How She Sold $2.5 Billion On TV Using This Pitch Formula - Dr Forbes Riley
About this episode
Dr. Forbes Riley shares her journey from a challenging childhood to becoming a successful pitch expert and the secrets behind her billion-dollar sales formula.
On this episode of Escaping the Drift, we sit down with Dr. Forbes Riley: the woman called the Queen of Pitch, host of over 197 national infomercials, two-time TEDx speaker, and the inventor behind the Spin Gym who has personally sold over 2.5 billion dollars worth of products on television. Before becoming one of the most coached pitch experts in the world with over 100,000 entrepreneurs in her playbook, Forbes was a goofy little girl from Long Island with frizzy hair, eight years of braces, a broken nose, and a mother who told her there was no money for college. Then a doctor overheard that conversation in a hospital, fixed her nose for free, and one decision to enter a beauty pageant for a scholarship set off a chain reaction that landed her on Broadway with Christopher Reeve, hosting ESPN's X Games with Stuart Scott, and standing next to Jack LaLanne on the most successful infomercial of all time. In this episode, Forbes opens up about the legally blind Shakespeare professor who saw her potential when no one else could, the agent who chased her around a hotel room and pushed her to invent her own management company at 22, and the stripper-gram empire she built during the New…
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