Awakend collapses, website gone + Sol People reboot
Following months of decline and a bungled acquisition of Q Sciences, Awakend has collapsed.
At time of publication Awakend’s website has been scrubbed, leaving visitors in the dark as to what’s going on.
Further research reveals earlier this month Awakend distributors began posting about a “relaunch”.
Awakend’s reboot has been revealed as Sol People, set up on the recently acquired domain “solpeople.com”:
Despite still being owned by Rodney James, Sol People is marketing itself as a “female-led movement”.
The original face of Awakend, Danelle Meoli, is long gone. This time around James has put Awakend “founder” Ashlee Headlee James and Whitney Rose in charge as co-CEOs.
Whitney Rose I’m not familiar with but Ashlee Headlee is known to BehindMLM as the person who put together Awakend’s doctored Zenith study.
On the product side of things, Sol People will market a range of nutritional supplements, personal care and digital products.
A marketing video on Sol People’s website provides a glimpse of the supplements and personal care range…
…apparently Sol People’s digital products are courses but I haven’t seen anything specific yet.
BehindMLM does have a copy of Sol People’s compensation plan but I figure we’ll wait for their website to go live for product pricing before publishing anything.
Awakend was one of the more memorable MLM launches over the past few years.
Originally a silly NFT gimmick combined with a product whose right to manufacture was still hotly disputed, Awakend’s launch is a good lesson on why rushing something out the door doesn’t work.
With direct access to the mastermind behind it all, perhaps Sol People can put together an Awakend case-study course.
Update 19th June 2024 – Between me researching this article and publishing, Awakend has updated its website.
Here’s what it looked like when I began researching:
After publishing I closed the wrong window and had to refresh the page, resulting in this update:
Sometime between me researching this article and publishing Awakend updated its website to not be a blank page. I’ve left an update at the end of the article.
Also “Digital MRR” better not mean another illegal gifting scheme.
Whitney Rose is a reality TV star from the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City….. This isn’t good at allllllllll – They’re definitely grasping at straws and will be using that RHOSLC hype to drive sales/recruitment.
Awakened is still a company they say and this is a whole new company. the merge between Awakened and Qsciences did not go well so that part is done.
@Oz, the gifting scheme. Look no further than your own article.
https://behindmlm.com/companies/q-sciences-purchased-by-awakend-founder-rodney-james/
Oz—two of the main distributors are Mariel Fillippone and Jessica Mathis. Both are serial MLMers.
Mathis has been in multiple companies, jumping to the top and getting bridges from the owners. Then she enrolls a bunch of followers and then leaves them with nothing. She usually earns a big bonus.
Red flags abound everywhere with these two.
@Fool
That was a separate Q Sciences affiliate gifting spinoff though. This would be a new one baked into Sol People no?
@Barbara
As I understand it Awakend is done. It makes no sense to run Awakend and Sol People at the same time. And besides, Awakend’s website was pulled.
It’s just a rebrand. Awakend is changing name and branding. Oh and pushing a bunch of leaders from elsewhere to the top of the company and leaving the loyal who stuck with them through every disaster!!
@Oz. The “Fab 4” listed in your previous article, with the Digital trainings/gifting scheme, it’s that one. Mariel Filippone, et al. By the way, they are launching with founders packs, but have no product “yet”.
Wait what? So a bunch of Q Sciences distributors who launched a gifting scheme to defraud their Q Sciences downlines, are now going to also defraud what’s left of Awakend?
And Rodney James had the gall to claim Awakend’s Q Sciences acquisition fell through “to safeguard the integrity of our company”.
I hate to reduce this to race but apparently we’re in desperate need of a fresh FTC gifting lawsuit. The last one targeting a black community gifting scam (and subsequent criminal charges), doesn’t seem to have sunk in.
Between Michele Oneil and this bullshit, white women seem to think federal gifting laws don’t apply to them.
@Tish, Sorry that this is happened to you. It’s the way MLMs work. Top earners make a ton of money and in the case of Awakened and Q, run a company into the ground and jump to another company.
They aren’t loyal. They are lovers of money and power. There is not enough of either to satisfy their empty souls.
Don’t be filled that their skincare line is exclusive. It’s white labeled.
@foolmeonce – Tish is a very active member of the anti-mlm community based in Australia – check out her YouTube channel: Echo Echo.
Tish has been documenting the Awakend scam pretty much since day one. She made many astute and accurate observations on the overt and subliminal body and fat shaming rhetoric that Danelle Meoli was flogging back when she had any control in this MLM.
Tish also has a great series of coverage on Kangan/Enagic and their scam in Australia.
@KS Sa, We need more Tishes. 🙂 I hope she keeps the coverage going.
Run fast. Run away very fast from any “company” with husband and wife team Rodney James & Ashlee James connected.
Oh good lord, I’m watching the Zoom right now – a friend sent it, “check this out!” And the minute they started talking my MLM radar went off and I ran to Google.
There are already multiple people in the comments – “are there payment plans?” And they are suggesting Affirm, Klarna, etc … so awful.
And retreats! Not that you earn, that you can PURCHASE! And something about a Prism Jewelry add on?
If the news settles down we should have a SOL People review out by the end of the week.