I am not here to write about Fitness R Us/soon to be Holistic Fitness, I am here to simply write about the owner Joanne Barry and her Joanne's Healing Within talk show as a scam artist.
Joanne contacted me after seeing me on an acquaintance Live feed on Facebook. She said she interviews people. It turns out that she interviews them for a charge. Fair enough, she is new in her business and I am promoting mine. This was a win-win in my book. I could use the video on any of my social media platforms and I thought that would be great. I paid $177 for a 15 min interview via Skype.
3 days prior to our interview, she gave me a phone number and a website to call in through Skype and told me what time to call in at. I tried 7 times and no one answered. I wrote in the chat area that I was there and having difficulties, one person said that that was just a phone number to call in via phone. (that message, as well as a few others, are now deleted). I ended up calling in on the phone and spoke with Joanne for a total of 8 minutes. 4 minutes of my interview and 4 minutes with her card reading. (not what I paid for).
Joanne did not contact me, I contacted her the next day. Her rely upon
"Hi Rockie,
I will need to find out what the policy is as we did do a 10 minute interview."
Her second reply actually 3rd,
"Hello Rockie,
I checked in with Strong Island Television and rewatched our show and your interview was awesome. We had 1.2k viewers and counting. Congratulations.
Within the week I will email you the YouTube link to this episode, which you can post on all your social media pages. Again thank you for a great interview."
I am now led to believe it was a scam from the start. She never intended to interview me. What the heck, She is in New York, I am in California. What can I do right? This is what I can do. I am sure it would have been a whole different experience had I been able to be on her couch.
Here is the video, you decide if I got my money's worth. Keep in mind, I tried 7 times in 30 minutes to get on Skype, I tried to chat with someone to get them to come and help me. They deleted several of the chats between me and 2 other people. (I am not sure who they are. Could be Joanne herself or the people who work and or own Strong Island Television). But someone did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBu4B3orIcw&feature=youtu.be
This has been a very disappointing experience from someone calling themselves "spiritual". I am here to warn you that this is not a good spiritual person. Hopefully, this will help you save your money and not be scammed. read more