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Forbes Riley

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372 total appearances

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Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

You know that 98 percent of people start with those words. I help. What book did you read that in?

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

Now, here's the thing. I didn't really ask you what you do. I really asked you, what could you do for me? Because it's not my literally response is good for you. But if you said Forbes, you know, as someone who's got one of the hit podcasts going, I take entrepreneurs with spunky energy like you and I can put you in front of millions. Would that be OK? Yeah.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

Now, here's the thing. I didn't really ask you what you do. I really asked you, what could you do for me? Because it's not my literally response is good for you. But if you said Forbes, you know, as someone who's got one of the hit podcasts going, I take entrepreneurs with spunky energy like you and I can put you in front of millions. Would that be OK? Yeah.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

Now, here's the thing. I didn't really ask you what you do. I really asked you, what could you do for me? Because it's not my literally response is good for you. But if you said Forbes, you know, as someone who's got one of the hit podcasts going, I take entrepreneurs with spunky energy like you and I can put you in front of millions. Would that be OK? Yeah.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

Dude, yes, now I'm going to give you my business card and we're going to talk and we're going to have a relationship. And that is just, that's a door opener. Here's another great phrase. Mick, what did you do before this?

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

Dude, yes, now I'm going to give you my business card and we're going to talk and we're going to have a relationship. And that is just, that's a door opener. Here's another great phrase. Mick, what did you do before this?

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

Dude, yes, now I'm going to give you my business card and we're going to talk and we're going to have a relationship. And that is just, that's a door opener. Here's another great phrase. Mick, what did you do before this?

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

Okay. What's one thing that you really learned that you do really well through that work?

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

Okay. What's one thing that you really learned that you do really well through that work?

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

Okay. What's one thing that you really learned that you do really well through that work?

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

OK, so, you know, Forbes, you know what? Here's what I do. As someone who spent 25 years in the insurance industry helping CEOs think like CEOs, I now take that expertise and I do blah, blah, blah. In one sentence, my friend, I know what you've done, why you're good at it and what you can offer me.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

OK, so, you know, Forbes, you know what? Here's what I do. As someone who spent 25 years in the insurance industry helping CEOs think like CEOs, I now take that expertise and I do blah, blah, blah. In one sentence, my friend, I know what you've done, why you're good at it and what you can offer me.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

OK, so, you know, Forbes, you know what? Here's what I do. As someone who spent 25 years in the insurance industry helping CEOs think like CEOs, I now take that expertise and I do blah, blah, blah. In one sentence, my friend, I know what you've done, why you're good at it and what you can offer me.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

And now it's like I feel sometimes when I do this, this little exercise with people like I've given them their life. They're like, God, I can, this is the, and now the other thing is when you get excited about this, you want to start telling people, hey, wait, well, yeah, no, as somebody who did this, this is what I do now. And it's fascinating. Same thing happened for me when I unlocked my name.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

And now it's like I feel sometimes when I do this, this little exercise with people like I've given them their life. They're like, God, I can, this is the, and now the other thing is when you get excited about this, you want to start telling people, hey, wait, well, yeah, no, as somebody who did this, this is what I do now. And it's fascinating. Same thing happened for me when I unlocked my name.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

And now it's like I feel sometimes when I do this, this little exercise with people like I've given them their life. They're like, God, I can, this is the, and now the other thing is when you get excited about this, you want to start telling people, hey, wait, well, yeah, no, as somebody who did this, this is what I do now. And it's fascinating. Same thing happened for me when I unlocked my name.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

And I remember going back to that little girl who couldn't talk.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

And I remember going back to that little girl who couldn't talk.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

And I remember going back to that little girl who couldn't talk.

Mick Unplugged
The Power of Personal Stories in Business Success with Forbes Riley

I learned a lot by listening back then and watching people not communicate. Right. So a lot of my stuff recently, when I came out, I would say people, hi, my name is Forbes. They would go, what? You know, my name is Forbes, Forbes Riley. They go, oh, oh, Riley is your first name. And I said, no, it's Forbes. And they would say, are you sure? I said, wait a second.