TeamRH #6 play the victim, woe is me; the truth’s coming out, just you see

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catastrophical said:
I didn’t have any issues personally with the plan or the staff. However, as a member of the original affiliates programme I saw behaviour that was unhealthy and caused distress for a lot of people. It was a scheme for TeamRH to grow which of course is business strategy, it was the way it was done and the way it was sold to vulnerable members. It became a toxic environment and I saw people crumble in an effort to appease Richie, whilst he tore them apart. Made it seem like they had something to work harder for. A lot of people spent their own money and clearly time to promote TeamRH with the little bit of a chance that something big would come out of it. I didn’t continue on that journey as it wasn’t something I was going to put myself through. People were pouring their heart and souls out all of Facebook lives to get a few more views/likes all to appease Richie. Very sad to see people let get sucked in.
It’s this that I see has continued over the years in one way or another and it seems to be from what I’m hearing, a toxic environment at head office. Whilst it doesn’t effect me personally, I can’t support an organisation or brand that creates a toxic environment. I’m learning now that this is also towards clients, which is just not acceptable. Members should be made aware of how they are spoken about and disrespected.
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He definetly encouraged affilliates to post there heart and souls i remember one affiliate crying on a live and he said it was the best live yet as it had so much interaction. He brainwashed people. He also said if your going yo say something not nice etc on a live or post always say something like I only have your very best interest at heart im only saying this as I want the very best for you .gaslighting at its best

blakeich said:
So I found this thread and have read up todate. But wasn't sure if I should post or not. I was an original member when there was only a few thousand in the group. When there was calorie clubs, Affiliates didn't exist, you paid about £3.50 a month via PayPal and RH said he didn't care about merch and just cared about the people etc. and that he wouldn't put his prices up like other people out there.

When I was there, nobody was allowed to post any Instagram accounts or anything. Apart from this one guy called "Liam". who gave his story and RH latched onto it. from what I've read he moved up the ranks with him and became an affiliate. Anyhow I commented why this guy was allowed to post his Instagram but nobody else was allowed when everyone had their own stories. In which I got an inbox from RH saying we had a problem and he accused me of bullying this guy. And he was really nasty to me in the inbox. All because I asked why he was allowed to post an Instagram link but nobody else was.

I then got another message saying I was then Copying of this liam person because I posted a picture of my meals on Instagram with the calories in a collage. The same as him. Which he didn't invent because pictogram was around well before and loads of people outside the group posted collages.

I knew then that RH automatically took a dislike to me.

My calories were really quite high and I hadn't really lost weight intact the calories he was giving me I felt were really high and they were making me put on weight. Anyhow I was out for Sunday dinner with my mam one day and I posted a comment about tracking roast beef in a post. And he just went off it with me.

He posted a video saying I had 10 minutes to post my weight weight in the group and my MFP tracking or I would be kicked out. He wanted me to post my own personal data in front or everyone. (There was no GDPR back then). So I posted it. and he had seen that my weight wasn't go anywhere even though I hadn't really done anything like this before and was trying (if I wasn't I wouldn't of asked the question).

He then did another reply saying I was a time waster and said to Peter (God rest his soul) to cancel my Direct debit and I could be in the group for fee as I was a time waster but wouldn't receive any help or anything. 5 minutes later he then changed his mind and said "No infact you're not staying in the group" and kicked me out. He humiliated me via video posts in front of everyone.

I then got another inbox giving a load of waffle. and his final words were come back when you've lost X amount of weight and I will let you back in. However I was blocked from him.

I had a chat with Peter after and he said he was just given the orders to kick me out. and that he didn't really want to.

The guy is not a nice man at all.
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This is typical rh behaviour . That's just awful . How he has got away with it for so long I will never know hope your oksy x
 
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catastrophical said:
there’s so much more that we don’t know but it’s clear that he makes up so much tit to manipulate and trick people into thinking he’s a good guy when in reality he is a complete sociopath

I remember when he met Rachael he had advertised for 5 women to take part in his fitness transformation bullshit. She was the chosen one. No doubt part of his bigger plan. Fucker. I hope she recovers and comes out stronger than ever ❤️



This is all just a game to him. He thinks he’s winning and outdoing people but he’s a massive loser in the grand scheme of things. Emotional abuse of any kind is no way to win at life.
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It would be awesome if she was brave enough to speak out against him. If she played it well she could totally do one over on him and walk away with 90% of their members at least.

I wonder which one of them removed the other from their relationship status 🤔
 
Have just caught up on the threads, thought I’d share my experience.
I joined years ago (£3.50 via PayPal). I had already lost a decent amount of weight and had my own Instagram that was thriving. I joined to try gain muscle and just have a better understanding. I didn’t really use the page much, because I had seen so many people asking for help and being spoke to like a peice of tit, or having a video response effing and jeffing at them.

alas, I stayed. when they started with affiliates Richie reached out, he had seen my transformation picture and asked to use it on team RH. I told him specifically the results weren’t down to his group as I had lost the weight before even joining, can’t remember exactly what he said but he wasn’t bothered. Did bother me abit, but selfishly at the time I wanted to grow my own page and thought it would be good advertisement.

So I became an affiliate, or almost. Had to change any pages we had to have team rh in it (I soon changed it back) again, I had grown a good following and didn’t want to rebrand as such. There were always video messages in the groups on what things to post etc, I remember thinking one day oh if I make a video on this it might get a like off Richie and then that’s when I realised… who the duck am I doing this for. I think it was because of these videos, being used as and example, being compared to other “affiliates” at the promise this could be amazing for all of us individually and what an opportunity. I honestly feel like I was groomed to promote team rh 😂


I packed it in there and then. Changed my pages back to what they were, left the group and cancelled direct debits. It was around the time they just brought out the app (shite) and all the tit merch.

i think I had a lucky escape all in all, shame my transformation picture is still up to this day and he claims the credit for it.
 
Shoeshopshaverights said:
It would be awesome if she was brave enough to speak out against him. If she played it well she could totally do one over on him and walk away with 90% of their members at least.

I wonder which one of them removed the other from their relationship status 🤔
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That's very true - even if she said 'I can't say much but I've left/ I'm leaving'...I mean let's face it, she's the likeable one.
 
Shoeshopshaverights said:
It would be awesome if she was brave enough to speak out against him. If she played it well she could totally do one over on him and walk away with 90% of their members at least.

I wonder which one of them removed the other from their relationship status 🤔
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she removed first

lurker707 said:
Have just caught up on the threads, thought I’d share my experience.
I joined years ago (£3.50 via PayPal). I had already lost a decent amount of weight and had my own Instagram that was thriving. I joined to try gain muscle and just have a better understanding. I didn’t really use the page much, because I had seen so many people asking for help and being spoke to like a peice of tit, or having a video response effing and jeffing at them.

alas, I stayed. when they started with affiliates Richie reached out, he had seen my transformation picture and asked to use it on team RH. I told him specifically the results weren’t down to his group as I had lost the weight before even joining, can’t remember exactly what he said but he wasn’t bothered. Did bother me abit, but selfishly at the time I wanted to grow my own page and thought it would be good advertisement.

So I became an affiliate, or almost. Had to change any pages we had to have team rh in it (I soon changed it back) again, I had grown a good following and didn’t want to rebrand as such. There were always video messages in the groups on what things to post etc, I remember thinking one day oh if I make a video on this it might get a like off Richie and then that’s when I realised… who the duck am I doing this for. I think it was because of these videos, being used as and example, being compared to other “affiliates” at the promise this could be amazing for all of us individually and what an opportunity. I honestly feel like I was groomed to promote team rh 😂


I packed it in there and then. Changed my pages back to what they were, left the group and cancelled direct debits. It was around the time they just brought out the app (shite) and all the tit merch.

i think I had a lucky escape all in all, shame my transformation picture is still up to this day and he claims the credit for it.
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so affiliates still had to pay subs ??? That’s mental, like charging the people that work in the gym for using the equipment
 
lurker707 said:
Yep, think it was when it was upped to a fiver I think too.
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Affiliates scheme was a joke

And yeah affiliates were paying members

Shoeshopshaverights said:
Exactly. All of his followers who have their noses so far up his arse would drop him like a hot potato if she came back on the scene and told everyone what he was actually like!
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I think right now TeamRH is probably the last thing on her mind. She could be completely broken. He might have fooled lots of us into buying his fitness plan but for her it was a relationship, life, future
 
If Richie had any common sense he'd acknowledge the crappy messages and apologise. Tell us all what he's doing to do better in future. Some people will roll their eyes, but some members who feel conflicted could be won over.

But no. They are determined to try brushing everything under the rug. It's embarrassing at this point.
 
lurker707 said:
Have just caught up on the threads, thought I’d share my experience.
I joined years ago (£3.50 via PayPal). I had already lost a decent amount of weight and had my own Instagram that was thriving. I joined to try gain muscle and just have a better understanding. I didn’t really use the page much, because I had seen so many people asking for help and being spoke to like a peice of tit, or having a video response effing and jeffing at them.

alas, I stayed. when they started with affiliates Richie reached out, he had seen my transformation picture and asked to use it on team RH. I told him specifically the results weren’t down to his group as I had lost the weight before even joining, can’t remember exactly what he said but he wasn’t bothered. Did bother me abit, but selfishly at the time I wanted to grow my own page and thought it would be good advertisement.

So I became an affiliate, or almost. Had to change any pages we had to have team rh in it (I soon changed it back) again, I had grown a good following and didn’t want to rebrand as such. There were always video messages in the groups on what things to post etc, I remember thinking one day oh if I make a video on this it might get a like off Richie and then that’s when I realised… who the duck am I doing this for. I think it was because of these videos, being used as and example, being compared to other “affiliates” at the promise this could be amazing for all of us individually and what an opportunity. I honestly feel like I was groomed to promote team rh 😂


I packed it in there and then. Changed my pages back to what they were, left the group and cancelled direct debits. It was around the time they just brought out the app (shite) and all the tit merch.

i think I had a lucky escape all in all, shame my transformation picture is still up to this day and he claims the credit for it.
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"Groomed" is exactly what happened! He did groom us and left many of us fighting for our mental health.

Dee-Dee said:
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so affiliates still had to pay subs ??? That’s mental, like charging the people that work in the gym for using the equipment
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Yes! I paid a full year and was booted out 3 months in to my membership because I said no to him about something he wanted me to do and they never refunded my money! He used his old chestnut "alarm bells are ringing about you"! I honestly wish I'd told him to go duck himself at the time!
 
chuckabiddy said:
If Richie had any common sense he'd acknowledge the crappy messages and apologise. Tell us all what he's doing to do better in future. Some people will roll their eyes, but some members who feel conflicted could be won over.

But no. They are determined to try brushing everything under the rug. It's embarrassing at this point.
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I actually think if he did a live and addressed everything........honestly..........he would get away with it as those who are "balls deep" in the cult will rally round him and he will get away with it. Then go back to "normal"pretty soon after that.
 
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