A review by beccasllibrary
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson

4.0

An interesting inside look at MLMs, their leadership, why they are built to fail for 99% of people, and the many, many reasons to get out. The fights, passive aggressive messages, and friendship breakups as different people either rose up in the business structure, plateaued, or left altogether was really interesting and fun to watch. The writing style is witty and a lot of personality comes through, it reminds me a lot of Amanda Montel's writing. Watching Paulson struggle to leave is hard, she sees the cracks but just can't turn down the paycheck, and I can understand why that turns some readers away but it's also her story and I can't criticize the book itself for telling that story, I think we feel that frustration alongside Paulson and if you can deal with that for a bit its a good read. Just enough facts to keep it from being a memoir, you will likely learn a lot about MLM structures, but this isn't a deep dive into the economic model. At the end there's a lot of focus on the sober mom's group the author created and I can totally understand celebrating your accomplishments in your own book but it briefly started to feel like an ad break, this is a short part of the book, though. It's a quick, fun read, the audiobook is well-narrated, and I enjoyed my time with it.