of her relationships and conversations had the goal of selling more products-- and that it was time to end this part of her business career. Stay tuned, Before You Go: An impromptu, personal intervention occurs when Rachel discovers that a friend's wife is deeply entangled with an MLM scheme. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.
0:11.2	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:14.0	On the show today, we have Audrey Brewer.
0:18.7	Audrey works in marketing by day and lives in the Carolinas on a tiny suburban farm.
0:25.8	She is the founder of an organization in her home city that serves as a resource for homeless
0:31.3	women and girls. She is an artist and spends her free time gardening, painting, and doing farm chores.
0:39.5	Like many people around the U.S., Audrey spent multiple years in a mostly female MLM,
0:46.5	multi-level marketing company or multi-level marketing scheme.
0:52.6	Ascending through the ranks and loving every second of it until she didn't,
0:58.4	a lot. As she simultaneously removed herself from the ultra-conservative religion of her childhood,
1:05.7	she quickly felt herself questioning many of the practices of the MLM, multi-level marketing scheme,
1:13.4	of which she was a part. She saw similarities that actually alarmed her, and she chose to leave
1:21.8	the company, but she found that to be harder and more grief-filled than she expected. In searching for post-MLM
1:32.9	support, she found a silent void of information and stories, though she knew there had been
1:40.8	many, many people who had left before she did.
1:45.8	The absence of these stories made her feel very isolated and concerned that there were
1:52.0	others out there feeling the same shame and or confusion that comes from leaving an MLM.
2:00.4	It's her hope that someone,
2:02.9	through the telling of her own story,
2:05.5	will feel less alone in their own MLM story.
2:10.6	Here's part one of my conversation with Audrey Brewer.
2:20.6	So, with Audrey Brewer. So I am very excited today to be able to have Audrey on the show with me, with us.
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