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 Dickinson who wrote the ever informative "The 'Get Rich Quick' MLM Schemes Targeting Gen Z During Lockdown" article for Vice!

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Sources

Multilevel Marketing: A Historical Perspective by William W. Keep and Peter Vander Nat (2013)

Avon Products 1964-2014: The Slippery Slope of Direct Selling by William W. Keep (2015)

Theorizing #Girlboss Culture: Mediated Neoliberal Feminisms from Influencers to Multi-Level Marketing Schemes by Frankie Mastrangelo (2021)

The Case (for and) against Multi-level Marketing By Jon M. Taylor, MBA, Ph.D., Consumer Awareness Institute

Islamic Marketing: Understanding the Socio-Economic, Cultural, and Politico-Legal Environment (Management for Professionals) by Cedomir Nestorovic 

The Rise and Fall of Albania's Pyramid Schemes by Christopher Jarvis

Multi-Level Marketing Businesses and Pyramid Schemes

The Story of Brownie Wise, the Ingenious Marketer Behind the Tupperware Party

Tupperware Parties: Suburban Women’s Plastic Path to Empowerment 

Hey, Hun! In women’s joblessness, multi-level marketers saw opportunity.

The Story Behind the Mary Kay Pink Cadillac 

‘It’s very culty’: the bizarre billion-dollar downfall of fashion company LuLaRoe

Do You Trust This Momfluencer? Good, Because She Has Something To Sell You

Inside the influencer MLM that peddles more than just an Insta-perfect life

The 'Get Rich Quick' MLM Schemes Targeting Gen Z During Lockdown 

Where Working Women Are Most Common

10 reasons Mormons dominate multi-level marketing companies

Follow the profit: How Mormon culture made Utah a hotbed for multi-level marketers

Amazon Docuseries LuLaRich Breaks Down the Chaotic Story of Deception Behind Multilevel Marketing Company LuLaRoe 

These Women Say An Essential Oil MLM Has Been Taken Over By Satan. Yes, Really.

How Essential Oils Became the Cure for Our Age of Anxiety

FTC Takes Action Against doTERRA Distributors for False COVID-19 Health Claims

What You Should Know about Youngevity

Multilevel Marketing Companies Are Cashing In on the Crisis

Latinos crucial to Herbalife’s financial health 

Written by Mina Le, Ella Gray, and Sophie Carter

Edited by Sophie Carter

Music by Olivia Martinez

Cover by Lindsay Mintz