Welcome to another episode of the Main Street Business podcast where I have the pleasure of interviewing an influencer impacting small business owners all over America.

Well, today we get to speak with Forbes Riley, billionaire business strategist, award-winning TV host, best-selling author, motivational speaker, and known as the Queen of Pitch.

Forbes has grossed over $2.5 billion in product sales.

She not only ignites CEOs, top runners, and sales teams, but also strongly moves and touches

the hearts and minds of the future leaders, emerging entrepreneurs, action takers, and

visionaries around the world.

Well, frankly, Forbes is my own little Joy Mangano from the movie Joy, played by Jennifer

Lawrence.

Forbes is living that life, and she is absolutely amazing.

Forbes, thank you for being here.

It is such an honor.

Mark, I got to tell you, it's been years since we sat across from each other. Do you remember how we met? Oh, I do. And it was actually an emotional experience from you. You tell me what you remember. And, uh, wait, what was emotional about it? Well, we, of course, for those who don't know, we were doing an infomercial for a RV. It was before outdoors he even got going. It was like the tour O for RVs.

Yeah. of course for those that don't know we were doing an infomercial for a RV it was before outdoors

he even got going it was like a tour oh for RVs yeah yeah and they were ahead of their time and

I was there as the you know four out of five dentist guy you know I was the expert that said hey this

for small business owners having an RV and making money with it could change your life. And we were in such a cool scene. And you're doing all this every day, you know,

and but we had plenty of. Well, what I don't do every day is that the gentleman who shot that

is Debbie Reynolds's son and Carrie Fisher from Star Wars brother. So we were in a house that was Hollywood history

with a man who has more equipment than I've seen most major studios have. And so it was,

I love the entire experience and it was great meeting you. So thank you. Yeah, it was a neat

experience. And with that ambiance, I think you set the stage, no pun intended, perfectly,

is that it was so, it was so well done that when you started to ask me questions, we're just three feet from each other and you're like, so how does this in fact impact a small business owner? And I just got emotional connecting with the small business owner on the other end of the camera. And you were such a good interviewer. And it was a neat experience.

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