42 episodes
Downline Bailey Pelletier
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- Society & Culture
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4.6 • 164 Ratings
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A consumer awareness, anti-scam podcast focused on the multi-level-marketing (MLM) industry which is culty af. Based out of Canada, host Bailey Pelletier breaks down what is wrong with the inherently flawed and predatory multi-level-marketing industry and the companies that it is made up of— think Amway, Herbalife, LuLaRoe. The podcast is a relaxed, non-linear conversational style show with the occasional interview with former MLM reps (approximately 1 in 10 people in North America have been an MLM rep). Listeners guide the direction of the show by submitting requests for which companies and issues they want Bailey to investigate. The podcast is part of a bigger activist movement to help people avoid entanglements with this problematic industry, and to help those who have left it to de-program.
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3:3:30 World Financial Group
World Financial Group may seem at first to be like any other insurance or finance company. But at the end of the day like every other MLM, it’s just about recruiting and very little energy is given to making sure clients are well taken care of. This is part 1 of 2 episodes on WFG.
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/downlinepod
List of Insurance MLMs
Primerica
Transamerica/ World Financial Group
Symmetry Financial Group
Premier Financial Alliance
PHP Agency
Freedom Equity Group
American Income Life
Family First Life.
Instagram + Tiktok
@downlinepod
Sources
https://downline.podbean.com/p/insurance-mlm-primerica-wfg-sources/
Current Active MLMs
https://mlmtruth.org/master-list/
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Upload the clip, recording, or image(s) to Google Drive then email me the link/share access with my email downlinepod@gmail.com -
Got Life? Insurance MLMs: Primerica
Is Primerica an MLM? How is it legal for insurance MLMs to exist? Do the reps actually make money? Let us discuss what this company is all about.
List of Insurance MLMs
Primerica
Transamerica/ World Financial Group
Symmetry Financial Group
Premier Financial Alliance
PHP Agency
Freedom Equity Group
American Income Life
Family First Life.
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/downlinepod
Instagram + Tiktok
@downlinepod
Sources
https://downline.podbean.com/p/insurance-mlm-primerica-wfg-sources/
Current Active MLMs
https://mlmtruth.org/master-list/
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Upload the clip, recording, or image(s) to Google Drive then email me the link/share access with my email downlinepod@gmail.com -
Greenwashing and Girl-bossing: Arbonne
Arbonne likes to tout itself as an environmentally friendly and socially responsible B-corporation. In reality, Arbonne seems to have honed in on the art of greenwashing and advertising a false opportunity to pull in free labour.
Go check out Danielle’s podcast: From Huns to Humans
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/downlinepod
Instagram
@downlinepod
Sources
https://downline.podbean.com/p/arbonne-sources/
Current Active MLMs
https://mlmtruth.org/master-list/
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Upload the clip, recording, or image(s) to Google Drive then email me the link/share access with my email downlinepod@gmail.com
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Discover Arbonne
Before we get into the nitty-gritty of the history and the business itself-- come with me to "Discover Arbonne" and the vibes it gives off.
*I made a last-minute decision to re-record the full Arbonne deep dive episode with my new mic-- so today we are going to have a good time, vibe, and acknowledge that the tiny pink mic era is coming to an end. Taking her for one last ride.
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/downlinepod
Instagram
@downlinepod
Current Active MLMs
https://mlmtruth.org/master-list/
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Upload the clip, recording, or image(s) to Google Drive then email me the link/share access with my email downlinepod@gmail.com -
Bitter about Body Positivity: Beachbody Trainer Autumn Calabrese
"Pick up a piece of broccoli instead of a candy bar, and FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE."
- Autumn Calabrese
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/downlinepod
Instagram
@downlinepod
Sources
https://downline.podbean.com/p/bitter-about-body-positivity/
Current Active MLMs
https://mlmtruth.org/master-list/
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Upload the clip, recording, or image(s) to Google Drive then email me the link/share access with my email downlinepod@gmail.com -
ItWorks! Reps are Sketchy
Bonus episode drop!
I don't even know what to say about this episode other than *vomit.* The manipulation is just next-level.
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/downlinepod
Instagram
@downlinepod
Current Active MLMs
https://mlmtruth.org/master-list/
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Upload the clip, recording, or image(s) to Google Drive then email me the link/share access with my email downlinepod@gmail.com
Customer Reviews
My favorite podcast
Thank you Bailey for all the research and effort put in to making this podcast. I try to share it in all of my AntiMLM groups.
So good!
I love this podcast! I can’t get enough about MLMs. Love how Bailey gets so appalled! When she described Lula Roe sending out an instructional video about how to put on leggings as if the problem was that women didn’t know how to put on pants, I was dying 💀🤣🤣
Fascinating
Not sure why I find MLMs so interesting… maybe because they’re so cringey. I have friends in them and it blows my mind. Bailey does a good job of keeping it interesting despite how much I’ve already heard about MLMs from other shows. I like that she comes at it from many different angles. And I’m in healthcare… my fav things to listen to are things that are new and foreign that have NOTHING to do with my profession .. this is a good one. Thanks!