Madison Vining made a big announcement in August of 2021. She quit after becoming one of the top sellers for Young Living.
The news came as a huge shock to her and her Young Living team. According to the New Yorker, Young Living is one of two major essential oils companies in the US, along with DoTerra, which claims to be the largest oils company in the world. Both reach $1 billion in sales each year. Vining, who had worked for Young Living for more than eight years, had reached Royal Crown Diamond status, which means that sellers with that status make on average $1,645,692 annually or $137,000 a month.
Vining and her husband, Tyler, left a lot of money on the table to start from scratch. Rumors swirled that the Vinings had gotten a huge payoff or some other incentive to leave Modere, after they announced that they were joining the company.
Vining kept her reasons for leaving Young Living under wraps. She began to spill the tea on social media recently. The Vinings gave reasons for leaving Young Living. The devil and his demons.
The prince of darkness. Vining is just one former top Young Living retailer who this month has either implied or flat-out said that they left the company after feeling that demonic forces were spreading among Young Living members.
The company was labeled a cult by one former seller, who deleted her account. Truitt led the charge on the oily satanic panic by accusing the company of spreading propaganda through a New Age self-help book. She told Christians to flee or risk their souls.
Truitt said in an emotional story that this is so much bigger than money that it is eternal significance.
Truitt didn't return a request for comment. Vining blocked me after I reached out.
Young Living said it did not publish and did not endorse the book. Vonn Harting didn't return a request for comment.
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It's odd that so many of the former Young Living retailers, like Vining, have jumped ship to Modere before even receiving the book, because they declared the company to be satanic. Truitt left Young Living five months ago to join Modere. Liz Joy of Pure Joy Home, as well as other big Young Living sellers, recently announced they were going to Modere.
In August of last year, Young Living sued several prominent Young Living sellers, including the Vinings and McLean and her husband, for breach of contract. The lawsuit was dismissed in December at the request of both sides. It gives valuable insight into the break up of the prominent essential oil sellers. Young Living accused the McLeans and Vinings of trying to cut a deal with Modere. McLean didn't return a request for comment. Modere didn't return a request for comment.
“I feel a lot of clarity breaking my silence for things that matter in eternity."
The named defendants in this case are former, extremely successful Young Living distributors who have meticulously executed a plan to leave Young Living, join a competing business venture, and take as many Young Living distributors and customers with them as possible. Young Living didn't comment on the lawsuit.
Money or alleged back doors had nothing to do with their decision to leave. Vining wrote that the book Truitt denounced was the "tip of the iceberg" and she felt better afternouncing this spiritual darkness to her followers.
She wrote that she felt a lot of clarity breaking her silence for things that matter in eternity.
Many of Young Living's retailers, including Vining, have spent the past several years Blending together the principles of alternative health and medicine the company preaches with their evangelical Christian beliefs, and to great success.
Young Living was founded in 1993 by D. Gary Young, who was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Gary's wife, Mary, wrote in a newsletter to Young Living members that her husband's desire to spread essential oils was tied to his faith.
He founded the essential oil movement against tremendous opposition but never stopped in his desire to serve God's children. For a long time, alternative remedies like essential oils were seen as the purview of hippie-dippie rich people, but, as Rachel Monroe wrote in the New Yorker in 2017: essential oils have also caught on more broadly among women all over the US.
She wrote that wellness is often dismissed as frivolity, another way for wealthy white women to spend money.
Many of the devotees who made it big in Young Living shared similarities with Vining. They were young wives and mothers in the heartland who were devoted evangelical Christians, and they also seemed to have a suspicion of mainstream medicine.
Vining's life changed dramatically when she stopped buying mainstream products and started using essential oils. Three years before, she wrote about how her family decided to start awellness journey after learning about the dangers in their home.
There are ingredients in everyday things that are linked to cancer, infertility, and disease. She wrote that they just didn't know. The trash bag held candles, over the counter drugs, and other items that were setting us up for failure with our health.
Vining never said what ingredients were making her family sick, but she did say that once she threw out the products she saw a huge difference. Vining claimed that her family no longer needed Western medicine after she found Young Living.
We use essential oils for everything in our home, from seasonal irritations outdoors, to first aid type of things, to helping regulate hormones and emotions and all that good stuff, and of course restful sleep!
Vining and her husband used the proceeds from their essential oil business to spread the word of Jesus, as the Vinings' platform grew.
“Our prayer has always been that we would use our influence to point everything back to The One who made a way (Jesus!)."
Vining wrote that the prayer has always been that they would use their influence to point out the One who made a way.
Vining and another Young Living seller made a goal to get Young Living oils into a school in Uganda that was founded by an American evangelical Christian missionary. The Vinings and their partners were able to raise enough money to give the students at the school appropriate wellness supplies in order to prevent icky diseases and unwellness. She thought that the plan was a call from God.
Vining wrote that it was about more than oils. It is about using any platform we are given, to glorify the King.
Vining's essential oil influence led to a career on social media, where she became a prominent Young Livinginfluencer. When she left the company in August of 2021, she had more than 200,000 followers on social media.
Many other Young Living sellers found success on social media, where they were able to share their faith and their lifestyles, while also recruiting new downlines and Young Living retailers who report to them. The former Royal Crown Diamond, who was sued by Young Living along with the Vinings last year, grew her platform to more than 29,000 followers and launched a book and video series called 24 days of prayer for your business. In the series, McLean led followers on a spiritual devotional to focus on their faith in their business ventures. Truitt, who has more than 43,000 followers on social media, is open about her faith and her business ventures, as well as her devotion to health and fitness.
The sudden insistence by the oil peddlers that the company is now anti-Christian has been so unnerving. According to the oilers, after years of success in Young Living, they began to feel a darkness creeping into the company and that's what led them to leave.
Last week, Truitt started the public drama when she posted a series of stories about her issues with Young Living. Truitt and her husband felt like the company was changing and not for the better after seven years of selling Young Living. Truitt didn't specify what the changes were, but we heard things that didn't agree with our spirit.
She said that they knew the Lord was calling them out.
Truitt said that she received a book in the mail that she thought was from Young Living, despite having resigned last fall. She claimed that Mary Young, the wife of the founder, encouraged the leaders to read the book and pass it along to their subordinates. Robert Tennyson Stevens is a self-help guru who runs a company called Mastery Systems. Stevens wrote a book with Vonn Harting, a Young Living Royal Crown Diamond.
The person for Young Living said that Young's decision to contribute to the book was not related to her role at the company.
They said that Mary Young chose to write a foreword because she wanted to support her friend.
After placing an order for a book on the website of Mastery Systems, my order was canceled and I was not given an explanation for why. My Word Made Flesh has been removed from the website.
Truitt said she was horrified when she flipped through the book.
She said that the book was one of the most demonic books she had ever had.
Truitt reads from a book in her video. Truitt claimed that elements of the book include encouraging people to do things and telling them to repeat them.
“This book is one of the most darkest and demonic books I’ve ever had in my house."
She says in her story that there is nothing more false than that.
Truitt warned people who were still in Young Living that if they brought the book into their house it would ruin them.
If you hide this book from your teams, you are condoning evil, she said.
She said that this is so much bigger than money that you have to run from it.
Vining said that she was proud of Truitt for sharing the truth.
She wrote that believers should be aware that the enemy can look and smell good. Vining knew she had to speak out more about her experience with Young Living, but she was praying for clarity to speak out more about her experience.
Truitt's community was overwhelmingly supportive of her stance on Young Living. Commenters praised her bravery and for speaking out against evil. People slammed Young Living on social media after Truitt spoke out.
I am not surprised that an essential oil company would come out as satanic, wrote one.
The company is anti-blical and has been posting about it on other accounts.
She said that everyone thought she was crazy because she knew Young Living was into some dark stuff.
Truitt erased her claims from her account after posting about the book. There is no neutral ground in the universe according to a quote from C.S. Lewis. Every square inch is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.
Modere is a new company that Truitt and Vining are promoting, which will allow you to buy and sell products from their accounts.
Truitt wrote that God did design our bodies to move, and that he has been using Modere products for a while.
Young Living's social accounts have been silent on the controversy. They continue to post about the benefits of oils, and encourage their 1 million followers to practice meditation with their favorite essential oil blend.
Their followers filled their comments section with hearts.
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