The 20% Podcast with Tyler Meckes

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...

In this week’s throwback episode, you may recognize this week’s guest by her interviews in a NYC carriage, by the running she coordinates at Inbound, or simply by the hat she has in her LinkedIn Profile. This week’s guest studied Sociology, and has worked her way up from Customer Service Rep, to Account Manager, to Enterprise AE and the advisor to companies like Limelight, Sendspark, or Commsor. N...

In this re-run episode of the 20% Podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Sims Tillirson, an entrepreneur with a passion for music, business, and personal growth. Starting as a young musician from a small town in Georgia, Sims’ journey has been filled with hard-earned lessons in grit, cross-functional collaboration, and self-discovery. Now leading his own business, Sims shared insights on bui...

From engineering student to professional journalist to leading content marketing programs, this week’s guest has built a career rooted in storytelling, adaptability, and authentic relationship-building. Nathan Collier is the founder of Collier Marketing and a fractional Head of Content who helps B2B companies grow through strategic content and community. Over the past two decades, Nathan’s worked...

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 B...

This week's guest has gone from being a top summer intern at Pepsi generating over $80,000 over 9 weeks, to perfecting her SEO expertise prior to her current role where she is the Principal Content Strategist and Operations Program Manager for HubSpot Media. At HubSpot, she has grown from Marketing Manager in SEO to now leading a portfolio of high-impact initiatives that combine content strate...

In this week’s episode, I am playing a throwback episode with my friend John Barrows. When I first got into Sales, I looked up to John, learned from his content, and went through his training. Now, it is so great to continue learning from him and to call him a friend. This was a throwback to the two year anniversary of starting the show. Hard to believe this is episode 104, which marks the 2 year...

Welcome to Episode 250 of The 20% Podcast! This week marks a major milestone, and it is crazy to sit back and think about showing up for 250 straight weeks to put out a podcast episode. What started with some company podcast equipment and an idea has turned into something that transformed my career, built a community, and helped thousands rethink what it means to grow professionally. I started in...

This week’s episode is a throwback conversation that I had while I was leading Account Management at Dooly. While at Dooly, cross-functional alignment was crucial for our teams, and the incredible Marketing team allowed me the chance to host “Fire Talks” their spin off of Hot Ones. During this show, the 30 Minutes To President’s Club Hosts joined me to eat some really hot Hot Sauce, and ask them s...

As we approach the end of Mental Health Awareness Month, 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 247, 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=0c9ffdd2b5824668   Episode...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I couldn’t think of a better way to spread awareness than 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 features: Travis Tyler: “How Therapy Changed...

In this throwback episode, I shared the exciting news about my new role and offered valuable insights for jobseekers based on my job hunt journey. The current job market is challenging, but with the right approach and strategies, you can navigate it successfully. I'll walk you through the importance of self-reflection, effective networking, and strategic job applications. In this week’s episode, I...

In this week’s episode, I am celebrating by sharing my favorite lessons from the Top 25 Most-listened episodes of The 20% Podcast. Over the past few weeks, I have shared the Top 20 episodes (links to those episodes below), but wanted to compile all of these lessons into 1 episode. But first, let’s start by counting down Episodes 25-21: 25. Episode 106: “Figure 8s” with Landon Meyers 24. Episode 11...

Over the past 20 years, this week’s guest has lived at the intersection of performance and storytelling as a professional athlete. He is a pioneer in Flatland Scooter Riding, and can be seen riding his scooter all around the world, from NYC to LA, from Miami to Tokyo and many places in between. He has documented his journey on YouTube, and was able to combine his passion for scooters and content t...

This week’s guest went from Business School Valedictorian to Chief Marketing Officer and now serves as the Chief Evangelist at Gong, one of the most well-known brands in B2B tech. Udi Ledergor began his career as a Help Desk Manager and Product Technologist, then spent five years in Product Management before moving into marketing leadership. He held multiple VP of Marketing and advisory roles befo...

This is one of my favorite conversations that I wanted to replay this week. If you are in any post sales Customer Success, or Account Management world, you have most likely heard of this week’s guest. This week’s guest started his journey studying Information Systems and Software Engineering before making the shift into Professional Services, Support, and Customer Success.  At the time of recordin...

This week’s episode is a throwback episode featuring the Head of Sender Relations, Katie Penner. She started her career as an SDR & worked her way up the ranks through sales leadership to her role now as the Head of Sender Relations at Sendoso where she is now helping businesses stand out against the competition and utilize direct mail to create meaningful touch-points that accelerate the buye...

I met this week's guest while he was a SVP of Sales at one of my customer accounts. Our first meaningful interaction was him letting me know that they were churning. That conversation led to additional conversations, zoom calls, and he turned into not only someone I can look to as a Mentor, but is an all around good person.  He has made his living in the lead generation space, and this convers...

This week’s guest was a New Orleans kid whose life changed overnight when Hurricane Katrina struck. After being separated from his Mother/Brother for 2 months, he reunited with them as they began their new life in Houston. He took a first job at Church’s Chicken at 14 to help pay the bills, then later held other roles leading up to studying Mass Communications/Media Studies at Stephen F. Austin. N...

In this week’s 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 professionals befo...

Are You Undaunted? Because this week’s throwback guest is the definition of Undaunted, and actually wrote a book about it! Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She has received numerous accolades, including being named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Northern California The Huffington Post listed her...

In this week’s episode, we are throwing it back to one of the most listened episode featuring Jen Allen-Knuth.  At the time of recording, Jen was the Chief Evangelist at Challenger as well as the Co-Host of Winning the Challenger Sale Podcast. You may be asking yourself, what is a Chief Evangelist? She wasn’t always this role, she started her career in Account Management at CEB which was acquired...

In this week’s 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 from both str...

A few months ago, I introduced “The Sales Series” to re-intro many amazing conversations from Sales Leaders on the show. This week, I am re-introducing “The Marketing Series” to highlight incredible Marketing Leaders from the show.  Today we will be covering 5 Marketing Leaders: Ep. 128: Travis Tyler: Leveraging Existing Employees For Content https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/128-removing-the-...

In this episode of the 20% Podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Sims Tillirson, an entrepreneur with a passion for music, business, and personal growth. Starting as a young musician from a small town in Georgia, Sims’ journey has been filled with hard-earned lessons in grit, cross-functional collaboration, and self-discovery. Now leading his own business, Sims shared insights on building a...