Glenn W. Turner

Glenn Wesley Turner (August 19, 1934 - January 8, 2020) was an American motivational speaker and multi-level network marketer, famed for the rise and fall of his cosmetics distribution franchise company Koscot Interplanetary and self-motivation course distributor Dare To Be Great, Inc., both of which were subject to lawsuits by distributors over unpaid dividends, state-level prosecutions as pyramid schemes, and federal charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for illegal price fixing and impositions on distributors and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the legal standing of their sale of distributorships, these being ultimately found in court to be unregistered securities subject to public oversight. Following the bankruptcy of Dare To Be Great, Inc., Turner founded Challenge to America in 1979, offering a similar series of self-motivational courses, but again found himself facing civil and criminal suits over his business practices, this time ultimately being convicted of felony fraud in Arizona during 1986 and serving the next six years in prison.

Selected Discography

 * Glenn W. Turner (1971), Glenn W. Turner Speaks Out: "You Can Better Your Best" (LP, Souncot Records, SC-1114)
 * Glenn W. Turner (197-), Reaching for the Stars with Glenn W. Turner, Mr. Enthusiasm (LP, Koscot Interplanetary, K.I.K. 787)
 * Glenn W. Turner (1972), Dare To Be Great! (LP, Souncot Records, SC-1118)
 * Glenn W. Turner & The Jordanaires (1972), The Unstoppable Americans (LP, Souncot Records)

Of note, several of Turner's albums were produced by Bobby Lee Trammell.