Total Life Changes, LLC
One of very few operators in this category to publish a median - 76.8% of its 30,119 active US distributors earned nothing in 2023 and the median earner made $84 for the year - attached to a written claims policy that bans the exact phrases its own field kept using.
The company publishes its own median and its own zero-earner rate, both of which are damning; the grade is held one band below the arithmetic because a nine-claim self-regulatory file and a 2020 FTC warning letter describe a gap between an unusually good written policy and what is tolerated in practice.
Can you actually make money with Total Life Changes?
No. Not on the numbers this company publishes about the people already in it. In 2023 it counted 30,119 active US distributors, and 23,124 of them, 76.8%, earned nothing at all. Among the 6,995 who earned anything, the median was $84 for the year. About seven dollars a month, gross, before shipping and before the dollar this company charges on every commission payment.
Now set that against what a year costs. Staying commission-active means 40 PQV a month, which runs roughly $60 to $80 at current shelf prices, so a minimum participation year is about $967 all in. Cumulate the company's own published bands and 555 people, 1.84%, grossed more than $1,000. Ninety-eight in a hundred did not gross enough to cover the cheapest possible year of participating.
The field is also shrinking underneath the plan. Active US distributors went from 105,913 in 2021 to 30,119 in 2023, a fall of 71.6%, both figures published by the company itself. This is a binary that pays on your weaker leg, so downline volume is the entire engine. And nothing in the eleven-rank ladder requires a retail sale to anybody: the Policies and Procedures state that qualifying volume may be met either through retail sales or a distributor's own purchases.
What is genuinely good here should be said out loud, because it is rare. This company publishes a median when most of its category publishes nothing. It tells prospects in its own compliance document that there is no distributor discount and no need to join if you only want the products. And it runs a $20-a-year Promoter tier paying 20% of every order subtotal with no minimums, no quotas, no exclusivity and no downline at all. That is on its own site, and for anybody not building a team it is the honest door.
one-time Business Starter Kit ($29.95 international), a mandatory first product order, and $0 annual renewal - but 40 PQV a month to stay commission-active, roughly $60–$80 at current shelf prices
- A retail-sales safeguard somewhere in the eleven-rank ladder. As written, every threshold from 40 QV to 250,000 PLV can be satisfied by distributors buying for themselves, so nothing in the plan measures whether product reaches anyone outside it.
- A published split between volume bought by customers and volume bought by participants. The company reports headcounts and earnings honestly and reports nothing at all about who the product actually goes to, which is the fact the structure turns on.
- Enforcement of its own advertising policy that keeps pace with the policy. The written rules ban a list of income phrases by name, and a self-regulatory file closed in 2025 covering nine field claims, one live since 2020, found them still in use.
- A distributor who leaves with something. Customers belong to the company, brand-term domains must be handed over at no cost, everything a participant creates is licensed back irrevocably, and on termination the organization is reassigned upward.
That call is computed, not chosen - the rule reads three of the nine published dimension scores and is printed on the methodology page. It describes this company's plan and the figures it publishes about the people already in it. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is advice.
Legal status
LEGAL - no court or regulator has found Total Life Changes to be a pyramid scheme, and there is no FTC enforcement action, no consent order, no state attorney general action and no FDA warning letter, import alert, recall or public notification anywhere in the company’s 27 years. The file contains a staff-level FTC warning letter dated 24 April 2020, one of ten issued to companies in this category in the same sweep, with no enforcement action following it; a Proposition 65 consent judgment of 25 October 2016 in a private citizen-suit enforcement action ($97,500 in total payments, a $33,232 civil penalty, an injunction at 0.5 µg lead a day on four products), entered without admission of liability, plus a second such civil complaint filed around May 2020 whose disposition could not be located; four federal consumer class actions over "0.0% THC" labeling filed between December 2020 and February 2022, one of which survived a motion to dismiss and was then dismissed with prejudice with no admission and no adjudicated finding; and a self-regulatory administrative closure by the Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council on 29 May 2025 covering nine distributor earnings claims - a body run by BBB National Programs with no subpoena power and no penalty, whose administrative closure is the favorable outcome. None of those is a finding of liability. Say which one each is, every time.
Confidence: Medium-High
Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.
Follow the money
A Michigan weight-loss-tea and supplements company selling through US and international distributors called Life Changers on a binary compensation plan that pays on the lesser of two legs, with a Retail Bonus, a Fast Start Bonus on every recruit’s first order, weekly binary pay from 10% to 25% of pay-leg volume, a Matching Bonus first available at the fourth of eleven ranks, and a flat $1,500 monthly Life Changer Bonus at the eighth. Three products - the Iaso teas, the NutraBurst liquid multivitamin and the NRG appetite capsule - accounted for about 75% of revenue on a 2021 magazine account.
Start with what is real, because it is unusual. This company publishes a median. Its 2023 income disclosure states that of 30,119 US Life Changers active during the year, 6,995 earned compensation and 23,124 - 76.8% - did not, and that "fifty-percent (50%) of the LCs who earned compensation made more than $84.00, while the other half made less." It publishes absolute headcounts rather than percentages alone, a full banded distribution table, and an explicit statement that earnings are gross of advertising, training, rent, travel, telephone and internet costs. Most of this category publishes no median at all. It goes further: in its own compliance document it tells prospects that "there is no additional discount on product purchases as a Life Changer versus the prices paid as a Preferred Customer. Therefore, there is no need to become a Life Changer if you just want to enjoy products," which removes the standard join-for-wholesale hook entirely. Entry is $59.95 with a $0 annual renewal and no mandatory tool, website or back-office subscription. And the written advertising policy is among the better ones anywhere on this site - a prohibited-phrase list, a ban on mansion and private-jet imagery, a numeric weight-loss cap at 2.5 lb a week, prescribed disclosure hashtags with the inadequate ones expressly rejected. All of that is genuine and it is why several dimensions here score above where the headline would put them.
Then the numbers those disclosures contain. The median active participant earned $0, because more than three-quarters earned nothing. Among those who earned anything, 73.98% took between $1 and $250 for the year. Thirty-six people out of 30,119 - 0.120% - grossed more than $20,000. Recomputed onto the whole active base rather than the earner base, 555 people, or 1.84%, grossed more than $1,000, against a minimum-participation year that costs roughly $967 once the $59.95 kit, the mandatory first product, eleven further months at 40 PQV and shipping are counted. Roughly 98 in 100 active US Life Changers did not gross enough in 2023 to cover the cheapest possible year of participation. And the base itself is collapsing: 105,913 active US Life Changers in 2021 fell to 30,119 in 2023, a 71.6% decline in two years, with the share earning nothing climbing 58% to 69% to 76.8% across the three published disclosures. In a binary plan, downline volume is the thing that pays.
The contract is where the concrete damage sits, and it maps precisely onto what customers and distributors actually complain about. Autoship cancellations must arrive at least five calendar days before the delivery date or they apply "starting the following month," so the next charge falls through; customers may cancel only by phone or email; shipping is never refunded; repeat orders must be unopened to qualify for a refund; a declined card silently breaks a distributor’s activity qualification with no duty to notify. Exclusivity treats "any nutritional supplement" as a competing product for twelve months after termination for any reason. Brand-term domains must be handed over at no cost. Everything a participant creates is licensed to the company irrevocably, worldwide and without compensation. There is a non-disparagement obligation, and disputes go to individual arbitration with class, jury, punitive-damages and private-attorney-general waivers.
And the product mechanism deserves stating on its own terms, separately from any marketing claim. The flagship tea’s active is senna, a stimulant laxative, at an undisclosed dose, directed for daily use, where the independent literature caps senna at about seven consecutive days. Separately, four laboratories engaged by plaintiffs and by broadcast journalists reported detectable THC in products labeled "0.0% total THC" and sold with the assurance that buyers subject to drug testing need not worry - findings never adjudicated and never conceded - after which the company issued no recall, notified no customers directly, kept the product on sale, and added a website line reading "We do not recommend use if you are subject to drug testing." People reportedly lost jobs, a nursing-school place and career progression. That is a response-to-harm question rather than a contamination question, and it is the reason the product score sits where it does.
Where active US Life Changers landed in 2023
The company’s own published income disclosure, recomputed onto all 30,119 active US Life Changers rather than onto the 6,995 who earned something - the company’s published percentiles are calculated on earners, which flatters them by roughly 4.3 times. Figures are gross; the disclosure states that expenses are not deducted.
| Product | Price | Pays |
|---|---|---|
| Business Starter Kit (required) $29.95 for the international kit. Genuinely at the low end for this category, and the $0 annual renewal is an unambiguous positive - many operators charge $50 to $200 every year for the privilege of remaining a distributor. |
$59.95 one-time |
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| Mandatory first product order The company’s own compliance document: "Aside from the initial Business Starter Kit… you must purchase at least one product of your choice to become a Life Changer." So day-one cost is the kit plus one product plus shipping. |
~$59.95–$79.95 one-time |
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| Monthly activity volume - 40 PQV Required to be "Active" at the first three ranks. The company’s own onboarding workbook equates 40 PQV to "one product >$54.95"; at current shelf prices that is roughly $65–$80, or about $700–$960 a year. It may be met by the participant’s own purchases. |
~$60–$80/mo recurring |
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| Monthly activity volume - 80 PQV Required from the fourth rank upward - which is where the Matching Bonus, the plan’s real earning engine, first unlocks. Roughly $1,320 to $1,900 a year. The top four ranks require 120 PQV. |
~$120–$160/mo recurring |
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| Iaso Instant Tea (2 bags, 50 sachets) About $1.30 a serving. The company’s own worked example puts "50% of QV" at $20 on a $54.95 sale - 36.4% of retail, not 50%. A further 25% of the QV is credited to the stronger binary leg. |
$64.95 per unit |
50% of QV |
| Iaso Original Brew Tea (5 pouches) Roughly a twelve-day supply at label dose on one third-party review’s reading, which implies about $150 a month for the flagship product used as directed - a materially different figure from the shelf price and the one a prospect should be shown. |
$59.95 per unit |
50% of QV |
| ELEVATE 2026 convention, general admission Held 11–12 September 2026 at the company’s Michigan headquarters. A 2024 regional event was $149.95; the event hotel block ran $220 a night. Ticket policy: "All ticket sales are final," with no refunds inside 45 days and transfers "not guaranteed." |
$350 per event |
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| Promoter tier (the non-MLM alternative) Uncapped, drop-shipped, paid weekly, with "no order minimums or quotas," no follower minimum, and explicitly non-exclusive - "Can I promote TLC and another company? Yes!" No downline, no binary, no rank, no autoship condition. For anyone not building a team this is the rational path, and the company offers it on its own site. |
$20 + $20/yr annual |
20% of subtotal |
Who runs it, and what they ran before
Came off the Ford Motor Company assembly line in Chesterfield Township, started this company in 1999 in his basement with about $10,000, and has run the same company for 27 years. No prior collapsed venture, no bankruptcy, no receivership, no regulatory bar, no prior consent order and no criminal matter attributable to him could be located anywhere - which, measured against the modal founder profile in this category, cuts materially in his favor and should be said first. Two things weigh the other way, both on his watch and neither proven. One amended class-action complaint added him personally as a defendant, alleging he promoted the tea despite personal knowledge that the THC statements were false; that is an allegation in a civil pleading, never adjudicated, with no finding of liability against him by any court. And he personally drove the February 2022 TLC Coin episode, which is the single worst item on the leadership file precisely because the capital came from the distributor base.
No prior employer or professional history is disclosed by the company on either its About page or its training-portal team page. Named, with Fallon, Chief Communications Officer Scott Bania and Director of Customer and User Experience Natalie Paramo, as a petitioner in a federal action filed 16 May 2025 seeking to compel arbitration against a single respondent. Four named individual executives moving to compel arbitration against one person suggests claims were pleaded against individuals rather than only the entity; the underlying substance is not stated on the docket and could not be verified. The petition is pending.
The company’s director and C-suite bench is almost entirely home-grown with essentially no disclosed prior-employer history: one director joined at fourteen, another was the first bilingual hire and began in the founder’s basement, and the General Counsel’s page names no prior firm. The charitable reading is real: long tenure, genuine institutional memory, no revolving door of hired-gun executives. The uncharitable one is that this is thin outside professional depth for a business operating across sixty-plus jurisdictions with an FTC warning letter, four consumer class actions, a Proposition 65 consent judgment and a self-regulatory inquiry in its recent history. No Chief Financial Officer appears on either public team page. Absence from a website is not proof of absence from the company, but a participant is being asked to build an income on a plan funded by a profit-and-loss statement nobody outside the company can see, signed off by nobody they can name.
An industry watchdog blog - an interested party, openly hostile to the sector, citing screenshots, archived posts, a job advertisement and on-chain sales counts - reports that the company launched a token to its own distributors on 10 February 2022, telling them to "invest in 10,000 TLC Coins or more" to qualify for "ongoing rewards such as all expenses paid vacations, the latest electronics, jewelry and more," with buybacks to be funded because "TLC will then use 50% of ALL net profits generated by these new customers to buy back TLC tokens." The official Twitter account was abandoned the next day; the final Telegram post was 5 March and has since been deleted; the project was dead by the end of March. A Spanish-language industry site independently records that the project existed and did not prosper. How many distributors bought, how much they paid and whether anyone recovered anything all remain unknown. No regulator has ever acted and the company has never publicly addressed it. Stage: watchdog allegation, no regulator action, nothing adjudicated.
Registered address
Fair Haven, Michigan, USA
A privately held Michigan LLC with no SEC registration, no filed accounts, no identified private-equity sponsor and no publicly named Chief Financial Officer. The consequence is that every revenue figure in circulation is either a number the company gave a magazine or a trade publication, or a third-party guess: for 2020 alone the published figures are $800 million (company-sourced, in a regional business magazine), $405 million (an industry blog estimate with no methodology), and - extrapolating the only company-submitted trend line, which had the company at $88 million in FY2017 - something in the low hundreds of millions. That is a roughly nine-fold spread, and this report therefore prints no revenue figure at all. What the company does publish, and publishes consistently, is participation: 105,913 active US Life Changers in 2021 falling to 30,119 in 2023, a 71.6% decline in two years, corroborated by a roughly 97% fall in BBB complaint volume over the same period and a Trustpilot review corpus that has added about three net reviews since 2020. The only filed financial data point located anywhere in the group is a six-person Ecuadorian subsidiary reporting a 40.04% fall in net revenue in 2024.
The veteran's checklist
Eight questions that decide whether this is a business or a transfer mechanism. Same eight, every review.
| Question | Answer |
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| Who legally owns it? |
WATCH
Total Life Changes, LLC, a privately held Michigan LLC in Fair Haven, founder-owned by Jack Fallon with no identified outside investor and no publicly named Chief Financial Officer. No SEC registration, no filings, no audited accounts - the 2020 revenue figures in circulation span roughly nine-fold, so this report prints no revenue figure at all.
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| What does it really cost? |
CONCERN
$59.95 for the kit ($29.95 international), a mandatory first product order, and $0 annual renewal - genuinely low. But 40 PQV a month to stay commission-active is roughly $60–$80 at current shelf prices, and 80 PQV from the fourth rank up is $120–$160. A minimum-participation year is about $967.
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| Published income disclosure? |
CONCERN
Yes, and it publishes a median, which most of this category does not. It shows 30,119 active US Life Changers in 2023, of whom 23,124 (76.8%) earned nothing; among the 6,995 earners the median was $84.00 and 73.98% took between $1 and $250. No 2024 or 2025 disclosure has been published as of July 2026.
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| Any government enforcement action, ever? |
OK
None in 27 years. No FTC action, complaint, consent order or civil penalty; no state attorney general action; no FDA warning letter, import alert, recall or public notification; no securities regulator action anywhere. The file contains a staff-level FTC warning letter of 24 April 2020 - one of ten in a category sweep - with nothing following it.
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| What happened with the THC lawsuits? |
CONCERN
Four federal consumer class actions were filed between December 2020 and February 2022 over "0.0% THC" labeling. One survived a motion to dismiss in June 2021 and was then dismissed with prejudice in November 2021 with no admission and no adjudicated finding; the dispositions of the others could not be located. Four laboratories engaged by plaintiffs and journalists reported detectable THC; none of it was adjudicated and the company never conceded it. No recall was ever issued.
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| Can the company change the deal after you sign? |
RED
Yes. It "reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, amend, modify, or revise the TLC Compensation Plan," and "any dispute as to whether a qualification or requirement was met will be resolved solely at the discretion of TLC." Lifetime rank also resets every 1 January to the prior year’s peak.
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| Can you get your money back? |
WATCH
Better than the category norm, in writing: a 30-day full-satisfaction guarantee that covers opened product on a first-time order, a 30-day business-opportunity cancellation refunding the kit, and a six-month 90% inventory repurchase on resignation. The costs of exit are real though - 10% restocking, shipping never refunded in either direction, resalability judged by the company, and commissions clawed back on returned volume.
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| Merchant play or miner play? |
CONCERN
Miner, and the structure is explicit about it. The Retail Bonus is uncapped and excluded from the 60% company-wide cap, which is a genuine credit - but the Fast Start Bonus pays the richest rate in the plan on every recruit’s first order at the entry rank with no downline requirement, and no rank anywhere in eleven requires a single non-participant customer. The Promoter tier at $20 a year is the merchant version of this relationship.
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What has to be true for you to get paid
| To cover | You need |
|---|---|
| Get through the door | $59.95 + one product Business Starter Kit, then a mandatory first product order; $0 annual renewal thereafter |
| Hold commission-active status for twelve months | ~$967 40 PQV a month at current shelf prices, plus shipping on every order and $1 per commission payment |
| Cover that ~$967 out of commissions alone | the top 1.84% of the field 555 of 30,119 active US Life Changers grossed more than $1,000 in 2023 |
| Reach the rank where the Matching Bonus unlocks | 80 PQV + 1,000 PLV roughly $1,320 a year of personal volume, plus two personally sponsored actives, one in each leg |
Read this twice
Every number on the cost side of this comes from the company’s own documents, and every number on the outcome side comes from its own income disclosure. The kit is $59.95, the first product order is mandatory, the annual renewal is $0 - which is a real credit - and staying "Active" requires a 40 PQV personal order on the monthly anniversary, which the company’s own onboarding workbook equates to "one product >$54.95." At the prices actually on its store today, most single items are $59.95 to $79.95, so 40 PQV is realistically $60 to $80 a month and 80 PQV is $120 to $160. Add shipping on twelve orders and the $1 administration fee charged on each commission payment and a minimum-participation year comes to about $967. Now the outcome side. Of 30,119 active US Life Changers in 2023, 23,124 earned nothing. Of the 6,995 who earned something, 73.98% earned between $1 and $250 and the median was $84.00. Cumulating the bands upward, 555 people grossed more than $1,000 - 1.84% of the active base - so roughly 98 in 100 did not gross enough to cover the cheapest possible year, before a single dollar of samples, travel or event tickets. Three honest caveats belong here and they cut the company’s way. The 40 PQV can in principle be satisfied by genuine customer orders rather than self-purchase, and someone with a real customer base is not spending that money at all; the Retail Bonus is uncapped and is one of only two bonuses excluded from the 60% company-wide payout cap. The buyback is real and in writing: 90% on resalable product purchased within six months of resignation, with a 30-day satisfaction guarantee that covers opened product on a first-time order. And the company itself tells prospects not to enrol as a distributor if they only want the products, because there is no distributor discount. The arithmetic above describes the person who enrols to build a business, which is the person this report is written for.
Run your own numbers
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Retail margin on a customer holding a roughly $120-a-month tea-and-supplement order, against the volume needed to stay commission-active. Two things the sliders cannot show. There is no retail safeguard anywhere in the plan - no 70% rule and no customer-volume requirement at any of the eleven ranks, and the policies state that qualifying volume can be met through an affiliate’s own purchases. And the company’s own 2023 disclosure is the calibration: 76.8% of 30,119 active US distributors earned nothing at all, and the median among those who earned anything was $84 for the year. Your own subscription cost of $80/mo is included.
What it costs to replace this yourself
The company’s own published prices against ordinary open-market equivalents bought in a shop. Comparators are given as bands because pack sizes and formulations differ. The relevant point is not that the tea is bad - senna does what senna does - but that the active ingredient is a commodity laxative sold nationally at a fraction of the price, and that the company’s own uncontrolled marketplace supply demonstrates the retail price is not defensible.
| What they sell you | What you'd use instead | Your cost |
|---|---|---|
| Iaso Instant Tea - $64.95 for 50 sachets (~$1.30/serving) | National-brand organic senna laxative tea, 96 bags | ~$0.15-0.30/serving |
| Iaso Original Brew Tea - $59.95, ~12 days at label dose (~$150/mo) | Senna tea, 16-count national brand, from a supermarket | ~$0.30-0.45/day |
| Senna as the actual active ingredient, undosed | Senna capsules, 50 count, national brand, dose printed on the box | ~$0.15-0.25/dose |
| NutraBurst liquid multivitamin - $69.95 (~$2.19/day) | Supermarket or pharmacy liquid multivitamin, 32 oz | ~$0.30-0.50/day |
| Soluble-fibre satiety support inside the tea blend | Branded soluble maize-dextrin or psyllium fibre, tub | ~$0.20-0.40/serving |
| 40 PQV a month to stay commission-active - ~$700-960/yr | No volume requirement, no rank, no activity condition | $0 |
| Business Starter Kit - $59.95, plus a mandatory first order | Buying what you actually use, when you use it | $0 |
| ELEVATE convention general admission - $350, non-refundable | Nothing; there is no event you must attend to buy a tea | $0 |
| Total as sold ~$967 in a minimum-participation year one |
Total, built yourself ~$60-140 of comparable fibre, senna and multivitamin |
Price-to-value
Roughly a four-to-seventeen-times premium per serving depending on the item, with the branded maize-dextrin fibre the only genuinely differentiated input in the formula. The structural gap is larger than the per-serving one: the kit, the mandatory first order and the monthly activity volume together turn a preference for a detox tea into about $967 of first-year committed spend, against a median gross of $84 among the minority who earned anything at all. Two things must be said in fairness. Anyone who simply wants the products can buy them as a Preferred Customer with no kit and no volume requirement, and the company says so itself. And anyone who wants to earn from referring them can do it for $20 a year on the Promoter tier at 20% of subtotal with no quota and no exclusivity. The expensive version of this relationship is the only one that requires a downline.
Three operators, five horizons
Probability of cumulative net profit
Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.
Promoter, not Life Changer
$20 in, $20 a year, 20% of subtotal, no quota, no exclusivity, no downline
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 26% | −$20 |
| 6 mo | 31% | −$5 |
| 1 yr | 34% | +$15 |
| 3 yr | 35% | +$60 |
| 5 yr | 35% | +$120 |
Minimum-viable Life Changer
$59.95 kit, holds 40 PQV a month, no events, a handful of warm-market customers
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 7% | −$260 |
| 6 mo | 9% | −$500 |
| 1 yr | 10% | −$930 |
| 3 yr | 11% | −$2,700 |
| 5 yr | 11% | −$4,400 |
Director-track builder
80–120 PQV, one or two events a year, samples, paid social, actively recruiting two legs
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 3% | −$700 |
| 6 mo | 5% | −$1,400 |
| 1 yr | 7% | −$2,600 |
| 3 yr | 9% | −$7,600 |
| 5 yr | 10% | −$12,000 |
Methodology note. These are modeled outcome ranges, not claims, not projections and not anybody’s promise. ANCHORED to the company’s own published figures: the 2023 income disclosure showing 30,119 active US Life Changers of whom 23,124 earned nothing, a median of $84.00 among earners, 73.98% of earners in the $1–$250 band, 36 people above $20,000 and 18 above $50,000; the three-disclosure series in which the share earning nothing rises 58% to 69% to 76.8%; the 105,913-to-30,119 fall in the active base; the $59.95 kit and $0 renewal; the mandatory first product order; the 40/80/120 PQV activity requirements with the company’s own "one product >$54.95" conversion; current shelf prices of $59.95 to $79.95; the $350 and $149.95 event tickets and the $220 hotel rate; the $12 payment threshold and $1 per-payment fee; and the Promoter tier at $20 plus $20 a year against 20% of subtotal with no quota. MODELED by us: the cohort definitions, which the company does not segment; the share of each cohort in cumulative profit; and the dollar expense side beyond the published items, because the disclosure names expense categories - advertising, training, rent, travel, telephone, internet - without ever quantifying them. Two calibration notes that cut in the company’s favor. The activity volume can be met by genuine customer orders, so a participant with an established customer base sits materially better than these medians; and the Promoter cohort is the only one here whose median crosses into profit, which is exactly the conclusion the company’s own documents point a reader toward. Note also that the top column is not a target: on the published table, the ninety-ninth person in a hundred is not in it.
Where you are actually allowed to promote this
Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.
Red flags and green flags
Red flags
15176.8% of active US distributors earned nothing in 2023, and the median active participant earned $0
2Roughly 98 in 100 did not gross enough to cover a minimum-participation year
3The active US distributor base fell 71.6% in two years
4No retail-sales safeguard exists anywhere in the plan
5The autoship cancellation window is designed so one more charge falls through
6Four laboratories reported THC in products labeled "0.0% THC" - and the response was a website line, not a recall
7The flagship’s active ingredient is an undosed stimulant laxative sold for daily use
8The operator solicited capital from its own distributors into a token and abandoned it in six weeks
9Two Proposition 65 lead actions, four years apart, the second after an injunction
10Nine distributor earnings claims reached a self-regulatory body, including phrases the company’s own policy already banned
11Nothing a participant builds is portable, and some of it is confiscable
12Discretion runs one way, and the payment mechanics erode small earnings
13Individual arbitration with class, jury, punitive-damages and private-attorney-general waivers
14Price-to-value is four to seventeen times the open market
15No auditable financial information exists, and no CFO is publicly named
Green flags
101It publishes a median, and most of this category does not
2The written advertising policy is among the better ones on this site
3It tells prospects there is no distributor discount and that they should not join for the products
4A real non-MLM alternative exists at $20 a year, with no quota and no exclusivity
5Low entry, a genuine $0 annual renewal, and no mandatory tool stack
6Refund and buyback terms meet or beat the category standard, in writing
7The FDA file is empty, and there has been no government enforcement action in 27 years
8Demonstrated remediation, twice, traceable to the specific trigger
9Founder-owned for 27 years, with no prior collapsed venture and a written warning against borrowing
10The two bonuses tied to product sales are the two the company will not cap
We would like to be wrong about this
Upward
- A measured, enforced retail-sales safeguard - a minimum share of pay-leg volume from non-participant customers at each rank, or a hard personal-customer count - together with publication of the customer-versus-participant volume split. That is the largest single lever in the file and no operator in this category currently discloses the split at all.
- A current income disclosure with percentiles computed on all active participants rather than on earners, plus disclosures for the Latin American markets the company itself calls "one of our largest," and a self-serve customer cancellation that honors any request received before shipment, with outbound and return shipping refunded on the 30-day guarantee.
- A public accounting for the February 2022 token - how many distributors bought, how much they paid, whether anyone was made whole - alongside a named Chief Financial Officer and a reviewed or audited revenue figure, a published senna dose with a duration-of-use warning, and two consecutive years with no new earnings-claim file of any kind.
Downward
- Any new financial product, token, trading program, staking arrangement or capital-contribution offer to the distributor base. One such episode is already on the record as a watchdog allegation; a confirmed second would move the securities score several points and would justify a harder cap on its own.
- Any FTC enforcement action, civil investigative demand or consent order rather than a warning letter, any state attorney general investigation or assurance of voluntary compliance, or a first FDA warning letter, import alert, recall or public notification - the empty FDA file is currently one of the strongest positives in the whole regulatory section.
- A new disclosure showing the earn-nothing share above 80% or active US distributors below 20,000, failure to publish any disclosure at all for 2024 to 2026, removal of the median from the disclosure, withdrawal or restriction of the Promoter tier, introduction of an annual renewal fee or a mandatory autoship as an activity condition, or delayed commission payments becoming a pattern rather than the single public complaint on file.
Grade is D−, one band below the 4.45 arithmetic, because a cap binds. An operator that publishes its own median and writes a better claims policy than most, attached to a field in which 76.8% earned nothing and the median earner made $84.
Two things here are genuinely better than the sector and they belong first. This company publishes a median. Its 2023 disclosure states that of 30,119 active US Life Changers, 23,124 earned nothing, and that among those who earned something half made more than $84.00 for the year and half made less. It publishes headcounts rather than percentages alone, a full banded table, and an explicit statement that the figures are gross of advertising, training, rent, travel, telephone and internet costs. Most of this category publishes no median at all, and several publish nothing usable. It also tells prospects, in its own compliance document, that there is no distributor discount and therefore "no need to become a Life Changer if you just want to enjoy products" - which dismantles the standard recruiting hook - and it runs a $20-a-year non-MLM affiliate tier at 20% of subtotal with no quota and no exclusivity, which is the honest answer for almost everyone who is not building a team. Entry is $59.95 with a $0 renewal and no tool stack. The written advertising policy bans "financial freedom" and "quit your job" by name, bans mansion and private-jet imagery, and caps weight-loss claims at 2.5 lb a week. The FDA file is empty and there has been no government enforcement action in 27 years. All of that is real and none of it should be hedged.
The numbers those good disclosures contain are the problem. The median active participant earned $0. Cumulating the published bands, 555 people - 1.84% of the active base - grossed more than $1,000, against a minimum-participation year of about $967 once the kit, the mandatory first order, eleven further months at 40 PQV, shipping and the $1-per-payment fee are counted; so roughly 98 in 100 did not gross enough to cover the cheapest possible year. Thirty-six people grossed above $20,000. And the base is shrinking fast: 105,913 active US Life Changers in 2021 became 30,119 in 2023, a 71.6% fall on the company’s own documents, with the earn-nothing share climbing 58% to 69% to 76.8%. In a binary that pays on the lesser leg, that is the worst possible direction. The plan itself contains no retail-sales safeguard at any of eleven ranks - no 70% rule, no customer-volume requirement, no personal-customer minimum - and states that volume may be met by a distributor’s own purchases, so nothing in the structure measures whether product reaches anyone outside the network. The contract then removes the exit: five-day autoship cut-off with the next charge falling through, phone-and-email-only customer cancellation, shipping never refunded, a twelve-month post-termination bar treating "any nutritional supplement" as competing, confiscable brand domains, an irrevocable uncompensated license to your work, a non-disparagement clause, and individual arbitration with class and jury waivers.
The third element is why the letter grade sits one band below the arithmetic, and it has to be stated carefully because nothing here is a finding of liability. On 24 April 2020 the FTC sent a staff-level warning letter quoting both health claims and earnings claims from this company and its distributors, and reminding it that "you are responsible for the claims of your business opportunity participants." It was one of ten letters in a single category sweep, it carried no penalty, and no enforcement action ever followed - that must be said, because a warning letter is not liability. Five years later a self-regulatory body closed a file covering nine earnings claims circulated between July 2023 and February 2025, including "financial freedom," which the company’s own advertising policy already banned by name, and one of the nine had been live since 2020. That closure was the favorable outcome and carried no penalty either. Neither item, alone, is heavy. Together they describe something the seven-point marketing weighting cannot express: a five-year gap between a written policy that is genuinely upper-quartile and what is tolerated in the field. Set beside a token sold to the company’s own distributors in February 2022 and abandoned in six weeks without ever being accounted for - a watchdog allegation, no regulator action, never publicly addressed - the pattern is what a prospective participant should weigh, not the severity of any single item.
Be a Preferred Customer, or take the Promoter tier - the company itself says so
If you want the products, buy them as a customer: there is no distributor discount and the company states that in writing. If you want to earn from referring them, the Promoter tier costs $20 up front and $20 a year, pays 20% of subtotal uncapped and weekly, has "no order minimums or quotas," and is explicitly non-exclusive so you may promote anything else you like. It has no downline, no binary, no rank, no activity volume and none of the twelve-month post-termination restraint. It is the only cohort in this report whose modeled median crosses into profit.
Do the $84-against-$967 sum before you sign anything
Both sides come from published documents. The median among people who earned anything was $84.00 for the year; a minimum-participation year costs roughly $967; and 1.84% of the active base grossed more than $1,000. The question is not whether anyone can win - 36 people cleared $20,000 - it is what specific reason you have to believe you are not the median. Write it down, and be honest about whether it is a plan or a hope.
Cancel the autoship in writing at least a week early, and keep the confirmation
The terms require changes to reach the company at least five calendar days before the delivery date, apply anything later "starting the following month," permit shipping and charging up to three days early, refund "less shipping and handling costs," and accept only unopened product on repeat orders. Customers must call or email. That combination is the single largest complaint theme in the public review record. Build a week of margin into the calendar and keep the timestamped confirmation, because that is the only evidence you will have.
Sell into gut health and weight management without the plan
The demand is real, the search intent around senna dosing, fibre supplementation, laxative dependency and what detox teas actually do is enormous, and honest sourced comparison content is a merchant business with a genuine audience. It requires no kit, no monthly volume, no rank, no exclusivity clause forbidding you to mention any other supplement for a year, and no clause requiring you to hand over your own domain. And nobody can withhold your earnings for a marketing-policy breach.
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What we read
Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.
- Total Life Changes 2023 Income Disclosure Statement (US) - 30,119 active Life Changers, 23,124 (76.8%) earning nothing, $966.44 mean and $84.00 median among earners
Total Life Changes 2023 Income Disclosure Statement (US) - 30,119 active Life Changers, 6,995 earners, 23,124 (76.8%) earning nothing, $966.44 mean and $84.00 median among earners, full banded distribution table, expenses stated as excluded; plus the 2021 Statement of Average Gross Compensation (105,913 active, 69% earning nothing, $54.95 = 40 QV worked example) and the 2020 statement (58% earning nothing)
Not established by this document: The 2021 Statement of Average Gross Compensation (105,913 active, 69% earning nothing, the $54.95 = 40 QV worked example) could not be located at a live URL: totallifechanges.com/statement-of-average-gross-compensation/ now serves the 2020 statement, the training-site mirror serves the 2019 statement, and shop.totallifechanges.com/Income-Disclaimer.html returns HTTP 404. No archived capture of the 2021 edition was retrieved.
- Total Life Changes Statement of Average Gross Compensation, 2020 - 220,573 US Life Changers, about 58% (127,127) earning nothing
- Total Life Changes Income Disclaimer / Statement of Average Gross Compensation, 2019 (training site copy)
- Total Life Changes Policies and Procedures, October 2022 edition
Total Life Changes Policies and Procedures (October 2022 edition) - §2.16 volume satisfiable by own purchases and the debt-discouragement clause, §4.1–4.8 sole-discretion plan amendment, qualification disputes, third-party pay portal, $12 threshold and $1 fee, six-month forfeiture and $25 reinstatement, open-ended clawbacks, §5.6 SmartShip decline with no duty to notify, §5.9–5.12 returns and the six-month 90% buyback with 10% restocking, §6.2–6.3 exclusivity and the "any nutritional supplement" definition, §6.13 negative content, §7.7.2 domain transfer at no cost, §7.9 marketplace ban, §7.12 irrevocable uncompensated license, Section 8 arbitration with class, jury and private-attorney-general waivers and the §8.5 indemnity
- Total Life Changes Terms of Sale - §4.2 five-day SmartShip cut-off, §6 immediate charging, §13 individual arbitration and class/jury waiver, §14 California law and Los Angeles County forum
Total Life Changes Terms of Sale - §4.2 five-day SmartShip cancellation cut-off applying "starting the following month," phone-and-email-only customer cancellation, shipping up to three days early, §6 immediate charging, §13 individual arbitration with no punitive damages and a class and jury waiver, §14 California law and Los Angeles County forum for customers against Michigan law for distributors
- Total Life Changes LC Advertising Policy - prohibited earnings phrases, lifestyle-imagery ban, 2.5 lbs/week or 15 lbs total weight-loss cap, #ad and #TLCLifeChanger disclosure rules
Total Life Changes LC Advertising Policy - prohibited phrases "full-time income," "financial freedom," "set for life," "quit your job"; ban on mansion, private jet and expensive car imagery; ban on displaying commission checks; weight-loss claims capped at "no more than 2.5 lbs./week or 15 lbs. total"; COVID-immunity claim ban; prescribed "#ad" and "#TLCLifeChanger" disclosures with "#TLC" and "#Partner" rejected; before-and-after photo methodology
- Total Life Changes Compensation Plan, Revision 5, dated 19 March 2026 (PDF) - the current official plan
Total Life Changes compensation plan dated 26 July 2019 - the last machine-readable official version, corroborated rank-for-rank by the company’s own official August 2020 compensation-plan video and by the December 2023 "English Purple Book" onboarding workbook: eleven ranks, binary pay 10%–25% with weekly caps of $5,000 to $20,000, 50% level-one and 10%–50% level-two matching from the fourth rank, $1,500 monthly Life Changer Bonus at the eighth, 60% company-wide and 60% weak-leg caps with Retail and Fast Start excluded, four-week highest-rank grace period, annual rank reset each 1 January
Not established by this document: The 26 July 2019 machine-readable compensation plan on which every percentage, cap and rank threshold in the report is based could not be located at any live or archived URL; nor could the company’s official August 2020 compensation-plan video or the December 2023 “English Purple Book” onboarding workbook. Only the current image-only Revision 5 plan of 19 March 2026 and its distribution pages are citable, and they cannot be quoted from directly. This gap corresponds to the report’s own largest stated caveat.
- Total Life Changes Help Center - Compensation Plan (official plan distribution page)
- Total Life Changes distributor compensation FAQ with linked plan PDF (legacy Zendesk article)
- FTC warning letter to Total Life Changes, LLC, 24 April 2020 (PDF)
FTC warning letter to Total Life Changes, LLC, 24 April 2020, and the FTC business-guidance blog announcing the ten-company batch - health claims including "Stay COVID-19 Free# Nutraburst" and earnings claims including "an extra 100 to 500 dollars a week," a 48-hour response demand, and the statement that "you are responsible for the claims of your business opportunity participants and representatives." No enforcement action, complaint, consent order or civil penalty followed
- FTC legal library entry - Warning Letter to Total Life Changes, LLC
- FTC business-guidance blog, “New FTC warning letters cite unsupported Coronavirus-related health and earnings claims,” April 2020 - announcing the ten-company batch
- FTC press release accompanying the 24 April 2020 MLM warning-letter sweep
- California Attorney General Proposition 65 60-Day Notice 2015-01268 - Environmental Research Center, Inc. v. Total Life Changes, LLC (lead in dietary supplements), with the 25 October 2016 consent judgment, $33,232 civil penalty and $97,500 total payments
California Attorney General Proposition 65 60-day notice register 2015-01268 and the Environmental Research Center notice PDF - four Iaso products named for lead, consent judgment entered 25 October 2016 with $97,500 in total payments, a $33,232 non-contingent civil penalty and a permanent injunction at 0.5 µg lead per day absent a warning; a second Environmental Research Centers action filed around May 2020, Cal. Super. Ct. No. RG20060596, disposition not located
Not established by this document: The second Environmental Research Centers action said to have been filed around May 2020 (Cal. Super. Ct. No. RG20060596) could not be located in the Attorney General’s Proposition 65 register or on any court portal, and its disposition remains unlocated - consistent with the report’s own statement.
- Williams v. Total Life Changes, LLC, D. Minn. No. 0:20-cv-02463 - class action complaint (PDF)
Federal dockets: Williams v. Total Life Changes, D. Minn. 0:20-cv-02463 (motion to dismiss denied 24 June 2021, dismissed with prejudice 4 November 2021, no admission); Santiago, D.N.J. 2:20-cv-18581 (IEH 700 ppm, Anresco 800 ppm); Hunter, E.D.N.Y. 1:21-cv-03075; Miller, S.D. Ga. 1:21-cv-00095; Friday, E.D. Mich. 1:21-cv-10231; Greene, N.D. Ohio 1:22-cv-00319; Total Life Changes v. Nucerity, D. Utah 2:18-cv-00230; Total Life Changes, LLC et al v. Pope, E.D. Mich. 2:25-cv-11459, filed 16 May 2025, four named executives as petitioners, pending
Not established by this document: Santiago v. Total Life Changes, D.N.J. No. 2:20-cv-18581 (the docket carrying the IEH 700 ppm and Anresco 800 ppm THC results) and Total Life Changes v. Nucerity, D. Utah No. 2:18-cv-00230 are not in CourtListener’s RECAP index and no free docket or complaint copy was located for either.
- Hunter v. Total Life Changes LLC, E.D.N.Y. No. 1:21-cv-03075 - CourtListener docket
- Miller v. Total Life Changes, LLC, S.D. Ga. No. 1:21-cv-00095 - CourtListener docket
- Friday v. Total Life Changes, LLC, E.D. Mich. No. 1:21-cv-10231 - CourtListener docket
- Greene v. Total Life Changes LLC, N.D. Ohio No. 1:22-cv-00319 - CourtListener docket
- Total Life Changes, LLC v. Pope, E.D. Mich. No. 2:25-cv-11459, filed 16 May 2025 - CourtListener docket
- Pope v. Total Life Changes, LLC, E.D. Cal. No. 1:25-cv-00391 - the related petition-to-compel proceeding, CourtListener docket
- DSSRC Case #217-2025: Administrative Closure - Total Life Changes, LLC, closed 29 May 2025
BBB National Programs Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council closure #217-2025, closed 29 May 2025 - nine earnings claims disseminated July 2023 to February 2025 including "financial freedom" and "building generational wealth," one post live since 2020; the company suspended responsible accounts, removed eight of nine claims and pursued the ninth through Instagram, and the body found "reasonable diligence." Plus the BBB business profile: A+, accredited since 17 August 2018, six complaints closed in three years against roughly 204–224 reported in 2021–22, and a 2022 customer-review average of 1.94/5
- DSSRC Administrative Closure #217 - case-and-closure index entry
- Total Life Changes, LLC - BBB Business Profile, Fair Haven, Michigan (file 0372-90027281)
- Total Life Changes, LLC - BBB customer reviews and rating detail
- Total Life Changes - Trustpilot company profile (totallifechanges.com)
Trustpilot company profile (2,131 reviews, TrustScore 2.3, "Poor," claimed profile, "hasn’t replied to negative reviews") with cached country-mirror snapshots rendering the raw star distribution as 74% five-star, 9% four, 7% three, 3% two, 7% one against 2,129 reviews; independent product assessment from a registered dietitian’s structured review, a 2025 peer-reviewed mini-review of ten diet and detox tea studies, an independent supplement analyst on undisclosed senna dosing and duplicate ingredient lists, and broadcast investigations by WSOC-TV (17 May 2021) and FOX13 Memphis (12 January 2022) carrying the Avazyme results, the "We do not recommend use if you are subject to drug testing" website line, and the regulators’ postures
Not established by this document: The registered dietitian’s structured product review and the 2025 peer-reviewed mini-review of ten diet-and-detox-tea studies were not identifiable from the prose (neither names an author, journal or title) and could not be located. The cached country-mirror Trustpilot snapshots showing the 74/9/7/3/7 star distribution against 2,129 reviews have no retrievable archive URL; only the live profile is cited, and its distribution bars lazy-load - this matches the report’s own unverified note.
- WSOC-TV 9 Investigates, “Women claim weight loss tea led to failed drug tests,” 17 May 2021
- WSOC-TV 9 Investigates follow-up, “Lawsuits grow as more women claim weight loss tea led to failed drug tests”
- FOX13 Memphis Investigates, “Lawsuit claims weight loss tea is costing jobs,” 12 January 2022
- Illuminate Labs, “Iaso Tea Review: Can Instant Tea Cause Weight Loss?” - independent supplement analysis of undisclosed senna dosing and duplicate ingredient lists
What we could not get
- Any revenue figure for any year after FY2017, and therefore any GLP-1 effect. No filing exists from which a revenue number can be sourced: the figures circulating for 2020 alone span roughly nine-fold - an $88 million company-submitted trend line three years earlier, a $405 million industry-blog estimate, and an $800 million figure given to a regional business magazine. This report therefore prints no revenue figure and no GLP-1 impact. The argument that the participation decline pre-dates mass GLP-1 availability and better fits litigation fallout and post-pandemic normalisation is reasoned inference, not sourced fact.
- The current official compensation plan text. The current version dated 19 March 2026, and the 2024 and December 2022 versions, are all image-only PDFs with no text layer and were unreachable directly. Every percentage, cap, rank threshold and bonus amount in this report derives from the last machine-readable official plan of 26 July 2019, corroborated by the company’s own official August 2020 plan video and its December 2023 onboarding workbook. Individual figures may have been revised between July 2019 and March 2026. This is the single largest caveat in the file.
- The live Trustpilot star distribution. The 74% / 9% / 7% / 3% / 7% split comes from two independent cached country-mirror snapshots displaying it against 2,129 reviews and a then-displayed score of 3.3; the live profile lazy-loads its distribution bars and could not be made to render them, and the star-filter URLs are disallowed by robots.txt. The explanation for the fall from 3.3 to 2.3 - time-weighting applied to a corpus that stopped growing around 2021 - is this report’s analysis, consistent with the platform’s documented methodology, not a statement the platform has made about this profile.
- Revenue by country and any market-mix percentage. No filing or company document breaks revenue down geographically. That Latin America is a core volume region rests on executive titles, event locations and one six-person Ecuadorian subsidiary filing reporting a 40.04% fall in net revenue in 2024. Any country-level percentage would be invented. Current distributor and market counts are likewise unresolved - "200,000 distributors," "150,000 representatives," "69 markets," "62 countries" and "150 countries" are company statements to media or third-party estimates of differing vintages, and the only reliable figure is 30,119 active US Life Changers in 2023.
- The disposition of five of the eight federal cases: Santiago in New Jersey, reported in January 2022 as awaiting a ruling on a motion to dismiss; Hunter in the Eastern District of New York, reported as going to mediation; Miller in the Southern District of Georgia; Friday, a product-liability action in the Eastern District of Michigan; and Greene in the Northern District of Ohio. Whether any settled, and on what terms, is unknown. Also unknown: the underlying substance of the pending 2025 arbitration-compulsion petition, and the disposition of the second Proposition 65 action, RG20060596.
- TLC Coin losses. How many distributors bought, how much they paid, and whether anyone recovered anything are all unknown; the watchdog source says so in terms. No regulator has acted and the company has never made any statement about the episode. Separately unverified, and reported here only because it would matter if confirmed: an anonymous blog comment alleging a post-2022 "Trading" program that "flopped hard and caused losses to many distributors." That is a comment on a blog and nothing more.
- Whether a Chief Financial Officer exists. None appears on the company’s About page or its training-portal team page, but absence from a website is not proof of absence from the company. Also unverified: whether any private-equity or outside owner exists, the "debt-free" self-description on the BBB profile, the employee count (sources give 94, "over 400," and 1,000–2,000), and the exhaustiveness of the trade-press report that the company produced no new Ambassador between 2021 and December 2024.
- The senna dose in any Iaso product, which the company does not publish and which is independently flagged as a safety concern precisely because it is undisclosed; when and how the hemp-extract tea variant was withdrawn, and whether any formal withdrawal notice was ever issued; whether a separate paid-media policy exists in a document not published publicly; whether the 2016 consent judgment’s testing and reporting obligations were performed; and any foreign regulator action, which should be read as "none located" rather than "none exists" because the largest non-US markets publish enforcement notices in poorly indexed local-language documents.
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