The SalesPOP! The podcast is one of the world’s top-ranked sales podcasts, ranking in the top 2% of 3.3 million podcasts globally. Hosted by John Golden, Amazon bestselling author and globally recognized sales thought leader, the show features short, actionable conversations with the world’s leading sales experts, authors, and practitioners.
With over 1,500 episodes and counting, we cover everything from sales enablement and pipeline management to AI-powered selling, leadership development, and CRM strategy. Each episode distills decades of real-world selling experience into insights you can apply immediately.
Giuseppe Grammatico, Franchise Coach and Consultant at GG The Franchise Guide, explains why franchising can build financial and time freedom even amid AI disruption: owners gain control and access to parent-company support across 4,000 brands and 70+ industries. In this Sales POP! Expert Insight Interview, he busts franchising myths and details what it truly takes ... »
Laura McCracken, Founder & CEO of Blackheath Advisors and The Board Alchemist, explains that a board of directors exists to provide oversight, manage risk, and own company culture — not to confer prestige. In this Sales POP! episode, she reveals why boards only prove their worth in a crisis and how management can turn them ... »
Kevin Cope, Founder and CEO of Acumen Learning and author of Business Acumen for Sales Success, explains that modern selling is won by understanding how a customer makes money, not by knowing your product best. He shows reps how to read a P&L, decode an earnings call, and pair that business insight with the EQ ... »
Rob Snyder—serial startup founder, Harvard Innovation Labs fellow, and author of The Power of Pull—argues that customer demand, not better features or harder selling, is the only thing that makes a startup succeed. The fastest path to growth is to find people who already feel “blocked” while trying to do something urgent, then unblock them. ... »
David Dean, author of An Inbox Between Us, keynote speaker, and self-described business AI realist, argues that you future-proof your job not by mastering tools but by deepening the human judgment, lived experience, and accountability AI can’t replicate. In this episode, Dean reframes AI as a relationship that takes time and shows how your communication ... »
Jim Effner, Founder & President of P2P Group, explains why AI won’t replace financial advisors: money is a human-behavior business, and clients need an advisor they can implicitly trust, who understands them and genuinely cares. A former top-1% advisor who scaled Effner Financial Group to nearly 150 advisors and $27 billion of insurance in force, ... »
Maximos Lih, founder and CEO of Emboldened LLC and a former operating partner at Google Ventures, argues that AI’s failures — not its successes — reveal a company’s biggest growth opportunities, and that leaders who treat AI as a one-for-one headcount swap destroy their own competitive moat. In this episode, Maximos draws on nearly a ... »
Glenn Fleischman, Chief Revenue Officer at AYTM, an AI-powered consumer insights platform, argues the biggest AI risk in sales isn’t losing your job to an agent — it’s losing it to a colleague who uses AI better than you. In this episode, Fleischman lays out a practical, “bite-by-bite” path to AI adoption for sellers and ... »
Maximos Lih, founder and CEO of Emboldened LLC and a former operating partner at Google Ventures, argues that AI’s failures — not its successes — reveal a company’s biggest growth opportunities, and that leaders who treat AI as a one-for-one headcount swap destroy their own competitive moat. In this episode, Maximos draws on nearly a ... »
Glenn Fleischman, Chief Revenue Officer at AYTM, an AI-powered consumer insights platform, argues the biggest AI risk in sales isn’t losing your job to an agent — it’s losing it to a colleague who uses AI better than you. In this episode, Fleischman lays out a practical, “bite-by-bite” path to AI adoption for sellers and ... »
Glenn Sandifer, a 20-year sales and marketing executive at Securos USA, says AI belongs in sales only when it solves a real problem or automates a manual process — never as a mandate for its own sake. In this episode, Glenn explains how leaders can standardize AI tools across their teams, keep humans in control ... »
Chad Coe, Founder of Coe Financial Group, replaces the hard pitch with what he calls “peopleizing” — leading with genuine care so prospects hire a relationship, not a sale. In this Sales POP! Expert Insight Interview, Chad shows how thoughtful questions, the right follow-up rhythm, and patience turn cold contacts into clients who say he ... »
Dilip Chetan, founder of Recursion Lab and creator of the Defensible Zone framework, argues that leaders racing to automate ask the wrong question — the smart move isn’t “What can we automate?” but “What human value must we protect?” In this episode he maps the moats AI erodes and the judgment, trust, and reasoning it ... »
Executive coach Julian Lighton, author of Navigating Your Next and a former McKinsey associate partner, says the average professional spends roughly 90,000 hours — a third of their life — on their career, so the single most valuable move is to stop drifting and decide what you actually want before circumstances decide for you. In ... »
