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As the founder of the Smart Women Society, Téa Angelos has dedicated her professional life to empowering women. Her latest book, “Smart Moves,” offers personal and professional advice on more than 130 life topics, including money, love, business, and much more. In today’s episode of Make It Happen Monday, John and Téa talk about a variety of topics…

The line between sales and marketing has grown increasingly blurred in recent years, and it has led to anxiety, controversy, and fear. In today’s episode of Make it Happen Monday, Greg Kihlstrom brings that line back into focus. Greg is a global speaker, entrepreneur, consultant, and author of 11 books that focus on a wide range of topics like agil…

As the VP of Enterprise Partnerships of JumpCrew, an outsourced sales and marketing partner, Jarron Vosberg knows a thing or two about boosting conversions and improving sales. In today’s episode of Make It Happen Monday, John and Jarron talk about the importance of treating everything like an experiment and how to align those experiments with spec…

As a current Expert Partner in B2B Marketing for Bain & Company and a former CMO for companies like Vonage and Mongo, Rishi Dave has experienced the challenges of misaligned sales and marketing teams firsthand. In today’s episode, Rishi discusses how to improve the relationship between sales and marketing in a way that promotes agility and produces…

Numerous industries are fraught with disruption and change, and it seems as if there’s a new crisis around every corner. While some companies crumble under pressure, exceptional leaders use these crises as opportunities to learn new behaviors, accelerate their performance, and better understand the business. In today’s episode, Carol Kauffman and D…

Elizabeth Andrew is a highly successful strategic advisor, VP of Sales, and TEDx speaker, but her path to success has been anything but linear. She started working in the investment industry after college, but took a 17-year hiatus to raise children. Despite struggling to reenter the workforce years later, she found her place in tech sales. In toda…

As major companies lay off thousands of people and replace them with AI-driven software like ChatGPT, fear and concern continue to grow among professionals in sales and other industries. Eric Nowoslawski & Varun Anand, the innovators behind Clay.com, are helping companies of all sizes find opportunities in the era of artificial intelligence. They b…

Soren Kaplan has both a master’s degree and PhD in organizational psychology, and today, he’s a bestselling author, keynote speaker, Inc. Magazine columnist, and founder of multiple organizations. We’ve all heard of IQ and EQ, but Soren believes that XQ - or experiential intelligence - guides much of our lives at both the personal and professional …

In 2009, Graham Cochrane was laid off from his job, and he had to go on food stamps to provide for his family. By learning more about living with intention and the difference between scarcity and abundance mindsets, he was able to found The Recording Revolution, a multi-million-dollar recording company, in that same year. Today, Graham is the autho…

Despite majoring in molecular biology in college, Anthony Nava decided he didn’t want to spend his entire life in a pharmacy or lab. From his humble beginnings in sales at Target, Anthony eventually became the Senior Sales Development Manager at Crunchbase. In today’s episode of Make It Happen Monday, Anthony tells the tumultuous story of finding h…

As a Wall Street Journal best-selling author, international speaker, and professional consultant with a PhD in communications, Dr. Cindy McGovern is known as the First Lady of Sales. In today’s episode, Dr. Cindy breaks down the misconceptions surrounding sales, discusses the right mindset for a successful sales career, and explains how to leverage…

Jenna Rogers is the Vice President of Growth at Sales Assembly and the founder of Career Civility. She’s a self-described “corporateur” who has made it her mission to help people have more impactful discussions in the workplace. In today’s episode of Make It Happen Monday, Jenna discusses tough topics like the generational divide, male advocacy, an…

When it comes to getting the most out of partnerships, Russell Bradley-Cook is a pro. He has a strong background in sales and currently serves as HubSpot’s EMEA App Partner Manager, where he builds and maintains partnerships with some of the leading SaaS companies in Europe. In today’s episode, Russell explains the ecosystems associated with profes…

As the most popular and most downloaded Make It Happen Monday episode of all time, this conversation with Chris Voss is all about the power of negotiation. Chris is an ex-CIA agent and expert negotiator, the founder of the Black Swan Group, and the author of Never Split the Difference, an incredibly popular book about negotiation. Today, Chris is t…

Angela Kristen Taylor is the founder of Integrative Productivity, a coaching and consulting firm that focuses on the emotional side of productivity. In today’s episode of Make It Happen Monday, she discusses the emotional productivity connection, how negative self-talk leads to chaos, and how entrepreneurs and independent business owners can overco…

He’s a successful account executive at Asana today, but Brandon Clauser got his start in life working in a dish pit in a restaurant. While he started with no money and no college degree, Brandon eventually worked his way up and landed an executive-level sales job at Salesforce and later Asana. Today, he helps other people develop the skills and min…

How do you gain a new perspective on life? For sales coach Ian Koniak it took a brush with death, making peace with his family, and getting sober. He discovered “a calling of helping” and today he encourages a life of integrity, where “your actions and your behaviors match your thoughts.” In pursuing sales or other goals he urges patience and faith…

Paul Magnone, an engineer who heads global strategic alliances for Google, just co-wrote a book about hunches. In “Decisions Over Decimals” he advises readers to use both gut and numbers because, he argues, good decisions require “understanding the data, but also listening to your intuition.” He says engineers typically “go to the numbers,” and “hi…

From an idyllic early childhood to enduring “unbelievable racism” as a teenager, sales and LinkedIn coach Niraj Kapur learned to adapt. After facing mental health challenges and “a horrendous divorce,” Niraj was ready to rebound — then the pandemic hit and his income went to zero. He threw himself into his consulting business, Everybody Works In Sa…

Daphne E. Jones is no stranger to adversity. As a young black woman interested in a STEM career, a career counselor once told her that she should be a secretary. Instead of blindly following this so-called “professional” advice, Daphne developed a plan to change the impossible to the inevitable. Since then, she’s held numerous executive and leaders…

Growing up in Israel, Udi Ledergor studied magic, music, and puppeteering. He uses showbiz skills today, not on a stage but in business conference rooms as chief marketing officer for Gong, one of the hottest and fastest growing tech companies in the world right now. “I see B2B marketing as a way of performing to an audience and creating a show, cr…

From working his way up the ladder at Oracle to becoming a top executive at customer experience management platform Sprinklr, Mark Siciliano has invested in people. He reveals what he’s learned in the last quarter-century about sales, sales enablement, and what it takes to make an impact on people’s lives — both customers and colleagues. Treating o…

The booming psychedelic industry offers hope to those with psychological challenges as well as opportunities for workers and investors, according to two pioneers in the business. Jay Godfrey and Richard Meloff left investment banking to create Nushama, a network of psychedelic wellness centers. Jay says his first experience with supervised use of p…

Sales, social media marketing, and entrepreneurship coach Stacey Hall says many of us are in need of an alignment. Her new book “Selling from Your Comfort Zone: The Power of Alignment Marketing” argues that knowing yourself is essential for success in business. “You get into alignment with yourself, you get into alignment with the company that is s…

Sales is one of the only professions in the world where we’re expected to take a training or read a book and immediately apply what we learned to a real-world scenario without much practice. Most athletes spend over 80% of their time practicing and less than 20% of the time playing the game. Jonathan Mahan and Jordana Zeldin of The Practice Lab dis…

Salespeople are free to be “who we can be,” says Nikki Ivey, who used a career in sales to leave life in the housing projects far behind. From first working at a used car lot in Hinesville, GA., she rose to become a newly hired key executive at John’s company, JB Sales. As a director of training she wants to lead by example, and as a Black female e…

John Costigan (JC) has been in Sales and Sales training well before John Barrows (JB) got into the industry. JB has been a long time fan but the two never actually met until one day JC reached out to JB one day on LinkedIn with a message “it’s probably time we need to talk. I really admire what you’ve done to represent our space. ”During their firs…

The majority of salespeople aren’t aware of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and how it can help in the sales process. If you haven’t heard of this (and even if you have), you’ll want to listen in to my conversation with Valerie Fischer, co-owner of The Conversion Engine and an NLP-Certified Practitioner. I was introduced to NLP early in my sales…

Alabama football Coach Nick Saban doesn’t set lofty goals, but his teams win national championships. Guest John Talty, who covers the Crimson Tide as sports editor at Alabama Media Group, says Saban is “much more focused on what we need to do on a daily basis to put ourselves in a position to have success.” Creating a system where players and coach…

As founder of The Sales Evangelist, consultant Donald C. Kelly “sells sales to salespeople.” When he sat down with John they declared the conversation “just two sales guys talking.” But it was more a crash course in selling with observations like: Showing genuine curiosity engages clients; get “yesses” along the way; an empowered consumer “will buy…

If you’re a sales professional whose job revolves around procurement, you’ll want to listen to my discussion with Mark Raffan, CEO of Negotiation Ninja. Mark provides a master class in negotiations because he knows all the tricks in this field as he used to work on the procurement side. “I come from the dark side, the other side of the procurement …

After battling a brain tumor as a teenager and depression as a young entrepreneur, wellness advocate Chris Mirabile “grew to appreciate that I was here, living still.” Today the founder and CEO of longevity company Novos Labs says he has slowed his aging process by 31% through a holistic approach to mental and physical health that includes meditati…

Lisa Catto caught John’s attention with her self proclaimed title on Linkedin as the Queen of Automation. John has been saying for years that automation is turning sales reps into robots so he had to have her on to discuss where automation can help and hurt throughout the sales process. Lisa says digital selling tools can be effective as long as th…

Shelton Banks is someone who embodies the “Make it Happen” mentality. He was a high school dropout who lived in a tough neighborhood growing up but didn’t want that to define him. He found a job on Craigslist that didn’t need a high school diploma and worked her way up to then get himself into finance and now runs two non-profit organizations focus…

People looking for answers need to ask questions first, advises consultant and writer Christie Hunter Arscott, author of the upcoming “Begin Boldly.” You see children “asking so many questions about the world,” she says, adding that we should encourage curiosity and “teach people to approach life with a spirit of inquiry.” She says that trait is pa…

Sales trainer, and self proclaimed “King of Sales,” Jeffrey Gitomer has been in the sales game longer than most and he has the stats and social following to prove it. With over 15 books, many of them on the NYT Best Seller list, 70k followers on LinkedIn and thousands of followers on other social channels he has influenced millions of sales profess…

Brandon Bornancin, CEO and founder of Seamless.ai, has known John for more than a decade, back to when they started their respective companies. In that time Seamless, which helps clients broaden and deepen their business connections, has become one of the country’s fastest growing tech companies. On the podcast they discuss how passion can sometime…

After landing his dream job, Sean Castrina was set. Then new management spoke the dreaded words that the company was “going in a different direction.” His response: “I'm never ever going to depend on anybody again,” and an entrepreneur was born. He has since launched 15 companies, coached other business owners, and started a podcast. Among the trai…

When Chris Schembra visited Italy and feasted on its food and love of life he realized he “was lonely, unfulfilled, … (and) overwhelmed.” After despair led him to self-harm, he discovered that embracing gratitude in the face of adversity is good for the soul and the bottom line. Today he is a successful consultant and author, having just released “…

Successful selling requires being able to “push past the concept of just the transactional mindset of sales,” says Dale Dupree, founder of the Sales Rebellion sales training company. He gained that perspective during his time selling copiers, which went from expensive tools to commodities. Rather than trying to win “a race to the bottom” on pricing…

In building his sales career, Jamie Shanks found he could make more genuine connections on LinkedIn than trying to “shake hands and kiss babies” at in-person networking events. Eventually, people were more impressed by his “social selling” skills than his products, and a career in training was born. The CEO of Pipeline Signals sales intelligence co…

Laura Palmer got into sales because she “always wanted to be paid what I was worth.” She sharpened her skills at Google and today Laura is a Web 3.0/Metaverse pioneer as global vice president of sales for Unity Technologies, a major video game industry supplier. As she scaled her career, she says it became even more important to listen to her team.…

Growing up poor in an affluent community could have left Scott MacGregor bitter, but he chose to be grateful for family and being born in the United States. The founder and CEO of the recruiting firm SomethingNew says appreciating what you have is a catalyst for “building relationships with amazing people” who share that outlook and can become busi…

Pioneering designer Richard Banfield calls the product “a non-human salesperson” that can promote brand affinity and help generate revenue. He says meaningful communication between design and sales teams is “when you can get that truly innovative insight” to create products that don’t just dazzle consumers, they solve problems. Banfield credits his…

Mindset coach Amber Deibert: helps Silicon Valley business leaders get past impostor syndrome, which she once battled herself. She says too many top performers miss out on life’s joys because their accomplishments only reinforce a sense of unworthiness. She turns that thinking on its head, saying, “You cannot feel impostor syndrome unless you’re a …

Business and brand development consultant Kasey Jones, CEO of A Better Jones, found inner peace and a fresh approach to business while recovering from a near-fatal dog attack. The growth strategy coach explains that healing her soul along with her body was part of “a period of personal discovery in a very, very powerful and rewarding way.” Hear how…

Roderick Jefferson, Global Vice President of Enablement at PRO Unlimited, Bestselling Author and Keynote Speaker talks about his experience surviving a near fatal stroke and his renewed outlook on life, faith, family and friends. We also discuss focusing on what you can control and the importance of asking for help.…

Dave Gerhardt, Founder of ExitFive.com and author of Founder Brand, talks about sales and marketing alignment and how we should all be using our personal brands to promote ourselves instead of outsourcing. We also explore the idea of sales reps becoming marketers and the struggle companies now have with employees who have strong personal brands.…

Melanie Fellay, CEO at Spekit and Forbes magazine 30, under 30 women CEOs, talks about the need to adapt herself through the different stages of her leadership role along with managing the pressures of being a young woman leader. We also focus the conversation on her personal values and the impact they have on company values and the importance of u…

Todd Caponi, sales author and historian, discusses the history of sales, the evolution of the profession of sales throughout recent history, and the importance of transparency in the future of sales.על ידי John Barrows