High Ticket EmpressReviews of highticketempress.com

12/19/22 - entered into an agreement for a Business Marketing program offered by Tara Mullarkey called High Ticket Empress (HTE). As part of my contract I received a 100% money back guarantee if I did not recoup my investment of $11,800 during the 90 day program. While the details of the guarantee were shared with me during the sales call, I had concerns about the requirement of attending all live calls (due to work). When I brought my concerns about the language of the guarantee to the sales rep he stated that it was not strictly enforced and unfortunately I chose to trust that he was telling me the truth, so I signed the agreement. After completing the 90 days, I wasn't able to make my investment back and I messaged HTE to ask for a refund based on the guarantee in my contract. They responded by saying that I initially qualified, but because I didn't satisfy the requirements for the guarantee I was no longer eligible for a refund. They then listed additional requirements that were not in the agreement or shared with me verbally or otherwise (apparently, attendance at all live calls not only meant being there live, but also submitting questions & being coached on all calls - not stated in my contract). This was a complete 180 from what the sales rep had stated during my sales call to get me to sign the agreement. Not to mention the requirements are so rigorous that they are impossible to meet as it included 3 weekly coaching calls plus another coaching call that met biweekly. There are 6 elements of fraudulent misrepresentation and this business has met all of them. Due to the company's fraudulent misrepresentation of their guarantee I am left with a huge financial investment lost. I also put in a complaint with the Better Business Bureau hoping to resolve this matter. They sent correspondence to High Ticket Empress with no response. Still no refund as of this date. BEFORE YOU BUY, MAKE SURE THIS IS WHAT YOU REALLY NEED. THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER REVIEWS JUST LIKE THIS ONE. DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE SALES TACTICS.

I went into this program with a positive attitude and was committed to growing my coaching business. I was willing to try everything they recommended. I attended or watched coaching calls for 6 consecutive weeks. At this point, approximately halfway through the program, on a coaching call when I asked for support, I was refused coaching and told I was “uncoachable.” I was bullied and gaslighted on a group coaching call. After this happened, I did not receive any further support to achieve the outcomes explained in the initial sales call. Tara Mullarkey promotes empowering women, especially Christian women, and then preys on them throughout the program. If you are not seeing results, she doesn’t actually know how to coach you. She will find a way to make you leave or stop showing up if you aren’t seeing results rather than help and support you. I saw this happen repeatedly throughout my time in the program with multiple women leaving coaching calls in tears. The positive reviews online were unethically solicited to give the impression that she runs a profitable and supportive business. As someone with really thick skin, I’m embarrassed to say I fell prey to Tara’s tactics but this is narcissism and gaslighting at its finest. Whatever you do, find another coaching program. Don’t fall for it like I did and believe the outcomes she is promising you. Your mental health is more important.

DON'T TRUST THE MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE! This program is predatory. They will say whatever they need to in order to get you into the program, including offer to give you all your money back if you don't recoup your investment by the end of the program. I fell for this guarantee. I told my sales rep that I was living on savings. That I didn't have the $10K to give if I still wanted to have food on my plate and a roof over my head in 4 months. So he threw this 100% money-back guarantee out there, with no explanation on what the conditions of the guarantee were. Just that it existed. I'll either make my money back or they'll give it back. A risk-free no-brainer, right? So I agree to it, and fork over my first payment. It was only AFTER I paid into the program that I was presented with the contract with the guarantee details. Attend ALL 40+ coaching calls over 12 weeks or the guarantee is forfeited. Uhhhh.... WHAT?! That's next to impossible, and I shared my concern with my rep. Who then went on for the next 10 mins or so trying to make me feel better. "If you miss a few, no one will hold it against you" "We just expect you to show up to the majority of the calls" "If you can't make it, just send us a message and let us know you didn't just disappear..." "Do you really think missing 1 or 2 calls will be the difference between you succeeding or failing?" For 10 mins.... With all these assurances (and the fact that I was recording this conversation for my own research purposes), I decided to trust what I was being told instead of what I was reading. Fast-forward 12 weeks and I hadn't made my investment back. So I reached out to HTE about redeeming the guarantee. I was -expecting- some kind of pushback based on the verbiage of the guarantee in the agreement. That I hadn't attended ALL the coaching calls (although I let them know when I couldn't make it... like my rep told me to). The response I got thoroughly shocked me. They didn't mention anything about not having -attended- all the calls, apparently I was supposed to "Submit questions to and get COACHED on" ALL 40+ calls. A stipulation that was not in the agreement, nor was it shared with me anywhere else. Never mind it's a condition that is literally IMPOSSIBLE to satisfy - and since it's their program, they know that. We went back-and-forth in an email exchange for a couple weeks. HTE relented on the "coached at all calls" requirement and pointed to the fact that I hadn't attended ALL the calls. And shared screenshots to prove it. Screenshots where I messaged them and told them I wasn't going to be able to make it and why... like my rep TOLD me to on the sales call... Which actually makes it evidence that I did exactly what I was told. Since HTE was -clearly- not going to give me my refund, I decided I was done asking for a refund and said I wanted to move to arbitration. Which is in the contract I signed and something ELSE I'm entitled to should a "dispute arise under or concerning the agreement" They ignored my request in their response. So I asked for it again. In their next and final response to me, they mention something about my "threat of a lawsuit" and that they still weren't giving me my refund. Side Note - Isn't the whole point of arbitration to AVOID a lawsuit...? Isn't that the whole reason they put that in their contract in the first place? At that point the reality of it all was perfectly clear - anything in the contract that benefited them would be enforced, and anything that benefited me but hurt them was a bogus promise. So I reported them to the Better Business Bureau. Not surprisingly they have an F rating. Search the BBB for 7 Figure Coach Worldwide Inc in Florida (the business listed in the bottom of Tara's website as well as the bottom of the HTE website). My next stop is the Federal Trade Commission, because their sales tactic to get me into the program WAS fraudulent misrepresentation. Research on the matter show there are 6 bars to clear to be considered fraudulent misrepresentation: 1. A representation was made; ( ✅ yup) 2. The representation was false; ( ✅ yup) 3. The defendant knew at the time that the representation was false, or recklessly made the statement without knowledge of its truth; ( ✅ yup) 4. The representation was made with the intention that the plaintiff would rely on it; ( ✅ yup) 5. The plaintiff did rely on the false representation; ( ✅ I trusted him and signed the contract) and 6. The plaintiff suffered harm by relying on the false representation. ( ✅ and YUP) The guarantee is a trap to get you IN the program with the ILLUSION of a safety net. It's fake. It's predatory. It's a lie to make people feel safe parting with money they literally can't afford to part with otherwise.

It has taken me 8 months to emotionally recover from my traumatic experience at High Ticket Empress after being financially frauded, gaslit about it, & then iced out of the program only 1 month into a 3-month long, $9,800 program. I have finally regained the strength to write about my experience, but will keep it as unemotional and factual as possible in order to protect my emotional well-being: I agreed over the phone to pay HTE $9,800 total for the program, split over two payments a month apart. However, there was a misunderstanding over the phone & they wrote in the contract that I would pay $10,800. Immediately upon signing the contract (an entire day before I even had any access to any of the course modules / Facebook group / coaching calls / etc.), I let the sales person & rest of the team know that there had been a mistake & that they added an extra $1,000 to what I had initially agreed upon. They told me not to worry & promised to fix it upon the second payment. However, when the time came, they did not rectify the mistake (despite us being in contact about our plan all that month); instead, they charged me the extra $1,000 despite our agreement. I disputed this charge with my credit card &, after much back-and-forth, they were forced to return the $1,000 to me. However, once this occurred (1 month into the 3-month program), they completely iced me out & stopped coaching me. While I still have access to the modules (since I hadn’t spoken out publicly until now…I have been told from others that HTE deletes anyone’s access to the modules if they write a negative review or stand up against the bullying and unethical behaviors of its founder, Tara Mullarkey, in any way), they stopped responding to me on the personal coaching Slack channel, erased me from the group Slack channel, were not welcoming on the coaching calls, & later deleted me from the Facebook group which I was under the impression I'd have lifetime access to. Besides those more obvious wrongdoings, this company also acted out of alignment with integrity in many other ways. For instance, the contract says the Slack coaches would get back to the clients within 48 hrs max- that was not always the case, and many times they would only get back to you to say you should ask them again on the coaching call in a week (48 hrs already feels like a long time when you are on a roll with trying to grow your company, but having to wait a week for just a couple minutes with a coach on a 2+ hr group call can really stop any momentum in its tracks). They also promised me on the initial sales call that I would have access to one-on-one calls with my own personal coach – however, they apparently decided to discontinue that feature immediately after I joined the program. They are also misleading in their marketing - making the program seem much less intense than it is, & even allowing beginners into the course, even though it is incredibly advanced (&, since I was iced out, I was unable to figure out ClickFunnels & Facebook ads from their modules alone—which they claim you should be able to do--& ended up needing to hire outside help to get it running). Another marketing angle that they used was that HTE is a woman’s empowerment program…however, not only did the program exemplify the exact opposite of that in general through their belittling, bullying, & gaslighting behavior, but when I joined, there seemed to be more men who were a part of their team than women (or at least an equal amount), which is probably fine for some people, but I was specifically looking to work w/ women & I mentioned this on my sales call (to the male salesperson) who did not alert me that this program wouldn’t be what I was looking for then. The coaches also tend to shame and gaslight their clients, & ice out those who hold them accountable to their word--to the point where many other clients have reached out to me about it, stating that they are afraid to speak out against them for fear of being shamed. I also know that this company bribes for positive reviews). I could keep going about the reasons that this company is out of integrity, but I won’t for my own soul’s sake. My hope is that this review can help at least 1 person from not experiencing the financial fraud & emotional distress that I went through with HTE. RESPONSE TO REPLY: I withdrew my comment re: Trust Pilot since I didn't realize TP deleted those reviews, not you. If you check the dates of your screenshots, you'll note that there was no coaching given AFTER you realized I was requesting a chargeback from the credit card company (granted, a couple days after the 1-month mark). Yes, I was blocked from Slack & FB. To call the $1,000 situation a "simple mistake" is a flat-out lie. I expressed dissatisfaction via Slack & email several times. Your next high-ticket program should be Gaslighting 101.

If I could give a negative star amount I would. These reviews were solicited. Before Tara created a Sales Training, for which the price of admission was a review, she went from have 3 reviews (2 positive that came after her soliciting reviews in the slack channel and one very negative review from Nat) she shot up to 26 5-star reviews overnight. People who are in this program know there is no room to disagree with Tara. People were kicked out of the program for stating honest and very mild critique of the program. Because of this, these 23 reviews are inflated and only positive as opposed to being honest. This is dishonest solicitation and skewing of reviews. I know half of the women who did this and they now regret their positive reviews but are too afraid to edit them knowing that Tara has come after people’s businesses who publicly disagree with her. There have been BBB complaints filed yet scrubbed from the internet, a class action suit, formal complaints with the attorney general of her state, and multiple people requesting chargebacks/disputing the charges with their credit card companies because they are THAT unhappy – all factual things I wish I knew before investing. I actually won my dispute against this company and got my money back, which was a miracle. I didn’t know going into this program how misaligned my values were with Tara. I really did not want her to have my money. Not to mention I did not make any money with this program. I only lost money. My revenue also went down. I owe it to spending ALL of my time on this program for three months, using pushy marketing tactics, and not having the coaching support I needed to keep me aligned with the strategy that was best for me (not a broad, overarching plan that is supposed to “work” for everyone) and my goals. I can’t tell you how many times I left her calls crying from blatant abuse and continual gaslighting. I’m just glad I never got to the paid ads to sink even more money into this process with them. Tara is mean. The reviews of “she’s a straight shooter” are an understatement. People leave her calls crying and most people ultimately stopped submitting questions because they didn’t appreciate her tearing into their confidence without being built back up in any way. You’re only supported or cheered on when the program is working for you which is coincidentally when you need the least emotional support. If it isn’t working it’s your fault and you need to figure it out or get completely ridiculed on a call with Tara. I’m fine with tough love if it’s productive. This is NOT productive. Run. I have done coaching programs before with a ton of success. My first business coach and my first launch I made 15k my first month of sales and consistent 10k months after that, having just invested in another coaching program right before Tara that brought me my first 20k month. The moment I started implementing and trying to sell my new program via HTE my revenue went DOWN. It went from consistent 10k months and my first 20k month to a $2,500 month and the month after that, $0. Tara did NOT listen to me when I tried to tell her that pushy sales didn’t tend to work for me and that I felt like what I was doing before had actually been working better than this. She gaslit me and that was that. So yes, I made no money. I lost money off my monthly average (although thank goodness I ended up getting my chargeback come January) and honestly this program sent me into a deep depression kicked off by burnout and questioning my own sanity. There are now a ton of women coming out of this program offering eachother emotional support and who KNOW about the practices that happen within this company without a doubt, at that time I had to sit with this for weeks to feel into whether I was the problem or not. Sure, I can be the problem, but I was willing to get through that with coaching as I’ve done in the past with other coaches. I truly believe that if the coaching in this program had been different, my results would have been different, and that was a hard stop for me in questioning my sanity anymore. Please do yourself a favor and skip this program. Find someone who is honest, they exist. Find someone who cares about the outcomes of their clients. Find someone who can treat you with respect while pushing you to be their best. They exist, I’ve worked with quite a few at this point with better results than were possible here for the sole reason: those coaches cared.

Their sponsored ads on Facebook state " We GUARANTEE you will make $20,000 in just 30 days after working with us or you'll get your money back". LIES! They do not provide a copy of their contract until AFTER your payment is collected. After 30 days, multiple submissions, countless coaching call attendances, over 300 members in my group, 3 webinars, 16+ strategy sessions, and ZERO dollars made, I requested a refund based on their guarantee. Unbeknownst to me, it came with stipulations not communicated prior to my request. While they originally denied my request for a refund, I was able to respond and not only provide proof of every effort made, but clearly articulate the requirements they should follow when making such guarantees. One must follow the FTC laws, state laws, the Uniform Commercial Code and the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. Here's a detailed list of items their business has failed to do in regards to their "guarantee": 1. In the U.S., there is no law that requires businesses to offer money-back guarantees, but if companies advertise one, they must fully refund the purchase and make all requirements and limitations clear.  If you do make any guarantees, the basic tenets of FTC and state advertising law need to be followed 2. Making guarantees are just like any other advertisement or claim. You can’t refuse to honor or follow through with any guarantee or misrepresent the nature of any guarantee, as stated on your website, terms of sale or elsewhere. Do what you say you will without limitations. 3. If you use the terms “money back guarantee” on your website or advertising, your business must provide any customers with a refund of the full purchase price upon request. You can provide some mechanism for processing refunds and make your customers go through that process. But, it can’t be burdensome or unreasonable and you should always refund the purchase price immediately after the customer has requested the refund 4. Like any other disclosure, any guarantee must be clear, conspicuous and easy to understand. Do not try to conceal or mislead the nature of any limitation on any warranties your business may provide 5. Inform your customers how to get a copy of any warranty your business provides before they purchase any products 6. Always Honor Your Warranties! Under state laws, it can be an unfair or deceptive act or practice to fail to honor a warranty  I gave them until Monday January 30th at 5pm PST to provide a resolution to my problem before seeking help from a consumer protection agency or other assistance. Unfortunately, they did not respond even though they revoked access to the training portal along with the private Facebook group and Slack channels. Potential Buyers, you've been warned! Update: Refund was provided only AFTER I left this review and made a formal complaint with BBB. 2nd Update: What is disheartening is their misrepresentation of the facts. The facts are as follows: 12/22/22 joined HTE 1/26/23 requested refund 1/27/23 refund denied by Priscilla 1/27/23 deny refuted and HTE was given until 1/30/23 at 5pm PST to respond with a resolution 1/30/23 response was not received from HTE and review on TrustPilot and complaint with BBB were filed 1/31/23 received an email from Priscilla agreeing to refund and asking to remove the review

This program did not deliver on the promises made. 1. Tara is a bully. She gaslights anyone that struggles or disagrees, she is unhelpful when you ask questions, and wasn't even present for most of the time I was in the program. Her other coaches seemed to follow suite, with the exception of one coach. 2. Her material is sloppy, inconsistent, outdated, and is pulled from others almost directly. I wouldn't have minded if I'd paid $200 for the course, but for $11,000, I expect something intentional and updated. 3. There is so much negativity in her approach that many, myself included, stopped engaging and hesitate to review out of anticipation of retaliation (which I have witnessed) 4. She bribes students with private content to make positive reviews on this site. 5. I did my best to do everything to a tee, watching modules 3-5 times each, and trying to progress but I basically stalled in the first step because the only coaching I got was that I needed to change what I did in order to sell high ticket. To me, that means that I should never have been invited to join this allegedly exclusive program as the sales person says repeatedly that not everyone gets in and students are screened to see if they are a good fit. I did not meet the requirements if what I coach people through is not eligible for high ticket sales. Telling someone you can get them to high ticket and then telling them only if they change what they do is sort of a sleazy trick. I have seen people say they have succeeded, so I'm sure it's the right program for someone, but weigh your decision carefully and trust your gut.

If I could give this experience zero stars, I would. I've been scared to speak up because I've seen this company publicly cancel, ridicule, shame and belittle anyone who shares their honest thoughts. The only reason I am speaking up now is because I don't want anyone else to spend $10,000 of their precious money for this program. Their tactics are old school and manipulative. The CEO is abusive and seemed to enjoy belittling people during "coaching" calls. I watched her make several people cry during group calls and she seemed to enjoy the experience. Buyers be warned. This was my first taste of high ticket coaching and I ended up removing myself from the program about 1/3 of the way through. If you care for your mental health, stay away. During the sales call, I was told there was a 95% success rate. My experience in the program proved to be exact opposite of that. 95% of people were dissatisfied and did not experience the success that the program speaks of. The only thing I have to show for the program are relationships with my peers who also left feeling duped by HTE.