The 20% Podcast with Tyler Meckes

This week’s throwback episode features a guest who served as a top sales rep, to Founding companies in Digital Advertising, to working his way through the ranks at rapidly growing companies like HireVue, Lucid, and Workstream. Now, he has taken his talents back to his founder and small business routes which we will get into today. Blake Harber is this week’s guest on the 20% Podcast. In this week’...

This week’s guest is Jen Allen-Knuth. Jen is a repeat guest who first appeared on Episode 79 in February of 2022. Check out that episode to learn more about Jen’s background, what drives her and what she does as the Chief Evangelist at Challenger.  In today’s, I wanted to discuss with Jen how other departments outside of sales can utilize the skills learned from Challenger, whether they are in sal...

In this week’s episode, I am bringing you the 2nd edition of The Sales Series. In Episode 192, I introduced you to “The Sales Series,” so I can bring you just a few of the top moments from Top Sales Leaders who have joined me on The 20% Podcast.  That first episode included clips from guests such as: Alexine Mudawar/Lori Richardson John Barrows  Nick Cegelski  Jen Allen Ian Koniak Today we will be...

In a previous episode, I introduced “The Sales Series” to re-intro many amazing conversations from Sales Leaders on the show. This week, I am resharing “The CS Series” to highlight incredible Customer Success Leaders from the show.  Today we will be covering 5 CS Leaders:   Brooke Simmons: “Prioritization Quadrants” (Ep. 130) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/130-the-state-of-customer-success-...

This week’s throwback guest has a very powerful career, starting as a financial advisor, to later finding his love for Partnerships. He was employee #16 at Hopin and StreamYard, and he actually also wrote “The Book on Partnerships”: How Startups work with partners to sell more, add features, and get acquired.  It is a book that is a summary of hundreds of expert sources and real-world examples, wh...

To continue the throwback episodes featuring Mental Health Awareness highlights, I wanted to continue to shine a light on Mental Health-related conversations from The 20% Podcast. I have already shared 10 Mental Health Clips on Episode 277, but in this week’s episode, I am sharing 5 more: Episode 50: Scott Leese - Navigating Tough Times https://open.spotify.com/episode/0WRUD0XibQHzBMFMSNvQHK?si=0c...

In this throwback episode originally released in May for Mental Health Awareness Month, I wanted to reshare this episode to continue spreading mental health awareness by sharing the Top 10 Mental Health tip clips from The 20% Podcast in this week’s episode.  This is 10 tips ranging from Mental Health, to ADHD, to mindset during tough times, and everything in between. ______________________________...

This week’s episode is a throwback to one of my favorite series, The Sales Series. I am bringing you the 2nd edition of The Sales Series. In Episode 192, I introduced you to “The Sales Series,” so I can bring you just a few of the top moments from Top Sales Leaders who have joined me on The 20% Podcast.  That first episode included clips from guests such as: Alexine Mudawar/Lori Richardson John Ba...

As we are approaching the end of 2025, I am bringing back the 1st episode of 2025! From selling watches in high school to managing a fraternity of 100+ members, and ultimately launching a successful business, this week’s guest shares his entrepreneurial journey filled with challenges, insights, and growth. Jake Clare, Co-Founder of EventShark, a leading B2B content agency is this week’s guest on T...

This week’s guest is Ryan Owens. Ryan spent years as a substance use disorder counselor before going into sales at ZenCharts to help addiction treatment centers implement better EHR systems. He then worked his way from AE → Sales Director at YAROOMS before joining his current company AutoNotes, where he is the Director of Sales. At AutoNotes they are helping over 75,000 therapists save time on Pro...

This is a throwback episode from when I was just entering week 3 at Pipedream, while we are full steam ahead building the roadmap for our Partnership. I’ve always preached the importance of seeking advice from those who’ve done it before, so this week I brought in my friend and Partnership’s Expert, Will Taylor to the show. Prior to hitting record, I walked Will through the Partner Canva Map we’ve...

This week’s guest is Mando Sallavanti. He’sd had many peaks and valleys in finding himself, going from the thoughts of becoming a professional football player, to his rock bottom moment when the Pandemic canceled his final season of college football.  After deciding to become a financial planner, he went from making $360 in his first 3 months, to having over 100 clients, managing millions of dolla...

In this week’s episode, I am happy to re-introduce you to “The Sales Series,” to bring you just a few of the top moments from Top Sales Leaders who have joined me on The 20% Podcast.  Today we will be covering clips from 5 guest episodes, but it is actually highlighting 6 incredible human beings: 5. Alexine Mudawar/Lori Richardson: Getting Into Sales (Episode 143) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/pod...

This week’s throwback guest is my former boss, Michelle Pietsch. Michelle is the Co-Founder of BeaconGTM, where they help companies from Pre-Seed to Series B build their GTM motions, and get their customers in a position to see successful growth. Michelle was the VP of Revenue at Dooly when she brought me on to build the Account Management function from the ground up, and there were so many incred...

In this week’s throwback episode of The 20% Podcast , I had the pleasure of sitting down with Nikita Zhitkevich , VP of Sales at PartnerStack. Nikita’s journey into entrepreneurship started with online reselling and side hustles before pursuing biomedical sciences. But instead of following the traditional path into medicine, he took a leap into startups, building a marketplace for retired professi...

In this week’s throwback episode, my guest is Matt Green. Matt is the Chief Revenue Officer at Sales Assembly, which is the only Scale-as-a-Service Platform and trusted partner for leading B2B Tech companies on their journeys to Scale Better, Faster, and Smarter. Matt started his sales journey early in his career working as a valet attendant, and later went on to become the VP of Investments at JP...

This week’s throwback guest has served as a Behavioral Therapist, Insurance Producer, Firefighter, and Account Executive all before joining RevPartners, where he has served in roles such as Sales Director, Commissioner of Content, and now as the Senior Channel Manager and Creative Lead. Since our conversation he has taken his talents to Supered as the Brand Evangelist. He is also known as The Mayo...

This week’s guest taught me truly the importance of always providing an exceptional customer experience and having that front in mind all the time. She studied History and Geography prior to beginning her career as a Research Manager. She later went on to expand her skills in Business Development, relationship selling, consulting, as well as communications research and satisfaction.  This week’s g...

This week’s throwback guest has been an inspiration for me, and so many others in the sales, business, and world in general. He was on episode 60 of the 20% Podcast dating back to October of 2021, when he was the Director of Sales Execution at JB Sales. In that conversation, we discussed his early years, the inner game, finding your inner self amongst many others.  Although those things haven’t ch...

This week’s throwback guest is Ravi Rajani. Ravi is the Founder of Ravi Rajani Consulting, where he helps sales teams learn how to sell more by utilizing stories. If you take one look at his LinkedIn profile, you can see first hand how great of a storyteller he is in his About section. In today’s episode, we discussed:  Lessons From Taking Dance Classes How Theater Scripts Helped Him In Sales Prac...

This week’s throwback guest is Cal Fussman. This was a very special interview for me, because Cal is one of the major reasons why I started podcasting in the first place. He made an appearance on Tim Ferriss’ show, to which Tim talked him into starting his own show. As both of them are my podcasting inspirations, I knew this was going to be a good one! Cal is a New York Times Bestselling Author, P...

This week’s throwback guest is Darren McKee. Darren has such a cool story, instead of going the college route, Darren started his journey delivery mail to his entire company, and then worked his way through multiple roles across the country prior to his current role as CEO of 531 Social and Founder of Darren McKee Co. Darren introduced himself first as a father, husband, son, and brother, and it i...

Throwing it back this week when In the red corner, standing at 5 feet 11 inches we have The Host of The 20% Podcast  Tyler Meckes. And in the blue corner, 6ft  we have a man who has done it all, he worked at the Chicago Tribune, served all across areas at DePaul University, and Featured on NBC, TED, Inc, Forbes, HuffPo, Sales Hacker, and many more!  Now, he is focused on giving back to his communi...

This week’s throwback guest has done it all, and has always been entrepreneurial. He started my first business at 11 years old, selling door-to-door snow removal services. He has faced the ups and downs, and has to develop a hardened mindset. During his career, he has: Sent to the ER as a burnt-out SDR Experienced my first panic attack as a BDR Struggled with anxiety as an AE And so much more… Har...

In this week’s throwback episode of The 20% Podcast , I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dom Odoguardi , a GTM leader at Trellus who has been sharpening his entrepreneurial skills long before stepping into the startup world. From running social media and managing 94 interns in college to leading Sales, Marketing, and Community at an early stage company, Dom shares the lessons he’s learned fro...