Hun in a Millennial (MLMs with Emily Paulson)
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2023
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
This week, Kate muses aloud about her feeling like influencer and affiliate marketing has pyramid scheme vibes, then goes off on a tangent about vague marketing jobs in the context of being “pink collar” jobs that aren’t treated the same as more technical roles, then eventually gets back on topic an interviews Emily Lynn Paulson (author of Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing) about the good, the bad, and the cringy of her time bossbabing as a top earner in an MLM. Enjoy!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In 5 Podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. |
| 0:16.0 | This week we are continuing, what I guess is Beth's book club, where I'm interested |
| 0:22.5 | in a topic, but I also want the input of a subject matter expert and as a person that |
| 0:27.7 | just wrote a book and was dumbfounded by the amount of work it is. |
| 0:31.9 | I've been wanting to support more authors on my platforms, especially when they write |
| 0:37.6 | things that I know you guys are interested in. |
| 0:40.8 | And historically you guys have been very interested in talking about MLMs, multi-level marketing |
| 0:46.9 | companies, especially how predatory they can be. |
| 0:50.6 | And we've covered MLMs in past episodes like Hunt for the Money, and I can't believe |
| 0:55.4 | it's not buttery. |
| 0:57.7 | What would Jesus brew? |
| 0:58.7 | Which are three very questionable episodes titles. |
| 1:01.6 | But those were part of the series where I was kind of connecting for sport, anecdotes and |
| 1:06.5 | documentaries and my personal feelings about the intersection of cults and MLMs, self-help |
| 1:11.4 | gurus and religion. |
| 1:13.8 | And then after a while you guys are like, Kate, we get it, you don't get mad, you get |
| 1:18.6 | a Venn diagram. |
| 1:19.6 | And I dropped it for the better part of a calendar year. |
| 1:22.1 | Look at this interview guys, we're tired of my musings. |
| 1:25.1 | But I like obsess over things for pockets of time. |
| 1:28.9 | What, 2019, 2020, it was like religious bloggers and purity. |
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