Money Talks: Selling The American Dream
Jane Marie joins Emily to deep dive on MLMs.
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Show Notes
In this Money Talks: Jane Marie has spent years reporting on the tangled web of multi-level marketing companies, or MLMs, with her podcast The Dream and dives even deeper in her new book, Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans. In this episode, she sits down with Emily Peck to discuss their origins, their appeal to American women, and their extremely questionable business practices.
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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth.
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