The $2.5 Billion Queen of Pitch Dr. Forbes Riley Reveals Her Secrets

From a gapped-tooth kid who dreamed of Hollywood to the woman who gave Kim Kardashian her first TV appearance and generated over a million dollars a day on home shopping, Dr. Forbes Riley has built one of the most extraordinary careers in entertainment and sales history.

In this conversation, Forbes opens up about the acting career that took her from Splatter University to Broadway opposite Christopher Reeve, the pitching philosophy that turned her into a $2.5 billion force in infomercial history, and why her brand new book, Pitch Secrets A to Z, is really a life skills manual disguised as a business book.

Show Highlights:

• The story behind how Forbes invented her own talent agency, complete with a fictional British manager named Lindsay Maxwell, and booked herself into Broadway, commercials, and movies before anyone found out.
• Forbes was the woman in the room when Kim Kardashian filmed her very first television appearance, and she shares what she remembers about that day.
• She played Lily Tomlin's iconic one-woman show for six months straight, learning every one of 250 pages through hypnotherapy after nearly quitting the production.
• Forbes breaks down a live pitch in real time, getting a yes out of thin air using just a question and an embedded command.
• Her philosophy that pitching is not selling but enrolling, and why the people who find it pushy are usually the ones who need it most.

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