42 episodes
The Dream Little Everywhere
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4.5 • 14.7K Ratings
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From Little Everywhere and hosted by Jane Marie, comes the third season of The Dream. Past seasons of this award-winning investigative podcast looked at pyramid schemes and the world of wellness. This season we're getting to know the gurus and life coaches who claim they know the secret to living our best lives. Is it all in our mindset? Or our privilege? Or are we all under a spell?
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S3 E1: Becoming a #Boss
What's it like to hand your life over to someone who claims they’ll make it better? Jessie Lee Ward, the self-proclaimed “#1 network marketer in the world,” charges her coaching clients thousands of dollars for a trip to Colombia that's described like a work retreat. The reality is more like a brutal 15 hour hike, with late night hypothermia. Is this what it takes to be successful in life and business?
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S3 E2: What Ever Happened to Happy Jane?
Despite regular therapy, Jane is in a funk. She and Dann discuss what's happened to them, and what she hopes (and fears) life coaching might do for her — or teach her to do for herself. Jane embarks on a hunt for a professional life coach of her own.
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S3 E3: The MLM-to-coaching pipeline
Jennifer Rajala got sucked into the MLM-to-coaching pipeline. A social worker from northern Michigan, Jennifer rose quickly through the Arbonne ranks. She earned the right to lease an Arbonne branded Mercedes. But she still wasn’t making any real money. Then Jenn discovered Rankmakers, the life coaching program that promised to truly maximize her potential.
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S3 E4: Think and Grow Duped
Napoleon Hill, ever heard of him? He wrote "Think and Grow Rich," one of the favorite self-help handbooks of all time. His fans include Tony Robbins and life coaches of all stripes. But Napoleon Hill was not a genius of self-help. He was a scam artist who never practiced what he preached. Journalist Matt Novak tells Jane what he’s found (and what he hasn’t) about one of the biggest architects of modern coaching.
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S3 E5: I Never Said Hate
Now a life coach herself, Jennifer Rajala is lauded at Rankmakers; she’s a hustler who can inspire others to buy coaching packages better than just about anyone else. That is, until she realizes she’s selling empty promises.
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S3 E6: The MVP of NLP
Neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP, is the communication technique used by coaches and cult leaders alike. John James Santangelo—a fan of Napoleon Hill— is an NLP expert who gives Jane a crash course. Jane is mesmerized, and according to Santangelo, might've even been hypnotized.
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Customer Reviews
Excellent show!
Very well-crafted show, from audio quality to human interest content, to her professional narration.
Threw the baby out with the bath water in season 2
I liked season 1 up until the end when they clearly had an agenda and kept interrupting the only person from MLMs that offered to talk to them.
Season 2 went completely off the rails in episode 2. The host was so rude and condescending to her partner about his interest in more natural things. She makes a point about how crystals are just like journaling but she claims crystals don’t “work”. If she thinks journaling works because of the placebo effect then how does that mean crystals don’t “work”? She’s so obsessed with western medicine despite pointing out that western doctors have really had no solutions for her TBI. She has a very white centric view of medicine and completely dismisses very longstanding medical and wellness practices like herbalism and meditation. I agree that you shouldn’t be treating issues with unregulated supplements, but she’s really throwing the baby out with the bathwater. She points out that the wellness industry includes everything from crystals to CrossFit but doesn’t dig into the spectrum of validity in the wellness space. Sure there are grifters like Amanda Chantal Bacon and her adaptogenic dusts, but that’s such a small portion of what this space is about.
Some meditation and acupuncture might actually help the host chill the F out a little bit and stop being so judgy.
Liked it until S2E2
I love anti-MLM stuff and Season 1 was good. The wheels fell off at S2E2. That episode was completely self absorbed and off topic. And you were SO RUDE to Dan. Belittling him about perfectly normal things he has around his house that bring him happiness. That was an awful thing to do. He seems very sweet and he was very attentive to you later in the episode when you had an emotional moment. Not sure if I’m going to continue past S2E2.
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