Armand Farrokh & Nick Cegelski
30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales
The #1 sales podcast in the world, fueled by hyper-actionable sales tactics from the top 1% sellers at companies like Salesforce, Gong, Outreach, Slack, LinkedIn, Keller Williams, Northwestern Mutual. 30 Minutes to President's Club cuts all the BS, fluffy mindset stories, and sales academia to give you the most actionable sales tactics that get you to President's Club. Every episode is a supercharged 30 minutes where you'll hear step-by-step breakdowns in every key dimension of sales, including: Prospecting: How to open conversations to triple your pipeline Discovery: How to ask questions that...
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Jul 9, 2026
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#566 - 3 Brutal Sales Leadership Lessons (Avoid These Mistakes) 21.04.2026 12:12
The sales leadership lessons that changed how Mark Kosoglow leads and scales teams. Mark Kosoglow shares 3 moments that reshaped how he coaches, manages, and hires. Stop creating busywork. Protect rep selling time. Use PIPs to coach, not to quietly fire. Hire for traits, not past success. Train the skills. Great leaders win with clarity, intent, and strong systems. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:35 I...
#565 - How to Master Social Selling on LinkedIn to Book Meetings | Kade Hinkle 16.04.2026 35:26
Kade Hinkle breaks down a repeatable LinkedIn outbound system that turns cold prospects into warm conversations before you ever send the pitch. 🎙️ ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS: Use video follow-ups instead of long text: Short, personalized videos cut through inbox noise and make your outreach feel human, leading to higher reply rates from senior buyers. Run the 30 connection rule daily: Sending 30 targete...
#564 (Trailer) - I Cold Called For 60 Minutes (And Went Slightly Unhinged) 14.04.2026 0:24
Full video here Alex Murphy cold calls for 60 straight minutes to see how many meetings he can book in real time. No script no safety net just raw dials real objections and live pipeline building. Watch how Alex turns cold calls into real conversations using sharp positioning and tonality. Real pressure real stats and a behind the scenes look at what it actually takes to book meetings. Timestamps:...
#563 - How to Build Reps Who Don’t Need You on Every Deal | Jason Miller ft. Unify 09.04.2026 36:38
Great sales leaders don’t solve problems, they build reps who can. Jason Miller breaks down how to drive focus, coach real skill gaps, and force critical thinking so your team performs without you in the room. 🎙️ ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS: Use “poster vs post-it” to drive focus: Set one team-wide priority (poster) and one hyper-specific behavior per rep (post-it) to avoid overwhelm and actually move pe...
#562 - Sales Leadership Masterclass: Win Every Deal In Your Pipeline 07.04.2026 27:13
Turn your most dreaded meeting into your biggest revenue weapon, this deal review framework drives cleaner data, sharper reps, and near-perfect forecast accuracy. In this 30MPC Masterclass, Mark Kosoglow breaks down a repeatable, no-BS system for running deal reviews that actually move deals forward, not just talk about them. He walks through the exact sales stages, forecast methodology, and coach...
#561 - How to Coach Sales Reps Using “Based On What” Thinking | Cameron Shahabedin 02.04.2026 37:23
Turn reps into self-sufficient closers with structured call coaching, “based on what” thinking, and problem-solving leadership systems 🎙️ ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS: Reinforce pillars everywhere, not just on callsBake core behaviors (like upfront contracts) into coaching, decks, and workflows so reps can’t skip them. Model the behavior you expectLeaders should demonstrate the same frameworks (e.g. upfro...
#560 - Inside a $3.6M Sale: From 40-Person Demo to Brutal Negotiation 31.03.2026 36:37
They almost got shut out of the deal, then closed $3.6M anyway. Johnny Larson breaks down the full sales cycle behind a $3.6M enterprise win, from forcing his way into an RFP he wasn’t invited to, to running a 50-person demo, to surviving a brutal pricing negotiation that nearly killed the deal. This is a real, unfiltered look at how enterprise deals actually get done at the highest level. You’ll...
#559 - Sell The Problem Before You Sell The Product | Keenan 26.03.2026 38:04
The Perfect Outbound Sequence Template Keenan (author of Gap Selling) breaks down a step-by-step framework for prospecting that actually gets responses, focused on leading with problems—not products. Learn how to create intrigue and interest in your outreach, diagnose real buyer pain using problem → root cause → impact, and structure cold emails and calls that force prospects to reflect instead of...
#558 - The 5 Data-Backed Cold Call Scripts to Overcome Any Objection 24.03.2026 10:56
Most sales reps try to memorize dozens of objection responses. That’s a mistake. Just 5 objections make up roughly 74% of what you’ll hear on cold calls. This episode breaks down those 5 objections and gives you simple, repeatable cold call scripts to handle each one without overthinking it. The goal isn’t to close on the cold call. The goal is to earn the next step. Master these 5 objection handl...
#557 - How to Run a Perfect Discovery Call (Start to Finish) | Jacob Fleisher 19.03.2026 34:41
In this episode of 30 Minutes to President’s Club, Jacob Flesher (Head of Sales at Attention) breaks down a full discovery call framework from start to finish, including how to challenge prospects without killing rapport, uncover true priorities, and run consultative sales conversations that actually convert. You’ll learn how top sellers avoid assumptions, diagnose real problems (not surface-level...
#556 (Trailer) - I Taught A Standup Comedian To Cold Call (Real Dials) 17.03.2026 1:46
Full video HERE What happens when you give a stand-up comedian a sales script and tell him to start cold calling? Alex Murphy sits down with his brother Andrew (a comedian in Austin) and gives him a crash course in cold calling. The goal: sell comedy show tickets… using real B2B sales tactics. First, Alex teaches Andrew the classic AIDA framework — Attention, Interest, Decision, Action — the same...
#555 - Discovery Masterclass: Everything You Need to Run a Perfect Discovery Call 12.03.2026 51:40
Learn more: https://www.30mpc.com/course/discovery-course -- ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS: Structure Your Call in 3 Parts: Great discovery calls have three distinct chapters—(1) the first five minutes to establish credibility and set your PPO agenda (Purpose, Plan, Outcome), (2) the next 20 minutes to uncover meaningful problems while building trust, and (3) the last five minutes to run your Five Minute D...
#554 (Trailer) - Don't Sell to Your Champion. Sell THROUGH Them. (2 Real Emails) 10.03.2026 1:42
Full video HERE' The fastest way to reach the executive who can green-light your deal: write the email they’ll actually read. Nate Nasralla breaks down two real examples of emails you can draft for your champion to forward directly to their boss. Instead of selling to your champion, write the message so they can sell through them. Open with a priority the executive already cares about so the email...
#553 - How to Run Discovery Without Obsessing Over Questions | Gal Aga ft. Aligned 05.03.2026 36:13
Most sellers obsess over asking the perfect discovery question. In this episode, Gal Aga breaks down why great discovery has nothing to do with memorized questions and everything to do with understanding the problem, finding the root cause, and guiding the buying process. 🎙️ ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS: Focus on the problem, root cause, and impact you need to uncover, not memorizing discovery questions....
#552 - Live Cold Calling: Can This Grouchy Old CRO Even Book A Meeting? 03.03.2026 1:40
Full video HERE A seasoned CRO grabs the phone, goes undercover as “Bob Smith,” and makes live cold calls trying to book five connects as fast as possible. No script reading. No brand flex. Just real dials, real objections, and real pressure. You’ll hear the exact opener that gets people talking, the provocative question that instantly hooks sales leaders, and the “Green Turkey” move that turns an...
#551 - How to Ramp Sales Reps to President’s Club Faster | Marcus Chan 26.02.2026 40:10
In this sales leadership masterclass, Marcus Chan breaks down a week-by-week ramp plan, real-play coaching system, and time management framework that turns new hires into consistent revenue producers fast. 🎙️ ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS: Tee reps up instead of taking over calls: Guide them toward the next talk track rather than jumping in and owning the conversation. Create a parking lot for leadership i...
#550 - How Many Meetings Can I Book Off 6,474 Personalized Cold Emails? 24.02.2026 1:59
Full Video HERE We did the one thing you’re never supposed to do: We tried to blast our entire contact list of 224,000 people. But instead of sending generic spam, we built a workflow in Clay to automate the deep research usually reserved for one-off emails. The goal? To find sales leaders whose *own reps* were already watching our content, and use that data to send 6,000+ hyper-personalized messa...
#549 - The World's Weirdest Sales Trainer Does Cold Call Objection Roleplay | Giulio Segantini 19.02.2026 41:41
Giulio Segantini is back and this time it’s pure objection-handling firepower. If you sell anything over the phone, this is a tactical breakdown of how to handle “send me an email,” “we’re already working with someone,” “too expensive,” “not interested,” and every other cold call objection without sounding scripted or desperate. Built around Giulio’s 'ACE Framework' (Accept → Consent → Explore), t...
#548 - Executive Sales Masterclass: Close Big Deals At Power (Step-by-Step) 17.02.2026 32:44
Close Complex Enterprise Deals by Selling the Problem, Not the Product Jen Allen-Knuth breaks down how to win executive deals by anchoring every conversation to a strategic objective and building urgency around cost of inaction. Prospect into the C-suite with a 4-step structure: objective → problem hypothesis → status quo → insight (not a pitch). Run discovery around objectives, obstacles, current...
#547 - Running The Big Team Meeting: 7 Steps to Group Problem Consensus | Jen Allen-Knuth 12.02.2026 34:39
Over the last 12 to 16 weeks, we’ve been sitting down with the one and only Jen Allen-Knuth (2–3 hours per week, plus an entire week of shooting) to build her course: Selling to the C-Suite. This is everything you could possibly need to close a 6–7 figure deal at power. Backed by Gong data of and 1M+ executive-level sales cycles. https://www.30mpc.com/course/multithreading-exec-selling-course-sell...
#546 - Fixing the WORST Cold Call Pitches Known to Man 10.02.2026 19:33
Nick Cegelski breaks down why most cold call pitches fail—and how to fix them. Nick explains why generic value propositions packed with buzzwords like optimize, streamline, and AI-powered sound nice but mean nothing to buyers. Instead, he introduces the problem proposition framework: leading with a vivid, emotionally charged problem your buyer actually feels, then briefly showing how you solve it....
#545 - How to Build 11 High-Reply Prospecting Plays You Can Run Today | Prabhav Jain ft. 11x 05.02.2026 37:12
AI isn’t replacing sales reps—it’s turning them into force multipliers. Prabhav Jain, CEO of 11x, breaks down how modern sales teams use AI-driven personalization, signal-based outreach, and smarter sequences to book more meetings while spending less time on manual prospecting. Download the Guide: The Ultimate Three Part Outbound System to accelerate your path to President’s Club 🎙️ ACTIONABLE TAK...
#544 - Sales Roleplay: How To Earn an Executive’s Respect in 30 Minutes 03.02.2026 30:59
Armand Farrokh and Jen Allen‑Knuth walk through a realistic, unscripted discovery conversation with a senior university security leader. Jen demonstrates a 7-step executive discovery framework, from establishing credibility and anchoring to strategic objectives, to reframing the status quo and closing for next steps, while Armand plays a skeptical, budget-constrained prospect. The video pauses aft...
#543 - How to Build a Deal Closing Machine With Screenshot References | Krysten Conner 29.01.2026 32:50
How top sellers use customer proof to reduce risk, accelerate deals, and close with confidence featuring Krysten Conner’s real world framework for social proof, references, and late stage deal momentum. 🎙️ ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS: Screenshots beat polished proof: Raw texts, DMs, and unpolished customer messages feel real and instantly lower buyer risk. Use them in prospecting and late stage deals ins...
#542 - Sales Email Elimination: 5 Cold Emails. 1 Winner. 27.01.2026 2:11
Full YouTube Episode Here Jen Allen-Knuth puts five real cold emails head-to-head to see which ones actually earn executive attention and which get instantly deleted. Watch as she breaks down subject lines, openers, tone, and CTA mistakes, crowns a single winning email, then rewrites it live using her Problem Prompter framework to show how sellers can stop pitching and start booking meetings with...
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