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The MLM Who Nasa Fell For: Shaklee | Multi Level Mondays

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4961 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/mlm. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! Go to http://hellofresh.com/mlm70 and use code mlm70 to get 70% off plus free shipping. Go to http://joinhoney.com/mlm to get PayPal Honey for free. Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes. On the surface, Shaklee seems like any other supplement MLM. However, if you look a little further, you’ll find a lengthy history, worshiped founder, and—naturally—problematic sellers. Shaklee isn’t just similar to other frustrating pseudo-science MLMs, they’ve Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii Sources: https://justpaste.it/764b3 Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: @GThomasCraig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello Fresh is cheaper than grocery shopping and 25% less expensive than take out

0:05.0

so you can save money on dinner and put it towards holiday shopping.

0:08.0

Get 70% off plus free shipping with code

0:10.0

MLM70 at hello fresh dot com slash melm 70.

0:16.5

Good morning, Shackley family.

0:25.0

It is so great to be together again here in Kansas City.

0:38.8

At our first in person.

0:39.4

On the surface, Shackley looks like any other health

0:42.1

and wellness

0:42.5

MLM. They sell meal replacement shakes for almost $60 a

0:46.2

canister or about $4 per serving. And though their vitamins are

0:50.6

supposedly clinically shown to boost mental sharpness, they're not evaluated by the FDA either.

0:56.0

Still, there is a faint hint of legitimacy to them.

0:59.0

Maybe it's the doctor's signature on the bottles or packages, despite said doctor and founder having died in 1985.

1:05.7

But let's press on, shall we?

1:08.5

After promising better focus and a lower shrinkage rate of your brain if you take their

1:12.4

Mind Works pills, they have an entire series of studies listed.

1:16.0

I know this should probably be the bare minimum, but it's honestly a welcome surprise to see an

1:20.9

MLM actually, you know, reach for that low bar. Now they do sometimes

1:26.1

list the same study twice. They don't unveil that one of their main ingredients in their

1:30.3

mental sharpness pills, Guarana, is caffeine, and they certainly don't list any potential

1:35.2

side effects. On the other hand, they have also published a landmark study comparing

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