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.
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 ... »
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 ... »
Uncommon Leadership with Keith Wyche Keith Wyche, leadership consultant, Brink’s board member, and author of Uncommon Leadership, says leaders rebuild trust one promise at a time — by listening first, keeping their word consistently, and choosing people over power. In this episode, he draws on 30+ years at Walmart, IBM, Pitney Bowes, AT&T, and SuperValu ... »
Edward M. Brady, CFA, a realtor at eXp Realty and author of Awaken Your Financial Star, argues that financial insecurity among high earners stems from lifestyle creep and inflation, not low income, and that anyone can build lasting wealth using four simple principles: Savings, Time, Assets, and Returns. Drawing on 25 years as an SEC examiner, Brady demystifies ... »
Fred Marshall, founder and CEO of Quantum Learning and author of Thrive: The Antidote to Future Shock, explains that thriving in the age of AI means moving from overwhelm to agency — directing your limited attention toward priorities that change your future, containing obligations, and cutting noise. In this Sales POP! episode, Marshall turns AI ... »
John Fees, Co-founder & Managing Partner of GradGuard, argues that AI won’t replace great salespeople — because AI is brilliant at answers but can’t ask the human question that leads to a sale. In this episode, Fees shares the “three A’s” framework his team uses to stay credible and effective in an AI-flooded market. He ... »
Tayo Lusi, Founder of The One Percent University, teaches IT professionals how to scale their income to $500,000 a year in cloud engineering. In this episode, he reveals the single mindset shift that took him from a $55K help desk job — and $10-an-hour Uber Eats shifts — to a premium tech career built on ... »
Callum Kennard, Head of Sales at ClickSlice — a leading UK SEO and AEO agency — argues that overplanning can be worse than bad execution, and that the fix is to bake in iteration, ship, and optimize from real results rather than perfect a go-to-market plan for a year before earning a pound. In this ... »
