Orrin Woodward, Scams, Mona. Vie, Team, and Lies.. Oh My! I apologize in advance for another post about the evils of some multi- level networking scams. A reader alerted me to this this crazy rant by Orrin Woodward saying, “Looks as if your blogs are getting to Mr. ![]() Woodward… I do assume he’s talking about [Lazy Man and Money] and Juice Scam.” After reading the post, I had to agree that it could be directed at me, but it is written generically enough to apply to multiple critics of Team. Needless to say, this particular post has got me more riled up than I’ve been in some time. However, before I get into the post, let me give you a little background on Orrin Woodward and Team. Orrin Woodward and Team. For those who aren’t familiar with Orrin Woodward, consider yourself quite lucky. He’s the chairman and co- founder of an organization called Team. Team sells leadership “tools”, mostly to distributors involved in the Mona. Vie scam that I sometimes write about. However, rather than take my words for it, let me quote what Forbes has to say about Team: Team is one step ahead of all these juice selling schemes. It is a pyramid atop a pyramid. It is selling motivational aids to help Mona. Vie vendors move the juice. But wait. If you can’t earn back the $2. If you’re good, you flog the lectures to other people, who sell them to yet others. Everybody gets rich. Everybody, that is, except the last round of buyers. That’s the theory, anyway. The reality is that a mere 1% of Team members make any money from involvement with the firm. You may have noticed that before the quote, I put “tools” in quotes. Orrin Woodward is quoted in that same as saying, “What I try to give most of all is hope and encouragement.” So he’s selling motivation… motivation to get involved in something that causes people to lose money 9. Forbes article continues: Hope is an expensive commodity. Smart-Serials - Serials for DriverGuide Toolkit unlock with serial key.
![]() Most Team members spend more buying its motivational aids and Mona. Vie’s juice than they ever take in. Roger Lareau, a Michigan alarm company employee, says his wife has rung up $2. Team sales tools and Amway products and is now on to selling Mona. Vie juice. Their marriage has fallen apart as a result. She still thinks Team is going to set her free one day,” he says. This is why I get so riled up with Mona. Vie and organizations like Team. I get a lot of comments from people who share Roger Lareau’s story. It brings debt and destruction to families. With that out of the way, I’d like to address the crazy rant by Orrin Woodward that I mentioned earlier. I’ll break down the post bit by bit and tell you what Orrin Woodward is really trying to say. Some of this may overlap the response by Amthrax about Orrin Woodward’s Coercion Through Edification.)I have spent the last several years studying the scams, schemes, and cons perpetrated on the American masses through the use of coercion. As a Top 1. 0 Leadership Guru, I cannot sit by idly and watch Americans lose their freedoms without speaking up. The mention of the Top 1. Leadership Guru is laughable. If you look at Orrin’s website, there are at least three random blogs with rankings and in some Orrin ranks Top 3. Top 2. 5. The websites aren’t reputable and seem to exist only to publish this list of opinions. If you look at Leadership. Gurus. net for example, the criteria “excluded political, military and business leaders and focused on those practitioners who develop and instil leadership in others… We shortlist 6. Google search for ranking.” So they exclude many natural leaders and then do a Google search (which is biased towards controversial figures like Orrin Woodward) for the ranking. That “Top 1. 0 Leadership Guru” title sure sounds like a lot of bovine excrement. Update: Amthrax breaks down Arthur Carmazzi: The Truth Behind Leadership. Gurus. net, Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady. As suspected, the website is a scam and anyone believing it will likely buy a bridge from you. Next, Orrin Woodward attempts to play the hero by helping protect freedom for Americans. The particular freedom that he wants to protect is the one that causes 9. Forbes’ words remember). That’s the freedom that put Roger Lareau in $2. So protecting freedom for Americans… more bovine excrement. No scam can last unless backed by a monopoly of force/coercion. Looking at Webster’s Dictionary of “scam”, there is nothing tying force or coercion into scam. The definition is, “a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation”, and gives the examples of “1. She was the victim of an insurance scam.” and “2. Neither of these examples have to do with an element of force. Government is the only true monopoly of force available in any society. Coercion requires force, which involves either government intervention or mafia type tactics. Free enterprise businesses, like Network Marketing, cannot be a scam, since people are free to come and free to go, they will simply leave and the scam will collapse. Government scams like social security, income taxes, and fiat money inflation, to name just a few, take advantage of the masses, since the masses are forced to participate against their will, whether their needs are being met or not. Learning and defending American freedoms, against the encroachment of coercive government interventions, has become a key educational plank in my readings, writings and speeches of late. Amthrax said it best here: Coercion Through Edification. Through tapes, CDs and seminars, he plants up two life possibilities in the mind of TEAM members. If you stick with TEAM and follow its principles, you will succeed. If you don’t do what TEAM does, you will fail in life. How is that not coercion through edification and fear?” Orrin Woodward doesn’t seem to be aware of the second definition for coerce according to Webster “to compel to an act or choice.” Coercion does NOT require force For example, everyone has probably witnessed an act of coercion through peer- pressure. In such cases, people are coerced, but clearly are not forced. Thus we note two pieces of bovine excrement here: 1. Scams do require force and 2. Coercion does not require force. Also of note, he tries to bundle Network Marketing under the umbrella of “free enterprise business” to give it an air of legitimacy. Good one. I won’t even go into the idiocy behind his comment about income tax being a government scam. Income tax pays for many of the things that make America great. Of course, if he doesn’t want to pay it, he can take himself and his business elsewhere. Scams coerce participation. If someone attempts a scam, without the power of coercion, it will not last. For example, if someone attempted to sell a property for twice the market rate, perhaps a clueless customer would fall for it, but it couldn’t last as the market will quickly identify the offending party and avoid any business dealing with him…. Many will call Network Marketing a scam, but unless backed by coercion, meaning people are not free to leave, Networking cannot be a scam. Networking has been around for well over sixty years, and scams cannot last that long unless backed by some form of coercion. This is probably the most important part of Orrin Woodward’s post. Since we established above that coercion does not require force, we can look at what coercive forces play into MLMs in general. I’ve talked to thousands of MLM distributors over time, and almost always they point to the business opportunity or compensation plan… not the product. Those distributors will talk about how much money the people at the top of the pyramid make and they’ll never mention that 9. Mona. Vie distributors lose money. These are just a couple of ways that people are coerced by the scam to buy a product that is priced above market price. MLM isn’t someone making a transaction on a product or service as Orrin Woodward tries to present it. It is someone trying to buy into a dream that they’ve been promised is within their reach if only they work hard enough… even though it has been mathematically proven time and again that it is untrue. Mona. Vie lays a couple of levels on the typical MLM scheme. For one, you have top distributors like Mitch Biggs claiming Mona. Vie prevents swine flu, which is highly illegal. Claims like these and thousands of others give the impression that Mona. 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