Emily's books
Hey, Hun
Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and a promise of a successful business of her own. Instead, she ended up with an addiction, broken friendships, and the rubble of a toppled pyramid... scheme.
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing is an eye-opening, funny, and dangerous personal story of author Emily Lynn Paulson rising to the top of the pyramid in the MLM world, only to recognize that its culture and business practices went beyond a trendy marketing scheme and into the heart of white supremacy in America.
Also, a more significant polemic on how they operate, Hey, Hun expertly lays out MLM’s role in the cultural epidemic of isolation and the cult-like ideologies that course through their trainings, marketing, and one-on-one interactions.
Equally entertaining and smart, Paulson’s first-person accounts, acerbic wit, and biting commentary will leave you with a new perspective on those “Hey Hun” messages flooding your inbox.
Hey, Hun
Praise for
I expected Emily’s account of her time in an MLM to be eye-opening. I didn’t expect it to shine a light on so many dark aspects of American culture. Hey, Hun blew me away. An incredibly smart, vulnerable, and jaw-dropping expose. As entertaining as it is important.
Laura McKowen
Best Selling Author of We are the Luckiest and founder of The Luckiest Club
Highlight Real
Finding Honesty and Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life
A music prodigy, head of her class, and well-liked in school, Emily Paulson decided early that embellishment paved the road to success. As she grew up, she figured out how to make the picture look even better - with a successful husband, five beautiful children, and all the required accompanying accoutrements.
Then along came social media, where those pictures of the perfect life grew her a following of women who believed that everything about Emily was #blessed and #inspo. But behind the filtered façade was a reality filled with trauma, addiction, and dysfunctional behavior. From disordered eating to breaking the law and nearly destroying her marriage, Emily had been running from her own trauma for years. Living a life shot through with more self-destruction than she could track, Emily knew things had to change when she woke up one morning and realized that she was barely participating in the picture she had so carefully crafted.
Highlight Real: Finding Honesty and Recovery Behind the Filtered Life is the true story of what happens when a so-called perfect mother and businesswoman is forced to find reckoning with her past and build a future based on the authenticity she has always sought. Searingly honest, heartbreaking and packed with uncountable did-she-actually-just-say-that moments, Highlight Real is a memoir of healing as well as a fully modern look at what happens when the filters fall off and real life emerges into the light.
Praise for
HIGHLIGHT REAL
Highlight Real is honest, authentic and captivating. Emily Paulson’s beautifully written memoir touches on how to recover from many of life’s trials and tribulations. It’s a book about resiliency, transparency and grace. A must read!
ERICA SPIEGELMAN
Best Selling Author of "Rewired" and "Life Rewired"
