 Breakaway movement first began as a daydream. A visualization of a community of people coming together to achieve abundance in all aspects of their reality. One of my favorite ways to use this machine is obviously for drinking water. One of the most amazing things about cangon water is that if you can see it, it's pretty cloudy. Despite my flaws, despite my imperfections, despite my whims, you have carried me so far. Thank you for trusting my heart. We are all above Asia. Most of us cannot afford to be this delusional. Friends, it's Madison Harnish back in my blue kitchen for another crazy video. If you enjoy deep dives and like to analyze crazy things going on on the internet, chances are you'll probably like this channel. So don't forget to subscribe and give this video a thumbs up. Now today we are diving into the MLM, the Colt. I don't really know what this is, but some crazy stuff is going on with the breakaway movement. I received a few messages on the breakaway movement. I had no idea what it was. People were like, hey, you should probably check this out. So I was like, okay, yeah, let me look into it. And boy, this stuff is weird. It gets crazy. The breakaway movement is literally like a modern day colt fueled by social media. So let's dive in to the breakaway movement. Get it. Dive in because a lot of their photos have water. So we're diving in. Yeah. Anyways, that was cheesy. So the weirdest part about the breakaway movement is how vague everything is. It's so hard to actually get to the bottom of what the breakaway movement is, what they're selling, how to join all of that. So let's first start off on the breakaway website and watch their video. And maybe it'll give us some clarity into what's going on here. You start off before you click watch a video. It's literally just hands in water. And it says your arrival to abundance. Still doesn't explain anything, but okay, let's check that out. Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Love when it starts off with like some sort of inspirational quote. If you've ever seen the video you or you by Cody Coe when he covers that video, it feels like what they were trying to do is this video. But their video fell like so, so far short from this video. You were buying celery. You were buying rosé. Like I think in feelings. Like I don't think thoughts, I just feel, I just feel things. You feel things so hard. I don't think anything ever. My brain is just like... Maybe that's why you can manifest things so fast. Yeah, I mean the cinematics are beautiful. I'll give them that. But let's watch and see if the video actually has any substantial information about the breakaway movement. As you allow it to be. Breakaway movement first began as a daydream. A visualization of a community of people coming together to achieve abundance in all aspects. Abundance in all aspects of their reality. Like is this English? What does this even mean? I feel like videos like these are always just so fake woke. They literally just throw in words like abundance, well-being, health, wellness, visualize, cultivate, spiritual awakening, transcending, nature, natural earth. Just into a jumbled sentence with b-roll of attractive people on a random island. And all of a sudden it's supposed to inspire and move all of us to buy whatever it is they're selling. All you have to do is throw in all those elements and boom. You have a social media cult of your own. I'll show you how easy it is to make this kind of verbal nonsense. I'll just like throw in something about cruel world happy mind and this channel and you'll see how easy it is to create these kinds of videos. This channel is a channel for the dreamers. The people who can visualize spiritual abundance. Cultivate absolute harmony and transcend the material earth. So basically what I'm trying to say is if you subscribe to this channel you're better than everyone else because you pretend to relate to and understand what it is I'm saying right now. And ding ding ding, you've heard it here folks. Financial abundance. The granola travel influencer version of financial freedom. So what does financial abundance mean? It means we're about to get roped in to a pyramid scheme. To live out every dream and desire they could ever think of or imagine and allow themselves to be immersed in a community of thought leaders. Thought leaders. What does thought leaders mean? Sorry for the constant pauses but I just have to point out their choice of words here. To be a thought leader you're leading someone's thoughts. That kind of sounds like just another way of saying that you're telling someone what to think. We're here to support and mentor them every step along their journey. Breakaway movement is more than a training platform. Breakaway movement is a shift in your online paradigm. A complete transformation in your personal development journey. So you mean it's a cult? Breakaway is death into a life you once only dreamed of. This really is some mid-summer type shit. Notice how there's not one person of color in this entire video. It's all white people and they all look way too happy. Like this is not realistic. It's like a weird combination of a mid-summer cult and then like the Arbonne white party mixed together. Also let me just know that video said absolutely nothing about what this breakaway movement actually is and like what you're doing. It said none of that. It was just random inspirational words with a cool b-roll and that's it. And we're supposed to be like sign me up. What am I signing up for? Okay maybe I'll scroll down a little bit further and find out more about this movement. So there's a section where it says meet some of the family. Literally every photo looks like an Instagram influencer on steroids. And then if you click view more team members and it takes you to the team member page it's literally 100% white people. To me it's not inspiring. It's just creepy. Then you scroll down further. And maybe here's where they actually explain what's going on. It says abundance in all things. Breakaway movement is an idea. A community and resource. But it's so much more than that. Our community works in unison to achieve abundance in all aspects of reality. Financial, health and well-being. We are an education and mentorship platform. Mentorship. Q-FreeBot video that I did on like the mentorship get rich quick schemes out there. We are an education and mentorship platform for health conscious earth loving people seeking to live their dreams. Immerse yourself in a community of thought leaders. Aka people telling you what to think. Here to support and mentor you every step of the way. Our platform is designed and created by entrepreneurs in order to ensure those who dive in will learn everything they need to run their own successful online business using social media. Like that would actually be really cool if it was just simply a class from a bunch of social media influencers teaching you how to be a social media influencer. But that's not what this is. It's not. So also, it's really shady that in all of this material, they never mentioned once what they're actually doing with breakaway movement. What you're actually taught to do, which we'll get into on the right at the very bottom of the website. It says legal stuff. And I just think that title is so funny too. Oh, this is just a legal stuff. Don't worry about it. You don't even have to look here into this legal stuff. I don't think I've ever seen legal documents and disclaimers on a website written as legal stuff. So I took the time to read all of their legal stuff. And a lot of it is very standard. But the one thing I do have to note that I think is really interesting is if you go on to the affiliate agreement under legal stuff, they claim that they evaluate each applicant and will choose you to join the breakaway movement only if you're the right fit for them. The funniest sentence is if we choose to not allow your inclusion into the affiliate program, they literally use the word inclusion. Only the cool kids can sit with us. Only the cool people and the cool influencers can join the breakaway movement. But when you look at the general appearance of everyone on their team and their team members, you gotta wonder who exactly is it that they're choosing to exclude? So if you go to the website and you click join at the very top of the screen, it'll just take you to a section on the landing page. And it looks like this like email subscription thing, just really basic. So of course I did what any reasonable person would do and I subscribed for Vibes, which is apparently all you have to do to join as you basically subscribe to their email. Except for I was not expecting what I ended up getting. The way that they make it sound so exclusive and so amazing, I thought it was going to be this whole application process. All I had to do is put in my name, my email, my Instagram handle and just type in a random person that I was referred by and you'll never guess what happened after that. The site glitched. It just glitched. And then I got this random email that just said test in the subject. The email system and the signup systems completely broken. It's just so weird going from like this fancy video to just getting a test email when you go to sign up. And then today this morning I actually got an email and they say hi Madison just wanted to reach out to say hello and how stoked I am that you've shown interest in the breakaway movement. What's going on in your life now that has you interested in working online and that's all you get for joining. Honestly, I was very underwhelmed by that whole process very underwhelmed. So with that signup process, I can already feel the abundance pouring into my life. That sounded weird. So I found a Reddit post on the breakaway movement and a commenter talked about how the Instagram salt, sand and smoothies started this page, which that Instagram handle explains it all. So let me read that Reddit post that we can actually get a look into what's going on with the breakaway movement behind the scenes that they seem to be trying to keep very hidden. I looked at the master list and did not see breakaway movement listed as an MLM. But I have heard that my cousin has spent several thousand with this company so she can make six figures and work anywhere through social media. This website itself looks vague with a bunch of love attraction talk and people eating coconuts on the beach. Agreed. You can't really tell what it is without giving them your info, but it looks like entrepreneurial training classes. My cousin is already posting on social media, so I expect a pitch from her soon. Anyone have the info? Thanks in advance. And then a Reddit commenter commented on that post saying, So funny story about this. I followed the Instagram influencer that started breakaway movement at Salt, Sand and Smoothies. She was part of a Kangen MLM, which is a water filtration MLM. Yes, an MLM for water filters. And I think she realized she could make more money starting her own division of the Kangen MLM. Breakaway movement still ultimately ties back to an enagic, enagmic to that company that sells the Kangen water filters. It's like this weird tier where this Instagrammer created an influencer MLM under the Kangen water filter MLM. And yet they're trying to market it as if it's this revolutionary, amazing, transformative experience where you're learning how to be an Instagrammer, yet they're just like a wing under an MLM pyramid scheme. She claims that she left her first one because it was getting unethical, and this is her ethical version. Not sure if an ethical MLM is possible. I followed her because I liked all of her lifestyle posts, but now she's leveraging those to sell the breakaway movement, making it seem like some entrepreneurial lifestyle mastermind group when really it's an MLM. I think they intentionally leave the website vague, so it's not obvious at first, which is a huge red flag, and I totally agree. They keep it vague to rope you in, make you think you're going to learn how to be an influencer, make you think that you're going to learn about business and how to be an entrepreneur on Instagram, when in reality they're roping you into their MLM scheme just to get you to sell water filters. Water filters. Can we know how lame that actually is? So let's go on to Salt Sand and Smoothies Instagram page. Hey, Instagram. Okay, you guys are hearing it first. Today, I officially launched my brand new online business called the Breakaway Movement, and I am so stoked to be able to finally share it with you guys today. Essentially, what Breakaway Movement is, is an online training platform for entrepreneurial people who are really interested in learning how to start and run their own successful online business. If you've ever desired being able to work from your laptop computer, work from home, travel the world, work remotely, have time freedom, location freedom, to be able to do what you please, spend more time with your kids at home or just backpack around the world and still maintain to make money. Breakaway Movement is the website for you right now. So she has 74.7 thousand subscribers and her bio says, artist, daydreamer, creator and founder of the Breakaway Movement. And as you can see, it looks like the ultimate standard Instagram influencer, but she has a website in her bio saying, Amelia Whelan, www.ameliawhelan.com. So I clicked on that and once again, just the ultimate blue water tropical island photo with three options that you can click on. Earn a new source of income online to work with me and three salt sand and smoothies website, which the salt sand and smoothies website is down. So I clicked on earn a new source of income online and I got the ultimate flashback to the free bought websites. It takes you to more blue water backdrops with a website that says, make the most of your time on social media. Learn how to actually create a full time income online from anywhere in the world and heal the planet at the same time. And then it says join free web class. She literally took like the free bought get rich quick online schemes and the MLM schemes and combined them into one. On one hand, I'm like, okay, girl, that's kind of genius. You're like, I'm not going to just do one scam or the other. I'm going to do all of the scams and make it into a cult. Oh, and give it like an influencer spin too. Like you have to commend her creativity, but it's also like at the expense of scamming others. So then on the website it says you were invited by Amelia Whelan. Hey there. So excited to have you here with me and the breakaway family. If you're interested in working alongside me and being mentored by our community, as you start your own successful online business, you're in the right place at the right time. Why go to Bali when you can just scroll through pictures of it on Instagram? I mean half of the people you follow seem to be creating a life they love full of financial abundance. So why not just keep following them and save yourself the trouble? Let's be honest, you know what you want. You know that you are here to help use your gifts to transform lives and leave this earth a better place for your kids. You know that it is possible to earn a full-time income online and enjoy the lifestyle that comes with it because the people you follow on social were able to figure it out somehow. That whole idea that the people that you follow that look like they're living the best life that they could possibly live that they actually are is just not true at all. It reminds me of Los Angeles. When I lived in LA, I would meet tons and tons of people who had a Rolex or drove a fancy car or had all the fancy handbags. And yet they were living in like a tiny studio bedroom, living paycheck to paycheck or in thousands of dollars of debt. You have no idea what's going on behind the scenes and most people don't really have stuff figured out, especially the people that go above and beyond to make it look like they do. It's just like another version of the free bots that pretend like they've gotten super rich and super successful. Meanwhile, they're just trying to get rich off of selling their get-rich-quick classes to other people. But something just still isn't adding up for you. No matter how much you meditate, pin new images to your Pinterest vision board or reread the alchemist, you still find yourself trying to figure out the how. Yeah, this website isn't for me. I can't relate to any of that. Here's the thing. It's not your fault. Our education system failed us. We were never taught how to make a living pursuing our passion. Instead, we were taught how to regurgitate useless information and forced to sit still silencing our creativity. I mean, yeah, the education system has its flaws, but I don't think that the education system should be teaching you how to make cool Instagram photos and join MLM pyramid schemes. We were told that we have to work hard and collect a paycheck now at a job we hate to hopefully one day enjoy life and travel when we retire. But some of us refused to subscribe to that idea and found that there's another way. Yes, you found that there's another way through scamming impressionable young people into joining a pyramid scheme where they give you all of their money. We found that it is possible to be your own boss. Pursue your passion full-time. Unlock competition. Unlock complete time, location and financial freedom. Gotta love that word, financial freedom. I only see the word financial freedom pop up with scams, 100%. If the word financial freedom is used, it's a scam 10 times out of 10, not even nine times out of 10, 10 times out of 10. I've never seen a legitimate opportunity use that word financial freedom. Never. And now we're on a mission to inspire and empower other leaders out there to do the same, which is why we started the breakaway movement. And for a limited time, we are opening the doors with this free web class to show you exactly how our global community of over 1,500 members are refusing the status quo every single day. Free web class. No strings attached. What you will learn during this free web class. How to become a part of a community of 1550 plus members from around the world who mentor, educate and support you. How we use social media and online marketing to earn money online, travel the world, quit our nine to five jobs and spend more time doing what we truly love because we love scamming people. How we earn money sharing a product that each one of us uses in our homes, each and every day, which promotes our health as well as our planets. So that's the one part where they allude to the fact that they are trying to shill an MLM scheme out there. How we earn money sharing a product that each one of us, so every one of these people are selling this product, the Kangan water filter, each one because they said each of us. So this is solely a platform to participate in an MLM scheme, not to learn how to become an entrepreneur or an influencer or financial freedom. This is my favorite part. It says this may not be for you. I'll be honest, if you're just an information gatherer, I'm sorry, what? How is that a bad thing? Who likes the idea of making money and changing the world but isn't serious about it? Then don't even bother watching this. Save yourself the time. But if you know that you are here for more, ready to take action, get out of your comfort zone and use the tools you have at your disposal, then you might just be who we are looking for. If you've made it this far, perhaps you've been guided to right here and right now at the perfect point in your life. It's meant to be, you've been guided here, so join us and put money into this pyramid scheme. Coincidence? Yeah, we don't believe in those either. Time is ticking, let's get to work. And if you click the watch now, you'd think like this free webinar would just pop up and play, right? No, you have to enter your name, enter your best email address and enter your Instagram handle to watch this free web class. But still, even in that website, nowhere does it say anything about the Kangan water machine. This webinar and this free-bought type of scheme of free class on how to reach your dreams is just the beginning of a long phase of indoctrination into the breakaway movement pyramid scheme. It's like a cult. Once you pass that first phase of watching this webinar and giving them your information, then you get an email like I did, asking you why you want to join, you open up, you get personal. Then they suggest a product. It's this long and long phase of very carefully veiled information similar to like Scientology or a cult that just ropes you in and draws you in until you realize what the real reason of this entire thing is, which is just selling water filters, the Kangan water filter, which I'll show a picture of right here. Think of how lame that is. Like actually, that's so lame. After seeing all these cool, flashy, inspiring photos, all those amazing quotes, talking about abundance in life, looking at people living their best life, and then at the end of it all, the sole purpose of all of this is so that you can sell a water filter. That's literally the lamest thing ever. So on Salt, Sand, and Smoothies Instagram, she has like a little highlighted story about the Kangan filter in Bali. So let's see what the Kangan filter is from the lady herself and what she has to say about all of this. Okay, first and foremost, most important, we're going to talk about getting the Kangan machine set up here in Bali and being able to drink from our tap water, which is basically unheard of here in Bali. Okay, welcome to our carport, speeder port, which is a sponsored. It is most certainly not. This costs me an arm and a leg. Okay, so to get those beautiful pre-filters set up out in the carport and also on the roof. And here we have it. So this is my older machine. This is the SD501 Platinum, which got a little dented during this travel. I have my K8 back in Hawaii, but yeah, we have it set up straight to the tap, which is beautiful. And we've got some pre-filters going on behind the fridge. I'll try to show you guys now. Okay, this looks like an actual nightmare. Fortunately, we did not install any of this. The Omega guys came and installed it over the course of like two days. This is the reverse osmosis system. It brings the water into these two holding tanks. Whenever we want to turn Kangan on, we simply just open this guy. And we wait a second because we have really low water pressure at our house, apparently. Yeah, so blessed to have this water straight from the tap in Bali. Do not take it for granted, that is for sure. Okay, last but not least is our shower filtration system. So yeah, we wanted to make sure that the water we shower in is pretty relatively clean, at least not super rich in bacteria. We're constantly getting like reef cuts from surfing and just life being barefoot in Bali and riding scooters and the animals. So we wanted to make sure that the water that we bathe in isn't making us any dirtier than we already are. So I'll show you guys the setup in the bathroom now. Okay, this is our bathroom that we're like just moving into. So it's still looking pretty empty. But the coolest thing is when Omega came and did filtration on the whole house, it included obviously not only the shower water, but also the butt spray water that you use here in Indonesia. So that's pretty dope that we get to spray our bombs with clean water. Here is our beloved Anaspa. It's the DX, so we got the newest model here with the strongest filtration. Flicking the switch, we get to wash our feet or if you had a bathtub essentially, you could fill up a bathtub with that one. Yeah, you don't have to put it up here. You can put it on the floor or on the side of your bath. Cool, so that's that. Hopefully that was somewhat entertaining or insightful for some of you guys. I think all in all, the reverse osmosis system and the pre-filtration and the lab test probably came out to be about $2,000. And that included me giving the installation guys a pretty sweet tip, because they were sweating out here, installing it on the roof and in our kitchen for like two days straight. Definitely a big investment, but for me it was like a no-brainer if I wanted to make Bali work for me. Relatively long-term, I need to have the Kongin machine. I don't feel good if I drink any other water. I notice it immediately in my digestion and my sleep and my energy levels. So I need all the help I can get and that filter does wonders for me. That's a lot of effort for an MLM product. That is the most effort I have ever seen for an MLM product. You would not go through all of this effort unless you were in a pyramid scheme. Let's be real. I mean, if you're into these types of things, I mean, if you're into these types of water filtering systems, you do you. This video isn't about debunking water filters or filtration systems, even though there's definitely a lot to debunk on that. Of course, there can be contaminated water, but most studies show between a Brita filter and this Kongin filtration system, there really is not a big enough difference to justify the price jump, which we'll get into the price of this real soon. But most of all, I want to point out the really odd hypocrisy of all of this. The breakaway movement is selling a water filtration system. In this Instagram highlight story, she mentions this is the only water that tastes good to her. This is the only water that gives her healthy hair. It has like hydrogen plus in it, and that somehow is like beneficial and it's the only water she likes and it's the only water that tastes good. But I have to note, all of the photos and videos and influencers in the breakaway movement are constantly in bodies of water that were not filtered out by this Kangen filter system. Of course, obviously they're not like drinking the ocean, but if you even have to bathe in this Kongin filtered water, then why are you spending most of your time in the ocean? That's kind of super hypocritical, right? I also have to share this video a subscriber sent me of someone defending Kongin. Hey, hope you can hear me. I wanted to hop on and because I haven't been on in a while, it's been a week of low energy and adjustment. Audrey and I have a roommate and it's just been different. So I also have to love how her Instagram handle is Arielle's abundant life. Abundance, abundant life. I'm starting to really dislike the word abundant. So I wanted to talk about the year of investing in yourself. Investing in your health, investing in a course that could help you further your, that could help you further your career and just because someone doesn't want to join a pyramid scheme doesn't mean they're actively working to better themselves and like better their life. Further your passion to ultimately allow you to be a better person. But if you always do what you've always done, you're going to get the same result. Your result won't change. And this is why I joined Breakway Movement and invested in a Kongin machine because I didn't want to work as a nurse or a nine to five until I'm 65 years old. That's what they always say, but it's like, what's so bad about a nine to five? If someone enjoys a nine to five and they're passionate about an industry, that's amazing. I definitely am not one of those personalities that exceeds well in a nine to five, but even if you are one of those people, there's so many other jobs to do that isn't a nine to five and that isn't investing in a pyramid scheme. I wanted the ability to stay home with my daughter if she's sick with 103 degree fever and not have to go into work and risk losing my job because I was out of sick days. I wanted to be able to make 30 grand a month to pay off debt easily. I think everyone wants that. Can I say something, though? This is just funny how sick MLM boss base or what are they called? Hunbots? It's funny how sick Hunbots kids get all the time. Have you noticed that? Their kids get sick all the time. No, I haven't noticed that. No, because they're like, oh, my kid was severely ill and I was able to stay home. I hear that all the time from them. Okay, how sick are your kids? You should probably go get them checked out. They're just saying. Okay, I'm getting bit by bit. But to me, it is so much scarier to stay in a job, a nine to five o'clock in job until I'm 65 with two weeks vacation a year and four sick days I can take a year. So much scarier than investing $5,000 one time. I just, I can't even explain to you. And there we have it, folks. That is the price of a Kangan filter, water filtration system. $5,000. It's not one of those MLM gigs where you sell five products to one of your friends who sells five products to their friends and so on and so forth. ANAGIC is a true direct sales business. ANAGIC's flagship model, which costs $4,980. Okay, so every single time a Kangan machine is sold, there are eight commission points for checks which are paid out to the distributors. Depending on which machine you sell determines how much each commission check is worth. Imagine starting at the website where it's like super inspiring become a social media influencer and you watch a free class and you talk with them and it seems like you're going to learn about business, learn about being an entrepreneur and then you go down further and further and then all of a sudden you're like, oh, we're going to sell Kangan machines and you're like, uh, okay. That's not exactly what I thought we were going to be doing, but sure. And then you find out that you have to spend $5,000 to invest in this lame water filter. It's lame. Let's just be real. So, yeah. That is just crazy. And I feel so bad for people that get sucked into this and get all the way down to the final moment when they find out that they have to purchase this Kangan machine for $5,000. Overall, this is just the same scheme that we've been seeing for years and years just recycled and rehashed. And it makes sense that this sort of influencer lifestyle would be used to peddle this kind of scheme because the whole idea of an influencer lifestyle is a scam itself because chances are they too get pimples on their face deal with the shit sometimes go through traffic and horrible stressful airports on their way to their luxurious plane flights. Sitting and slouching, they probably also get those weird stomach rolls that we've been taught to be so insecure of. And when they're surfing that crystal blue clear water they've probably been hit by a wave and that stuff is not fun. Really powerful thing you can do when you're around the ocean is just ask the ocean to cleanse and clean. Not to say that this lifestyle isn't great but you can't be happy but no one's ever perfect and there's never 100% perfect moments in life. And whenever someone's trying to sell you that idea they're probably roping you into some sort of false illusion scheme. And really just a fake lifestyle in general. And that's all I have to say about the breakaway movement and the breakaway cult. I hope you guys enjoyed this video and until next time, have a good one.