Exposing Multi-Level Marketing – aka MLM – Scams with Award-Winning Host of “The Dream” Podcast and Author of “Selling The Dream,” Jane Marie
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
MLM company scams are everywhere. So, just what is an MLM company? Better known as multi-level marketing companies, MLMs are businesses that involve selling products to family and friends while recruiting other people to do the same (think: Avon, Doterra, Arbonne, Rodan and Fields, and more). Except that only 1% of people who join an MLM company will actually turn a profit.
Today, we’re exploring the dark side of MLMs with Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist and author, Jane Marie. Jane Marie is the former producer of This American Life and most recently, Michelle Obama’s “The Light” podcast. As host of The Dream podcast, Jane Marie joins us to chat about her debut book, Selling The Dream The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans, a must-read exposé on the deceptive truths behind MLMs.
PS - Be sure to check out Jane Marie’s latest podcast called “Finally a Show!”
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- Are MLMs actually pyramid schemes?
- What it *really* takes to get that fancy car from an MLM company
- How some MLM participants are having to seek out “deprogramming” therapy
- Why so many people don’t report their experiences of getting scammed by an MLM company
- The popular brand at Sephora that is a low-key MLM
- Plus! In an impromptu role play, Jane Marie tries to convince Jill to join an MLM company
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| 0:32.0 | See you on May 4th in Austin, Texas. media. Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and |
| 0:46.4 | moments in beauty. |
| 0:47.4 | We're your host Jill Dunn and I'm here as always with my |
| 1:00.4 | lovely co-host, Carleen Higgins. |
| 1:03.2 | Hey girl, hey! |
| 1:04.6 | Of course, we're two longtime magazine beauty editors, |
| 1:07.4 | turned beauty podcasters delivering the breakthrough people, |
| 1:10.4 | products, and moments in beauty every single Wednesday. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah, we've been at it for like seven years now. We interview amazing founders people like |
| 1:18.3 | Emily Weiss from Glossier. We also speak to some of the best and brightest minds shaping beauty trends today like |
| 1:25.9 | makeup by Mario and skincare gurus like Joanna Vargas and we also of course do |
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