When it comes to sales, it is all about understanding the customer. In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Gen Furukawa, Co-Founder of Prehook, a quiz platform for Shopify brands that helps merchants capture leads. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations.Listen
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.
Menil Vukovic is the CEO of Pear Shadow, a software development and venture-building company partnering with startups and enterprises to ship maintainable web and mobile products at scale. Before founding Pear Shadow, Menil led engineering at a Shopify agency working with Philips, Mayo Clinic, and other major brands. In this episode of Expert Insight Interview, ... »
Dustin Kenyon, Chief Revenue Officer at Motivosity, joins John Golden to unpack what authentic leadership looks like when AI can track every metric, draft every message, and surface every insight in seconds. Drawing on nearly two decades of leading revenue teams, Dustin makes the case that the leaders who thrive in this moment are those ... »
Athena Brownson is a Denver-based real estate broker, developer, and chronic illness advocate with more than twelve years in one of the country’s most competitive markets. A former professional freestyle skier who skied roughly 300 days a year before her career pivot, she battled Lyme disease for a full decade while continuing to grow her ... »
Ilana Golan went from F-16 flight instructor and the first female squadron commander in the Israeli Air Force to one of Intel’s youngest hires and Silicon Valley VPs, contributing to a $300 million exit along the way. In this episode she joins John Golden to unpack what mid- and late-career professionals must do right now ... »
Chad Coe, Founder of Coe Financial Group, joins John Golden to share a giver-first sales philosophy he calls “people tithing” — a habit of sharing referrals, connections, and attention before ever asking for business. Chad has built his financial advisory practice on this principle since 1997, and in this Expert Insight Interview, he explains why the ... »
Companies are racing to adopt AI, but most are layering it over outdated structures and broken processes — guaranteeing disappointing returns. In this Expert Insight Interview, Jürgen Dauk, Transformation Consultant and Founder of The Leadership OS, joins John Golden to explain why AI without organizational transformation always fails. Drawing on 25 years of senior leadership, ... »
Pricing rarely gets the strategic attention it deserves inside most companies — most teams set it by surveying competitors and landing somewhere in the middle. Ann Padley, Senior Partner at Untapped Pricing and co-author of The Pricing Sprint, 12 Steps to Unlock the Power of Pricing, joins host John Golden on Sales POP! to unpack ... »
Travis Hahler is Senior Director of Global Strategy & Transformation at Salesforce and the founder of The Neurological Nomad. With a background fusing EEG research, Harvard neuropsychology, and an MBA — plus over 100 transformations behind him — Travis joins John Golden to reframe one of the hardest problems in leadership: why well-funded, well-communicated change ... »
John was able to draw out the similarities and differences in our way of approaching sales without it being awkward.
Shayla Boyd-Gill PC
We had such a good time together exploring his questions and it always makes it good for any audience when the people doing the podcast are having fun.
Mags Bell PC
John is a wonderful host who creates a very comfortable atmosphere and instead of conducting a traditional interview he actually has a proper conversation with his guests.
Matthias Oschinski PC
John's guests are in tune with the program and always provide a worthwhile listen. Highly recommended
Ted Kulawiak PC
I had the joy of being a guest on John’s SalesPop Podcast with John on Thursday. He is a wonderful host and we had a great and relaxed discussion.
Dr. Lizz Bernthal PC
He clearly had done his prep work on my topic, and he really focused on what I said in the moment, so the conversation was as authentic and meaningful as possible
Stephanie Klein PC
He asked insightful questions that revealed aspects and nuances about the topic that the viewers will undoubtedly find very valuable.
Paolo Pironi PC
I appreciate how John highlighted the value of my lived experience in helping others change their mindset, because people live in all kinds of prisons in their heads
Trish Jenkins PC
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 ... »
Curtis Sprouse, Founder & CEO of Eureka Connect, argues that behavioral science is the missing link in leadership: validated data accelerates how leaders understand their teams, and self-awareness—not title or tenure—is what actually separates strong leaders from struggling ones. In this Expert Insight Interview he explains why even successful CEOs carry blind spots, how trust ... »
Deri Llewellyn-Davies, Strategist & Board Advisor, Founder of Freedom Founders, and creator of the Ultra States methodology, says peak performance is a state problem, not a motivation problem — and accessing flow state in your first two hours delivers 500% productivity gains. Having guided over 330 boards and leadership teams, he breaks down the five ... »
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