From Passion To Disdain: Why I Walked Away From Team Beachbody

The Beginning

On a random Saturday afternoon in the later part of 2011, I was lounging around on my couch still hungover from the debauchery of the night before. I had been in a rebellious phase of my life for several years at this time, and was pretty much immersed in a world of depression, drunkenness, and a general lack of giving a shit about anything. This lifestyle resulted in my health and well being going completely off the rails. I had ballooned to almost 230 lbs (compared to 170/175 lbs in my heyday as an athlete), I was out of shape, I was bloated, my skin looked bad, I regularly looked unkempt, and I had begun to experience a number of health problems ranging from fatigue, to infections, to a weakened immune system causing me to fall ill fairly regularly.

As I lay there on the couch watching TV an infomercial came on promoting a workout program called “Insanity.”  A transitional period in my life was approaching, and I was preparing to find a new place to move to so I could start a new chapter in my life. Despite living the lifestyle I was living, I had at least become conscious of the fact that I was in horrendous shape and needed to do something to kick my ass back into gear before it got any further out of hand. Regular exercise was something I needed badly, so starting a fitness routine seemed like a logical addition to the other changes I was about to make.  Now at this time, it had been several years since I had worked out. Somebody would have been hard pressed to remember that I was once a very naturally gifted athlete. I didn’t really want to join a gym for a number of reasons. I didn’t know how to function in a gym. I had concern that people would judge and ridicule me. I wasn’t sure how to approach putting a plan together, what I should focus on, or what I was supposed to do even if I did join one. And, quite frankly, I just didn’t want the distraction of having to work out around a bunch of other people.

When I saw the results people were getting with this “Insanity” program coupled with the fact that you could do the workouts right in your own home, it naturally got my attention. “That’s exactly what I need!” I jumped on Facebook and posted a status asking my friends if anyone may have tried it or had any feedback. I didn’t get much response, largely because it was still a new program and hadn’t yet ascended to the level of popularity it would eventually see in subsequent years thereafter. I finally had an old high school buddy chime in and say that he was looking into getting it, as well. He then said that if I was serious, he actually knew a guy who worked for a fitness company who would be able to get it for me at a discount. So he put me in contact with him and I ended up buying it from the guy for around $100, which I still thought was expensive, but I was made to believe I was getting a deal.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but this guy was operating as a Beachbody “Coach.” He just wasn’t very good at it. As a matter of fact, he never actually told me that’s what he was doing. I thought he was just a fitness instructor or something of the sort. He made a couple of attempts to contact me afterwards in an effort to convince me to join a small accountability group he was attempting to put together, but I brushed him off every time. I just wanted to do my workout program and be left alone. After awhile, he stopped contacting me and I’ve never heard from him again.

I had the program now, but I was still living with a roommate and had friends coming in and out of the house all the time so I didn’t actually start until a few months later when I moved to another town into a rented house by myself. It was unbelievably difficult and for a long time I had trouble keeping up with the pace of the workouts. I was so incredibly disappointed with how out of shape I was, though, that it caused this massive fire to be lit under my ass for the first time in a lot of years. I came home every day and made no excuses, and allowed no distractions so that I could get my workout in.  “Just do a little better today than you did yesterday.” That’s what I always told myself. A few short months later, in the late part of 2012, I found myself down 50 lbs and feeling better than I had ever felt in my life.

It was an amazing turning point. I had experienced such incredible results that I made a promise to myself that I was never going to go back to being the drunken, out of shape lush that I had allowed myself to become in the years previous. Being fit was going to be my new lifestyle going forward. But then I ran into a new dilemma. “Insanity” is an Interval Training program with intense cardio that is implicitly designed for losing weight rapidly. I loved the program, but I had reached a point where I no longer needed to train like somebody that needed to lose more weight. I had morphed into this super skinny guy that didn’t fit into his clothes anymore and who appeared to not eat enough protein. I did some research and realized I needed to shift gears toward a routine that featured more strength and resistance training so that I could build some muscle.

So, for the first time, I actually made an effort to research the people behind the “Insanity” program. I wanted to see if there could possibly be some different at-home options that would be geared toward strength training. I first looked up the “Insanity” trainer, Shaun T, thinking this was just something he created and was marketing. It turned out, though, that he was actually just one of several “celebrity” trainers that were employed by an entity known as Beachbody, LLC. I found their website and saw my excitement level rise as it turned out Beachbody had a number of other programs available of varying styles. So many more options I could do at home! I could change things up, but still keep my routine in tact!

The next BeachBody program that peaked my interest was a weight lifting program that went under the title “Body Beast.” This one was created by another “celebrity” trainer in former competitive body builder, Sagi Kalev. I held off from getting it right away, because if you wished to do it at home, it involved the additional purchase of a set of dumbbells and either a bench or stability ball. But while I was getting my ducks in a row to get my equipment and order the program from the website…….an unexpected person entered my life and introduced me to a network that would re-shape my identity for the next two years.

When Worlds Collide

Most people are aware that I am a huge fan of hard rock and metal music. If you happen to be a subscriber to Sirius XM radio, then you are probably aware that the best station to find new music in this genre is on Octane (Channel 37). The on-air personality during the afternoons on Octane is a long time radio DJ by the name of Kayla Riley, who was based out of New York City. I was a fan and followed Kayla on social media to get updates on music and the station.

On one particular afternoon in the summer of 2014 I was scrolling Facebook and saw a post from Kayla that featured a picture of non-other than the “Body Beast” program. She was promoting the fact that she was about to start this program. I thought it a little odd that she was posting this on her fan page, as it didn’t really align with her career or the music world in any way. But I thought it was pretty badass that Kayla Riley was going to do the same program I wanted to do. I clicked underneath and made the briefest of comments on her post that I was looking forward to getting that program, as well. Kayla has thousands of followers and always got hundreds of replies on all of her posts, so I just wrote it and then moved on not thinking anymore of it. A short time later, a notification popped up. Kayla had actually replied to me. “Hi Andy. We should do the program together. Send me a DM and we can talk about it.” I didn’t really understand what she was getting at, but I thought “Holy Shit! Kayla Riley just asked me to message her! I guess I’ll see what she’s talking about. If anything it will be cool just to chat with her for a bit.”

I sent her a DM through Facebook Instant Messenger and she was quick to reply. She told me that she was looking for some accountability for the program and wanted to put together an online group where the participants could follow the program and then check in with each other daily to make sure everyone was staying on track. This seemed like a bit of an odd concept to me, but I agreed just because I thought it would be cool to have Kayla as a friend and be able to stay in touch with her. But then, she dropped an even stranger twist into this whole scenario. “I’m a Beachbody Coach,” she says. “So you can go ahead and order the program through me and it’ll be shipped out to you so we can set a start date.” Wait…..a Beachbody Coach? Kayla was a fitness coach? I enjoyed her as a DJ, but she most certainly didn’t come off as somebody who would be qualified to be a fitness coach. In reality, this was the first of many “red flags” that I failed to take into account because I was blinded by the fact that I was getting the time of day from a famed rock radio personality.

Naturally, I inquired as to what a “Beachbody Coach” was. She told me that she loved the Beachbody programs so much that she had signed up as a representative of the company so that she could help others use them and get the same results. Now clearly, this does not in any way qualify her to actually identify herself as being a fitness coach. But she seemed passionate about the programs and I realized that “coach” was just a word they used to identify their independent distributors. I didn’t really care who I got the program from, just as long as I got it, so I agreed to buy it through her. Then came another missed “red flag”……

A switch flipped in Kayla. She flew into full blown sales mode. Before she would send me the link to sign up as her customer so I could order “Body Beast”, she began to pitch to me an entirely different product called “Shakeology.” This is a nutritional supplement in the form of a shake that is also manufactured by Beachbody. I would later learn that this particular product is the core basis for the entire Beachbody company. Not workouts. Shakeology. Kayla informs me she has been drinking Shakeology for a year or so and that it’s the absolute best thing on the market for your nutritional health. She rattled off a lengthy list of benefits I could get from it and then proceeded to inform me that I could bundle the workout program together with Shakeology for a significantly discounted price just so I could try it.  I was hesitant but finally gave in and told her I’d give it go to see if I like it. $140 later, I had officially signed up with Kayla and my order was on it’s way. What she failed to tell me was that when you sign up to get Shakeology you are automatically placed on an “auto-ship” option.

Thirty days later, I received another bag of Shakeology in the mail and found that I had been charged another $140 for this shipment. This greatly upset me. I contacted Kayla and asked why I had received another bag in the mail when I never ordered one. She spun a line at me claiming that she thought she told me it would renew every thirty days, to which I replied that….no, she didn’t. (“Red flag”). I took her word that she had simply made an oversight and forgot to tell me. So I let it go. She tried to talk me into keeping it, but I resisted and promptly went online myself and cancelled it. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t want to pay such an expensive price for it and I knew that I didn’t need it as I had already gotten terrific results from working out without the use of any expensive nutrition supplements.

Kayla and I went back and forth in our own little accountability group while doing the “Body Beast” program. She ended up falling way behind because there were several days that she didn’t workout. Her excuses ranged from her schedule being too busy, or not feeling well, to claiming she needed to “listen to her body” and take a break. At the end of the program, I shared my results with her. I didn’t see the same kind of dramatic change that I saw after doing “Insanity,” but it was pretty clear that I had gained some muscle and I was pleased. She took my before and after pics and plastered them on her page for the whole world to see. It made me feel amazing that one of my favorite rock DJs was giving me such personal recognition on her own public forum. Despite sharing my success, she displayed disappointment with her own results. She skipped a lot of days, and didn’t even finish the program, so it naturally wasn’t a shock to me she didn’t see any change. I bit my tongue and just offered my encouragement.

Chasing the Dream

During this time, I was working at a job that was only paying me about $33,000/yr. I was also commuting nearly two hours a day to get there and back which added up in the gas money department. I liked the company I worked for, but I ended up hating the job I was actually hired to do. I was also immensely unhappy with what I was being paid and was having trouble making ends meet. In reality, I had grown increasingly frustrated with Corporate America as a whole. I hated every job I’d ever had since college and began to give up hope that I was ever going to find a corporate position that was going to make me happy. So I began to explore other ways to make money, and even began to contemplate a potential career change.

Kayla had been made privy to the unhappiness in my professional life during one of our earlier conversations. She had asked me a lot of “FORMing” questions, which is a method of feeling somebody out and gathering information on them. When we were done with our accountability group, she pounced. She offered me a chance to sign up as a BeachBody Coach and to become an official member of her team. She told me that the worst case scenario is that I would get a discount on products and I could make enough money to at least get Shakeology shipments for free. But the best case scenario would be that I could make enough income to quit my job and build the life of my dreams. Well, that certainly struck a chord! I immediately wanted to learn how it was possible to make that much money. The idea of working from home while doing something I was passionate about sounded like a welcome opportunity to make a change in my professional life.

She gave me the greatest hits rundown of how to make money as a Coach. She explained that the coaching side operated as a separate entity from Beachbody and went under the moniker of “Team Beachbody” and that they identified as an MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) company. I had absolutely no idea what an MLM company was at this time. To begin making money I had to purchase enough product to stay “active” (aka stay on Shakeology auto-ship to which she makes a continuous commission off me) and that I then had to sign up other coaches/distributors on two different legs under me and then teach them how to recruit coaches under them. Eventually a big pyramid is formed and the activity off all the coaches under you racks up volume points that cycle up to the top in the form of commissions pay outs. The more coaches you sign up, the higher the volume points get, and the higher volume points get the higher your cycle bonus checks get.

I loved the idea of being able to work as a business “partner” with Kayla Riley of Sirius XM. I viewed this as an opportunity that God was putting in front of me and was hoping that it could potentially lead to other professional opportunities in the world of music or fitness. It sounded too good to be true. (“Red Flag”).

It was.

To sign up as coach, there is a $40 fee. However, they will waive that fee if you agree to purchase another bundle with a new workout program and Shakeology. This is, of course, what Kayla encouraged me to do. (“Red Flag”). I was inspired at this point. Hopeful enough that I had found a trusted ally in Kayla, so in October of 2014 I drank the Kool-aid and signed up as a coach (another $180).

She took me under her wing and began putting me into training seminars and having me read books and other study materials. I was to cleanse my social media sites and begin strategically promoting myself as a coach. 3 posts a day at minimum that would invoke interaction out of people so I could start conversations and identify potential prospects. The most sacred thing among Beachbody Coaches that was shoved down my throat on a near daily basis…..the 3 Vital Behaviors:

1. Invite, Invite, Invite – I was to invite no less than 3-5 people a day to look at Beachbody and the coaching opportunity. And that was viewed as the bare minimum. People that were declared serious invited 20-30.
2. Be a product of the product – I had to be doing the workouts. But most importantly, I had to be drinking Shakeology. If I wasn’t drinking it, how could I pitch it to somebody else? And if I wasn’t selling Shakeology, I was going to fail. It is attached to everything in the Beachbody world.
3. Personal Development – Spend 15-30 minutes a day reading or taking in some form of personal development. This was pushed in order to continuously keep coach morale at the highest level possible.

It was also made quite clear that if I wanted to be serious about this business, that I HAD to attend events. This meant a quarterly Super Saturday event (each of which I had to buy a ticket for) and the annual Beachbody Summit Convention which was staged in Nashville, TN. This cost several hundred dollars in the form of weekend tickets, lodging, food/drinks, and entertainment. There were a number of other training events through out the year that were pushed on coaches, as well.

If I signed up enough people in the month I could also ascend to a level called “Success Club”, which you achieved by gathering points that accompanied people’s program and Shakeology purchases upon sign up. With enough SC points you could earn prizes and “win” a place at the annual Success Club vacation, usually some exotic beach location like Cancun or Punta Cana. I use the term “win” very loosely because in reality this was a big lie. The qualifications were so minimum that almost anybody could qualify. In reality, there were only about 2,000 spots (for upwards of 400,000 coaches) and your only real goal was to try and reserve a spot before it filled up (which only took about 30 minutes). Then if I signed up enough people they would chip off some of the cost of the trip. Most people still end up paying for it. And it didn’t have anything to do with how well you performed as a coach. Hell, I got invited to go on the 2015 trip to Cancun and I hadn’t even sold a thing yet. Kayla just let me go with her. Top coaches got excluded simply because they didn’t sign up fast enough. It pissed people off who felt they had earned the right to go but got left out. It was ridiculous and embarrassing.

After working for several months, Kayla came to view me as a leader on the team. I had signed up a lot of people and was very active in all the team activities. We had a good friendship for a little while. Or so I thought it was a friendship. She invited me to stay with her and have backstage access at the 2015 Rock on the Range festival which was incredibly fun. We were always in regular contact with each other.

Questions Arise

Despite having had some fun, I began to get frustrated with being a part of the team. The only thing anybody ever seemed to want to discuss was how to recruit more people. How to better sell the opportunity. All of our team meetings became focused on how to find more prospects to invite to be a coach. The fitness aspect of it had gotten completely lost in the shuffle, and that was my favorite part. I felt like I was the only person on the team that was actually working out and keeping myself in shape. That’s what I wanted to post about, helping people get healthy. I kept everything upbeat and full of energy to inspire people to want to work out. But the team only wanted to post and promote the “business opportunity.”

Kayla’s upline coach, a guy by the name of Paul, had also began to make it a habit of messaging me to check in about how many people I was signing up. It all began to get incredibly irritating. I didn’t have anything against him, but Paul was nothing like me. We had next to nothing in common, and I didn’t really want him contacting me all the time trying to give me advice I never asked for. My goals and methods for signing people up were not on par with his, or Kayla’s. I was a super high energy person and wanted to believe that what I was doing was promoting my fitness results and offering to help people get fit and be healthy, and in turn this would lead to me making money. I wanted that to be the inspiration. But as Kayla signed up more and more people the focus of the team wasn’t about health and fitness anymore. It was about recruiting other coaches and how to make more money. That’s it. Everything was tied to financial success. It started to feel like a corporate job all over again, and I began getting skeptical about how truthful and viable this “opportunity” really was.

By the end of 2015, I was getting ready to move up to a “Diamond” ranked coach. Kayla was still only a “Diamond” rank and she had been coaching for like 3 years. The only reason she was able to stay afloat was because she exploited her position as a Sirius XM radio personality to get her fans to sign up with her. I thought that was pretty damn unethical myself, but I never actually said that to her face. I wasn’t the only person, by a long shot, to convey these feelings. She was never very motivating in terms of getting people to actually work the business. I was one of the few that was actually putting legitimate effort into it. I was messaging and inviting people everyday. I was attending live calls and training and promoting myself aggressively. At the end of 2015, I probably had 12-13 coaches signed up directly under me and I had sold enough product to hit Success Club nearly every month. I spent all the money to attend Summit and every Super Saturday event. I was basically working a second full time job trying to make this work. I thought I was doing great.

The Ugly Truth is Revealed

Now, of course, if you are making commissions from Beachbody you have to report this as income at tax time. I made a few thousand dollars of commissions. So clearly this had to be taxed when I filed my return the next year. When it was all said and done, I ended up OWING a significant chunk of money back to the government for the previous tax year. This had never happened to me before. I had never not gotten a refund. This raised the first significant red flag that I actually paid attention to.

“I’ve been doing this coaching gig for almost 2 years and have supposedly made thousands of dollars of extra income, but I am in no way financially better off than I was when I started.”

In reality, I was actually worse off as I had accumulated even more debt during this time and was forced to defer some loan payments.

I began doing the math and a gut-wrenching financial portrait began to reveal itself. With the monthly fee, the monthly auto-ship of products to keep me active, and the cost of new programs, events, tickets, and everything else I was told I had to do to remain in “active” status and keep my rank…..coupled with the tax hit I took when I filed my return……not only had I NOT made any money, I was in the red! By a lot! I had taken a couple of thousand dollars worth of a LOSS. All of my money went right back to Beachbody and to Uncle Sam. I sat there in stunned silence at my kitchen table after I got done figuring up the numbers. The first thought that entered my head after I gathered myself was….

“This is a scam. These people are crooks. I can’t believe I fell for this.”

I had been taken. I felt used. Just another person they could profit off of. I felt dirty because I had talked other people into buying into the pyramid. People that I loved and was close to. Family and dear friends. I was taking their money and my money and filtering it right up to the people at the top of the pyramid. I was angry and embarrassed. A pyramid scheme. I let myself get roped into a fucking pyramid scheme!

The hilarious part is, Team Beachbody has a specific rebuttal that you are supposed to offer anyone that might reject your invite because they convey their own suspicions that it might be a pyramid scheme. “Pyramid Scheme’s are illegal. They offer no product or service of any kind whereas Team BB offers a product.” This is bullshit. Beachbody offers a product. TEAM BEACHBODY does not. With Team Beachbody the only thing they are interested in selling is the opportunity to join the business. That’s not a product. The coaches at the very top earn commissions for recruiting others and forcing them to stay active. That’s it. They profit off you and the coaches under you, not from selling products. They simply disguise this by attaching a mandatory product purchase to each recruit which is how they skate around the legality issue.

Ethical issues aside. There is no money to be made for any new coach, anyway. None. The market is grossly over saturated and there are too many people in the pyramid now. The only people that make any semblance of an income are the ones that got in at the very beginning. The ones at the top of the pyramid.

The only way this should possibly be legal is to only offer commissions for product sales and that’s it. Profiting off people you recruit underneath you in a down-line pyramid structure by forcing them to buy products and other things to stay “active” is unethical and wrong. Promoting false claims of income that can be made, is wrong. This business is designed to screw people over. The tactics are illegal and most coaches end up quitting or go inactive once they realize they’ve been lied to. The overwhelming majority of coaches end up losing money in the end.

I didn’t resign as a coach right away, but I immediately ceased being active and cancelled all orders. I stopped working the business and participating in any team activities with Kayla or anybody else. I took the time to research MLMs as a whole before I ultimately pulled the plug for good. The revelations I found were horrifying.

SCAM

Shortly after this time, I watched a documentary on Netflix entitled “Betting On Zero.” The film details hedge fund titan Bill Ackman’s billion dollar bet to try to short-sell the stock of Herbalife, a nutrition and weight loss company that also operates as an MLM. His goal was to expose them as being the largest illegal pyramid scheme in known history. In the film, it was proven that the overwhelming majority of Herbalife distributors lost money (in some cases crippling amounts). It was shown that the chance of actually making anywhere close to the stated amount of income in testimonials was 1 in 5,000, and that the company materially overstated the value of a distributors retail sales and undervalued the rewards for recruiting. It was also proven that any monetary benefits that Herbalife distributors claim is “primarily obtained from recruitment rather than the sales of goods and services to consumers.” It was estimated that distributors in the bottom levels of the overall pyramid had suffered net losses of over $3.5 billion dollars. These were losses that were suffered by vulnerable people who couldn’t afford it, and who were suckered into it with false claims of dreams and riches that could be had.

The result: Herbalife was investigated by the FTC and was found to be in violation of the FTC Act. An agreement was reached and Herbalife was ordered to pay $200 million in a settlement. They also sent partial refund checks to all distributors. Most importantly, they were ordered to immediately restructure their business model so that the only way a distributor can be paid is from actual retail sales of products, and that no monetary gain can be had from recruiting other distributors.

This documentary blew my mind. I sat there with my mouth hanging open and just thought, “Team Beachbody has this exact same identical business model! How is it that Herbalife gets nailed, but Beachbody can still operate freely as an MLM?!” In truth, every single MLM in existance operates with this business model. All of them. The only difference is that some require that you buy inventory up front, and others simply require a business fee to be paid so that product can be drop shipped. That’s it, everything else is identical. Product based pyramid schemes.

I am under the firm belief that all MLMs should be declared illegal and shut down. If you happen to be a part of one, I know this whole post may have been a gut punch. But it’s the truth. I speak from experience and hours of research. If you don’t believe me, do some research for yourself. You’re gonna be disappointed with the findings, I promise. My advice to you is to immediately separate yourself from any further involvement before it’s too late.

Walking Away

In the summer of 2016, I submitted my coach cancellation and formerly resigned from Team Beachbody. I also ordered them to remove me from all email and mailing lists and to cease any and all communication with me going forward. I personally contacted all of the coaches that I signed up and advised them I was quitting and gave them my reasoning for doing so. I apologized for getting them involved, and made the recommendation that they quit too.

The saddest part is, I really loved the workouts. A lot of them are highly effective, and can provide great results. I was immensely passionate about them for about 4 years. My whole experience has left such a horrendous taste in my mouth, though, that I won’t even go near the workouts anymore. I packed all my programs away and now they just sit gathering dust in a closet somewhere. It is an absolute crime that they have to be attached to the atrocity and fraud of an MLM company.

Kayla and Paul got my cancellation request. They got upset with me for not telling them I was quitting. I was sent some nasty messages calling me a back stabber for not coming to them first. I was called a liar and a failure. Telling me I couldn’t cut it and how I had betrayed them and that I was a terrible person for turning my back on them. I was completely slandered and painted as a villain. It was unbelievably childish and hurtful. They should have been ashamed of themselves. Paul, in particular, sent me messages to the point of me having to borderline threaten him in order for him to leave me alone.

I am a Christian man with a good heart. I’m only trying to do the right thing and I attempted to explain to them that I felt what I was doing as part of an MLM was wrong. But they didn’t want to hear my reasons for quitting. They just viewed it as money lost and a ranking lost. That’s all they cared about.

The Aftermath

All the so-called “friends” I made with Team Beachbody stopped speaking to me. Many of them unfriended me from social media. I didn’t matter anymore to them. Some friends, right? It very much reminded me of a cult. I was no longer drinking the Kool-Aid, so I was excommunicated. The ones that didn’t unfriend me I had to hide their feeds because all they posted about was Beachbody. I couldn’t stand seeing it anymore. Finally, late last year I made the decision to cleanse myself of things and people that didn’t add any value to my life. I unfriended the majority of the rest of them knowing that I was never going to talk to them again. A small exception of 4-5 people that actually took the time to get to know me on a personal level and that I have stayed in touch with no judgement are all that remains. Some of them have since quit themselves.

These days I have since moved on to another job that I enjoy and in which I am making a lot more money. I’ve paid off all the debts I incurred while coaching. As for fitness? I have adapted to becoming a gym rat and train 6 days a week at a hockey training facility nearby called the Fuel Tank. I have packed on a ton of muscle with my weight back up to a healthy 200 lbs, but with only 17% body fat. Real results from real hard work! I still love fitness, and I’ll never stop trying to get to the next level!

I don’t regret starting Beachbody workouts. They did a lot for me and got me into the fitness lifestyle. But they aren’t sustainable for the long term. With my knowledge now, I only recommend that they be used as a transition workout in order to move you into an overall healthy lifestyle before then making appropriate adjustments.

I DO regret ever allowing Kayla, from whom I have since also cut off all communication from, to con me into signing up as a coach. She used me solely for her gain and I can’t say I have much respect for her anymore. She doesn’t even realize she is losing a lot of fans by continuing to associate herself with this other world. I have personally spoken to several other people who came to me for advice after I quit who are no longer very fond of Kayla Riley. It’s a shame that she didn’t turn out to be the person I was hoping she would be. It’s a common tale, but still one that you hope never happens when you put your trust in somebody. I don’t even really like hearing her voice on the radio anymore, which is terrible to say, but it’s true.

It has been a long, bumpy journey. But it’s an important story, and it’s one people need to hear. MLMs are an exploitative, fake, deceiving, life sucking, money stealing, economy draining, evil industry and they need to be exposed. All of them.

If you’ve been effected by one. I encourage you to speak out. So that it doesn’t happen to someone else.

God bless.