Oct 6, 2026 · 40 min · 12 segments
How do you rebuild your life after 13 years and 6 companies worth of Multi Level Marketing indoctrination? The Dream (we're back!) host Jane Marie talks to former MLM devotee and current anti MLM…
Jane MarieHostOkay, so income disclosure statements are something that are put out by the company.
They basically go into their software, their back office, if you will, and they pull the numbers by rank, by the amount of people, all of that stuff.
... standardization when it comes to this to make it easier for the consumer to say, "Okay, well, you know, 78% of the company is only making 100 bucks a month before expenses?" And that's being very generous.
So there's no standardization when it comes to these income disclosure statements, although they are a really great tool because, in my opinion, these companies really do try to pad the numbers to make it look like, "Oh, this is better.
If a small percentage of people have hit this top rank, you can too." And that's just not how the math in multi-level marketing works.
The FTC did that study of I think it was, like, hundreds, like, 300 or something MLMs, looking at their income, income disclosure statements and l- said to a company, like, to a t- a person, to a T, every single one of them was committing fraud.
fraud.Yeah. Yeah, and that's because the majority of people make money off of having a team.
I mean, inside the income disclosure, they didn't include people who dropped out.
Okay, so income disclosure statements are something that are put out by the company.
They basically go into their software, their back office, if you will, and they pull the numbers by rank, by the amount of people, all of that stuff.
... standardization when it comes to this to make it easier for the consumer to say, "Okay, well, you know, 78% of the company is only making 100 bucks a month before expenses?" And that's being very generous.
So there's no standardization when it comes to these income disclosure statements, although they are a really great tool because, in my opinion, these companies really do try to pad the numbers to make it look like, "Oh, this is better.
If a small percentage of people have hit this top rank, you can too." And that's just not how the math in multi-level marketing works.
The FTC did that study of I think it was, like, hundreds, like, 300 or something MLMs, looking at their income, income disclosure statements and l- said to a company, like, to a t- a person, to a T, every single one of them was committing fraud.
fraud.Yeah. Yeah, and that's because the majority of people make money off of having a team.
I mean, inside the income disclosure, they didn't include people who dropped out.
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