God all this sales bollocks. Before FL and all its clones came on the scene, plenty of people I know were self employed, some very successfully so. They were (are still) journalists, dressmakers, fitness instructors, dance teachers, seamstresses, bee farmers and cafe owners. As far as I can tell they all work very hard (couldn't be successfully self employed otherwise) and might use Facebook to publicise events or classes or current projects, but always totally professionally, and with genuine passion for what they were doing. None of them ever boasted about how many holidays they were going to have, how many flashy cars, how they were thrilled to have sacked the boss (even though many did leave standard employment to start their businesses) and so on.
It's only the MLM bots who spout all that crap. Even the dance teachers and fitness instructors who run their own studios and rent the rooms out to other dance/fitness instructors, who arguably do make money from recruiting others, don't bang on about it and boast about the income from it.
Why is that, d'you think??