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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

And she literally said, my mom's doing nothing. I've never seen that. My mom's worked my entire, you know, our entire life growing up. And she always came with me. She was my right hand. She was my best friend. So from the time she was eight, I would take her out of school to go to conventions and meetings and home shopping around the world and infomercials.

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

And she literally said, my mom's doing nothing. I've never seen that. My mom's worked my entire, you know, our entire life growing up. And she always came with me. She was my right hand. She was my best friend. So from the time she was eight, I would take her out of school to go to conventions and meetings and home shopping around the world and infomercials.

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

And she literally said, my mom's doing nothing. I've never seen that. My mom's worked my entire, you know, our entire life growing up. And she always came with me. She was my right hand. She was my best friend. So from the time she was eight, I would take her out of school to go to conventions and meetings and home shopping around the world and infomercials.

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

And she met everybody from Joe Theismann to Les Brown to all the big digital marketers. And she started getting very fascinated. I kind of knew that, but I didn't give it a whole lot of credit. She's a kid, right? While 12, she created her very first online business. She did dropshipping.

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

And she met everybody from Joe Theismann to Les Brown to all the big digital marketers. And she started getting very fascinated. I kind of knew that, but I didn't give it a whole lot of credit. She's a kid, right? While 12, she created her very first online business. She did dropshipping.

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

And she met everybody from Joe Theismann to Les Brown to all the big digital marketers. And she started getting very fascinated. I kind of knew that, but I didn't give it a whole lot of credit. She's a kid, right? While 12, she created her very first online business. She did dropshipping.

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

As the story goes, made $10,000 and she said to herself, I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna be a millionaire by 18. I don't know that. She comes down at 17 and says, mom, I'm gonna put you online. I'm gonna build your pitching business. I'm like, oh no, baby, look, the whole online thing, I've wasted a lot of money. People have taken my money building this site and that site.

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

As the story goes, made $10,000 and she said to herself, I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna be a millionaire by 18. I don't know that. She comes down at 17 and says, mom, I'm gonna put you online. I'm gonna build your pitching business. I'm like, oh no, baby, look, the whole online thing, I've wasted a lot of money. People have taken my money building this site and that site.

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

As the story goes, made $10,000 and she said to herself, I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna be a millionaire by 18. I don't know that. She comes down at 17 and says, mom, I'm gonna put you online. I'm gonna build your pitching business. I'm like, oh no, baby, look, the whole online thing, I've wasted a lot of money. People have taken my money building this site and that site.

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

And I just, I don't know how to figure it out. And she said, I got you. She said, you give me three weeks. I'm gonna make you a millionaire. And I'm like listening to 17 year old girl going, excuse me, what are you talking about? Then Mick, this is a crazy thing. She says, mom, look, you haven't really listened to me. You didn't listen to me when I told you to buy Bitcoin at a hundred dollars.

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

And I just, I don't know how to figure it out. And she said, I got you. She said, you give me three weeks. I'm gonna make you a millionaire. And I'm like listening to 17 year old girl going, excuse me, what are you talking about? Then Mick, this is a crazy thing. She says, mom, look, you haven't really listened to me. You didn't listen to me when I told you to buy Bitcoin at a hundred dollars.

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

And I just, I don't know how to figure it out. And she said, I got you. She said, you give me three weeks. I'm gonna make you a millionaire. And I'm like listening to 17 year old girl going, excuse me, what are you talking about? Then Mick, this is a crazy thing. She says, mom, look, you haven't really listened to me. You didn't listen to me when I told you to buy Bitcoin at a hundred dollars.

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

She did. You didn't listen to me when I told you, oh, here's the deal. I built Joe Theismann and Les Brown, their website, put them on YouTube. Here's my bank account. It had six figures in it. And I looked at this and I'm like, I'm sorry, what is this? She just, you wouldn't listen to me. I can do this for you. And I thought, oh my God. And it was because she literally said, I want you to matter.

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

She did. You didn't listen to me when I told you, oh, here's the deal. I built Joe Theismann and Les Brown, their website, put them on YouTube. Here's my bank account. It had six figures in it. And I looked at this and I'm like, I'm sorry, what is this? She just, you wouldn't listen to me. I can do this for you. And I thought, oh my God. And it was because she literally said, I want you to matter.

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

She did. You didn't listen to me when I told you, oh, here's the deal. I built Joe Theismann and Les Brown, their website, put them on YouTube. Here's my bank account. It had six figures in it. And I looked at this and I'm like, I'm sorry, what is this? She just, you wouldn't listen to me. I can do this for you. And I thought, oh my God. And it was because she literally said, I want you to matter.

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

I want you to have a legacy. And if you don't get it out there, no one's ever going to know who and what you are and you deserve that. So this whole mattering thing is transferred to her. We sit in a room for three weeks and we unpack all my pitching thing. And my daughter is a systems girl. She just says, mom, you think you're good at the pitching thing. We unpacked it.

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

I want you to have a legacy. And if you don't get it out there, no one's ever going to know who and what you are and you deserve that. So this whole mattering thing is transferred to her. We sit in a room for three weeks and we unpack all my pitching thing. And my daughter is a systems girl. She just says, mom, you think you're good at the pitching thing. We unpacked it.

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

I want you to have a legacy. And if you don't get it out there, no one's ever going to know who and what you are and you deserve that. So this whole mattering thing is transferred to her. We sit in a room for three weeks and we unpack all my pitching thing. And my daughter is a systems girl. She just says, mom, you think you're good at the pitching thing. We unpacked it.

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

I do my first webinar online. There's 25 people in there. I've created a thousand dollar program, right? The next morning I called her going, McKenna, what is this? I said, yesterday there was no money in this account. Today the ClickFunnels says K. She said, what do you mean? It says 25K. What does that mean? I said, mom, you made $25,000 last night. Every person in the room bought from you.

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

I do my first webinar online. There's 25 people in there. I've created a thousand dollar program, right? The next morning I called her going, McKenna, what is this? I said, yesterday there was no money in this account. Today the ClickFunnels says K. She said, what do you mean? It says 25K. What does that mean? I said, mom, you made $25,000 last night. Every person in the room bought from you.