Many of the world’s greatest teachers use her material for their own personal benefit. Michele has worked with world-renowned teachers such as Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Jack Canfield, Dr. Tony Alessandra, Bob Proctor, Jim Cathcart, Robert Kiyosaki and many more.
Michele is gifted with the awareness and the unprecedented talent to successfully impact people spiritually, intellectually, emotionally and physically. MusiVation™ is quickly becoming an industry in itself and has assisted hundreds of thousands of people and companies all over the world in creating well-being and great success in every area of their personal and business life.
She is a successful, multitalented lady with a diverse business arena. In addition to creating Michele’s MusiVation™ products and seminars worldwide, she also performs at concerts and other venues worldwide. Her many MusiVation™ audio programs and books are now sold in bookstores and libraries throughout the world. In this her latest book, she has co-authored “How to Become A Magnet to Hollywood Success”. Michele has written some profound information to help individuals in the magical world of entertainment. All of her books and programs can be found in major bookstores or online, including this book and the book she co-authored with Wilma McIntyre, Conversations on Money, Sex and Spirituality. Her amazing full-day, live events are held all over the world.
Michele produced and hosted the world’s first positive TV Internet site, www.MPowerTV.com MPowerTV is a self-improvement talk show in which Michele interviews the world’s leading experts -- from Robert Kiyosaki to Dr. Laurie Roth, from music and children’s topics to health and business. Michele has been featured in many publications worldwide including Marie Claire, Think and Grow Rich, Success, Female and many others. She has written articles for Today’s Black Woman magazine and has had her own self-help column in numerous magazines worldwide over the years. She has appeared on many other TV shows all over the world and literally hundreds of radio stations.
Michele has also produced, written and hosted another new TV show titled Michele’s Be a Magnet to Success, which is airing all over the USA, and soon worldwide. She has also enjoyed a career as author, musician, songwriter, singer, record producer and recording artist, and her success in these areas continues today. She has also produced and written songs for other artists worldwide.
Michele’s discovery MusiVation™ has found a totally unique niche within the vast field of self-improvement. For the first time, there is now a product line and training system that combines two of the most powerful and fastest-growing industries in the world – modern music and self-improvement. As the creator of MusiVation™, she has expanded her product line and seminars into the entertainment, health, metaphysics, sales and weight control industries. MusiVation™ is regarded as one of the great psychological discoveries for the new millennium, and is now in over fifty-four countries.
Seminar participants in the self-improvement industry today include many people who give up early and lose sight of their goals, because they feel like goals take up too much time and involve far too much discipline. MusiVation™ overcomes these obstacles, which is why it is so effective and fast becoming a whole new industry in itself.
MusiVation™ is entertaining and fun. People naturally want to keep listening and read it over and over. Whether their purpose is to greatly improve finances, career success, business, health, self-growth, sales, or relationships, they keep coming back for more, BECAUSE IT WORKS!
MusiVation™ affects both sides of the brain, left and right, so that the learning process is rapidly accelerated. The music, along with positive lyrics, flows directly into the subconscious mind without giving the conscious mind a chance to become bored or reject it. This is why advertising companies worldwide invest millions of dollars in product jingles – because they know that as more people listen to the jingle and as the jingle is implanted in their minds forever, so is their product!
You see, MusiVation™ is literally advertising to one’s mind positive and successful thoughts that quickly eliminate old paradigms (beliefs of the past). “I can’t do it,” and “I’ll never be a success” is replaced with “I can do it,” “All things are possible,” “I am a magnet to money,” and “Success is mine”. It is amazingly simple, effective, fun and powerful!
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An Awakening Rock Riddle grew up in Burlington, North Carolina, a small southern town populated by people who spent the majority of their lives in and around the city. The Riddles owned their home and were an average, lower-middle-class family. In many ways, Rock felt like an outsider and tended to be a loner. During his time in elementary and junior high school, he never showed an interest in athletics and was usually the last to be chosen for any physical activities. Shy and self-conscious, his biggest fear was to be called on to have to speak in front of his classmates. "I would sit in the back of the room and just hope the teacher wouldn't ask me to say anything." In the seventh grade, a classroom bully's attempt at sarcasm would unknowingly give Riddle his future name, confidence and identity. “Hey, Rock . . . Rock Hudson . . . ha, ha, ha.” The name stuck. Everyone began calling him "Rock".
The Seeds Are Sown At the age of 14, Rock overheard several boys raving about the previous night's pro wrestling venue on television. They spoke of two menacing and maniacal wrestlers named Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson, one of the most recognizable "Bad Guy" tag teams in the country. Their "Good Guy" counterparts were presented with radios and a trophy by their fan club on live television. Hawk congratulated the two, asked to see the radio, raised it above his head and smashed it to pieces on the ground. "I saw that and thought it was great . . . everyone hated them, so I decided to start a fan club for them!" Upon its creation, Riddle adeptly coined the club's motto – Fair, Square, Modest and Honest! "My sense of humor has always been a little extreme. I still think that was funny." During one particular event in Greensboro, North Carolina, the TV ring announcer was so impressed with Riddle that he mentioned him to Hawk. "Rip walked over and started talking to me like a human being. He asked me if I was serious about the fan club and the wrestling business and told me that if I was, he would help me." It was here that the seeds for his future in professional wrestling were sown.
With newfound confidence, he began to wrestle in high school at the 138-pound weight class and gradually went on to the 145-pound division. During his first year of college, Riddle was eating double amounts of breakfast, consuming multiple cans of nutritional drinks in between classes, and continuing a rigid weight training routine. After less than a year of preparation and training, he reached his target – a muscular 236 pounds. He earned his living performing private detective and surveillance work and three years later left the university with a degree in criminology and law enforcement.
Realizing a Dream Now out of college and 20 years of age, he would make his first professional wrestling venue in Tampa, Florida. "I would come into the ring with the blond hair, the sunglasses, the fancy velvet robes, and the 'attitude' . . . it was a wonderful character I created." In his mind, like everything else, it was simply marketing. "I was never a great technically skilled wrestler, but I was a good wrestler and I was very good on the microphone . . . and I had showmanship, and that's what made the difference."
Riddle made the wrestling circuit traveling around the country, and for short periods of time he was based out of Tampa, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Dallas, Nashville, Memphis, Pensacola, Charlotte, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. He would often perform seven to ten times a week, as many as three times a day, and all at different locations. Many of the venues alternated between live television shows and house matches. And he never missed a venue. He would eventually wrestle most of the big names of the era, including Lou Thez, Andre the Giant, Pat Patterson, Jerry Lawler, Mils Mascaras, Haystacks Calhoun, Ric Flair, Harley Race, Vern Gagne, Red Bastien, Jack Brisco, Dory and Terry Funk, Ted DiBiase, John Tolos, The Iron Sheik, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, "Judo" Gene Lebell, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Gorgeous George Jr., Greg Valentine, Dusty Rhodes and many more. At the height of his career, he was billed as the main event at the Mobile, Alabama Coliseum. The semi-final event was the Heavyweight Championship of the World. “Yes,” Rock smiled, “having top billing over the Heavyweight Championship of the World was definitely a high point in my wrestling career.”
While traveling the country in 1975, Riddle unexpectedly found himself in the film capital of the world – Hollywood. With no developed acting talent, however, he decided to first analyze everything from a business perspective. He collected volumes of information on many of the major producers, directors and casting directors in town. Additionally, he made himself aware of many upcoming movies and television shows. Finally, after 8 months of intense and exhaustive research, he set out to find employment.
His first audition was for a co-starring role in an upcoming motion picture. Riddle was asked to read several lines from a script to an audience of producers and casting directors. "So, of course, I began to read this script to myself . . . silently!" The executives burst into laughter, unaware that he was unfamiliar with the audition process. They were impressed by his charm and innocence, though, and he was given a role where he worked alongside actor Robin Williams. As his confidence and knowledge of the business increased, so did his workload. Over the next 2 years he would appear in eight feature films and more than 30 television shows with principal, co-starring or starring roles. One television program that Riddle made numerous appearances on was The Gong Show. In one of his skits, Riddle wore a Mexican sombrero and, with maracas in hand, was situated on a platform, singing and dancing around while trying to undo himself from a straight jacket and leg irons. "My female assistant was holding a black drapery in front of me. The audience could see me struggling against the fabric before I finally fell to the floor and down a couple of stairs. Now, that's comedy." In yet another segment, he played a conceited wrestler who, while singing "Hold Me," would break boards in half with his bare hands and body-slam and elbow-drop a dummy in between pauses in the song. Rock revived his Gong Show wrestling character for the TV series Fernwood 2-Night, which was later, renamed America 2-Night. Produced by Alan Thicke and starring Martin Mull and Fred Willard, the program was a parody of many of the popular talk and variety shows of the 1970s. Riddle guest-starred in the recurring role of Rock Mondo. He also did a guest-starring role on The New Soupy Sales Show. His major films included the Paris Film Festival Best-Picture Winner Blue Collar with comedian Richard Pryor and actor Harvey Keitel. He also worked with Danny De Vito in a movie entitled The Van.
The Ultimate Product While Riddle was acting in the late 1970s, many of his actor colleagues were unable to find steady work. They came to realize, as he had years before, that promoting oneself was a vital component to being successful in any occupation. Riddle knew that as humans, none of us necessarily bought the best products or services, but rather we bought what was marketed as the best. He knew that in show business, like in anything else, having the talent alone wasn't nearly enough. People had to know that you existed. “And in acting, you are selling the ultimate product – yourself! Once you sell that product, you still maintain ownership of it, and every time it's sold, generally speaking, it becomes more and more valuable." With the encouragement of several associates, in 1976 he formed APS – or Actors' Promotional Services. Located in Hollywood, it was initially a marketing service for a limited number of actors and actresses who needed more exposure to the industry. Riddle's list of clients grew, and in 1979 he left acting and devoted his full attention to the business of marketing others. In later years, as his clients increased, so did his services. Eventually, he would incorporate more aspects of APS to the industry, from marketing and promotion to networking and support for people on both sides of the entertainment business – in front of and behind the cameras. This list would include executive producers, producers, directors, casting directors, agents, some writers and managers and others in the entertainment field. Collectively, he found that everyone had the same underlying need. They had to network with others in the entertainment field to stay successful.
Today, APS services include major networking events at private estates, monthly empowerment luncheons, weekly seminars, audition preparation assistance, resume services, counseling and career guidance, and global exposure through the company's Web site, www.HollywoodSuccess.com After 25+ years in operation, Riddle's efforts have led to producers acquiring financing for film and television projects. Also, directors and casting directors have been hired, co-productions have been started, and hundreds of actors and actresses from APS have been hired for principal, co-starring and starring roles in film and television. As a producer, he has produced 17 half-hour cable television shows. Currently, he has two feature films in active development. As the president of APS, Riddle has spent more than 100,000 hours of his time involved in research and marketing for his entertainment industry clients and continues this pursuit today.
To book Rock Riddle for seminars and to find out more about APS Entertainment go to www.HollywoodSuccess.com