The Wabble

The Walkout | Part 6

DISCLAIMER:

I’m about to share some things here that may make some people pretty angry. There will be no apologies for these truths. 

With that being said, Part 5 is more personal than subsequent Parts of The Walkout. Below, you will read about how my personal world within Rainmakers began to crumble, piece by beautiful piece. You will also read about the hesitations and intuitions I began to feel, but ignored.

To the students, families, and friends my ignorance affected, I am profoundly sorry. I hope that the rest of this series redeems me as I learn how to navigate my own grief, learn to trust my own gut feelings, and make difficult but long overdue choices to help both my family and yours. 

A few things Rainmakers encouraged us to do that in fact, we should not do (according to me):

• Trademark your brand name without a lawyer

• Use zero or low interest credit cards (yes, plural) to fund your purchase of Rainmakers as well as any other expenses incurred

• Stop making double mortgage payments on your home, putting money in a savings account or investing in property and, instead, buy more product to sell on Amazon

• Make sure you have a mere 30% profit margin on your product using a simple profit calculator tool in their app 

• Create and sell any item in the baby industry

• Not taking free advice because you get what you pay for – free generally means low quality

• Don’t worry about high quality branding or packaging, websites or building your own email list 

• Must-have software that costs over $100 per month, even if the data is wrong

• Ignore your reservations about the program because it’s just your mindset that’s holding you back

But the absolute worst thing that we learned from Rainmakers was this:

Don’t trust your own intuition. Trust them instead.