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From April 2015
I wanted to share some of the very disturbing things I witnessed during my time with AdvoCare. Please don’t use my name.
I found the deeply religious overtone of all events very strange. Almost a church like atmosphere, referring to what God told them to do, and how speaking certain things ‘over’ your organization is bad, making a lot of things spiritual or super religious.
This is very uncomfortable, and why are AdvoCare leaders letting this happen? I don’t expect this to happen at my job, why is this any different?
The push to leave your full time job to work AdvoCare full time. As if contributing to society and building a career you love is bad, looked down upon, and talked about in a very negative light. They always presented AdvoCare as the answer to this.
Suggesting its necessary to protect yourself from family members and friends who didn’t believe in what you were doing with AdvoCare.
Suggesting that there was a certain type of person you should be hanging around with. No negativity allowed at all! (what kind of bubble do these people live in?) If they didn’t have a vision for their lives, etc then you should avoid them at all costs.
Trying to control peoples social circle, job choices, religious beliefs etc is not a business to me. Thats not how a muliti-million dollar corporation should be run.
The emphasis on money and wealth! This may be the most repulsive aspect of this company to me. They shamed people who were not comfortable talking about money in a meeting, phone call etc. I hate that! It was thrown around with such ease, and used in such a boastful, prideful way.
Personally I am not about that AT ALL, and thats one reason I have distanced myself from it and them. I am so tired of the money hype!
Its such a strange environment! I would warn people to really be aware about these things and to not get sucked into it. If its your business, treat it like one. Unfortunately a majority of the MLM companies I am familiar with run the same way. I wish it was better, I may have stayed in it.
And yet Another from April 2015
Hi there.
First off thank you for your page. It’s about time the truth was made public!
My wife signed us up as advisors about a year ago and needless to say I was highly skeptical. I have an accounting background and it was impossible to get a straight answer about the business end of it. When it was shown to me, I commented that it looked like a pyramid scheme and of course I immediately put my wife’s mentor on the defensive. At that point I knew I could press her mentor’s buttons and proceeded to do so at every opportunity. For some reason her “mentor” and I never got along. Go figure.
Several things caused me concern. Number one was the God angle. They encourage folks to use that, what a crock. Advocare is about money. God has nothing to do with it. Her Mentor joined bible studies at our church and wore her advocare gear and asked for prayer for her business. She pulled the friendship gambit out and my wife began to hang out with her. That is how she set the hook after getting my wife signed up all I ever heard out of her mentor’s mouth was regurgitation of the Advocare company line and how much money she made. Her mentor moved from one group to another and then to other church groups using this tactic. Christian behaviour? I don’t think so.
Third is the cult-like behavior. While I was stringing her mentor along, she encouraged, or rather told us that we were better off only associating with “like-minded people”. I was told I just hadn’t caught a vision and had to be “all in”. She went on and on about how we had to attend success school. Ah, success school. It was an absolute waste of time and money, if anything, it made me even more convinced that Advocare was a scam. However, the trip wasn’t a total loss. We had some fantastic bbq and tex-mex while we were there and did get to see Cowboys stadium with the added bonus of hearing that numerous members of the mentor’s team skipped her team dinner. Guess they were tired of being bombarded with listening to her brag about how much money she made.
At this point my wife was really sold on their bs and it caused a huge amount of tension at home. My wife was attended many mixers, bom’s trainings and listened to their phone trainings. I decided the only way to ease the tension was to go along. I agreed to be more supportive and just kept my mouth shut. However, one of the concessions was that her mentor and her mentor’s husband were not allowed in our home. Now THAT really caused a storm, but it was effective.
We continued in this vein for awhile and my wife noticed she wasn’t hearing from her mentor much. This goes back to their elitist attitude and the old “what have you done for me lately” adage. If you’re not making them money, you are no longer important to them. I could care less what her mentor thought of me or said about me, BUT she hurt my wife and that really drew my ire to put it mildly.
My wife decided she was done at this point and I seriously considered throwing a party. The tension between us dissipated my wife’s self esteem improved.
Then she decided to give it one last shot and I decided it was best to go along. She went to a bom and came back fired up. She did well enough to qualify for a silver pin and thought she’d be at that level. She discovered the truth, she had to hit that nut every two weeks and that really upset her.
That was the final straw that broke the camel’s back and now we are happily separated from Advocare.
There are some good people involved, but be careful. Bottom line is they want your money and will turn on you the second you leave.
One last thought. Her mentor went on and on about how she and her husband were retired. They both had to go back to work.
Advocare is a scam don’t get sucked in.
Thanks for the Advotruth@yahoo.com page!