About the Pathway Sedona
Enthoozee
Eddie started Enthoozee Life coaching in 2017 to teach this life philosophy to others through the life coaching process. Enthoozee was a for profit company. After reaching 800,000 members rather quickly, an unforeseen threat emerged and took down the company.
The company saw a large spike in enrollments in Argentina, with hundreds of new members enrolling quickly using their credit cards for the $500 enrollment. Eddie and the TPS leadership thought this was great; more new members to coach and help is better!
In the Enthoozee infinite binary compensation plan, when a person signed up beneath another, the referrer was paid a minimum of $150. The new Argentinian referrers pocketed this money, and at the 30 day period when their credit card bills became due, they skipped on the debt. It turns out that these new members were communist Argentinian rebels against the Argentinian government, seeking new ways to finance their revolution illicitly, using Enthoozee as a money laundering scheme to further their revolution! And Enthoozee got stuck in the middle.
Interpol flagged the rebel scheme, informed the American DOJ, and the DOJ swooped in and froze the Enthoozee bank accounts, and had a meeting with Eddie. They told him that they knew he was unaware of the rebels plan, and he was therefore never charged with any crime of any sort. But they had to close the company, because it was too involved to go in and sort out who was a rebel and who wasn’t in the Argentinian membership. So the company accounts were closed, and Eddie was told he could not run another networking organization for two years.
Transition to the Pathway Sedona
Eddie spent the next two years studying what had gone wrong, and how the mission of helping people could be improved upon and made bullet proof. Fortunately, with the introduction of Wise Money Transfer, monies could now be paid into TPS from existing fully funded bank accounts worldwide, effectively ending the threat of a reoccurrence of the Argentinian rebels fiasco.
Eddie also decided to transition his company idea into a non-profit structure, since profit was never the motive in the first place! He discovered that under this legal structure, no taxes were due for the gifts to the members until a threshold of $19,000. was reached, and that TPS could pay these subsequent taxes to the state and federal government for the members, meaning each member with monies due them in gifts from the non-profit structure has no tax liability to worry about, since TPS could pay these taxes in the member’s place directly to the state and federal government. This is true according to U.S. tax code up to an aggregate gifting to any one member of a maximum of $15,000,000. After this threshold is reachedto any one member of a maximum of $15 million starting in 2026 is then responsible for their own taxes ongoing.
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Eddie realized that under this non-profit structure he could not only pay out to the members 92% of all monies coming in as donations for the life coaching, but that the company could also pay the state and federal income taxes due on the gifts paid back out to members, up to a $15,000,000. lifetime threshold.
Before starting the Pathway Sedona, Eddie approached the FTC and presented his plan, wanting to understand if their regulations relative to network marketing companies would be infringed upon in any way by this company structure and compensation plan. They looked at the 501C3 designation, and the compensation plan, and responded that they saw no reason not to proceed.
The mission of the FTC is to regulate unfair trade practices. Since TPS is a non-profit company, paying back 92% of every dollar coming in back to its members, they saw no potential harm to consumers, and gave their blessing. And that is why TPS has been left to run its operations unimpeded by the FTC from our inception to this very day two and a half years later.
The Pathway Sedona Detractors
When you search “the Pathway Sedona” you will find very little information, which is unusual for a multi billion dollar company. Eddie and his tech folks work hard for the company to stay under the radar, since growth has been explosive, and they want to grow in a rapid but controlled manner. Even the network marketing reporting companies are rebuffed when they try to learn more about TPS. Their communications simply are not answered.
But when you search, you will find this article: https://behindmlm.com/mlmreviews/the-pathway-sedona-review-enthoozee-pyramid-scheme-reboot/. In this article, the site administrator Oz gives his take on why he feels TPS is an illegal pyramid scheme. His main point is that the FTC requires ongoing retail sales from a standard for-profit network marketing company, or else it operates as a “pyramid scheme.”
These FTC standards were originally meant to regulate for profit companies, preventing them from simply signing up members, who receive no real product or service, and eventually the people who enter the scheme early walk away with all the money, while the little guys who got in late end up losing their money. This is one of the negative results that the FTC is commissioned to prevent; the bilking of the public under such a structure.
But in a non-profit company, where it gives back 92% of all monies coming in back out to its members, and only the barest minimum of company expenses are expended to run the company, how exactly can harm come to the public from that which the FTC is commissioned to prevent? The people do not need to be protected from the company, which seeks only their benefit! It is a different way of thinking altogether than that which the FTC was instituted to regulate against. It renders their oversight and regulation unnecessary.
With TPS, it is all about helping the people, and not financially enriching a company owner or its board members. So the FTC has clearly deemed the company no potential threat to its members, and told Eddie and his legal representatives the same thing. Does anyone really think that the FTC would allow The Pathway Sedona to operate for two and a half years, and become the largest network marketing company in history by many times over, if it were operating illegally under the spirit and letter of the law, and was a risk to its members and the public?
The Pathway Sedona is the only networking company in history to organize as a nonprofit company. Oz and those who analyze the industry do not have a channel in their minds yet to perceive the company, its benevolent mission, nor the scope of its growth and influence. They are steeped in an “old school” mentality, judging by old school standards made for greedy, for profit companies organized to take and not give as their mission.
TPS has superseded every other life coaching or networking company of its kind in history, while detractors are left with old thinking and old company structures that they are involved in and are judging from. Plus, Oz seems to have the source of his revenue rooted in the old school paradigm, locking in his limited thinking. As with the inception of the Amazon service, dinosaur companies are left in the dust as a new era is entered, led by a single company that thinks differently and changes the paradigm and all of our realities. It would be so much wiser to realize the greater value of the new way, and move on from the old ways. But we all know that dinosaurs are slow to change and to leave their comfort zones!
I would suggest to Oz and all others trying to hold on to an old and dying paradigm to move forward and enter into the new way to approach this industry. The time is now for people to have a vehicle to vastly improve their personal lives, and to profit far more, and in a more effortless way, than has been available up to now with old school for profit network marketing company structures