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Trust me, I'm like a smart person. If you think that one person has all the answers,

don't! Welcome to Trust Me, the podcast about cults, extreme belief, and manipulation from

two boss babes who've actually experienced it I'm low-blown and I'm Megan Elizabeth.

This week our guest is Emily Paulson. She's the author of Hey Hunn and a former member of an

MLM she's calling Rejuvenate. She's gonna talk to us about how she first was introduced to Rejuvenate

by a friend from school and how it seemed like the perfect way to bring purpose and extra income

to her stay at home mom lifestyle. She'll talk about how her circumstances put her in the rare

and unlikely position of actually being really good at it, becoming a top seller who was put

on display as a success story and how much of a myth that was considering the vast vast majority

of MLM sells people never turn a profit. We'll also discuss the role that her alcohol is

in played and how the ethics of the stark inequality between downlines at the bottom and

uplines at the top began to make her question everything. Plus how she was encouraged to use

her cancer diagnosis to sell more and what made her finally leave. Before we dive in with

Emily Paulson, Megan, I would love to know what your cultiest thing is. Well, today

that's our cultiest thing, Lilla. Oh, yeah. My bad. We're sharing one today because it's so

delicious, so scrumptious, so insane. That's scrumptious. We just must simply share it. We talked

about the biotech CEO who was going to reverse his age. He had a very specific program that was

costing him $2 million a year and other sources that says that was more than that. Who knows

all that we know is that it was absolutely an insane amount of money. And he has decided,

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