Shady Highlight: Did Robyn Become "LulaRich?"

a personal connection. So when I lived in the first town house, okay, I used to look out my back window and in the house across the street, across the alley, you know, it's like the garage is like backed up

to each other. I could see through this woman's garage that she had, like like it was her garage, but it looked like a store, right, Okay, So wait, all right, so Lula Rich before I tell a story about the lady Lula Riche is a documentary about the company Lula Row, which pretty much is a multi level marketing company that sells leggings. Right, so leggings printed like so they like with all these crazy prints. They're really soft. They're like one size kind of fits all or like certain you know,

I don't know, like um really soft. And they have all these crazy prints, crazy prints, and and and they blew up like their business like blew up exponentially. So they have all these people, mostly white ladies, across the country signing up paying thousands of dollars to get all this Lula Row inventory and to host the party. You know, you host a party, people come, they buy stuff, You

buy more inventory pots. Okay, but it's like it was like a straight Ponzi scheme, right, well, it started, it went. I think it was good. While it was good, I think they grew too fast and too big and then it and then it imploded. So Robin is always trying to get people to benefeit the down. They knew exactly what they were doing and they were there too. Um we have a celebrity guest here and he's looking through

the window. His name one High One, and um, I think he's just come home from work, and U one is We always love one. We love seeing him. Okay. Anyway, back to the story, it was a straight pin it was. It was a straight and way. It was straight. I'm I'm familiar with multi level marketing companies. I've signed up for, you know, to sell jewelry with Tracy Lynn jewelry and stuff like that. So I think you know, when it

goes good, it goes good. And I think they just I think they started off with good intentions and they just got way into over their head. Like I think the wife had good intentions that husband, and he was like I'm trying. He was like, I don't care it. Okay, go ahead, So let me tell you a story about

the lady behind me. Okay. So I would literally like look out my back window and I could see through her garage just like lit those little small windows in the garages, right, and I could see it was like literally she had the ring light, she had carpet and sofa and shelving. It literally looked like a store. And then racks, you know, of all these leggings everywhere, right, So I'm like, what the hell is going away? Oh?

And then I could see her like, you know, talking to a camera holding the leggings up, and she was doing her Facebook stuff, right, so, doing her Facebook live selling the leggings and stuff. And so you know, one day I was talking to her like what is going on here? And let me tell you this woman had five kids, quit her job to sell Lulu row in her garage and she was just try how much money she was making off of these leggings. I even bought a couple from her because they were really soft. They

felt good. Did yours have bananas on them? Or stars? Or I mean that the prints on these leggings are more horrible and I had I had a few prints, but they also had some solid so I got like a solid black solid like light blue, and then I got like a couple of prints, but I think that were the prints. Like once and I was like, WHOA, that'so much. And that was the whole scheme of it. Like they would make a print and they would only make a certain number, so you're like searching for that print,

but you're searching for like elephants or I don't know, lizards. Yeah, it was crazy they made it seeing I don't know, it was there like they played a whole mind trickery. Like I don't want to like y'all just need to watch it and just be amazed by like how it almost it felt very cultish. It felt like they were brainwashed. And I'm telling you, when I watched that document so like so pretty much, you know it was great people

making all this money. They were like, um, the Lula Roe company encouraged people to you know, buy designer bags and nice cars to kind of show off like, oh what selling Lula Row can do for you? So um, so then you know, start everything started going to ship. They've been indicted press the late the couple it's a married couple that that owned the company and run a company. They have been indicted right right they went to travel something. I will say, the business still exists. I did google?

Did you end up googling? So they still have a website and they still exist. So um, you know, they ended up having supply issues. They were, you know, starting to steal people's design, like their their designers felt overwhelmed because they've had to like get out so much, so much stuff. Then they really started I don't see, let me stop giving away everything when I do want to say, I swear one of those people they featured on the show complaining was my neighbor. I swear it was her.

I swear. I can't believe it. I swear it was her. I mean, and then so I feel bad. I'm like, she really quit her job to sell that stuff, and clearly it didn't end up well for her. No, it didn't end up well for any The majority of the people and they were making money. They Okay, so the owners are making billions in the billions and everybody else. You know, if it's a tear, you know, the top

people are getting the most of the money. So if you get in early, you're making like a hundred thousand dollars a month at least, just off of like the people under you. But so and it's the second tier there, they were making like millions. So they they started focusing on recruiting salespeople. And that's where things got really bad because it's like they had all these sales people and then that's when the quality of the product, you know, just slipped away and they got with the product. That's

not how the quality slipped away. Okay, Okay, we're not gonna just watch it, but just know that one of those ladies complaining on Facebook was my neighbor. It was so fascinating to watch though her do that, and I almost contemplated signing up to sell it. I would have. I would have tried selling you some legons. So I do not want like because the next the next like artwork will be like a picture of our faces on the legs, right, or it'll be like r h p

all over it, little cherry blessing, so I thought about it. Ye. We hope you enjoyed that reasonably Shady highlight. You can catch the full episode on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your favorite shows. And we want to hear from you. Get in touch with us on social media at reasonably Shady or send us an email at What's Up at reasonably shady dot com. See you next time, h