WHY I JOINED LULAROE AND WHY IT SUCKED! | ANTIMLM

hello everybody welcome back to my channel my name is bethany if you have not been here before and i am one of the new wannabe youtubers talk like stepping out talking about um anti-mlm and this anti-mlm movement if you didn't know mlm stands for multi-level marketing also known as network marketing social selling social marketing also known as pyramid schemes um yeah i if you haven't seen my first video i'll link it down below um this video today is going to be based on um i'm going to talk about basically what network marketing is what kind of like a definition of it and also talk about kind of like skimming the surface of my experience with um network marketing aka pyramid schemes and my experience i've only participated in one network marketing multi-level marketing um brand slash scam and that was lularoe which i feel like honestly is like the mac daddy worst of all because um it costs an extra nominal amount to start um and the sisterhood is so toxic and volatile and um the products were straight crap and extremely expensive so anyway so back to the definition of multi-level marketing basically what it is and the reason why it's not considered a pyramid scheme is because pyramid schemes are basically recruiting people recruiting people join my team join my team during my downline and there is no product involved so it's like john will be like hey give me a hundred dollars and i'll turn that into two hundred dollars if you recruit two people because you'll get he'll they'll give you 50 profit and then another person will give 50 profit and then down and down and down so the way that these um businesses get around the pyramid scheme aspect of it is because they all sell products the ftc defines pyramid schemes as follows so basically the way that mlms can get around the law is by selling a product um so it's kind of even funny to me that the ftc the federal trade commission has to even put a blurb on their website kind of like warning people not to do it or these are your risks involved and the vast majority of people don't even make money so yeah i think that's kind of hilarious because any i mean any small business whenever you go to open a small business yeah there's risks involved but i'm pretty sure you won't be able to get a small business loan taken out from the bank if your risk is a 99. something percent chance that you're going to lose money within the entire time that you open this business like nobody opens up a business thinking oh i'm going to honestly have a 99 chance of losing money they look at the fact you have to do market research you have to do all there's like tons and tons of steps involved in showing how much it costs to make this product what are your profits going to be what do you what is your turnaround time on when you think that you're going to be turning a profit with this business so the fact that the ftc has to literally put a warning label on there like warning you probably are going to lose money oh cis that's a pyramid scheme okay so so now that we have that explanation definition of the difference between the two out of the way i wanted to kind of like skim the surface of my time with lularoe it's so funny because just this morning i looked on my facebook memories and four years ago i posted some kind of status about like who sells lularoe because like i might went in like i'm gonna put a snippet over here but wow um i want to like reach back in time four years ago and be like no like no please don't but you live and you learn it's a learning opportunity life teaches you things the hard way sometimes um but yeah and it really sucks because my laptop computer that i had saved all of my excel spreadsheets all of my training all of my stuff that i used with lularoe was burnt in the fire so i tried to log on to the facebook um to my old facebook group to see if i could access any of the old things but i've been blocked off of those for years so it's fine four years ago um we were in the process of purchasing this house that we live in now um right before we got this house i one of my friends invited me to a lularoe pop-up party or whatever one of her friends was selling it and i felt obligated to buy something so i felt a little bit obligated to just buy something from this online party so i found a pair of plain olive collard leggings and i got them and i loved them and they like the quality felt really good and they were so soft and i was like okay they were 25 which was that's pretty expensive for a pair of leggings let's be real but i was like they felt really good and these were they're just plain olive colored like i could it was almost fall i could have worn them you know underneath um like chunky sweaters and like oatmeal collards so i was like okay this is kind of cute um about that time right after we moved into this house something in my mind like clicked shifted something happened mentally um and i'm bipolar and what happened was i went into a full-blown bipolar manic episode and i didn't know it like i didn't know it at the time like this was before i was diagnosed so um for the first couple weeks of me entering in this episode i bought a metric ton of leggings like i was one of those people who searched every single group joined a million facebook groups search for like certain prints like looking for the unicorns and all the things and i wasted so much time and so effing much money buying leggings and then like whenever i feel like i had enough i would buy leggings for my mom or for my friend or like i would start and that's a sign if y'all don't know when you're bipolar you spend money on the most ridiculous nonsensical items and that was what i did i purchased a metric ton of lularoe leggings okay my husband was like chill f out we have you have i don't want to know how much money you have in these leggings at the time i didn't know how much money i had in them blah blah blah so um but again i'm manic so i'm like no i need them like i need all these things duh so at this point now my husband knows but like i should have given him the credit card or given him the bank account or something and been like bro you take over like i'm not allowed by anymore but this has never happened to me before i mean to this extent so we didn't know neither one of us knew what was going on or that this was bad so um a few this went on for a few weeks and then like people started messaging me like you need to sell this you need to sell this you will be amazing at it you love the leggings already you love the clothes the little dresses the shirts sell this and you will make bank and i'm like yeah duh i'm definitely doing this 100 i'm going to sell them i will make a ton of money at this time i was working at the hospital i'm a nurse and at this time i was working full time at the hospital um and they poured the guilt trip on me of don't you want to be home with your daughter don't you want to you know be financially free to free don't you want to retire before you're you know 40. don't you want to you know join and go on cruises don't you want to yeah you know your daughter misses you like why would you want to spend all your time in the hospital when uh you can work from home right duh everyone does it like that's network marketing is the future like everybody's gonna be shopping from home soon right so talked to matthew about it my husband and he was like no well first of all he was like okay you mean yeah that'd be great and then he was like how much is this cost and i was like well it's like five thousand dollars he said are you kidding me and i said no like it's but you get twelve thousand dollars worth of product like that's seven grand of profit right off the top i'll just sell it all and then that's seven grand in the bank bro and at this time and then here's another huge red flag or a red flag at the time that i signed up to join lularoe there was literally a two-month waiting period before i could on board so i had two months all right i don't know what the deal is with this camera i need to play with the settings but i've noticed this is twice now that it kicks me off talking around 12 minutes it just shuts off so anyway so at this point i had my husband involved and we had about two months where we spent working on my lularoe room i was doing more research on the company and the business and marketing and how to you know how to be all businessy and the ceo of my own business and not one time in this two months did i have a second thought that's called that's called mania that's called being bipolar and manic because when you're manic the thought absolutely never crosses your mind will i fail when you're manic you can if if somebody looked at you and said you can fly with your arms flap your wings your do it you will spend every single minute second hour day week month year flying and even if you're not flying in your mind you're flying and i promise you if you're bipolar if you know if you if you know you know so i am thinking to myself for two months that i'm going to be a boss babe i will run my own business i will sell clothes and again i'm a nurse i have no business background except for the year semester a year of college where i was in a business major and then dropped out because i hated it so that was the only background i have in running a business was one year of college and dropped out because i hated it and then um i have no like fashion i have no fashion background either like none in high school i wore jeans and t-shirts and van shoes and sweatshirts so please tell me when i'm full okay so four years ago i'm almost so i'm 32 right now 32 31 32 i was 28 years old i was nearly 30 years old late twenties a registered nurse a mother a wife very sad in my career how in the hell how the hell that i think that i was going to rock my business and be a boss babe i don't know it was the bipolar that's all i can say so i'm sorry that i'm like touching my hair so much i just got it done yesterday and i'm like you know how it is after you go to the hair after you go to hair salon you're just like oh girl my hair but anyway um fast forward about two months and i got my call i got my call from lularoe my onboarding call gave them my credit card number and paid the it was close to seven thousand dollars because what they don't tell you is in order to onboard in order to become a lularoe independent fashion consultant you had to buy the package okay what is not included in the package are leggings so if you had to pay another like i can't remember 1200 1500 in order to get the legging package and of course everybody wants the leggings like i'm not gonna open my lularoe business and have no leggings that's what people want to buy right so it ended up being close to seven thousand dollars to start okay that's not including business cards that's not including shipping supplies you have to buy poly mailers i bought uh you don't have to have this i invested in it big for my business um i was called dymo one of those shipping label printers which was a couple hundred bucks um the shipping stickers to go with the dynamo cost extra um and you could only use certain i mean they said that they say you're running your own business you don't have to answer to anyone lularoe compliance was strict af back in the day back whenever i signed up you had to do use certain fonts certain callers you couldn't say or um you could never say anything was on sale so in order to like have sales and try to get rid of like the ugly ass prints that i got i would be like pm me for for um special pricing or pm me for for a surprise or something that you could never you could never advertise that you're having a sale you could never say oh i'm having a two for one lugging set like you could never ever ever ever ever do that because would call you out they would report you to compliance immediately in like compliance with threatened to shut your business down and cancel your contract with them so the sisterhood the sisterhood was just so loving because those would call you out in a heartbeat i never i was so afraid to like go outside of the box which is hilarious because again i'm bipolar so it does things aren't making sense here but i was so afraid to not follow the rules that lularoe had set for us when it comes to like their marketing or what you say and what you use and the colors and the fonts that i absolutely followed it to a t because i didn't want them to take away my you know consultant status i wanted to be able to order more of these great products right so so that was my time with little row um i or that was whenever i started lularoe so i um or placed my order my products were delivered i had my huge launch party and at this time in my area i live in west virginia um lularoe had just hit the scene and i my launch party itself i made like close to three thousand dollars in sales that's just that's not profit that's sales it was like twelve thirteen hundred dollars in profit which i'm like damn for you know a couple days of work that's pretty good right well then guess what um that now all your clients have seen all your product so you have to buy more product and they're not going to want to buy what they've already seen i don't know i don't know after my launch party i did several other parties and people were messaging me i was never the one to like slide into people's dms or private message and then like hey join my little routine this and that people would like come to me and be like hey what do you think about lularoe should i sign up and i was like yeah girl i got you sign up under me of course i would you know go through my spiel basically regurgitating to them what my upline had told me but what's kind of like scary is the fact that i had multiple people messaging me wanting to sign up under me before i had even like received my product before i had launched my business so i'm appreciative that these girls like trusted me in the in that sense because again they didn't even know how i ran my business and they were like messaging me like hey as soon as you get your product i'm going to sign up on your team so i think like the the day that i went the the first week that i was a con consultant i had already had two people sign up underneath me and so i feel like that's scary like i i love these girls like i talk i still talk to some of them today um but i just thinking looking back i'm like why would they have trusted me because they don't even know me at this point to if i'm a good per like if i'm going to be a good leader if i'm going to be someone who can help them run their business you know what i mean so i feel like that's kind of bad because i noticed that in all the mlms all of them they will be like hey i just signed up to sell money um i haven't received any products yet but if you want to sell with me then let me know i'm like how are you how are you trying to sell pr so you're trying to sell me on buying into the business before i even buy the product you know what i mean like that is weird so the week that i signed up for lularoe i already had two two girls in my downline um i at this point i think it was november the end of november that i launched my party launched my business i mean and i had two girls below me once they received their product i think i know one of them had a couple girls sign up under her i had multiple more people messaging me wanted to sign up under me and over the next few months my sales would be around i would my goal was always to cruise qualify which was twelve thousand dollars in sales so at that time they pushed crews qualifying like so hard like you wanted to cruise qualify don't you want to go on a lula cruise with us [Music] um and at that time i really did i really wanted to go on a free effing cruise that probably cost i mean how much is a cruise cost for one person i mean it was it was a carnival cruise line i think and i think about five million check i'm pretty sure it was carnival cruise and it was if you had 12 000 in sales for six straight months you would cruise qualify and that would be in their interior room for and i honestly do think that it was a week i think it was a seven day cruise so i'm going to look into that and see how much because honestly it will probably be i mean less than a thousand dollars and for how much blood sweat tears and energy i was put into this like girl work an extra shift at the hospital and then you have that to go on a cruise if that's really your goal buy work hard and buy a cruise like that what what what was i doing i'm going to like catch myself because i go off on these rants and i hope that y'all aren't annoyed by that but okay that was pretty much the story of how and why i got involved with selling lularoe i am going to make more videos in depth of um the recruitment tactics what i was told what i did which is basically like calling myself out because i was a hun i was i hated myself like at the time not at the time but now looking back at me then god i don't like that person i don't like that girl that i was and i have grown and in that i have learned to go to the doctor for psychic psychiatric medication um oh god sorry it's from my throat um oh that's another thing i'm going to i want to do a video about mental health with mlms and how they honestly before during and after because i have noticed like sad depressed anxious women are the women who sign up to sell lularoe or no or does not sell mlms like they're the ones that they're the ones that say yes nobody who is killing life making money having their own business or even happy in their current business nobody is going to sign up to sell these products unless who was killing it in life do you know what i mean like nobody's gonna be like damn i just bought a brand new car my job is bomb i love my work home balance relationship what i was saying was before i even signed up to sell lularoe like we were doing very well i mean that sounds bad but we were middle class like we are middle class we're doing great i mean i don't know why i thought that we needed more um they really i really sold into the idea of being home with my daughter more what i didn't take into consideration was it was not quality time home with her am i physically home yeah i'm home great am i spending time with her and raising her and teaching her and training her and helping her and you know being a good mother no i was not i was not um i don't know how many times i had to tell her not right now i'm always working not right now mommy's working mommy's working mommy's working give me five minutes just go play for five minutes i'll be there i hated that person that i was i really hated it just all the things like every single thing that i think about whenever i think about that time in lularoe was it was just horrible like i was just such a bad person when you join lularoe my team that i joined invited me to all of the team the private message groups the private facebook groups the private team chats all of those things right because then we're all like um helping each other out like hey can you go and comment on some pictures because my group is my group is really dead tonight and this stupid crap like that so we would help each other out and we would hype each other up if we're having a bad day and i can't even tell you how many times girls in that group would be like i have not made a sale in two weeks i have worked my ass off i've put 50 hours this week into it and i've made 20 dollars like etc um but me i'm like oh girl think positive you just gotta take more pictures or re-photograph your inventory and put them together with outfits and there's just this ways you can go around things differently [Music] and i just hated that but the second that i um i'm going to put a screenshot in here i messaged my sponsor like my direct sponsor this is after i had already told my downline and my personal team that i was leaving lularoe um and i'm gonna make another video on why i left lularoe but this is just a kind of an overview right now what's going on but so i messaged my sponsor and said hey i can't do it anymore like i'm just done i just i'm getting out i'm sorry and she said i think it was like i'm at the movies right now let me as soon as i get out of this movie we'll talk and i said okay and that was the last i heard from her and they kicked me out of all the facebook groups they kicked me out of all of the um everything like everything that had to do with lularoe and my team done blocked like they blocked me from their personal account because i posted i posted on my personal facebook account that i was leaving um it was shady and this is after i had like seen the light gotten medication like gotten treatment for my mental breakdown basically and people were on like my own personal friends and family were like hey why and i told them it was very toxic it was very time consuming i busted my ass and just it was not a good situation for me in my family and people like went off on my facebook from my from like other teammates and we're basically like you don't have to be so negative like you don't have to throw the rest of us under the bus lulu is a great company and it's done wonders and if you just sit back and look what actually did for your company and for your family than you would know but you're just you know you're just negative and um basically gas gas lighting me and just maybe like for a long time and i then they started like directly blocking me from their like personal facebook so that's the sisterhood community for you you say one bad thing and you're just sex communicated so love it so anyway that is all for this video i know this is probably a bunch of rambling but i just wanted to give like a overview of what basically why i signed up in the first place and why i recruited and that was because ultimately when it comes down to it i was manic would i would a normal sane bethany who has a wonderful husband a wonderful job happy in her career happy in her marriage happy in her life have signed up to sell lularoe absolutely not no would a manic bethany who has convinced herself that i can run the world and who has people you know whispering and little bugs in my ear telling me don't you want to stay home with your daughter don't you want to be the best mommy can be yeah that's bipolar mania right there bipolar betty is what i call her and she abso lutely would sign up and did so that is all for this video if you like to give it a thumbs up i'm sorry if this one got really long i'm going to try to edit it down but stay tuned i am planning on filming way more talking about um how i was trained to recruit how i trained my downline to recruit how this you know the toxic positivity the toxic sisterhood the gas lighting that was involved with lularoe um the mental health issues when it comes to mlms i just i also want to go into other mlms like i'm not just going to talk about lularoe like i i just wanted to get this out there so people know why i am so against um all mlms all pyramid schemes is because i was extremely negatively affected by it and that's gonna be another video um and yeah so if you like these videos stick around hit that subscribe button it makes me feel good to get new subscribers i know i'm lame but whatever um yeah and join me on this fun times ahead it's gonna be fun um also i will have my instagram linked below if you want to follow me over there i post a lot of anti-mlm things on my stories and yeah that is all for this video if you liked it give it a thumbs up subscribe and i will see you all very shortly in my next video bye

Channel: AntiMLM Bethany

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Keywords: lularoe, pyramid scheme, lulano, mlm, multi level marketing, network marketing, antimlm, anti mlm, social marketing, social networking, kimbyrleigha, deanna mims, kiki chanel, anti mlm movement, arbonne, monat, itworks, plexus, usborne, pyramid, ftc, bipolar, mental health, manic depression, mania, manic, anxiety, cult

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Length: 29min 14sec (1754 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 22 2020