I did some digging and found out that the motivational speaker industry was tangled up with multilevel marketing pyramid schemes. Motivational speakers may have

I did some digging and found out that the motivational speaker industry was tangled up with multilevel marketing pyramid schemes. Motivational speakers may have done legitimate business for large institutions back in the 80s and 90s, but those institutions must not have seen the results they wanted because by the early 2010s, the big names were all speaking for Amway, Vemma, etc. to large crowds, to encourage/pressure people to stay in the program even when it was obvious they were losing money. Any time you see "power of positive thinking" type stuff, chances are it's propaganda for an MLM or MLMs in general. Most of the "thinkers" cited in Rhonda Byrne's The Secret were MLM affiliated. The rest were running scams of their own.