Meet Brooke Forbes

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Brooke Forbes. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Brooke below.

Brooke, thank you so much for joining us. You are such a positive person and it’s something we really admire and so we wanted to start by asking you where you think your optimism comes from?
I don’t know if it’s optimism as much as learning to “change the channel” of your mind, so to speak, when things get tough or I am sick or something makes me depressed, it’s a combination of things that will change my thoughts to optimistic!

When I was very sick with Covid, I had to change my thoughts, my mind, from the extreme depression and negativity, my mind was giving me. I was sick in my bed for two months and was convinced I would die. Meditation, yoga and comedy, saved my mental health.

I am an instructor of Kundalini Yoga, one of the most valuable things I learned in my teachers training is that we have the ability and the capacity to not buy into our negative thoughts, to rise above and be at peace with ourselves.

We control our mind, and our mind controls our body, so when our mind is thowing negative thoughts at you. Simply put you can ignore it. You can not buy into that negative thought, and/or,
change it to a positive thoughts, or a neutral thought. You can “change the channel”.

I’m also a comedian, I perform all over Los Angeles, I produce my own “Stained Red Carpet celebrity Comedy Shows” anyway, the Comedian part of me will always kick in, after a meditation,
because meditation, even described as just laying down doing deep breathing, will relax and open up your mind bringing, creativity and positivity. This is how I also created the character of Natasha, for my Feature Film, I am working on currently, “Escape to America: the Movie”. this is all born from the same place.

So to summarize I know this may sound very confusing, I believe the act of being optimistic is the practice of mastering your own mind. You can realize that you can choose what you want to think about. Thoughts come in, 1000 thoughts a blink of an eye, but you can choose if you want to attach another thought to that thought, and if you don’t like it you can just throw it out! You are the master of your own mind. I take time every day in the middle of the day when the energy is low, to lay down and meditate for about 30 to 40 minutes. Here I clear my mind of all thoughts and take time to meditate on whatever I love, the beautiful sky the beach the mountains, I chose one, then, I am ready to tackle the night! It’s a great rejuvenation bringing positivity and optimism. Often when I do this a joke will come to my mind. …..

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
My story is a long one lol I grew up in Canada in a small town in northern Ontario I was arrested for possession of marijuana lol back in the day it was not legal to have marijuana, I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and my probation officer demanded that I do something that I like. I was very young I was 13 years old, so my probation officer made my parents put me in dance class.

Since I was about five years old I was bugging my mother to put me in dance class but we simply did not have the funds to do it at that time, so an angel came to me in the form of my probation officer, this is how the dream started! I fell in love with Dancing. I danced religiously for the next several years, nothing mattered but my dance classes. after I graduated from high school, even though I received many scholarships with college paid in full, to go to business school, I did not do that.

I first went to Toronto and started living alone I met my first agent the Bookinghouse! They had contacted me to be a Madonna impersonator and have a Tribute Band, so I went for it, I grew up singing Madonna I loved Madonna it was a huge success. We performed in concerts worldwide in Bosnia, Trinidad, Japan three times for the Canadian Armed Forces and the USO. They also needed more Tribute Band’s so I put together a Backstreet Boys tribute band, did the choreography and taught these unruly kids who told me off every rehearsal lol L O L and this is the truth so funny.

From there we also did the Spice Girls!!! I played Baby Spice it was so fun, especially playing the Indian reserves guys I have stories thank you for reading such a long explanation to this one simple question!

This was so rewarding for me because we had a gig in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario Canada where I was born and we played the Gardens the biggest venue there, I also headlined Miss Bon Soo, In -30° an outside concert where our space heaters on stage froze and then I got pneumonia another long story.. lol! It was a blast of a lifetime. From Toronto, I went to New York City. I did not know anybody in New York City.

I basically went there with one suitcase, I arrived stayed in a group hotel where the whole floor shared one bathroom, a five floor walk up, in mid-city. Nothing mattered but dance, vocal and acting classes. I started waitressing to make money then started bartending and made a lot of money. I started auditioning for Shows. I ended up traveling the world three times on different gigs, dancing in Monte Carlo with Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Diana Ross, The Temptations and hanging out with Prince Albert!

From then I started singing and was hired by Starlight Orchestra, is a 22 piece orchestra. the highlight was singing for President Clinton, in a gala. Then I had my eyes on Los Angeles California went on a gig to Venice Beach and ended up just staying here!

I formed a production company called Forbes Productions US where I produce, write act and Star in Celebrity Comedy Shows, Movies, Television Series and Musicals. Our latest film entitled “Natasha Mail Order Bride Escape to America” is actually an exaggerated true life story of mine, the perils of coming to America and living the American dream, The Immigrant Story. Natasha from the fourth world country of Crapistan, is a cross between a modern day Lucille Ball and a female Borat, Natasha gets bought accidentally as a Nebbish, internet mogul, is on his computer one night trying to order a blowup doll when he passes out on his computer, accidentally his head hits, “Add Wife to Cart”.

He gets the real thing, and doesn’t want her. Natasha has two weeks to convince him to marry her or she gets deported back to Crapistan, Natasha, in the process ruins everything Eugene has worked for, all the while both being chased by the Crapistani Mob. We are currently working with finance partners and always welcome more.

I am also a Kundalini Yoga instructor and BollyX Dance instructor, I currently teach live on zoom weekly if you would like to join please reach out! We are also in the process of producing our next “Stained Red Carpet Celebrity Comedy show, Please connect if you love Comedy for a VIP ticket!

I have recently been offered a channel on XOTV network please check it out and please follow and like if you can. Here are all my videos for the Comedy Shows the Movie and Yoga!

Lastly I know this is a lot to read and I thank you for reading my journey, I co-own a company out of Canada, called Dealblocks. We design awards for the investment banking community. If you are needing dealtoys/awards for your next deal, please reach out as well, please see links/websites below and I look forward to meeting with you and working together!

Brooke Forbes

XOTV Network
SAG/AFTRA
CEO/Founder
Forbes Productions US
IG: bbforbes
www.forbesproductions.us
Escape to America: the movie LLC.
https://xotv.me/channels/496-brooke-forbes-production
https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt7462288/?ref_=nm_ovrvw_cr_kf_1
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brookeforbes/
www.dealblocks.com

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Whatever your passion is always go for it and never give up. Never ever give up. You may seem down some days but there is always tomorrow and this is what life is worth living for. You may be rejected time and time again but It only takes one YES to succeed.

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear” George Addair

Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?
I am currently looking for finance partners to film my movie! We have an A-list Director attached, and A List DP., first money in and great actors on board with a few celebrities! We have won 6 film festivals based on the script. We are also looking for sponsorship and product placement.

If you would like to collaborate with me and my team please reach out to me via email:

[email protected]
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[email protected]

Brooke Forbes
XOTV Network
SAG/AFTRA
CEO/Founder
Forbes Productions US
IG: bbforbes
www.forbesproductions.us
Escape to America: the movie LLC.
https://xotv.me/channels/496-brooke-forbes-production
https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt7462288/?ref_=nm_ovrvw_cr_kf_1
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brookeforbes/

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Bob Delgadillo Jeff Knight

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