Pratique du Shadowing: MLM TOP FAILS #80 | Debate over MLMs at Lindsay Clancy Trial #ANTIMLM - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Hello and welcome back to another episode of MLM Top Fails.

This is a series on my channel where we talk about the craziness that is multi-level marketing.

MLMs are those business opportunities where you pay to sign up to sell a company's products

and then you harass everybody you've ever known to sign up underneath you.

And that recruitment aspect is typically how you make most of your money.

As you can imagine, people in these MLM companies post the most outrageous things on social media in the name of making money

and this series on my channel is dedicated to calling them out

and systematically debunking what they're saying using logic and rational thinking

because so much of these mlm business opportunities don't make logical sense

and so these videos the goal of them is to try

and poke holes in the common arguments to really highlight the

dangers of getting yourself involved with an mlm i do rely heavily on viewer submissions for these videos

so if you see something on social media

that you think would be a good fit for an mlm

top fails the instructions for how to send those to me

are in the description box of every single one of my videos.

And what I'll do is every so often I'll go through those submissions

and I'll pull out the top best of the best things

that have been sent to me recently and then I compile them to make these MLM top fails videos.

I've got eight insane things to show you today so let's go.

Let's kick this video off with a good old classic clip of an MLM hun getting really mad at the haters.

These kinds of videos are a dime a dozen.

I always find them entertaining.

I saw this real earlier.

It got me a little fired up.

I'm usually not one to get on here and be argumentative or passive aggressive, but sometimes I feel like it's need to be put in their place.

Okay.

Firstly, if things were like they used to be, you guys wouldn't be saying any of this on social media

because you wouldn't even be bold enough to say it to people's faces.

Okay.

If you're making a video and being anti-monate, please make sure that your hair is fixed and or healthy before you make the video.

Just please.

You tell me, do you think I'm qualified to have an opinion on monate because of my hair.

I use Olaplex by the way.

Monate has never touched my hair, thank god.

But for real, like what a petty thing to say

that you're not allowed to share your opinion about Monate

or your opinion about it is not valid if you don't have good hair.

You can tell that she's kind of misunderstanding the issue with MLMs

because the main thing that people have a problem with is

that these are predatory garbage companies that breed this culture of toxicity

and manipulation and most people who join it will actually financially suffer because of it.

Your hair has nothing to do with your critical thinking skills, of which many people in MLMs seem to be lacking

because they really truly believe that they're gonna become millionaires by selling overpriced shampoo.

Discrediting somebody's opinion

or the points they're raising on a matter based on their

appearance is one of the most immature comebacks I can think of.

All that tells me is that you're incapable of refuting the actual points they're making, so you're resorting to personal attacks instead.

As far as I'm concerned, you can be bald and still have valid opinions on Monat

that are worth listening to because at the end of the day, the quality of the products really isn't the biggest issue here.

So we don't want to hear anyone's opinion who parents still pay their car insurance.

I'm sorry, but if you've never struggled before and you don't have to have a second stream of income, that I love that for you.

But some of us grew up in poverty and we want to change our circumstances.

So therefore, that's why we decided to join a brand and get paid for using their products.

Okay.

No scam there, baby.

No scam.

See, this part is understandable.

Wanting to pull yourself out of a difficult financial position, needing an additional stream of income, you're looking to make more money for your family.

Literally, nobody is faulting you for that.

We are faulting you for the income stream you have chosen, however, because MLMs are not the way.

They're not the solution to this problem.

As I have said countless times and countless videos over the years, statistically, you are far more likely to lose money in an MLM.

In Monat specifically, 91% of people who join this company are stuck at the bottom rank, earning a median annual income of $8 last year.

$8!

The cheapest starter kit to join Monat is $99, so guess what that means?

A lot of people who have joined have actually lost money.

How is joining a business opportunity where you're spending more money

than you're making gonna help you towards this goal of working yourself out of poverty?

And then they'll come back and argue, well, those people at the bottom, they just didn't work that hard.

Look at these upper ranks.

Do you see how much those people are making?

That's the potential.

That's what's possible with our company.

Yeah, they only make that much because they've conned other women into joining underneath them.

You can only get yourself out of the bottom rank if you recruit.

That's literally a requirement of the compensation plan.

And who are the people that you decide to recruit?

Other women who are struggling financially, who are in a tough spot, who need another stream of income.

And how do those people start making worthwhile money? they find people of their own that are struggling, that need a second stream of income, okay?

This is the problem, and this is where people in MLMs misconstrue the criticism.

They think that anti-MLM is synonymous with anti-women or anti-financial freedom, and you just want women to be poor and trapped and stuck.

Like, no. They take it very personally.

Like, I'm just trying to provide for my family and make some extra money, and you're hating on me for it, which is not the case at all.

We want the same thing.

We want you to succeed and do well financially.

We're just trying to communicate that this is not the way to do that.

This is going to end up doing more harm than good and that harm doesn't just end with you.

It extends down this endless chain of recruitment where countless women

have to suffer in order for a few at the top to succeed.

And I'll leave you with this.

Just because you're a hairstylist and you have a license in cosmetology doesn't mean

that you're smarter than the girls on the internet with better hair than you.

Sorry, not sorry.

I've been a hairstylist for a decade and nothing, absolutely nothing that I've ever put in my hand and washed a client with compares to Monat.

Okay?

And that's my personal opinion.

All of these are my personal opinions.

But, you know, it is a little annoying to get on here

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and see people act like they're girls' girls

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and want to see people be successful and want to do this and want to do that.

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But in reality, they're low-key haters and don't want to see anyone do something outside of the norm and be successful.

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That's crazy to me.

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Like, that's so crazy to me.

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And what's crazy to me is that people in MLMs can't see how what they're doing is predatory.

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This is just a game of don't be at the bottom of the food chain.

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And the only way to get yourself out of the bottom is to go find people to come and take your place.

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So now they're at the bottom

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and it's their responsibility to find people to put below them so that they can get themselves out of the bottom too.

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The issue with MLMs is twofold.

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Not only do most people that join not make any money at all, But if you are making money, then you're doing it at the expense of other people that aren't.

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And what's crazy to me is that people in MLMs can't see how that's problematic.

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The Lord blessed us with Monat.

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A lot of us believe that Monat is a God thing.

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So who are you to sit on your side of your iPhone and act like it's some woo-woo BS?

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Believing that God created Monat is one of the most delusional things I've heard in a while.

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God didn't bless you with Monat.

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You got recruited by a woman who was desperate for money and she saw you as an easy target.

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You fell for it and here you are continuing the cycle.

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Pretty sure God wouldn't condone that kind of behavior.

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It literally changed our lives and

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if you want to know more about it we're going to be going live tonight at nine o'clock EST,

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eight o'clock CST, so come get some information for some people who actually know what's up in the Monat world.

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Point proven

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because she ends this video by inviting you to a Zoom call where she hopes she can convince you to join Why?

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Because that's how she makes money.

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She needs you She can sit here

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and be mad all day long about the anti-MLM haters for calling out this problematic recruitment cycle

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But here she is still proving the point at the end

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of the day That's the beautiful part about this People in

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MLMs love to talk this big game about how they're not this, they're not that, we're misunderstood and then they immediately contradict themselves and prove our point through their actions.

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It's really, it makes my job very easy.

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You know what else makes my job very easy?

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Having a box that shows up on my doorstep once a week full of groceries

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and recipes that I didn't have to plan for and didn't have to shop for.

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That's the luxury I've been enjoying for the last year and a half thanks to the sponsor of today's video, Hungry Root.

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I'm a paying Hungry Root customer

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and it's become a part of my weekly routine to go in and customize every part of our grocery order.

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I like to hand select everything.

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I'm kind of a control freak about it.

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I like to get a couple of dinner recipes and then I'll get some breakfast items, snacks, drinks, sweet treats, things like that.

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I have my favorites.

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I know what I like.

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I kind of have my staples that I go to week after week.

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And for the first time in 20 months of being a Hungry Root customer, I forgot to edit my order last week.

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They send you a little text reminder to do it.

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And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'll do that later.

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Guess who didn't do it later?

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So the next notification I got was your Hungry Root order is on the way.

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And I went, oh, crap.

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I forgot to go in and edit what I wanted.

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But then I was like, actually, this could be kind of fun.

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Hungry Root has a smart cart system where it will automatically

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pre-fill your cart with things it knows you're gonna like based on the feedback you have given previous orders.

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So I was like, this could be a fun like mystery box surprise as I'm unpacking it

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and like see how well the smart cart actually knows me.

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And let me tell you, it knows me pretty dang well.

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It sent me a couple of dinner recipes that we've never tried before, but the ingredients that the recipe used are things that we like like this grilled chicken bowl with rice, fresh salsa, and avocado spread.

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This was so good that I'm gonna start incorporating it into the regular rotation.

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In here was also a bunch of snacks that are tried and true for us.

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We love these, but then they also included a couple of new things that we've never tried before, like these overnight oats and these apple chips.

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This cashew butter chocolate bar was new to me and it's already gone because it was so good.

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Forgetting to edit my box this week was actually kind of like a blessing in disguise

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because it forced me to step out, try some new things, and in turn, I ended up loving a lot of what they sent that I will now include in future orders.

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And it was also great confirmation that the smart cart system works exactly as intended.

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And it was kind of fun to just give up the control, let the box arrive on my doorstep and be surprised with what we got.

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I might start intentionally doing this more often, especially as we're heading into the craziness that is back to school season and then straight into the holidays.

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It's one less thing on my plate that I'm so grateful for

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and the variety and the convenience of it is what keeps me coming back.

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Thanks again, Hungeroot, for sponsoring today's video.

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Up next is also a post from a Monat rep, but this has ties to the Lindsay Clancy trial that's been going on recently.

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Just some brief context in case you're not familiar, we're not going to dwell on the details of this trigger warning for death of a minor, death of multiple minors, unfortunately.

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A woman named Lindsay Clancy is on trial in Massachusetts, and she's being charged with murdering her three children.

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This is a very complex case.

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It's dealing with a big postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis narrative from the defense side.

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Some people online are having a heyday with different conspiracy theories saying that the husband actually committed these crimes, and he's framing his wife, Lindsay.

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There are countless podcast videos, commentary pieces about this whole trial and all the details of that.

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If you're interested, I'm not going to get too in the weeds with that here, but it's been a huge topic of conversation here in the U.S recently.

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The entire trial has been live streamed.

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You can find it on YouTube.

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And as of the time of filming this video this morning, the jury is on their third day of deliberation.

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So we don't have a verdict yet.

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I don't know what the verdict is going to be.

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This has been an exceptionally heated and complex case where the public is basically choosing sides.

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Some people are on the side of the defense claiming

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that she is not criminally liable for these three deaths because of her postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis diagnosis and her over-medication for those conditions.

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And there's a larger conversation there about not taking maternal mental health seriously

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or women not getting proper mental health care in the postpartum period.

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But then there are a lot of people on the prosecution side saying

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that you can't just kill your three kids and get away with it, end of story.

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And you might be thinking, Hannah, why are we talking about the Lindsay Clancy case?

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Like, what does this have to do with MLMs?

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And funny you should ask because I have the same question.

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MLM reps have a very unique talent of making everything about them and weaseling a pitch into the most inappropriate of situations.

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This Mon 8 rep, who's had me blocked for a long time, by the way, posted these two slides on her Instagram story.

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The first one says, I have completely wrecked my algorithm by doom scrolling everything surrounding this Lindsay Clancy case, whether you think she did it or he did it, curious about your thoughts.

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It's so sad and I don't recommend immersing yourself in things like this.

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Okay, not so bad.

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Not really anything weird to see here until we get to the next slide.

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Then she says, one of the things I love most about how busy my business keeps me is

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that I have to cut out 99% of news and TV watching, et cetera.

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It's seriously just so bad for you to be all consumed with tragic things

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that you can't control or stupid mindless garbage TV.

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I just slipped up the last couple of days and it's a good reminder.

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Not an MLM boss babe using a murder trial to promote how busy her money business keeps her.

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I'm just usually so busy with my super successful business that I started all by myself.

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I spend all of my time making so much money

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that I just don't really have an opportunity to keep up with current events.

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They genuinely can't help themselves.

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It is a compulsion at this point.

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God forbid you post about something other than Monat from time to time.

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No, no, no, we can't have that.

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If you wanna post your opinion about current events, you better figure out a way to wedge a Monat pitch in there somewhere.

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It's truly so bizarre.

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It's unnatural, it's unnecessary, it's straight up weird.

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Like it's honestly so weird to look at.

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They are toxically enmeshed with their companies that it's almost like they can't separate themselves from it.

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It's like they don't know what to post

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or how to act without mentioning the business in literally every single circumstance they talk about.

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From a viewer perspective, that has got to be so irritating.

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Like, is it even possible to talk about anything else these days?

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Or is being a Monat girl your entire personality?

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And wouldn't you believe it, we're actually not done talking about the Lindsay Clancy trial in this video.

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Because a different MLM company was actually brought up at trial, in court.

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Lindsay Clancy's psychologist, Dr. Paul Zeisel, was testifying as one of the defense's key witnesses at trial.

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The summary of his testimony is that Lindsay Clancy was suffering from severe bipolar disorder as well as postpartum psychosis,

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and that she, quote, had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of her act.

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Basically, he is supporting this defense's insanity position that Lindsay was just out of her mind, she didn't know what she was doing at the time, and therefore she's not criminally liable for it.

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And what I'm gonna show you is a short clip from the trial where the prosecutor is cross-examining Dr. Zeisel, and in this clip, a brief debate about MLMs comes up.

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It's really entertaining.

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But to understand what's going on in the clip, you need this context.

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So the defense is claiming that Lindsay was in this manic episode.

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She was making rash decisions.

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She was really out of character for herself.

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And one example of this is how she became obsessed with fitness and working out really, really quickly after her third son, Callan, was born.

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Usually women are not cleared to start exercising again until at least six weeks postpartum

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And that's because if you rush into high intensity training too soon You can cause things like hemorrhaging, incontinence issues, buterine prolapse, pelvic floor problems

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If you're putting all of this like strain

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and pressure on these already weakened muscles That's going to cause

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some pretty significant issues for you It's better to just like chill out Let

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that stuff kind of heal itself a little bit before you get back into exercising

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but reportedly starting just after a week after her third son was born, Lindsay started waking up at 4 a.m to go on runs.

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Then she would come home and she would do 30 minutes on the peloton

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and then she'd do 30 minutes of extra aerobic exercise.

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It states here that only five weeks after her third son was born, she ran a five-mile race.

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These are the kinds of decisions that can be seen as risky

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or unsafe for a newly postpartum woman and they're being cited as a reason

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or evidence as like she's not making wise decisions during this time.

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She reportedly was having a lot of body image issues

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and really wanted to like get back to her pre-pregnancy self

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and she was forcing herself into that really really quickly after giving birth.

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It was also during this freshly postpartum time

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that Lindsay reportedly signed up for Beachbody and she started promoting it on her Facebook page.

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So coming from an anti-MLM perspective, that is a huge red flag.

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I can understand why the defense included this as like a potential indicator

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that she was not in her right mind during this time.

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As we know, MLMs are extremely predatory, especially during really vulnerable periods of someone's life, like being newly postpartum, like feeling uncomfortable in your body,

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like wanting to get back to your pre-baby self as quickly as humanly possible, even if that means putting yourself at risk.

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It could make sense that somebody in this mindset would fall victim to an MLM opportunity like Beachbody, where they truly believe that if they just invest some money

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that they're going to gain access to all these workout programs that are going to make them fit.

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They're going to gain access to these supplements they can take that can help them drop some weight, that they can then promote this to other people to make some money out of it too.

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Like they see joining this MLM as the solution to a variety of different problems

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that they're looking to fix in this vulnerable time.

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But joining an MLM oftentimes doesn't make logical, rational sense.

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And if you are thinking critically and clearly, then there's a kind of a very small chance that you would sign up for one.

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But if you put yourself in Lindsay's shoes, where you are in a vulnerable state, where your hormones are out of whack, you're sleep deprived, you're dealing with mental health episodes,

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then you might be more susceptible to making irrational and impulsive decisions like signing up for an MLM business opportunity.

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And just to insert a little bit of my personal opinion here, I still don't think that any of these things are a good excuse for killing your children.

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I don't think that any of these things really prove that that was an okay decision to make.

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However, from an anti-MLM perspective, I can understand why the defense included this narrative And in this clip, we've got Lindsay's psychologist, Dr. Zizel,

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who is on the stand and is of the opinion

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that Lindsay joining Beachbody was a big concern and actually gives credence to the insanity plea.

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And this is what happened when the prosecutor cross-examined him on this point.

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She exercised pretty frequently before birth.

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Yes.

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And while pregnant with Callan.

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And while post-pregnancy with her children as well, yes.

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so it was part of her routine fair to say right it's part of everyday living things sometimes change

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when you have a baby and a few weeks later

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if you're still doing the same exercise it's sometimes a reflection of something other than committed to fitness

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and you you identify um what refer to as a marketing scam being

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that beach body um business right yes um but you're aware

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that that's a series of workouts in a line of um nutritional shakes

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and exercise plans that millions of people engage in across the country yes

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so it's not a scam it's just a way of that's a lifestyle choice

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if you do something for marketing and you lose all your money

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and there's no effort to get

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that back it's a scam yeah you've asked them you can kind of figure out what his definition is

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so did she tell you she lost money with a beach body yes when was that

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it was uh summer of 2022 after her third child was born no

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when did she tell you that she lost money I don't recall

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that and is it in your report it may be

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but I'm not sure well I have it with me

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or do you have it up there can you look

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and point to me where she told you at what point she told you she lost money in this endeavor

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I don't know where it is

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if it's here it didn't seem relevant whether she lost money

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in a scam after her child was born in terms of

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the big picture of what we're here for today you described it as a scam

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because you said she lost money so wouldn't it be important to know

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if she actually lost money i don't really think

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so okay this is absolutely delightful from an anti-mln perspective

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because beach body was just labeled a quote scam in open court repeatedly okay

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and you And you can tell that the prosecutor is like pretty irritated about this.

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It's almost like she's taking it really personally or like it's striking a personal chord with her or something.

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She's like, it's not a scam.

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It's a lifestyle choice.

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They sell nutritional shakes and workout plans used by millions of people.

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How is that a scam?

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And then he tries to answer that question or respond to it by saying that, quote, if you join a marketing opportunity where then you lose all of your money, it's a scam.

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And as he's explaining that, she tries to like interject and cut him off.

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And then the judge scolds her for interrupting and for not letting him finish his thoughts.

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So it kind of sounds like she was a Beachbody hun, does it not?

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No evidence for that, I'm not claiming that she was, but like this is the classic argument that anti-MLM versus pro-MLM get into all the time.

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And for legal purposes, I, Hannah Alonzo, am not asserting that Beachbody is a scam for the record.

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I'm just saying that it was brought up that way in court in this situation.

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And you've got the pro side saying, no, this is totally legitimate.

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You can join this and they offer these products and they work really well and you can make some extra money.

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And then you have people on the anti-MLM side saying, look, is it really that great if you join and you spend all this money and you don't make anything back?

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Like, I just thought that this was hilarious, that like they're getting into a literal debate about what an MLM is and the legitimacy of it in open court.

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The prosecutor is trying to make the point that Lindsay was just fine and she was in her right mind.

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She's always been fit and active and joining Beachbody is a perfectly rational

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and appropriate thing to do just a few weeks postpartum.

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And the psychologist is downright denying that by basically being like, no, MLMs are so risky, nobody in their right mind would join one.

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They're pretty much getting into an argument about how to classify Beachbody, and I think that's so funny.

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And regardless of where you stand on this trial or what you believe happened or what side you're taking, you have to admit that it is quite satisfying to see

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that somebody joining Beachbody is almost being positioned as like evidence that this person was in a manic episode in open court.

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Beachbody is just out here catching strays in the middle of a murder trial, and I love to see it.

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In other relevant news, let's talk about the cyclospora outbreak in the U.S recently.

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You know, the Taylor Farms diarrhea lettuce situation, as they're calling it.

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If you're not from the U.S., congratulations, I'm very happy for you.

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But this summer, we had an outbreak.

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This is an outbreak of the cyclospora parasite that has been causing, quote, explosive diarrhea as the main symptom.

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And for many weeks, we didn't know where this parasite was coming from.

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But it was highly speculated that it was coming from fresh produce.

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particularly produce that you don't cook so therefore you're not killing it with heat

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and also produce that you can't wash very well.

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So we're thinking things like lettuce, fresh herbs, berries, raw broccoli

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and for a good portion of the summer this year the

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guidance just was yeah you should probably stay away from fresh

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produce until we figure out where this parasite is coming from

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and it was eventually traced back to the company Taylor Farms and their iceberg lettuce.

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But in the meantime this caused a lot of anxiety, a lot of panic in people kind of feeling like fresh food, fresh produce wasn't safe to be eating,

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which this Optivia rep took advantage of.

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She saw this as an opportunity to promote her products naturally.

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Another day of being home with the stomach thing.

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I'm beginning to think it might be the parasite thing.

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I realize I've eaten a lot of cherries lately.

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I got some really good ones at Costco and then went on a cherry binge.

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I know that I bought some lettuce and maybe I just didn't wash them all that well.

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I thought I did.

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I used a washing clean, you know, a vegetable cleaner, a fruit cleaner.

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And yet here I am not in Orlando where I'm supposed to be.

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I am here.

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So maybe it is the parasite thing, but you know what?

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You know, it doesn't give you parasites.

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All of this food, all of this, all of this just gives you health.

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No parasites, no parasites.

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You want something easy to grab That'll just make you happy for the day.

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All of this.

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No worries about parasites.

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No worries.

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Just health.

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Hmm.

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You want to know why there's a low risk of parasites in Optivia food?

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Because it's hardly food.

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It's exceptionally processed powders that you mix with water and then you choke down.

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In fact, they don't even call the products food.

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They call it fuelings.

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Like this company was founded by aliens who are trying their best to pretend to be humans.

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Like, what's the word for that thing that humans put into their mouths when they're experiencing hunger?

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Oh yes, fuel.

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We'll call them fuelings.

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Here's a photo of some of these fuelings.

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This is the kind of thing that's sitting next to her on the table as she's claiming that they're all parasite-free.

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Essentially, most of these fuelings are just packets of powder made primarily of whey protein or soy protein concentrate

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that then you mix with water

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and you heat it up to create things like soup

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or chili or pancakes or brownies but then there are also powders

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that you can mix to make things like smoothies or protein shakes.

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And then they've got things like protein bars and cereals too.

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And the way Optivia works is

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that you pay hundreds of dollars a month for all these Optivia fuelings to be shipped to your house, and then you follow a plan where you eat multiple fuelings a day in place of food,

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with the primary goal being weight loss, rapid weight loss.

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For example, the five-in-one plan, which is supposed to be the most aggressive, it outlines that you should be eating five fuelings and one real meal a day, as I call it.

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And that one real meal is also highly restrictive.

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It's exactly what you would imagine, like some kind of lean protein, a lot of green vegetables, hardly any carbs, hardly any fats.

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A few years ago, somebody sent me a bunch of these fuelings to my PO box

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and I prepared and tasted them on camera.

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And I talked about the different nutritional values and the ingredients and stuff.

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And the summary of that video is that these fuelings are generally disgusting.

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They are disappointingly tiny portions and also extremely low calorie.

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If I'm remembering correctly, each fueling was like around a hundred calories each

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and you're allowed five of them per day around 500 calories plus one.

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I think they call them lean and green meals where you're supposed to have a lean protein and a green vegetable, which is also extremely low calorie.

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It's basically just flavored protein powder that you mix up

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and you try to convince yourself that it tastes anything like the box claims.

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And the Optivia programs are extremely effective for weight loss because you're hardly eating anything.

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You're effectively starving yourself.

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It's a restriction diet.

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It's an expensive gateway drug to an eating disorder.

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All my own opinion.

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Weight loss is an equation.

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You expend more calories than you consume and you're gonna lose weight.

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And Optivia works by restricting your calories to such a low number

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that your body freaks out and it drops all this weight really fast.

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It's my opinion that this is not sustainable, that you're gonna gain all the weight right back once you're off the program, whether that's because you can't afford it or because you're sick of these fuelings and they're disgusting,

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you don't want to keep torturing yourself with them

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and the optivia plans are certainly not healthy by any definition of the word

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and it's insane to me

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that this woman is resorting to being like hey buy optivia from me

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and you won't get the parasite this stuff won't give you diarrhea

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which i still think is highly debatable but like really

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that is the selling point the standards are so low here

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that you are promoting your mlm's poor excuse for food on the basis

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that it won't make you poop yourself

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and that's why you should want to buy it like that's actually asinine i cannot believe

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that she's promoting it in this way she's trying to capitalize on this collective fear

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that we're having as a country of fresh produce right now to try

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and market her pre-packaged highly processed fuelings

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and i actually have a second video from this same rep

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where in this one she's trying to market it as a

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health solution not just as something that's going to help you lose a lot of weight really quickly

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but rather it's something that's going to help eliminate different quote pre-disease states

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and quote long-term illness and disease do you take medications

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that your doctor prescribes maybe you're a diabetic

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and the doctor has prescribed you metformin maybe you have high cholesterol high triglycerides

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and the doctor has prescribed you a statin maybe you have a lot of arthritis pain

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and the doctor has given you celebrex or naproxen or told you to take tylenol arthritis or Aleve or ibuprofen.

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Maybe you have had strep throat or some sort of bacterial infection

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or the parasite like I'm getting over and the doctor prescribed you an antibiotic.

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I know the doctor prescribed me one antibiotic and a stomach relaxer, which I took and it wasn't really working.

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And so he prescribed me another one.

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39 years ago, I had cancer and the treatment was chemotherapy.

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And I gave the doctor's permission to inject me with poison to kill the thing that was trying to kill me.

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And I'm still here.

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And I'm very thankful for it.

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That yes, made all the difference in the world.

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I could have died, but I am here.

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Why do I bring these things up?

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Because the programs that I coach with a company called Trilovie, it used to be Optivia,

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is like medicine for your health.

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Now it happens to taste amazing.

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It's not steak and lobster, you know, although it could be, you can eat steak and lobster on plan.

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Um, but it does help make you healthy.

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How does it do it?

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Well, it's scientifically and medically designed to work with a human body to restore a metabolic reset.

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So it's like a factory reset.

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It's like, you know, hitting the button

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and having everything go back to the way it's supposed to be aligned and then moving forward.

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It has a variety of different programs and a variety of different plans and options for you depending on your unique case.

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But what I can tell you is it eliminates visceral fat, which is choking your organs.

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It helps with liver health.

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It gets rid of joint pain.

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It helps with arthritis.

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It It helps with your mental wellbeing.

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Plus the diabetes stuff, the blood pressure, the cholesterol, they normalize, which is incredible.

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So we're eliminating pre-disease illnesses or pre-disease states that cause long-term illness and disease.

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She's dancing around the explicit claims for legal reasons, but she's essentially saying that if you do an OPTAVIA plan and you take these fuelings, then you will reverse or cure your diabetes,

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your arthritis, your blood pressure, your high cholesterol problems, your liver problems.

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You know what else helps to make all those things better and to help certain health conditions?

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Losing weight.

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So I guess in a consequential way, Optivia would be helping to fix these different health issues

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because these plans are forcing your body into such a severe caloric deficit where you are guaranteed to lose weight

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if you follow the plan exactly, which then might help improve things like your blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, pain, whatever.

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But it's not like these Optivia fuelings have some kind of magical ingredient that specifically addresses these health issues.

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It's just going to help you drop a lot of weight really quickly, which yes, eliminating excess weight,

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eliminating excess body fat is good to help your body function better in a variety of different ways.

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But in my eyes, Optivia is the equivalent of a crash diet, which is not healthy.

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If you wanna lose weight and get your health back on track, go on Google, type in calorie deficit calculator.

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Eat the amount of calories it tells you to eat.

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That's quite literally it.

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It's not easy.

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It's gonna suck it's gonna feel restrictive.

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Tracking your food is a pain in the butt and really, really annoying, but it is a simple process.

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You don't have to sign up for an MLM.

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You don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a month on fuelings, and you don't have to choke down things that you don't actually like eating.

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I actually have a bit of experience with this lately because from January through May of this year, I was pregnant and I gained 20 pounds during that pregnancy.

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And then unfortunately, I lost that baby at 21 weeks.

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And I have spent the last 12 weeks, pretty much the entire summer, are in a calorie deficit.

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None of that baby weight fell right off.

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I've had to work my butt off for every single pound and I've lost about 12 pounds in the last 12 weeks, which is a very sustainable rate of weight loss.

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And you know what kinds of things I've been eating this summer?

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Burgers, pasta, rice, steak, sourdough bread.

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I make a really sugary coffee drink every single morning.

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And this is not an exaggeration.

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I literally eat ice cream every single night and I have for the last 12 weeks straight.

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Because if I don't have dessert every single night, I know myself, I'm gonna feel deprived, I'm gonna feel restricted, I'm going to then binge, fall off track, feel like this isn't even worth it and that I can't handle it.

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So in turn, I just work that ice cream into my daily calories.

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That's it, you can literally eat whatever kinds of food you want on a calorie deficit, as long as you stay in a deficit, you will lose weight.

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This means that you're gonna have to get honest with yourself about portion sizes, it means you're gonna have to go through the hassle of tracking every single thing you eat, which is really annoying.

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You're gonna learn through this process that eating higher protein is gonna keep you more satiated, therefore less miserable.

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You're gonna learn that eating more vegetables is a good way to increase volume without increasing calories too much.

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You're gonna have to make some swaps on some things.

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For example, like I said, I've been eating ice cream every single night, but I've been eating Halo Top ice cream instead of Ben

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and Jerry's because it's half the calories and it still feels indulgent and like I'm treating myself, but I'm not wasting away too much of my daily caloric budget on ice cream, right?

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The point is you don't have to spend hundreds of dollars

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and punish yourself by eating these whey protein powder fuelings if you want to lose weight and address different health concerns.

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And I'm not condoning this, but you might as well go on a crash diet where you're eating chicken, rice, and broccoli every single meal for months because that's probably just as miserable as eating Optivia,

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but a whole lot cheaper.

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And she says one more thing in this video that is extremely alarming to me.

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Get this.

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That's what we do.

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And that means you can live a healthier life.

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My doctor just referred a new client to me.

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He does that frequently.

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He and I link arms

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and we get his clients healthy to the goals he has for them and they have for themselves.

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So if you're interested in learning more, whether you've been a past client or never a client before, let's chat.

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Because I have all kinds of new things to share.

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And I know, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that going forward, people are going to be living their best lives ever if they work with me.

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Let's talk.

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You're telling me that you quote link arms with your doctor

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and he refers his patients to you to get on an Optivia program?

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Number one, extremely concerning

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that a doctor would recommend a starvation diet to his patients as a means of addressing their health concerns.

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Not a trustworthy doctor if you ask me.

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And number two, also extremely concerning

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that he's referring his patients to another one of his patients

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so that she can financially benefit off of them and their health concerns and their desire to lose weight.

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I feel like there's got to be like a conflict of interest there or something.

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I've heard of doctors themselves being in MLMs and prescribing their supplements, their programs, whatever to their own patients as a way to exploit them financially.

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But this is the first time that I've heard of a doctor sort of being the middleman.

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Like he is seeing patients all day long with all kinds of different concerns

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and he is referring them to this other patient he has

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so that she can sell them Optivia and make some money off of them.

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There are so many things wrong with this.

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It's unethical at the very least.

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And because it came up briefly in this clip, I wanted to also put it out there that Optivia has recently rebranded.

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Their new name is Trilovie.

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Here's what the new logo looks like just so you can be on the lookout for it.

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If you start hearing about Trilovie, it's not a new MLM, it's Optivia repackaged.

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Here's an infographic that compares what's changing and what's not between the companies.

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And it says that what's changing is their name.

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They're now called Trilovie and they now have a broader focus on whole person metabolic health and continued innovation through metabolic synchronization.

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And what's not changing is the team that you know and trust, aka like your uplines aren't changing, the team building structure is still the same is how I take that.

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What's not changing is our commitment to science-backed care, human support at every step, and our mission to help people achieve lasting transformation.

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I went to the new Trilovie website and as far as I can tell it's all the exact same products being sold, but in a newly designed package.

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For example, here are the sour cream and chive mashed potatoes that I taste tested years ago under the Optivia name.

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And they're now on the website in a Trilovie branded box and seven servings for $24.

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Let's not gloss over that.

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These are literally instant mashed potatoes with protein powder mixed into them.

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And they're selling them for 24 bucks, which is insane.

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But then there's also some listings on the Trilovie website

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that still have the old Optivia box listed like this red bean

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and vegetable chili that was arguably the worst thing I tried in my taste testing video.

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And it's not even like they're changing the ingredients either.

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It looks like they have maybe added a few new fuelings to the product range, but it doesn't look like they've gone back and improved upon the previous formulas, which is really disappointing because they were horrendous.

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It also appears that the plans are still very similar, although they have renamed them.

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It used to be called the Optimal Weight 5-in-1 plan, and now it's just called the Reset 5-in-1 plan.

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So to be fair, I didn't do like this comprehensive comparison on Optivia versus Trilovie, but at first glance, it looks like it's the same exact thing with a different marketing angle.

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They're ditching a lot of the language they used to use before regarding weight loss and seeing results on the scale, dropping pounds or whatever.

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And it appears that they have just repackaged the same product, put a new name on it, and now they're marketing it as a metabolic health plan, which like we've already talked about,

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it doesn't really matter what you call it.

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The plan is still the same.

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It's designed to force you into a caloric deficit so severe

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that your body has no choice but to go into survival mode and to drop weight.

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At surface level, losing weight to improve your health seems like a good thing, but not when you go about it in this very expensive and restrictive way.

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Switching gears here, this is a video posted to TikTok, and it says when nobody shows up to your event that you were so excited about.

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Can you see where this is going?

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Let me introduce you to all my friends.

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Check it out.

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Oh no!

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What happened?

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No one!

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Did you have all these poor things?

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Freaking stuff.

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Don't look at any people.

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When I first saw this video, I felt really bad for her.

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In the comments, she was saying

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that she tried to set up like a little backyard hangout

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and she invited some of her new mom friends to come

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over after the kids were in bed for the night so

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that they could like just hang out and chat and nobody came. That sucks.

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That really does suck.

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That's seriously so heartbreaking and disappointing when you're like trying to put yourself out there

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and build community and connect with people who are in a similar phase of life as you and then nobody follows through.

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Nobody shows up.

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I imagine that she posted this for sympathy and she almost got me.

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But remember that this is an MLM Top Fails video and

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if you look very closely at the few little snapshot clips that she includes at the end of her video,

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you will notice some strategically placed Arbonne supplements on this tablescape for her mom's night that she's hosting.

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She laid out some of the Arbonne fizz sticks as well as an Arbonne product catalog.

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Her caption even mentions protein balls.

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So I think that she likely made these with the Arbonne protein powder to serve as a snack as well.

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And she literally only flashed these things on the screen at the end of her video for a 1.1 second runtime.

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I timed it.

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It was so fast.

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And I feel like the majority of people coming across this video would not have picked up on it,

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but some people did still clock that this appeared to be an Arbonne pitch with strategic Arbonne product placement.

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So her attempt at sad fishing really backfired because she got over 200 comments from people saying things like this.

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Is it a pyramid scheme?

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Oh, sorry, MLM?

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If so, that's why.

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But it was to sell Arbonne?

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Do you think they assumed this was an MLM product party?

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We're still doing MLMs in 2026?

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I hate being invited to things and being sold to.

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Arbonne isn't cheap either.

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Knowing MLMs are getting the hate it deserves is healing.

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Listen, I felt bad for a moment and then I realized you were going to sell them something.

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There is nothing worse than being invited to something and then it being a sales pitch.

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Sorry.

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Somebody else said smart friends.

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You know how many times I've been invited to a pyramid scheme thinking someone was seeking friendship with me?

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I feel like a proud mom reading these comments.

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It's like, yes, anti-MLM girlies unite.

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Not that I wish angry comments upon this girl's video, but it is really refreshing to see

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that there is an overwhelming presence of people who are speaking out for what's right

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and calling out predatory behavior when they see it.

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Because objectively, inviting women over to your house on the premise

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that this is like a girl's night or a mom's hangout with the secret intention of trapping them into an Arbonne pitch, like it's just a shitty and self-serving thing to do.

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And when you consider that, it's probably a good thing that nobody showed up.

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I'd love to see that, actually.

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Not because I wish ill upon this Arbonne rep specifically, but because it means that nobody got suckered into joining as a result of showing up.

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She got her time wasted instead of wasting other women's time, and that feels satisfying to see.

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I've received hundreds if not thousands of submissions for my MLM horror stories series of people detailing experiences exactly like this.

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I showed up to an event thinking it was one thing

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and then I turned out that I was just being sold to

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and it was embarrassing and it was a waste of my time.

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Or I thought somebody was trying to be my friend

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but it turns out they just saw me as a dollar sign and that really sucks.

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It doesn't feel good to be treated that way.

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It's rude.

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It's inconsiderate.

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It's selfish.

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So in that regard it does make me happy to see that she's getting clocked in the comments.

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The anti-MLMers went, I know an Arbonne fizz stick when I see one.

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This is an MLM pitch, isn't it?

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And it totally was.

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And I hope

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that she learned her lesson about trying to take advantage of women by trapping them into something that is not genuine.

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Maybe she has now seen

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that it's not appropriate to be taking advantage of people's desire for connection and turning it into a sales pitch.

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So far in this video, we've seen a Monat rep using the Lindsay Clancy trial to promote her business.

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We've seen an Optivia rep using a parasitic outbreak to promote her fuelings.

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And here we have an Herbalife shop using 9-11 to promote their new Twin Towers drinks.

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And no, I'm not kidding.

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This is 100% real.

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This post was actually from last year, and this Herbalife shop posted this on their public business page.

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It says, in honor of 9-11 tomorrow, we remember the lives lost, the heroes, and the strength of our nation.

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Our Twin Tower tea duo will be available tomorrow, standing tall in tribute.

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And then there's two different drinks pictured, both of them in the red and blue color scheme, and they have labeled the names of these drinks Tower A and Tower B.

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I don't feel like it needs that much explanation about how distasteful this promotion is.

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Making two different red and blue drinks and calling them the Twin Towers

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and selling them for profit is just about as tone deaf as it gets.

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Taking one of the biggest tragedies of our lifetime and turning it into a sales opportunity is beyond disgusting.

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If you want to do a red, white, and blue America themed drink, then you've got 4th of July, you've got Memorial Day, you've got Labor Day.

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Like, why do we have to make two drinks named after the Twin Towers

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and try to commercialize an event where nearly 3,000 people died in a mass casualty?

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This is not honoring and remembering.

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This is not commemorating.

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This is commercializing something that is still extremely fresh and painful.

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And their customer base naturally had a big issue with this, which then prompted them to release this statement.

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It says, our apology.

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We want to sincerely apologize for a post that went up about 9-11.

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It was extremely insensitive and in no way reflects the values of our store name.

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To be transparent, the post was created by a member of our social media team who was not born during 9-11

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and did not fully understand the depth of loss, tragedy, and the emotions tied to that day.

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While that explains how the mistake happened, it does not excuse it and we take full responsibility.

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At our shop, we honor and respect all of those who lost their lives, the families forever changed, and the heroes who stepped forward.

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Our community deserves better than what was shared and we are committed to making sure this never happens again.

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Please accept our heartfelt apology.

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Something about this phrase, a member of our social media team was not born during 9-11.

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Feels so comically unprofessional to me.

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Fully throwing this 20-something under the bus by saying, oh, they just weren't alive back then.

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They didn't understand the significance of this event.

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That's not a good excuse.

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Because tell me, were you still gonna be selling the teas in the shop?

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I don't care who posted the advertisement on social media was management aware

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that these teas were going to be sold or no?

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Why are you blaming a young member of your social media team for promoting something that you had every intention of selling?

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Shifting the blame in that way made them look 10 times worse in my opinion.

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And I tried to go back

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and find the original post from last year to read these 56 comments

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that it shows had on this post because I really wanted to see how their community was responding to the apology.

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But interestingly, they have deleted the apology as well as the original post off of their profile.

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I only have these screenshots because they came off of Reddit

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and there is no trace of these posts on the business Facebook page a year later.

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Which tells me that their apology probably didn't go over

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that well either and it made them look even worse so they decided to delete that too.

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And in case there's any confusion let me give you like a mini dive into Herbalife storefronts okay.

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People who sign up for Herbalife will sometimes open up a brick

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and mortar store where they sell things that they call loaded teas

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or smoothies or coffee drinks and they're actually not allowed to have any kind of Herbalife branding affiliated with the store.

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They're not even allowed to use the name Herbalife in their store name.

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They usually call themselves nutrition shops or nutrition clubs and they have some kind of ambiguous name.

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Let's say they're located by the beach.

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They might call themselves Beachside Nutrition Club or Westside Tea Shop

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or Evergreen Nutrition or like something that the average person would have no way of knowing is connected to an MLM whatsoever.

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There will be no outward indication that these shops are affiliated with Herbalife, but if you watch closely when they're making the drinks,

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they'll probably be scooping a concoction of all kinds of different powders out of these green

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and white Herbalife canisters behind the counter, and that's how you know.

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If you want to know if your local smoothie shop or tea shop is an Herbalife front, you can probably go to like their social media pages or their Google reviews

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and just look to see if you can see any of these green

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and white canisters in the background of anything that is posted from that shop.

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That's a dead giveaway that it's an Herbalife front.

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Sometimes they put the canisters on display and other times they are really good about hiding them.

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They usually serve their drinks in these very large clear cups.

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They'll usually have a round sticker on the front with their shop name and their logo.

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And they typically come in like these outrageous radioactive colors.

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And from what I've heard, these drinks are so highly caffeinated that if you think you're just getting a tea or a smoothie, you're gonna be really unpleasantly surprised when the caffeine hits your bloodstream.

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I have had many people write in horror stories to me saying

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that they went to buy a smoothie or a tea from their local shop

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and the drinks made them feel awful afterwards because they were not aware of what was being put into them.

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And the main reason, I believe, personal opinion, that Herbalife reps will open up storefronts is to be able to dupe the community into buying from them.

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We know at this point that sliding into people's DMs on social media, asking them if they want to buy some kind of overpriced supplement, it's not that effective.

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So what if we open up a storefront in our local strip mall

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and we market ourselves as the friendly neighborhood tea and smoothie shop, people can come in and order from us and we can sell them Herbalife without them knowing.

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That's how it feels to me.

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It's very, very deceptive.

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And what if I told you that not one, but two different Herbalife shops in two completely different states had 9-11 drink promos last year.

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I just showed you an example from an Herbalife shop in Iowa, but here's another one from a shop in Indiana.

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It says honoring 9-11 with something meaningful.

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Come on, get out of here with that.

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Something meaningful, your Herbalife teas are me, whatever.

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Introducing our Twin Towers Tea Duo, two bold patriotic blends crafted in remembrance and unity.

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Tower A and Tower B, two flavors, one tribute, a sip of strength, resilience, and remembrance.

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Raise a glass with us as we honor the heroes and remember the lives lost.

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Putting these two graphics side by side, you can see that each of these shops Tower A drink combos is the exact same.

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They have pomegranate, cherry coconut, and blue raspberry.

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And their Tower B combo is almost exactly the same.

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They both have watermelon and blue blast, but one has pomegranate, the other has lime.

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It feels completely obvious to me that one of these shops copied the other, which is hilarious because they're in completely different states.

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And I'm sure they probably assumed that nobody would put that together.

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They named them exactly the same.

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The graphics are strikingly similar, the color combinations, the flavors they included.

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And it's quite concerning to me that one of these shops had to come up with this insane idea.

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And then the other shop had to see it and go, oh, nice.

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What a great idea.

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We're going to do that too.

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And this didn't go over well with the second shop either.

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They also had to release a statement apologizing.

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They said, I want to sincerely apologize to anyone I may have hurt with my post yesterday about in remembrance of 9-11.

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In reflecting on it, I realized that I should have chosen a different name for the drinks.

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My heart goes out to those who were offended

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and I truly hope you can find it in your hearts to forgive me.

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I deeply support everyone and honor the lives that were lost during that tragic time.

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Thank you for your understanding.

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And if we're going with this copying theory, which I don't think is a theory at all, I think it's the truth.

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It sounds like this person is taking accountability by saying, I apologize.

746

I realize I should have named the drinks differently.

747

But the other shop was saying, sorry, our young social media person just didn't know the significance of 9-11 and that's how this happened.

748

Because saying that was probably less embarrassing than to admit that they just ripped off another shop's idea.

749

But it backfired on both of them as it should have.

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MLM reps have no boundaries and no morals when it comes to how they choose to market their products.

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And with that, that is all the top fails I have for you for today's MLM top fails video.

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I'm so appreciative to everybody who sent these to my Google Drive and made me aware of them.

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I think this video is very interesting because it dealt with several different relevant topics of the time right now.

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We're coming up on 9-11's anniversary soon.

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The Lindsay Clancy trial that's going on currently at the time of filming this video.

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The parasite outbreak.

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This edition of MLM Top Fails is kind of interesting in

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that way because we're exposing the way that MLM reps will capitalize on tragic current events for their own financial gain.

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Like, how can I make this about me?

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How can I weasel my way into this terrible thing happening to get people to buy what I'm selling?

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Like, it's truly so bizarre.

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And I think that really speaks to the brainwashed nature of people in MLMs where they just think differently.

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They can never turn their brains off of this compulsion to sell

764

and it must be really exhausting for them honestly

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And I said at the beginning of the video

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But i'll say it again here that

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if you come across something on social media

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that you think would be a good fit for the mlm top Fails series go ahead

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and send it my way as things are sent to me I kind of filter through them

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and start to make a list of like different things

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Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?

Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.

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Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?