Hey Hun, I’m Done

How I Lost $50,000 Learning That Online Business Is a Pyramid Scheme With WiFi

De: Charlotte Banks

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

They promised you'd be sipping mojitos on a beach while the money rolled in. Instead, you're eating cereal at 3 a.m., filming yourself for strangers who don’t care, drowning in debt from courses that teach nothing and coaches who ghost after the invoice clears.

Charlotte Banks thought she'd finally escaped corporate hell when she launched her so-called "online business empire." Instead, she stumbled into a new kind of hustle—one dressed up in pastel fonts and productivity hacks, but just as soul-sucking as the job she left. Six failed ventures and nearly $50,000 later, she discovered the truth: the creator economy is just MLM with better branding and a ring light.

From dropshipping disasters to coaching coaches who coach other coaches, from performing happiness for the algorithm to crying in Starbucks bathrooms between content shoots—this is the book they don’t want you to read.

Inside this painfully honest, laugh-through-the-tears memoir, you’ll uncover:

• ✔️ Why 99% of online businesses are pyramid schemes with Canva templates
• ✔️ How the "laptop lifestyle" means working 80 hours to avoid working 40
• ✔️ The real math behind “six-figure success” (spoiler: it’s usually six figures of debt)
• ✔️ Why your favorite influencer is three months behind on rent
• ✔️ How “building in public” became performing poverty for engagement

Raw, hilarious, and unexpectedly hopeful, The Great Entrepreneurial Lie tears the glossy filter off the cult of online entrepreneurship. If you've ever felt like a failure for not monetizing your morning routine, questioned why your funnel leads nowhere, or wondered if your business coach is also crying into a mug of reheated coffee—this book is for you.

Perfect for anyone who’s ever:

• • Felt like a failure for not monetizing their passion
• • Wondered why their “passive income” keeps demanding more time
• • Suspected their business coach is also broke (and possibly in your DMs)
• • Wanted permission to stop performing success and start living a life

Warning: This book contains zero affiliate links, no course upsells, and absolutely no motivation to “manifest your dreams.” Just the messy, liberating truth about an industry built on teaching people to teach people to teach people nothing.

"Finally, someone said what we're all thinking. I laughed, I cried, I canceled my Kajabi subscription." – Every exhausted creator ever

Charlotte Banks is a recovering content creator who traded her ring light for actual sunlight and her personal brand for a personality. She lives somewhere with reliable WiFi—and no desire to monetize it.

Accurate and beautifully honest.

Charlotte does a great job here of finding the humor in what is far from a humourous trap. What a gift for clearly seeing the absurd.