Sell By Being Human

Summary: Kristin A. Meekhof is an author, life coach, writer and obtained her M.S.W. from the University of Michigan. She has more than 20 years of clinical experience. A nationally recognized expert on resiliency and gratitude, her best-selling book, A Widow’s Guide to Healing, was inspired by her own personal experience with widowhood, grief, and healing. When Kristin is not writing she enjoys t...

Summary: Amarpreet Kalkat is the founder at Humantic AI and co-founder at Frrole AI - Companies he founded with the mission to humanize the internet. He founded Frrole AI in 2014. It was one of the first companies to bring AI to consumer intelligence. It led to Forrester naming Frrole AI as one of the only 7 products out of hundreds in its “AI In Consumer Intelligence” report in 2020. In 2021, he...

Lindsay Mitrosilis is the Founder, Lead Strategist & Agency Owner at Mitrosilis Consulting. She supports entrepreneurs who are ready to take on the dark horse of social media and harness the most powerful business tool out there...LinkedIn! Lindsay has helped hundreds of people use LinkedIn to create a profile that attracts their ideal employer (aka ideal clients) and find opportunities (aka b...

Jonathan Mahan is the Co-Founder of The Practice Lab - the first ever training community for sellers ready to develop their skills like athletes, performers, and musicians do theirs. The Practice Lab programs help sales people cut through the clutter of tips and tactics to learn the most impactful core sales behaviors that make selling feel good and net meaningful results and deliberately practice...

Summary: Laurie Ruettimann has been telling work-life stories and building groundbreaking solutions to drive better employment experiences, increase retention rates, and improve job satisfaction for more than 20 years. Through her storytelling, she casts a spotlight on innovators who are advocating for driving better employment experiences that benefit everyone — individuals, managers, employers,...

Summary: Stephanie Rogers is the host and creator of Story Jam and Story Serenade, two acclaimed live lit, live music shows which feature diverse personal narrative storytellers and original songs which echo each story. Since 2018, Steph and a team of talented coaches, writers, performers, and producers have offered hundreds of workshops, classes, and retreats through Story Jam Studio. The Studio...

Summary: Cyndi Bishop is an experienced client support specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the eLearning industry. Skilled and knowledgeable in K-8 Education, eLearning, Moodle, Training and Customer Service. She is a professional who’s passionate about building client relationships and serving them with her all. Cyndi has a Master's degree focused in Educational Leadership and Po...

Summary: Emet Ozar is a seasoned Program Manager with 15 years experience in technology and education sectors passionate about creating effective processes and programs, managing relationships and using data to drive informed decision making. She was born and raised in California. After graduating with a degree in Learning, Design, & Technology from Stanford University, Emet worked primarily i...

Summary: Constantine Johns is the Regional Sales Director at Workiva. Constantine is constantly a top performer and dedicated person of influence with a demonstrated history of overachieving and continuous development. He is passionate about serving his partners and leaving a long-lasting impact on everyone he interacts with. He is dedicated to his journey of self-awareness and self-development, w...

Summary: Jason Wasser is a therapist and coach for professionals, entrepreneurs, family businesses & athletes. He has an interest in working with high performance individuals through his consulting and coaching practice. He utilizes integrative and alternative medicine modalities to amplify his successful outcomes with his clients. He enjoys working with clients who are looking for something d...

Summary: Vincent Pugliese is a conference speaker, leader of a mastermind group and an author. His journey takes him through being one of the greatest sports photographers in the country, working through the newspaper industry, to becoming an entrepreneur, starting his own photography business and writing two books - The Wealth Of Connection and Freelance to Freedom. Freelance to Freedom is full o...

Summary: Joseph Bennet Jacobi is an American former slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s. He had a nineteen year career as an elite athlete with the US canoe and kayak, including ten national championship titles, two Olympic games appearances and has won an Olympic gold medal in the C2 event at Barcelona. Today Joe works as a performance coach, collaborating with leader...

Summary Jason Walker is described by his colleagues as a "Down to Earth Seller". He describes himself on LinkedIN as The Conscious Seller and an LMS Whisperer. He showed me how he is all these things and more in our conversation. So much of sales is making people feel that they have someone that cares about them and Jason goes even farther with an approach that says - his client's deserve someone...

Summary: Creative outreach. Wacky prospecting ideas. Gimmicks! How do you separate out the difference between an out of the box prospecting idea that's effective and ones that are really just cute gimmicks in the moment? I brought on Jeremiah Griffin, Head of Sales at the Sales Rebellion to talk about this. Jeremiah describes himself as a professional attention getter and crafter of creative copy....

Summary: Emily Davidson Dukes is an Account Executive at Docebo - a Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Enterprise Learning Management System. Before discovering her passion for sales, she worked as a high school English teacher for Madison County Board of Education. In this episode we explore the links between teaching and selling and how Emily utilized her teaching skills to become a bette...

Summary: Jack Wilson is the Senior Director of Enterprise Sales at Seismic - The industry leading enablement platform. Jack's superpower is the ability to guide complex organizations and individuals to discover unique super powers of their own. Traditionally he's done this through consulting and one to one coaching helping his clients and students to surface untapped potential, blow past their goa...

Summary: Tyler Meckes is an Account Manager at Dooly - a company focusing on winning more deals by improving Salesforce hygiene, running a winning sales process, and eliminating low-value work for salespeople. In college, he obtained both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Exercise Science from Bloomsburg University. Hi graduate studies allowed him to further hone his research/analysis, professio...

Summary: Torin Ellis is a diversity strategist, Founder/CEO at the Torin Ellis Brand, Co-Host of the Crazy and the King Podcast, and a published author. As a tenured diversity practitioner, he leads a nimble diversity boutique consultancy with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) strategy through the lens of recruiting Through his work he ensures teams effectively attract,...

Summary: Rachel is on a mission to humanize the workplace by igniting resilience, connection, engagement and compassion in organizations, associations and their leaders and teams. Recognized by Forbes as a Next1000 honoree in 2021, the #1 Health Promotion Professional in the U.S. in 2015, a 40 Under 40 Game Changer in 2019, and one of The Daily Record’s Leading Women of 2020, Rachel is a national...

Summary: Priya Kumar is a heart centered entrepreneur. She's the founder of Pivot My Profit, a consultancy practice centered around helping business owners find freedom with their financial literacy. She's also a hospice volunteer, an entrepreneur, a transformation coach, a blogger, an author, and a marathon runner. She started out as a Tax Investigator and now coaches entrepreneurs on finance str...

Scott Leese is the CEO/Founder of Scott Leese Consulting, LLC and one of the most sought after people to help startups scale their sales organizations. Through domestic and international consulting as a strategic advisor, he has trained an army of salespeople and sales leaders thousands strong. Scott puts his nearly two decades of sales and leadership experience to use as the CEO/Founder of Scott...

Summary: Jeremy Torisk is the President of Torisk Pro Advisors, a company he founded to help people change their lives build around three basic principles: 𝟭) 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝟮) 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝘆𝘀 𝟯) 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣𝗦 He helps companies understand the science behind true employee engagement by putting...

Summary Andy Paul is the author of three award-winning sales books, "Zero-Time Selling" , "Amp Up Your Sales", and his latest book "Sell Without Selling Out" presenting fresh new perspectives on the sales processes that drive sales success. He specializes in teaching sales teams how to maximize the value and power of their individual selling styles, teaches on understanding what buyers want and de...

Today's episode is a solo episode with your host, Alex Smith. We're approaching 2 years in May and by podcast standards that's a huge milestone. I thought I'd share a brief episode of why I started this journey and why I'm still doing it two years later. This is a wild story that began with an elevator, a mop, and a New York Times Besdt Selling author. Listen to the full episode, I promise it'll b...

Summary: Jerome Deroy is the CEO of Narativ - a company seek to transform how people engage with their work by using the power of storytelling to provide organizations with programs that create ownership, empower, and engage employees. He joined the company after leaving his position at BNP Paribas, Hong Kong when the company founders - Murray Nossel and Paul Browde, handed him a shoebox full of n...