Multi-level marketing businesses like Mary Kay, HerbaLife, and Amway are so ubiquitous, it's almost hard to imagine where they started or how deep their influence goes. In this special episode of Scamfluencers, Sarah Hagi talks with Bridget Read about her new book, Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America. She spent years researching t ... Show More
Nov 2
You Can See Everything: Elizabeth Holmes, Up Close and Impersonal | 239
Elizabeth Holmes checks off so many 21st century buzzwords: girlboss, tech founder, media darling, and fraudster. Now, she’s the subject of one of the buzziest documentaries in decades. Just a month before she was set to begin serving her 11-year sentence, Holmes welcomed comedia ... Show More
53m 42s
Jul 2025
Bridget Read (on multilevel marketing)
Bridget Read (Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America) is a features writer, journalist, and author. Bridget joins the Armchair Expert to discuss working as a young writer at Vogue during the blog boom, how door-to-door salesmen evolved into multi-level ma ... Show More
2h 7m
May 2022
Episode Eighteen: Multi-Level Marketing
Hey girlie! Wanna be your own boss? This week, Brittany and Sarah dive into multi-level marketing schemes: what they are, some popular ones that you've probably heard of, and their own experiences with them. Brittany and Sarah Get Tricked Into Joining MLMs Not Clickbait??? Get 60 ... Show More
1h 3m
Apr 2024
The American dream is a pyramid scheme
Jane Marie is an expert in American bullshit. Her podcast The Dream explores life coaching, wellness, marketing, and other fraudulent industries and exposes their exploitative practices. Her book, Selling the Dream, takes an even closer look at multilevel marketing schemes like A ... Show More
46m 27s
Apr 2023
Are MLMs Pyramid Schemes?
When it comes to MLMs (multi-level marketing) brands, Nicole is torn. She's heard some horror stories exposing an exploitative underbelly of MLMs, but she's also spoken firsthand to people who attribute all of their financial success and happiness to their work with MLMs. Today, ... Show More
31 m