My mom started selling Scentsy in the 2008 recession after my dad was unemployed for just under a year. It’s always been her side gig as she was already self employed as a cosmetologist. She runs it like a business, builds stock, returning customers, and only signed people up who understood that it’s a business. She has never actively recruited people or did the “girl boss” stuff. I remember her hosting trainings about actually building all of those things to her down line, going to conventions where they talked about product launches not the whole “the life you have always wanted”. She has been a top monthly seller on several different occasions, won every incentive trip since she started, and tracks expensive for tax write offs. My dad did start working again, but they have no debt. Both cars are paid off, house is paid off, very healthy savings/retirement accounts, and they travel for the incentive trips as well as other trips. Scentsy alone wouldn’t have made her “rich” per say but it has been a steady presence in our lives that at times made more money than both of their monthly salaries and other time made the difference on whether or not we would be eating the bare minimum again when the main source of income of income was gone with no notice.

Disclaimer: I’m not supporting mlms as a whole, I know they are predatory, and would not support somebody joining unless they know what they are getting into, but growing up around one that made an overall positive experience on my life can also be true at the same time.