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The Financial Confessions

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The Difference Between MLMs and Self Help Cults

Sally Kohn: I think there's this belief a lot of the times with MLMs that if you're not in the room getting hyped up, none of it matters. But it actually should. Anybody who's taking you to meetings regularly and charging you a lot of money for something that like should be available on Google or could be a YouTube video or in a slideshow isn't trying to be like expedient about it. The difference is with an MLM or with or with any of these like self help cults that the part of the experience is the togetherness is the groupthink are the like learning to deny things together.Kohn: At some point even if you

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