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 marketing, and the winners, losers, and buy-in rules that designate a Ponzi scheme ... Show More
Nov 3
Mom's Car: Minka Kelly
On this week’s episode of Mom’s Car we welcome Minka Kelly (Ransom Canyon, Friday Night Lights, Parenthood). Minka, Dax, and Best Friend Aaron Weakley talk through putting your darkest secrets in a book, revisiting the peep show where you once worked, the relief of no longer bein ... Show More
43m 40s
Jun 2025
Multi-Level Marketing: Your Product is You | 162
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 ... Show More
50m 3s
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 2023
Get in loser, we're selling tupperware! (with Sophie Dickinson)
The director's cut version of Mina's "let's discuss MLMs, Pyramid Schemes, and Grindset Culture video she published onto Youtube on Monday. In this expanded edition, she shares listener stories, debunks bogus claims by MLMs like Young Living, and talks with journalist Sophie Dick ... Show More
1h 16m
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
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
Sep 2021
Leggings, Pyramid Schemes & MLM's - SimplyPodLogical #79
On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben discuss the new documentary LuLaRich about the multi-level marketing company Lularoe, pyramid schemes, cults, and #girlboss feminism.
49m 48s