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Cami Strella is one of OnlyFans’ biggest stars, earning six figures a month and donating a portion to PTSD clinical research.
Cami Strella
But almost five years ago, Strella was $25,000 in debt and barely surviving under the auspices of a bizarre MLM (multi-level marketing) scheme she described as operating like a rigid cult. rice field.
At one point, Strella was required to become abstinent, labeled a sex addict, and encouraged to see a trauma counselor to cure her.
Strela opened up about her harrowing experience in an exclusive interview entrepreneur Hoping to help others avoid her mistakes.
“This was nothing like being a Mary Kay woman,” she says. was very personal, it was about restructuring and reshaping as individuals.”
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How was the recruitment process carried out?
When Strella was finishing her college bachelor’s degree, her brother approached her about making money on the side by recruiting people to sell products for Amway, a company that makes health and beauty products.
She agreed, not only because she needed the money, but also because she saw it as a way to reunite with her estranged siblings. But what she (and her brother) didn’t know was that she was devoting her life to her slick MLM scheme.
MLM, or network marketing, is a sometimes controversial but legitimate method of selling products and services directly to consumers using independent sales representatives. In this case, Strella undergoes training by a third-party consultancy called the “process” for hiring other sales representatives.
“Every day, I would approach five people and do what they call ‘drop the message,’ which is basically to find out if they are happy with their life and their job,” Strella said. says Mr. “I was trained to seek out the most desperate and vulnerable with the goal of early retirement by hiring enough people to support myself financially.”
If one of her targets expressed dissatisfaction with her life, she would follow up a few days later and set up a coffee date. She is very vulnerable and I have to trust her. “
Eventually, her new hire was encouraged to go to the conference. There, she met with another impressive salesperson who arrived in a flashy car, promising that they too would be wealthy and self-sufficient.
get out of the deep end
Soon, Strella began meeting other successful MLM coaches. She was so impressed that she dropped out of school for her full-time employment.
“When you’re with a millionaire entrepreneur, it’s really dizzying,” she says. “Inspired by all the cars, private her jets, and trips my mentor has participated in, I gave up everything completely to pursue this.”
She was encouraged to start an online store and put $25,000 of her own money into it.
Her training landed her in Seattle, where she lived with a deeply religious couple who preached that yoga was demonic and unmarried sex was sinful.
“I was forced into abstinence,” recalls Strela. “I think these people are rich and they know very rich people, so I think this is the way to do it, so we took it.”
Eight months later, she met a man who accused her of having a sex addiction. They asked her to go to a Christian sexual trauma counselor, which Strela called her “slutty conversion therapy.”
She was given a mandatory list of books to read and CDs to listen to, which always told the same ragged tales of other adherents to the MLM philosophy.
Escape from MLM
Strela gradually began to realize that she was being brainwashed. “It took me a year to really admit and realize that this is actually a cult,” she says.
She moved to the East Coast and readmitted to school for a neuroscientist degree. In 2020, Strella created her OnlyFans channel to pay for her school fees. The channel was so popular that I pursued some of the sales techniques I learned on MLM full-time, but only this time it worked for good.
Strella now donates 10% of her monthly income to raise awareness and funds for mental health, PTSD, and traumatic brain injury (TBI), especially for veterans.
“My whole goal in getting into sex work was to support myself while pursuing something to help others. “We can help hundreds of people a day,” she says.
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