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To me it felt pushy & I felt uncomfortable, I’m not sure if I felt uncomfy bc of an individual above me or not but it didn’t feel like the family you are promised when you sign up. It’s expensive to sign up to start with & not easy to make money from it. You have to spend all your free time trying to sell to people then when you can’t sell it’s almost like you’re in trouble. Very clicky, like if you can sell & make the other person money then it’s sunshine & rainbows but if not then it’s like you aren’t even there. You have to have an aesthetic feed & post alot & post a million stories. Plus the zoom meetings are constantly happening. I didn’t like cold messaging people & pushing products on my family & making them guilt buy the products. Just to say a few words haha

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I never joined any MLM before, but I was always harassed by girls to join one- specifically MONAT. I’m grateful I could see right through their “biz” and know that it wasn’t worth my time and the hype isn’t actually what they make it out to be. I actually kind of made ‘friends‘ with this one girl, who was pressuring me into joining. She would take the time to message me and ask about my school and personal life, swiped up on my stories and tried to make personal conversation. Eventually I got a message from her saying “now is the time for you” and I was like no. It is not. I’m in school full time and absolutely love what I am doing. Even without being in the “biz”, I could see that it was bs. Free car, free trips to tropical islands.. yeah, right. After standing my ground for longer than a year, this girl unfollowed me lol. Clearly she was trying to make a personal friendship with me so that I would feel inclined to join. Im glad I never joined!

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I was fortunate to never be in one but I have celiac disease and have been targeted by monat girls in particular because celiac often makes your hair fall out so of course they were always on me to sell! I just see so many girls getting pulled in and it’s so sad

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In April of 2019, I decided to join a Multi-Level Marketing business. My initial reason for starting was friendship and having a little extra income while I was attending university. I was sent a hair consult and was told which pack would be best suited for my hair type (which at the end I was told that this was the wrong product for me but rather just the standard pack that they assign to all beginners no matter the hair type). From there, I spend over $200 just to start the company. I continued to spend endless hours responding to hundreds of texts from groupchats, messaging friends and strangers trying to coax them into this business, and spending more money on products to try and build up my own PV. I did not like who I was becoming in this business as I was starting to become conceded and only cared about making my money back. I feel as though I lost and hurt so many people in my life in doing this as I began to become pushy with friends and family just to make that PV. When I started slowing down on social media and “working the business” to focus on school and my life around me, I was basically told that this business should come before my future career, life, and should be my top priority. Since I was not making any money myself, that meant that my up-line was no longer making money off me. Because of this I would receive harassing messages, threatened of being unsuccessful in the business, exclusion from group chats, girls gossiping about my failing business and much more. The constant pushy-ness of the business was overwhelming to the point where my health began to suffer along with relationships. Looking back, I wish that I had never joined. There was NO sense of community or friendship unless I was making the people above me money.

I decided in the fall of 2019 that enough was enough and I left the company BUT not until I paid to leave. Yes, you read that right, you have to pay BIG bucks to enter the company just to pay more money to leave at the end. This “side hustle” and the “boss babes” out there are a joke. The things that they promise you, will not come true unless you lose a lot for example, there is no free car, you still have to make payments from your OWN account— however MONAT will give you a small allowance to help pay for the car, AS LONG AS YOU CONTINUE TO RANK UP. If you don't, you lose that allowance and an expensive ass car becomes your problem.

I would like to believe that some MLMs are not this way but rather it is just the people within those MLMs that make this experience awful. However with my own experience, it wasn’t one or the other, it was all of it that made my short-lived time with an mlm unbearable.

To the people who are looking into getting into MLMs, I wish that you do your research and reach out to individuals who had been a part of the business— ask them why the business didn’t work for them. If you are asked to join and feel unsure or feel in your gut that something is wrong, TRUST YOUR GUT. I wish I trusted my gut as I was putting in my credit card information, but I didn’t and now this is a learning experience for all.