Awakend reboots with new execs

Sol Folks emerged a few fortnight in the past. On the time all we knew was Sol Folks was an Awakend reboot, headed up by co-CEOs Ashlee Headlee James and Whitney Rose.

Though he’s put others in cost by way of government title, Awakend proprietor Rodney James is believed to nonetheless personal and finally name the pictures inside Sol Folks.

Awakend was one of many extra memorable MLM launches over the previous few years.

Initially a foolish NFT gimmick mixed with a product whose proper to fabricate was nonetheless hotly disputed, by the point Awakend resembled a “able to launch” MLM firm the injury was already completed.

Danelle Meoli, the face of Awakend, disappeared and the corporate limped alongside rudderless for many of 2022 and 2023. The bungled Q Sciences acquisition seems to have been the ultimate nail in Awakend’s coffin.

As to Sol Folks’s new co-CEOs, Ashlee Headlee is thought to BehindMLM as the one that put collectively Awakend’s doctored Zenith examine.

Whitney Rose stars in Bravo’s Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis (RHoSLC). Rose’s  RHoSLC bio cites her as “a descendant of Mormon royalty”.

On the MLM facet of issues Whitney is married to Justin Rose, former President of Awakend. Previous to Awakend Rose was Chief Gross sales Officer at LifeVantage.

In 2018 a class-action was filed in opposition to LifeVantage. The go well with alleged Lifevantage was a pyramid scheme promoting snake oil. The go well with fizzled out in April 2022 after class-certification was denied.

On a 2022 episode of RHoSLC, Justin advised Whitney Lifevantage had fired him over considerations in regards to the actuality present.

On The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis Justin was seen telling Whitney that he had been let go and that his boss at LifeVantage had expressed “considerations” about Whitney’s fame attributable to her position on the TV present.

“He mentioned how a lot he appreciated the work I had completed however, ‘With Whitney being a public determine, I simply didn’t see how we have been going to have the ability to make this proceed to work,’” he mentioned. “That was how the dialog began.”

Justin additionally has prior government expertise at Shaklee and Nu Pores and skin and Shaklee.

Sol Folks, its founder and executives are all primarily based out of Utah within the US.

Learn on for a full overview of Sol Folks’s MLM alternative.

Sol Folks’s Merchandise

Sol Folks markets a spread of wellness, skincare and digital course merchandise.

Wellness

• Sol Vibe – “new-Science vitality and superior nootropics unlock limitless vitality, move, and focus”, retails at $98 for a bottle of 90 capsules
• Sol Glo – “youth-enhancing, inside-out magnificence, mobile hydration”, retails at $109 for a bottle of 30 servings

Skincare

Sol Folks’s skincare vary is branded “Wild Rose Magnificence”. Wild Rose Magnificence was a standalone firm fronted by Whitney Rose.

Advertising on Wild Rose Magnificence’s web site confirms the corporate’s merchandise have been rolled into Sol Folks.

• Every day Cleanser – “a feel-good clear with out harsh chemical substances”, retails at $43 for a 4 oz bottle
• Every day Toner – “4-in-1 toner that exfoliates, hydrates, tones, and tightens pores and skin”, retails at $43 for a 3oz bottle
• Oxygen Peptide Serum – “hydrates, corporations, repairs, restores, evens, tones, and extra!”, retails at $76 for a 1 oz bottle
• Every day Glow Moisturizer – “day by day hydration resolution that’s good for all pores and skin sorts”, retails at $87 for a 1.5 oz bottle

Digital Programs

• Sol Love – “designed to foster a deep connection along with your larger self, guiding you thru a transformative journey of self-discovery and internal peace”, retails at $55
• Sol Mindset Manifestation – “manifest a life you’re utterly obsessive about!”, retails at $111
• Sol Digital Wealth Blueprint – “your final information to mastering the digital world”, retails at $222

Sol Folks’s Compensation Plan

Sol Folks combines retail commissions with rank-based month-to-month residuals.

To qualify for MLM commissions Sol Folks associates are required to buy merchandise every month.

Sol Folks Affiliate Ranks

There are twenty-six affiliate ranks inside Sol Folks’s compensation plan.

Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:

1. Affiliate – join as a Sol Folks affiliate and generate and keep 125 PV a month
2. Sol L1 – recruit two Associates or larger and generate and keep 125 PV and 375 GV a month
3. Sol L2 – keep two personally recruited Associates or larger, 125 PV a month and generate 750 GV a month
4. Sol L3 – keep two personally recruited Associates or larger, 125 PV a month and generate 1500 GV a month
5. Sol L4 – keep two personally recruited Associates or larger, 125 PV a month and generate 2500 GV a month
6. Sol L5 – keep two personally recruited Associates or larger, 125 PV a month and generate 4500 GV a month
7. Sol 7K – keep two personally recruited Associates or larger, 125 PV a month and generate 7000 GV a month
8. Sol 10K – keep two personally recruited Associates or larger, 125 PV a month and generate 10,000 GV a month
9. Sol 17K – keep two personally recruited Associates or larger, 125 PV a month and generate 17,000 GV a month
10. Sol 25K – recruit three Associates or larger and generate 250 PV and 25,000 GV a month
11. Sol 35K – keep three personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 35,000 GV a month
12. Sol 50K – keep three personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 50,000 GV a month
13. Sol 75K – keep three personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 75,000 GV a month
14. Sol 100K – recruit 4 Associates or larger, keep 250 PV a month and generate 100,000 GV a month
15. Sol 150K – keep 4 personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 150,000 GV a month
16. Sol 200K – keep 4 personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 200,000 GV a month
17. Sol 275K – keep 4 personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 275,000 GV a month
18. Sol 350K – recruit 5 Associates or larger, keep 250 PV a month and generate 350,000 GV a month
19. Sol 425K – keep 5 personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 425,000 GV a month
20. Sol 500K – keep 5 personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 500,000 GV a month
21. Sol 675K – keep 5 personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 675,000 GV a month
22. Sol 750K – recruit six Associates or larger, keep 250 PV a month and generate 750,000 GV a month
23. Sol 1M – keep six personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 1,000,000 GV a month
24. Sol 1.5M – recruit seven Associates or larger, keep 250 PV a month and generate 1,500,000 GV a month
25. Sol 2M – keep seven personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 2,000,000 GV a month
26. Sol 3M – keep seven personally recruited Associates or larger, 250 PV a month and generate 3,000,000 GV a month

PV stands for “Private Quantity”. PV is generated by way of gross sales to retail clients and a Sol Folks affiliate’s personal orders.

It must be famous that to qualify for MLM commissions, Sol Folks associates should buy required PV every month. Retail generated PV doesn’t depend.

GV stands for “Group Quantity”. GV is the sum complete of a Sol Folks affiliate’s PV and that of their downline.

Not that required GV is capped per recruitment leg primarily based on rank:

• Sol L1 to L4 = not more than 60% of required GV from anybody recruitment leg
• Sol L5 to 17K = not more than 50% of required GV from anybody recruitment leg
• Sol 25K and better = not more than 40% of required GV from anybody recruitment leg

Retail Commissions

Sol Folks pays a sliding 10% to 40% fee on gross sales to retail clients.

• generate 1 to 249 PV a month and obtain a ten% retail fee fee
• generate 250 to 499 PV a month and obtain a 20% retail fee fee
• generate 500 to 999 PV a month and obtain a 25% retail fee fee
• generate 1000 to 2499 PV a month and obtain a 30% retail fee fee
• generate 2500 PV or extra a month and obtain a 40% retail fee fee

Recruitment Commissions

Sol Folks pays recruitment commissions on associates recruited who join with an Starter Pack.

Each Starter Pack prices and recruitment fee quantities will not be disclosed.

Residual Commissions

Sol Folks pays residual commissions month-to-month tied to rank:

• qualify at Sol L1 and obtain $60 a month
• qualify at Sol L2 and obtain $125 a month
• qualify at Sol L3 and obtain $250 a month
• qualify at Sol L4 and obtain $400 a month
• qualify at Sol L5 and obtain $750 a month
• qualify at Sol 7K and obtain $1250 a month
• qualify at Sol 10K and obtain $1700 a month
• qualify at Sol 17K and obtain $3000 a month
• qualify at Sol 25K and obtain $4250 a month
• qualify at Sol 35K and obtain $5750 a month
• qualify at Sol 50K and obtain $8000 a month
• qualify at Sol 75K and obtain $12,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 100K and obtain $15,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 150K and obtain $20,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 200K and obtain $25,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 275K and obtain $35,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 350K and obtain $45,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 425K and obtain $55,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 500K and obtain $65,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 675K and obtain $85,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 750K and obtain $90,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 1M and obtain $120,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 1.5M and obtain $160,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 2M and obtain $220,000 a month
• qualify at Sol 3M and obtain $350,000 a month

Quick Begin Bonus

The Quick Begin Bonus rewards Sol Folks associates for qualifying at Sol L1 to L4 inside their first month of signing up.

• qualify at Sol L1 and obtain $50 and one other $150 if rank is maintained the following month
• qualify at Sol L2 and obtain one other $50 and one other $150 if rank is maintained the following month
• qualify at Sol L3 and obtain one other $150 and one other $450 if rank is maintained the following month
• qualify at Sol L4 and obtain one other $200 and one other $600 if rank is maintained the following month

Becoming a member of Sol Folks

Sol Folks affiliate membership prices are hidden from shoppers.

Sol Folks Conclusion

Whereas Sol Folks’s issues aren’t as extreme as Awakend’s at launch, each Sol Folks’s merchandise and MLM alternative are nonetheless nonetheless problematic.

Absent from Sol Folks’s product lineup is Awakend’s Zenith, the burden loss complement that utterly ruined Awakend’s launch. In Zenith’s place we have now Vibe and Glo.

Glo is a collagen drink, simple to cost evaluate. Vibe purportedly containing  a “a scientific dose of Paraxanthine” caught my eye. A “scientific dose” of something implies medication, with Sol Folks’s Vibe just isn’t registered with the FDA as.

So what’s Paraxanthine? Lengthy story quick; Paraxanthine is what caffeine turns to once you ingest it.

Paraxanthine, often known as 1,7-dimethylxanthine, is a metabolite of theophylline and theobromine, two well-known stimulants present in espresso, tea, and chocolate primarily within the type of caffeine.

Shortly after ingestion, roughly 84% of caffeine is metabolized into paraxanthine …

Paraxanthine dietary supplements are available and, from what I can see, less expensive than Vibe.

I determine if Whitney Rose’s Wild Rose Magnificence merchandise have been promoting effectively stand-alone, they’ll proceed to promote effectively in Sol Folks. In the event that they weren’t promoting effectively, they’ll little question get a lift.

This leads us into Sol Folks’s problematic compensation plan however earlier than we get into that I wish to go over Sol Folks’s digital product programs.

With out understanding what’s within the programs I can’t actually touch upon specifics. What we are able to go over although is who’s behind the programs.

Sol Mindset Manifestation is “guided” by Megan DeSart.

This course is guided by Megan DeSart, an entrepreneur, Manifestation Enterprise Coach and on-line course Educator who has devoted herself to serving to folks rework their lives by way of this work.

Meagan has been an entrepreneur for the previous 10 years within the community advertising and marketing & teaching house turning into a 7-figure earner & rising social media followings of over 150K.

She has constructed groups of hundreds world wide, created on-line programs particularly serving to feminine entrepreneurs use manifestation & wealth energetics to create excessive money months of their enterprise.

In different phrases, DeSart has been across the block and will be capable to spot a fraudulent enterprise mannequin.

But a fast search on DeSart reveals she was a promoter of the not too long ago collapsed Infinity Processing System.

If DeSart can’t admit Infinity Processing System is an unlawful gifting scheme she stole a bunch of cash by way of, I don’t suppose she’s somebody anybody must be taking “manifestation teaching” classes from.

The Sol Digital Wealth Blueprint course is put collectively by Mariel Filippone, Brittany Hitch, Claudia Gonzalez and Kristen Wyatt.

We all know these 4 as former Q Sciences distributors and co-founders of The Digital Course gifting scheme.

Initially The Digital Course was being pushed onto the co-founders Q Sciences. That fell aside across the time Rodney James was making an attempt to accumulate Q Sciences.

As we speak there’s this disclaimer on The Digital Course’s web site;

IF YOU ARE AN ACTIVE AMBASSADOR WITH Q SCIENCES, YOU MAY NOT PURCHASE ANY OF OUR DIGITAL PRODUCTS WITHOUT THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF Q SCIENCES COMPLIANCE DEPARTMENT.

Having drained Q Sciences dry, now we seem to have Sol Folks recruits being funnelled into The Digital Course.

Lastly we have now Sol Love, run by Lauren Dorsey.

Observe highly effective methods like breathwork, visualization, EFT tapping and different somatic launch methods to launch destructive feelings and reinforce optimistic beliefs about your self.

EFT tapping, or emotional freedom methods tapping, is licensed placebo backed by nothing.

Along with operating a “wellness studio” (which outdoors of Sol Folks I don’t maintain in opposition to her, if folks wish to pay for placebos that on them), Dorsey was round for Awakend’s failed launch.

After Awakend flopped Dorsey, shock shock, fell down the “grasp resell rights” rabbithole. I wasn’t capable of peg Dorsey to IPS or The Digital Course however she was nonetheless shilling random MRR merchandise as of December 2023.

Appears Dorsey has gone by way of the inevitable MRR exhaustion and has returned to MLM. Dorsey was selling Frequense as of January 2024.

Earlier than Awakend again in 2022, Dorsey promoted Bioreigns and My Every day Selection (Hempworx).

Transferring on to Sol Folks’s compensation plan, forcing associates to buy product every month ensures company-wide Sol Folks will function as an autoship recruitment scheme.

So as to qualify for MLM commissions a Sol Folks affiliate should be each certified and lively.

A Model Accomplice is taken into account personally lively once they buy 125PV in a rolling 30 day interval.

Model Companions turn out to be Certified by personally sponsoring two Energetic Model Companions.

Buy 125 PV a month (99.9% of which will probably be an autoship order), and recruit two others who do the identical. Yeah that is your traditional MLM pyramid scheme mannequin.

The one method Sol Folks doesn’t function as a pyramid scheme is that if everybody who qualifies for MLM commissions can also be promoting 125 PV or extra in retail quantity each month.

There’s 0% likelihood of that taking place.

The final FTC Act violation I’ll level out is Sol Folks hiding becoming a member of prices except shoppers hand over private information:

This can be a disclosure failure, leaving shoppers unable to make an knowledgeable choice about becoming a member of Sol Folks.

• compelled buy compensation plan (this alone is a showstopper)
• unlawful gifting scheme baggage by way of the programs (one can solely think about what’s being “taught”)
• costly digested caffeine drugs with FDA violating “scientific dose” advertising and marketing
• affiliate becoming a member of prices not disclosed (FTC Act)

A minimum of there’s no product patent points or NFT nonsense this time round. Nonetheless, primarily based on the above factors: simple keep away from.