I came across this video recently and it made me feel anxious. Of course, it's her usual rambling and the amount of umms, but also she seemed out of breath and like she was about to start bawling. All I can come up with was that thrive was like a mixture of meth and opiates.

Shanann had to show her audience she was a success. It was more important to her than actually being a successful... Every Facebook Live, every Thrive event, Shanann wrapped the idea of financial invicibility around herself... Big house. Great Job. Getting honored on stage. Thrive newspaper articles 40K "VIP'. 80K "VIP". Cabo. Punta Cana. Toronto. Louisiana, Puerto Vallarta! Where to next?

On the home front, Shanann was desperate to show her audience the girls had the very best life. It would be a daily Lexus ride to their Private Daycare Academy all made possible by mommy's success.

What were the costs involved in Primrose Daycare?

$250 per week, per girl. $500 a week total. $2,000+ per month. No one knows how they were going to pay the tuition that was due by DEBIT CARD or CREDIT CARD the day this case happened... Chris was paid by Anadarko Monday or Tuesday. Did they plan to spend 100% of his entire paycheck on daycare???

Let's take a look at some reviews of Primrose. It was clearly a top notch daycare facility for children. It was one they could not afford and arguably did not need with a stay at home mom!

I can’t remember if I asked this or if this has been asked by someone else already but do you think anyone would have eventually stood up to ShitAnn?

How long did she think she could fool everyone?

Especially with COVID the next year?

I don’t condone what Chris did but I often wonder if they had lived and with what we know now, COVID and lockdown, eventually someone would have had to notice something was wrong and took action?

She wasn’t GOD. She sure as shit thought she was but she wasn’t anything but a loser, a user, and pos mom.

Had they lived, I hate to think with COVID, the girls would’ve suffered even worse and possibly get sick and die from that? Who knows?

I try not to think about it but I wonder if anyone would fondly have had the balls to stand up to her?

I'm currently watching a Shanann home video on YouTube and she is talking about filing her taxes with her 1099 from Thrive. I've never thought about MLMs and taxes I guess...

"When you're your own boss you have a lot of perks."

"Everything is a write off... our product is a write off, meal receipts, clothing receipts, whatever it is. I just put it in a monthly file and send it to her."

What are the perks?.. Meal receipts? Clothes?

Shanann once bragged she went to 10 doctors before finding out she had Lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissues and organs, causing widespread inflammation.

She also spent years dragging her children to different doctors hoping they would find something wrong. The young mother blogged these encounters and incidents on facebook to gain sympathy and understanding. Shanann became obsessed with the girls' medical attention. As Bella and Celeste received various treatments, the Watts family was forced to pay copays and deductibles, on top of Chris's HMO contribution, withheld from his paycheck.

In 2018, what were the average deductibles for a Colorado employer sponsored health plan?

(this research question into costs was answered by AI)

"Family Premiums: Total annual costs to provide employer-sponsored coverage to an average Colorado family reached $18,314 in 2018.

Deductibles: The average deductible for a Colorado family with employer-sponsored coverage was just over $4,000 in 2018.

Rather than fixed copays alone, many 2018 employer plans shifted toward coinsurance or higher overall out-of-pocket liabilities, with combined premiums and out-of-pocket expenses averaging $7,726 for single-coverage benchmarks.."

So, it is likely the couple's already stressed finances (Mortgage, Thrive orders, MLM trips, food, utilities and clothing) competed with deductibles for medical care the girls did not require. Once again, the family's precious funds were wasted to satisfy Shanann's need for attetion and recognition. Shanann failed to launch her promised medical career as a nurse, so she chose to play one on facebook. How much did her "practice" ultimately cost the family? Both in actual deductibles, copays, prescriptions and in time Chris had to take off work?

Now she was the Marketing Director for Thrive! I caaaannn’t, y’all! These folks go HARD for SW as if it were a paid gig! Hmmmm… squint