Sales POP! Podcasts: Insights from Top Experts in Sales, Marketing, Leadership & More.

Chad Coe, Founder of Coe Financial Group, joins Sales POP! to share his concept of people tithing — a giver-first sales approach that builds trust quickly, sustains persistent outreach without burning bridges, and turns generosity into long-term client relationships. Learn more at https://www.coefinancial.com/ .

Jürgen Dauk, Transformation Consultant and Founder of The Leadership OS, joins John Golden to explain why AI without organizational transformation is destined to fail. Drawing on 25 years of senior leadership and NLP coaching expertise, Jürgen walks leaders through the vision, structure, and mindset shifts that turn AI investment into real competitive advantage. Learn more at https://theleadership...

Ann Padley, Senior Partner at Untapped Pricing and co-author of The Pricing Sprint , joins Sales POP! to explain behavioral pricing — why identical prices perform differently and how three clear options change the sales conversation. Learn more at https://untappedpricing.co.uk/thepricingsprint/ .

Travis Hahler, Senior Director of Global Strategy & Transformation at Salesforce and founder of The Neurological Nomad, joins John Golden to explain why resistance to change is biology, not rebellion — and how leaders can read resistance as diagnostic information instead of personal pushback. Learn more at https://www.theneurologicalnomad.com/ .

Brad Farris, founder of Anchor Advisors and executive leadership coach to agency and expert-firm owners, joins Sales POP! to explain why most service businesses plateau between $1M and $2M — and the founder mindset, pricing, and hiring shifts that take them into a profitable $3M-$5M business. Learn more at https://anchoradvisors.com/ .

Kelly Faetanini, founder and lead designer of Kelly Faetanini Bridal, joins Sales POP! to share the customer-centric playbook that turned her brand into a leader in luxury bridal — covering authenticity, hiring for emotional intelligence, and why a grounded leader outperforms a frantic one in any high-pressure industry. A practical conversation with lessons that apply far beyond wedding fashion. L...

Dominic Forth, CEO of Thought Leaders America and former BBC broadcast journalist, joins John Golden to explain why the most qualified person rarely wins the deal — and how visibility, storytelling, and composure under pressure build the authority that does. Learn more at Thought Leaders America .

April Martini and Anne Candido, co-founders of Forthright People and authors of The Power of Your Personal Brand , join John Golden to explain why middle managers stall and how a deliberate personal brand becomes their competitive advantage. They share a four-part framework built on 45 combined years of branding experience and show how to apply it in 20-minute chunks. Learn more at https://forthri...

In this Sales POP! Expert Insight Interview, John Golden talks with Cory Dunham, Executive Leadership Coach and Co-Owner of Dunham Marketing Services, about how founder-led service businesses win by clarifying their message, aligning their teams around real values, and turning those values into decisive action — especially in the fragile moments right after a sale. Learn more and connect with Cory...

Jon Benson, copywriter, entrepreneur, and founder of BNSN AI, joins Sales POP! to explain how marketers can shift from writer to conductor — directing AI agents, injecting human values into copy, and producing in days what once took teams of ten. Learn more and grab the free Buyer Profile at https://bnsn.ai/ .

Justin Goodbread, founder of Relentless Value Coaching and creator of the Deca Millionaire Way, joins John Golden to explain why so many service-based founders get stuck at the epicenter of their own businesses — and walks through the five-step Relentless Framework he has used to build and exit seven companies. Learn more at https://www.justingoodbread.com/ .

Laura Kriska, founder of We Building Solutions and author of The Business of WE , joins John Golden to share her We-Building framework for bridging invisible us-vs-them divides that quietly drain deadlines, revenue, and trust inside Fortune 500 companies. She walks through the four stages of trust every working relationship moves through and explains why hybrid work has made the climb harder than...

Derek De Vette, Co-Founder and Head of Strategic Communications at Halo Communications, joins John Golden to explain how AI search has rewritten the PR playbook and why niche earned media now outperforms marquee placements for sales pipeline growth. Derek shares fresh data on ChatGPT and Claude citation patterns and a practical playbook for becoming the cited source inside AI answers. Learn more a...

Antoniette Roze, CEO of WPC Global, joins Sales POP! to explain how six- and seven-figure experts stop treating speaking like a lottery and start building predictable, high-value speaking businesses through sharp positioning, clear messaging, and realistic timelines. Learn more and take the free Speaker Fit assessment at https://speakpact.com/ .

In this Sales POP! Expert Insight Interview, Jessica Rhodes, Founder of Interview Connections, explains why she dismantled her sales team after six years and how founder-led selling restored client fit, retention, and company cohesion at the world's first podcast booking agency. Learn more at https://interviewconnections.com/ .

Carmen Sederino, Founder and Performance Master at Illuminated Story, joins John Golden to explain why the live keynote is a competitive advantage AI cannot replicate — and how leaders and sellers can build real executive presence through voice, body, and emotional choreography. She shares the 50/50 rehearsal rule, how authenticity works as a range rather than a fixed pose, and why pause is the mo...

Jacquelyn Goldberg, VP of Sales at Unframe AI, joins John Golden on Sales POP! to explain why resume pedigree is a shakier hiring signal than ever and why she screens for grit and intellectual curiosity instead — lessons she's used to scale her team to multi-million ARR in under a year at a Series A AI startup. Full conversation and more on Unframe's managed AI delivery platform at https://www.unf...

Kevin Roy, Founder and CEO of Green Banana SEO, joins Sales POP! to explain how AI has reshaped search and why strong SEO fundamentals still drive roughly 80% of your visibility inside answer engines. He walks through his three-block page blueprint, the schema and author authority signals that earn AI citations, and the pruning and citation moves small businesses should tackle first. Learn more at...

Irwin Hau, founder of Melbourne-based Chromatix and creator of the Trust and Authority framework, joins John Golden to explain why your website is your strongest sales tool and how to answer the four questions every visitor asks in the first three seconds. Drawing on 60,000+ website audits, Irwin shares the proof density principle, the focus trade-off most businesses get wrong, and why AI search m...

Michael Hofer — CFO, M&A veteran, and founder of ByMichaelHofer — joins John Golden on Sales POP! to share hard-won lessons from 30+ international transactions, explaining why most deals fail during integration and how cultural alignment and strategic clarity matter more than financial engineering. He also walks through how AI is transforming finance functions in real time, from cutting forecastin...

Lane Kawaoka, real estate investor and fund manager behind a $2.1 billion portfolio, joins Sales POP! to break down The Wealth Elevator — his five-floor framework that guides accredited investors from rental properties through private syndications, tax strategy, and full financial freedom. Lane shares the exact investment philosophy shifts required at each stage of wealth, including why convention...

Gregory Kovsky, President and CEO of International Business Associates (IBA), joins host John Golden to share what business owners must know before selling — from defining exit objectives and cleaning up financials to navigating deal structures and building the right advisory team. With 32 years of M&A experience and over 300 transactions completed, Gregory brings a holistic, founder-first approac...

Mark Myers, founder of Tax Wise Partners and Tax Saving Architect, joins host John Golden to explain how high-income earners and business owners can legally reduce their annual tax bill by 30–60% using advanced planning strategies most CPAs never explore inside the 75,000-page tax code. From solar tax credits to pre-sale business structuring, Mark reveals the framework his firm uses to save client...

Sid Bharath, founder of Refound, joins Sales POP! host John Golden to explain why most corporate AI initiatives fail — not because of the technology, but because of missing change management and a lack of strategic ownership. Sid shares the audit-first framework Refound uses to map workflows, identify friction, and rebuild processes with AI at the core rather than layered on top. Learn more and bo...

David Farrell, Sales Leader at Salesloft, joins John Golden to examine how AI is reshaping pipeline creation, deal execution, and revenue forecasting — without replacing the human trust factor that remains essential to closing high-value B2B deals. Drawing on 25 years of hands-on sales experience, David introduces his three-legged stool framework for diagnosing sales performance and makes a compel...