Reddit reviews Get Over Your Damn Self: The No-BS Blueprint to Building a Life-Changing Business

I'm working on my audiobook narration career, and one of the homework assignments by my coach was to pick a book, preferably in my demographic, preferably business or self-improvement, to practice narration with. I went on Amazon and found the book Get Over Your Damn Self: The No-BS Blueprint to Building a Life-Changing Business. I did no further research into it, blind buying it, as I have a small biz that I thought I could maybe use this book for.

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It ended up being for MLMs - Rodan and Fields, in fact. I wish I had read the synopsis before I spent money on this book! But I persevered, thinking I could use *some* aspects of the book for my own small biz. Nope. I got just about halfway through before I had to put it aside. I couldn't even continue it as practice. So many predatory practices I was just offended. One of the exercises was to make a list of like 20 different people you could approach: like the barista where you get coffee every day, the woman you see at the grocery store every week, your kid's coach, your pastor's wife. Part of the solution was to practice a very short 30-second "speech" that you would give to your victim in a rush to convince them to either buy or join your team.

You know, R+F isn't terrible product-wise, but I'm not sure what their compensation plan is like...

> I've asked what supporting her means, and she says "not talking bad about it", which I do.

This is exactly what my mom used to say. "Just don't talk bad about it." But what constituted a neutral conversation about it was always a moving target. Sometimes you just have to fake positivity and interest, even if it kills you.

I'd be curious if your girlfriend specifically wants to do R+F because of her sister, or if she'd be open to other MLM companies with better compensation plans (i.e. if it's the MLM lifestyle that appeals to her)? Depending on the answer there, you can find a couple avenues for conversations about what she would consider "success", and how long she's prepared to try MLM full-time before finding another source of income. If she wants to be platinum-qualified like her sister...well, good luck. I'm betting her sister took quite a few years to get to that point. She should find out if her sister has any support network systems that she offers (like conference calls, etc) for her "down line", and get in on those, because her sister doesn't make money unless the people underneath her do, usually. That might give her a boost up in starting.

If she just doesn't want to really hustle and "work the business" (my mom's term, ugh), though, and just wants a ready-made passive source of income without the slog of cold calling and networking and displays at markets etc, there's no way she's going to make enough money to survive off MLM. And at that point you need to sit down and figure out how invested you are in the relationship.

Also, I'm not sure how helpful she would find this book, but I used to work with a member of the family of the author and in the past three years the family has done...very well for themselves...to say the least. I swear on my cat's nine lives I have no incentive or profit motive to encourage you to buy the book, but she might see it as you being supportive and give you a little leeway! Or she might be angry, in which case Amazon has free returns for Prime members...I've never read it, but the reviews seem fairly positive.