Life After MLM

*This episode includes details of sexual assault, and discusses the topics of consent, purity culture, identity and trauma. Please use discretion when listening.*20 year ago, Emily Ragland was a freshman at Guilford College in North Carolina, playing on the softball team and studying to enter the field of civil rights. The Quaker based college appealed to her as a Christian, POC woman looking to make her place in the world for the first time in her life. But on October 31st, 2003 a violent attack changed every trajectory in Emily's life and left her to fend for herself in a system that wasn't built for her. For the 20th anniversary of that horrific day, Emily shares with us her whole story, and how it's shaped who she is today.Show NotesNational Sexual Assault Hotline : 800-656-HOPE (4673)Connect with Emily : LinkedIn | InstagramAbout EmilyGuilford CollegeQuakersRAINNOut of MLMThe BITE ModelLAMLM Book ClubMLM DupesHow can you help?MLM ChangeReport FraudTruth in AdvertisingReport to your state Attorney General's office!Not in the U.S.? No Problem!Support the Podcast!Website | Patreon | Buy Me a Taco | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Discord | Merch!Life After MLM is produced by Roberta Blevins. Audio editing is done by the lovely Kayla Craven, video editing by the indescribable RK Gold, and Michelle Carpenter is our Triple Emerald Princess of Robots. Life After MLM is owned by Roberta Blevins 2023. Music : Creepy Musicbox by Dmitry Taras*Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

*This episode talks about the details in a current murder case. As of publication, this case is still ongoing.*Today is full of bonuses! We've got 3 hometown hauntings, some details on an ongoing MLM-adjacent murder case, and a chat with the host of Murderish, Jami Rice! Jami and I talk about ethical true crime, what it's like to be a podcaster in this space, and her thoughts on Fyre Festival. The LIVE taping of this episode is available on Patreon as a member exclusive live show!Show NotesThe Cuddle CultSarah EdmondsonMurderishJami on AirMurder of Jared Bridegan (ongoing)Ex-Wife Charged with MurderShanna Gardner-Fernandez ExtraditedThe Murder of Gabriel FernandezOut of MLMThe BITE ModelLAMLM Book ClubMLM DupesHow can you help?MLM ChangeReport FraudTruth in AdvertisingReport to your state Attorney General's office!Not in the U.S.? No Problem!Support the Podcast!Website | Patreon | Buy Me a Taco | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Discord | Merch!Life After MLM is produced by Roberta Blevins. Audio editing is done by the lovely Kayla Craven, video editing by the indescribable RK Gold, and Michelle Carpenter is our Triple Emerald Princess of Robots. Life After MLM is owned by Roberta Blevins 2023. Music : Creepy Musicbox by Dmitry Taras*Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

*This episode contains depictions of violence including murder. Please use discretion when listening.*What's going on?? At the age of 12, Collier Landry helped solve his mother's murder, at the hands of his psychopathic, narcissist father. And if that wasn't incredible enough, he spent the next decade giving his mother a voice and finding the peace he needed to move on in his true crime documentary, A Murder in Mansfield. Collier and I also go deeper into the ethical true crime debate and talk about the impacts of content creation on victims.Show NotesConnect with Collier : Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | TwitterIt's the Great Pumpkin Charlie BrownA Murder in MansfieldNYT ArticleTedxMansfieldForensic Files : Foundation of LiesOut of MLMThe BITE ModelLAMLM Book ClubMLM DupesHow can you help?MLM ChangeReport FraudTruth in AdvertisingReport to your state Attorney General's office!Not in the U.S.? No Problem!Support the Podcast!Website | Patreon | Buy Me a Taco | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Discord | Merch!Life After MLM is produced by Roberta Blevins. Audio editing is done by the lovely Kayla Craven, video editing by the indescribable RK Gold, and Michelle Carpenter is our Triple Emerald Princess of Robots. Life After MLM is owned by Roberta Blevins 2023. Music : Creepy Musicbox by Dmitry Taras*Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In a military career that spans her entire adult life, over the years Claire has witnessed a lot of strange behavior that caused her to pause and ask questions. Whether an obsessive classmate, a company draped in red flags, or a scummy dad at the park, her hackles were always up. In an anthology of true crime stories that Claire has been oddly close to, we learn how she navigated these encounters and the importance of trusting your gut.Show NotesDiane ZamoraViSalus WikiGarrison CourtneyGarrison on American GreedOut of MLMThe BITE ModelLAMLM Book ClubMLM DupesHow can you help?MLM ChangeReport FraudTruth in AdvertisingReport to your state Attorney General's office!Not in the U.S.? No Problem!Support the Podcast!Website | Patreon | Buy Me a Taco | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Discord | Merch!Life After MLM is produced by Roberta Blevins. Audio editing is done by the lovely Kayla Craven, video editing by the indescribable RK Gold, and Michelle Carpenter is our Triple Emerald Princess of Robots. Life After MLM is owned by Roberta Blevins 2023. Music : Creepy Musicbox by Dmitry Taras*Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Terra Newell might be best known for taking down Dirty John, but she's definitely more than that! As a True Crime Survivor, Terra is an advocate for victims and survivors, as well as hosting a podcast called Survivor Squad. I've been a huge fan of Terra for a long time so I couldn't wait to chat to her about her story, her healing journey and her thoughts on "Ethical True Crime".Show NotesConnect with Terra : Instagram | TikTok | Twitter | YouTube | Survivor SquadBloody Mary LoreDirty John PodcastThe Female BrainEMDR TherapyNational Domestic Violence Hotline : 800-799-7233Ethical True CrimeOut of MLMThe BITE ModelLAMLM Book ClubMLM DupesHow can you help?MLM ChangeReport FraudTruth in AdvertisingReport to your state Attorney General's office!Not in the U.S.? No Problem!Support the Podcast!Website | Patreon | Buy Me a Taco | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Discord | Merch!Life After MLM is produced by Roberta Blevins. Audio editing is done by the lovely Kayla Craven, video editing by the indescribable RK Gold, and Michelle Carpenter is our Triple Emerald Princess of Robots. Life After MLM is owned by Roberta Blevins 2023. Music : Creepy Musicbox by Dmitry Taras*Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

From the moment I heard about Fyre Festival, I was hooked. And not because I wanted to go, I was leaving my own scam at the time but because of the scammer at the forefront, Billy McFarland. It may seem odd to have a "favorite fraudster" but Billy takes the cake, from his earliest scams in childhood to his Fyre Festival 2 vision for "making it right", he's the GRIFT that keeps on GRIFTING. After speaking with Gina and starting our conversation about Fyre, I felt it was necessary to dive into the man who started it all and leave very little on the table.Show NotesA True Tale Of A Truly Haunted HouseBilly McFarland WikiFyre Festival WikiSpling InterviewTechCrunch on SplingMagnesis Yelp ReviewsNorman's CayBilly's Pyrt BSBilly's Sorry in Vanity FairJon Taylor's FBI PageMy Billy McFarland Playlist on TikTokOut of MLMThe BITE ModelLAMLM Book ClubMLM DupesHow can you help?MLM ChangeReport FraudTruth in AdvertisingReport to your state Attorney General's office!Not in the U.S.? No Problem!Support the Podcast!Website | Patreon | Buy Me a Taco | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Discord | Merch!Life After MLM is produced by Roberta Blevins. Audio editing is done by the lovely Kayla Craven, video editing by the indescribable RK Gold, and Michelle Carpenter is our Triple Emerald Princess of Robots. Life After MLM is owned by Roberta Blevins 2023. Music : Creepy Musicbox by Dmitry Taras*Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

After making lots of Billy McFarland content on TikTok, Gina reached out to me with a story I had never heard before. After the disaster, Gina who was there to help fun the event, and her team of 40 employees were stranded on Great Exuma for way too long, without any insight or solid plan for getting home. From the Lord of the Flies style pandemonium, flaming mattresses, sharp rocks, dusty cheese sandwiches and guests black out drunk from pallets of tequila, not all of the story was told in the documentaries. With her eye witness accounts of what actually happened in those days leading up to and just after Fyre, I promise even the biggest Fyre coinsures with learn something they didn't know.*Bonus Ghost Story by Tyler Carpenter*Show NotesBilly McFarlandFyre FestivalFyre Leaves Guests StrandedStranded in the BahamasOut of MLMThe BITE ModelLAMLM Book ClubMLM DupesHow can you help?MLM ChangeReport FraudTruth in AdvertisingReport to your state Attorney General's office!Not in the U.S.? No Problem!Support the Podcast!Website | Patreon | Buy Me a Taco | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Discord | Merch!Life After MLM is produced by Roberta Blevins. Audio editing is done by the lovely Kayla Craven, video editing by the indescribable RK Gold, and Michelle Carpenter is our Triple Emerald Princess of Robots. Life After MLM is owned by Roberta Blevins 2023. Music : Creepy Musicbox by Dmitry Taras*Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's Halloween Season! Welcome back to PART 2 of both our Bodie Curse Ghost Story, and the ending of Amber's story with Bomb Party!After we got a bit into her rise throughout the company and the countless hours of labor exploitation in the name of building trainings in Part 1, in Part 2 we dive move into the passive aggressive bullying aspect of her experience and the downfall of her Bomb Party Empire. As a "load bearing brick", there is a lot of pressure put on you to perform and fall in line, and asking too many of the wrong questions, and unintentionally making others "look bad" paints a target you can never shake. And to clear, it was never about the fruit basket.Show NotesThe Bodie Curse Backfiresr/BombPartyGossip/Bomb Party AMAOut of MLMThe BITE ModelLAMLM Book ClubMLM DupesHow can you help?Share Your StoryMLM ChangeReport FraudTruth in AdvertisingReport to your state Attorney General's office!Not in the U.S.? No Problem!Support the Podcast!Website | Patreon | Buy Me a Taco | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Discord | Merch!Life After MLM is produced by Roberta Blevins. Audio editing is done by the lovely Kayla Craven, video editing by the indescibable RK Gold, and Michelle Carpenter is our Triple Emerald Princess of Robots. Life After MLM is owned by Roberta Blevins. 2023Music : Creepy Musicbox by Dmitry Taras*Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Happy October! We've got holiday bonuses, starting with a story of a cursed ghost town in the high desert of California to accompany our MOST cursed episode to date! Audio issues are common in interviews, and most can be fixed in post... but it took 3 different recording sessions for this chat with Amber of Bomb Party to take. I've experienced Fair Gaming before but Kayla agreed, this felt otherworldly! Luckily, we were able to get it done and bring it to you in 2 parts! In part 1 we meet Amber, a Military wife who was willing to do what she had to do to keep her family as intact as possible. Enter Bomb Party. Although Amber isn't a jewelry person, she got swept up in the game and was racking up quite the high score when she accidently made herself a unwitting target.ResourcesBodie, CA : A Ghostly Ghost TownBomb Party BBB ComplaintsBehind MLM : Bomb PartyBomb Party Gossip Reddit!Out of MLMThe BITE ModelLAMLM Book ClubMLM DupesHow can you help?MLM ChangeReport FraudTruth in AdvertisingReport to your state Attorney General's office!Not in the U.S.? No Problem!Support the Podcast!Website | Patreon | Buy Me a Taco | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Discord | Merch!Life After MLM is produced by Roberta Blevins. Audio editing is done by the lovely Kayla Craven, video editing by the indescibable RK Gold, and Michelle Carpenter is our Triple Emerald Princess of Robots. Life After MLM is owned by Roberta Blevins. 2023Music : Creepy Musicbox by Dmitry Taras*Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lianne is a French Canadian living in New Brunswick who's been in more MLMs than she can keep track of. From a couple of solid US-based standards, to some exclusive Canadian brands even I had never heard of, Lianne paints us a picture of a young woman trying to find her place in the world with the limited resources available to her. Past abusive relationships, the uncertainty of Military life, and working emotional baggage made Lianne resilient and strong, so a couple of Pyramid Schemes aren't going to keep her down, just don't promise her a hat.Show Notes:In Memory of Jessie Lee Ward - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeXPvj5ixZMNewborn Feathers - https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/bf10bz/mixed_mlm_messages_from_newborn_feathers/Dragon's Den CA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons%27_Den_(Canadian_TV_series)Tiber River - https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/knj9ml/no_why_are_you_an_mlm_curse_you_tiber_river/Tiber River Wrongful Termination Lawsuit - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/tiber-river-naturals-wrongful-termination-lawsuit-pregnancy-1.5921770Out of MLM - https://outofmlm.info/Cultish by Amanda Montell - https://amzn.to/3Q7owx9Dr. Steven Hassan's BITE Model - https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/Ponzinomics by Robert L. FitzPatrick - https://amzn.to/3q16oJbHow can you help?Report false income and health claims here: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/Or go to: https://www.truthinadvertising.orgYou can also report to your state Attorney General's office! https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/Not in the U.S.? Go here: https://www.ftc.gov/policy/international/competition-consumer-protection-authorities-worldwideSupport the Podcast!Join the Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/robertablevinsBuy me a Taco and leave a note! 🌮💖 - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robertablevinsFollow on TikTok for Anti MLM content, education, and humor! - https://www.tiktok.com/@bertalikewhoaFollow on Instagram for visual show notes, FAQ, and updates! - https://www.instagram.com/lifeaftermlmpodcast/Like on Facebook and join our show fan page to jump in on the conversation! - https://www.facebook.com/lifeaftermlmpodcast*Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.