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so on. He is motivated by love, he tells
us, and we believe him.
But there’s also this: throughout the
seminar, he constantly tries to “upsell”
us. He and his sales team use the UPW
event, whose attendees have already
paid a goodly sum, to market multi-day
seminars with even more alluring
names and stiffer price tags: Date with
Destiny, about $5,000; Mastery
University, about $10,000; and the
Platinum Partnership, which, for a cool
$45,000 a year, buys you and eleven
other Platinum Partners the right to go
on exotic vacations with Tony.
During the afternoon break, Tony
lingers onstage with his blond and
sweetly beautiful wife, Sage, gazing into
her eyes, caressing her hair, murmuring
into her ear. I’m happily married,
but right now Ken is in New York and
I’m here in Atlanta, and even I feel
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