Opportunity Cost

When Julie signed up as a distributor for Arbonne, she found early success and rapidly rose to the top of the ranks. What she didn't expect was her faith, finances, self-worth, and diet culture to be entangled with her business. When doubts began to creep in about her ability to stay in leadership at Arbonne, all it took was one thread for an entire belief system to unravel. Thanks for listening. Email us at [email protected] and follow us at @oppcostpod on Instagram & TikTo...

Anna thought that she had found a home among the spiritually-minded community in Enagic and their Kangen ionizers, what she found instead were empty promises, debt and culty practices. I sit down with Anna 1:1 to talk about her experience in Enagic. Thanks for listening. Email us at [email protected] and follow us at @oppcostpod on Instagram & TikTok. Brought to you by Bloww Studio. Scripted, hosted, and edited by Jill.

We kick off a round of bonus full interview episodes with the lovely Chrystal. When she joined Amway on an invitation from her coworker, Chrystal had no idea how much of her life would eventually be consumed by it. Through ever-growing fees paid and conferences attended, Chrystal never entirely lost her ability to see clearly through the merry-go-round of motivation pumped out by the organization and its leaders. Thanks for listening. Email us at [email protected] and follow us at @oppco...

Insurance MLMs have given rise to a new wave of super bros, who are convinced that selling supplemental insurance is how they will make it big. American Income Life is famous among the MLM world, or maybe…infamous. American Income Life reached out to me to see if I would be interested in talking about their life-changing opportunity, so I took them up on it. Sources: 2021 Agent contractor class-action lawsuit AIL BBB No evidence that women using oral contraceptives have weaker preferences for...

Mary Kay Ash spun a tale of female empowerment, and today, is hailed as a feminist icon. Their cream, goop, and makeup has been a fixture in pop culture Americana for decades, but the model it uses to sell products and Mary Kay's culty corporate culture is worth a second glance. Sources: Mary Kay Mary Kay Income Disclosure Pink Truth KRTV Mary Kay Ash, 1982 Mary Kay Inc., CBS 60 Minutes The case for and against multi-level marketing, Jon M. Taylor MBA, PhD, Consumer Awareness Institute Und...