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I am a current distributor with Advocare. I will not renew. I have lost weight, I have had friends lose weight, I’ve made a decent amount of extra money. But I could no longer shake the strange feelings I got at these Mixers and meetings.
At mixers I have heard so many lies (That I knew were lies by fact). I went to the events and I got really excited. They know how to get you really pumped up and inspired.
My upline was my biggest problem. They speak about being positive all the time, which is great, who doesn’t want to be positive. But they are creepy positive and will contact you via text message to tell you that a status update you have is kinda negative and to take it down. They will tell you not to update when you are sick with a cold, and never update that you want a nap or you are drinking coffee.
They say never to be seen wearing your advocare logo eating any kind of junk food. It is so much like a dictatorship and it’s kinda scary.
I fell in love with spark, I felt amazing and loved the taste. All I paid attention to was the key ingredients and the way I felt. I then learned much more and did more research to find out what I was drinking wasn’t so healthy after all. It truly does feel like a cult.
They will be your best friend and hang around you only as long as you are doing Advocare. If you stop or have no interest they will push you aside and find someone new.
It’s all about the money! They become so consumed with Advocare that it almost feels like their brains have been reprogrammed. I’ve met many that are far from positive. They are smug and seem entitled. Lots of bragging also. you’ll hear it all.
They will brag about the Doctors and the endorsers and tell you advocare is in almost every NFL locker room. They all have their 30 second story that they spit out almost every day like a script.
Join Advocare if you want fake friendships, lies, and nagging behavior from your upline because they want you to make them money (or as they call it, “Help change your life!”).
When you don’t do what they tell you to do you are “Making excuses”. If you don’t pay $165 to go to success school you “Don’t want it bad enough and are making excuses to not go”
Anytime I’m around it, I feel like I’m in a nut house because they are so blinded now, there’s no turning them back because $$$$ keep them sucked in.
If you say you want a career or a real job they look at you like you are crazy because you won’t have the freedom they have. Truthfully that is a load of crap by the way. They are always on 3-way calls saying the exact same thing for each and every call. They are at mixers, meetings, events in Texas, more calls, more meetings and even meetings on incentive trips.
Lives become completely consumed and many of them are taking supplements and energy drinks all day long. In the future they are going to find out just how much damage they are truly doing with all these “healthy” items.
They seem to have a hard time accepting that this is not for everyone and once you don’t accept it, you are no longer their friend. It’s a mental shit storm. You’d be surprised what some of these team groups talk about and tell you what to do and what not to do.
Also, on Facebook, you are told to never have an opinion about anything ever and don’t post your opinions. If it’s not about “advocare” or working out. It’s not considered “Positive”. If you also ever see anyone opening up a spark in front of you and putting it into a water bottle they are told to do this to get people around them to ask about it. Just wanted to point that out
From March 2015
I got into AdvoCare at the urging of one of my best friends (at the time). We had a good group of friends and nobody else seemed interested in AdvoCare. She completely cut the rest of our friends out of her life, and I had only heard from her when it was to discuss AdvoCare. Come to find out, she was actually being TOLD by someone in our up-line to not waste time on friendships with people who aren’t interested. And to talk to your friends who DO sign up only as much as you have to for your business purposes. Her time was only to be spent on finding new people to buddy up with and get them signed up. “You are giving up a little bit now to get a lot later.” is what she was being told. And she would even regurgitate this exact phrase when she would decline plans with our friends.
I continued giving the business the ole’ college try, but made a mental note to myself to not behave like her. That May, there was some event in a neighboring state and my friend asked me if I was going to go. I told her no – my Aunt and Uncle live in Florida during the winter months and they were coming back for the summer that same weekend. I had plans with them. So I get a call not from my friend, but from someone on my team WHOM I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW, telling me that I need to cancel my plans with my Aunt and Uncle and go to this event, because “spending time with your family won’t pay the bills”?! EXCUSE YOU?!? I told her I value my family and the time I get with them, and if I’m going to get flack for putting my family first, I’m not going to bother with this business. She quickly lightened up after I said that, and just asked that I attend the next event.
AdvoCare likes to make it seem like their pin levels are a consistent cash flow. Meaning, they like to say that at the Silver level, you earn $1,000/month, Ruby you earn $5,000/month, etc. I wasn’t in it long enough to hit even the lowest pin level but I was told to tell people that I make “between $500-$700/month”. I didn’t want to tell people that I made that much – it wasn’t even remotely truthful. But I was told that I need to “paint a vision” of AdvoCare, and “show people what their lives could be like” with it. So basically, I was asked to flat-out lie to family and friends about my income. Couldn’t do it.
A good friend of mine got into the business with me and after awhile, he decided it wasn’t for him – he was going to return the products in his Adviser order and get his $$ back for unopened products (you are told that you can return products within one year of purchase). I’m going to have to get all of the facts from him but he had to argue, tooth and nail, to get his money back for over $1,000 worth of product. I’ll ask him to tell me that story again and send it to you once I have all of the facts.
I know I am going to think of more things – these are just the first things that come to mind.
Lucky for me, I kept my respect for friends and family as first priority, and didn’t lose any relationships throughout my dealings with this company. AdvoCare is really, REALLY good at suckering people in, and if you don’t keep your cool about it, you’ll wind up alienating people you are supposed to care about. It’s so sad.
One more thing I thought of is the uber-patronizing way that I was spoken to when my up-line didn’t feel that I was being active enough in the business. “Can I share with you what’s on my heart? I’m concerned that you don’t have a crystal-clear purpose in this business. Can you remind me of why you are doing this business, in the first place? I just need to know.”
I got those nuggets from a couple of different people when I would do things like, put my grad school homework before attending a pep rally…put my wedding planning before my Advocare “business”…leave it alone if people said they said they weren’t interested…I was made to feel like a total slacker if I didn’t make AdvoCare the center of my existence. Weirdos.