Forbes Riley - Stop Playing Small! Insights from the Queen of Pitch | RUNGPG.com - a podcast by David Morrell

This multi talented professional first appeared on the showbiz radar when she was named Miss Teenage New York before eventually joining Miss Teenage America. Years later, Forbes Riley had a bigger crown on her head as the “Queen of Infomercials.”

 

Today, Forbes also bears another title “The Queen of Pitch.” When you watch or listen to our latest episode of the RUN GPG Podcast, you will understand why! She can pitch anything under the sun and that is why she is successful. 

 

Through her lucrative stint doing close to 200 infomercials, including the first 35 ever infomercials, Forbes sold $2.5 billion worth of products. From the face of various products, Forbes also transitioned into the person who is ALSO behind the product through SpinGym.

 

Forbes continues to pitch and even teaches it. Her daughter is also following in her footsteps of being a trailblazer. They have created a system known as GSD, as in Get Sh*t Done!

 

By the way, Forbes is also an accomplished actress. She has appeared in over two dozen movies including the cult classic Splatter University, and guested on some popular TV shows like 24, The Practice, and Boy Meets World. 

 

That’s not all! Forbes also gave Kim Kardashian her start on television by putting the reality star on her show a year before she became a household name through Keeping Up with the Kardashian. 

 

There seems to be nothing that Forbes can’t do, but during the course of the podcast, she would always remind us that nothing comes easy. 

 

“I always had a dream inside of me that I thought I was special but nobody else agreed. Nobody. They saw the outside of me and put me down and made me feel bad,” Forbes said, recalling how she grew up with frizzy hair, braces, and a crooked nose, while also being a bit overweight. 

 

With a little help along the way, and a lot of perseverance and focus, Forbes became Miss Teenage New York and she has not looked back since. 

 

“This is the life that I fought for and I’m helping others do the same,” she said during the podcast, where she also did some live coaching. 

 

 

Forbes also talked about the following:

• Beating out 500 girls for the title of Miss Teenage New York despite growing up overweight and with frizzy hair, braces, and a crooked nose. 

 

• Manifesting - Forbes Riley wanted to fall in love with someone who looked like they just came out of a magazine, and she did!

 

• How she got into acting. She kept auditioning for lead roles but kept getting the chorus-girl role. But she persevered and got the lead for the play As You Like It. 

 

• Some people can sing, some can play the guitar, and Forbes can pitch. 

 

• How she helped create the concept of selling fitness on TV. 

 

• Meeting Jack LaLanne and his wife Elaine, who were behind the Power Juicer. 

 

• Brand is how you perceive something, whether it’s real or not. 

 

• Most people talk, Forbes chose to communicate. She does so with an end in mind. 

 

• Pitching is not selling. It should excite, engage, and enroll. 

 

• How do you get what you want? First, you have to know what you want. 

 

• How SpinGym came to be. 

 

• What mistakes do entrepreneurs usually make? 

 

• What do Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have in common?

 

• *Brad Lea crashes the interview.

 

• People are never going to be enough, but one just needs to step back and stop comparing. 

 

• How Forbes gave Kim Kardashian her start on television. 

 

• The three people Forbes would want to have dinner with. 

 

• “Life happens for you and not to you.”

 

 

Another quote that Forbes lives by is this: “Leap and the net will appear.” She said that you have to stop playing small. 

 

There were so many lessons Forbes shared during the podcast, which is exactly the aim of the RUN GPG Podcast. Every week, we invite people who made a mark in entrepreneurship, business, personal development, and the real estate industry to help inspire our audience to scale their business and their life. 

 

The podcast is produced by GREATER PROPERTY GROUP. To know more about it, visit www.rungpg.com or get in touch with us here: info@greaterpropertygroup.com.

 

 

Contact Forbes Riley

Website: ForbesRiley.com

SpinGym: https://www.spingymfitness.com/

Pitch classes: https://www.pitchsecretsmasterclass.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/forbesriley/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forbes_riley/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/forbesriley?lang=en

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/forbesriley

 

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