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.
Sid Bharath is the founder of Refound, an AI consultancy that helps mid-market companies become genuinely AI native. With a background spanning top-tier consulting, startup growth, and early-stage language model experimentation, Sid works hands-on with leadership teams to audit workflows, identify high-impact use cases, and deploy phased AI adoption strategies that deliver measurable results. In ... »
Richard Broo is a project management turnaround specialist and founder of True North PMP Consulting, with more than four decades of experience helping Fortune 500 companies and mid-market organizations recover projects that are bleeding budget, sliding on timelines, or losing leadership alignment. In this episode, Richard breaks down the invisible forces that cause most projects ... »
Shabnum Bi is the Founder and Director of Early Nurture Preschool in Birmingham — an Ofsted Outstanding setting that has attracted international delegates, earned a place in the Montessori International Awards finals, and brought Shabnum to a World Leaders Summit at the University of Oxford. In this episode, Shabnum shares how she rebuilt her early ... »
Lisa Pagotto is the Founder & CEO of Crooked Compass, a multi-seven-figure immersive adventure travel company specializing in small group expeditions to the world’s most remote and extraordinary destinations. In this episode, she joins John Golden to share the leadership lessons forged in the aftermath of a Shark Tank episode that nearly cost her everything ... »
Sridhar Ravilla is a fractional transformation executive and author with more than 25 years of senior leadership experience at AT&T and Tech Mahindra, where he led enterprise-scale programmes spanning cloud, AI, and digital modernisation. He joins John Golden to diagnose a pattern he has seen across industries: well-funded, well-led transformations that collapse not at the ... »
Susan Friedman is the founder of Aviva Publishing & Marketing, a nonfiction book marketing specialist with over 30 years of experience and 18 published books — including one title that sold over 500,000 copies to a single corporate buyer. In this episode, she challenges the assumptions that sink most business authors and lays out a ... »
Andy Hedrick is the Founder and CEO of Green Path Tech and author of the 2V2R Rapid Sales Growth System. With over 30 years of B2B sales experience and more than $500 million in revenue growth delivered, Andy joins Sales POP! to share a practical framework for growing faster, closing sooner, and spending less to ... »
Tony Paquin is a healthcare technology entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience founding and scaling companies in regulated markets. As CEO and co-founder of iRemedy Healthcare, he leads an AI-enabled procurement platform that connects manufacturers directly with hospitals, government agencies, and patients — cutting costs, eliminating middlemen, and reshoring the US pharmaceutical supply chain. ... »
John asked meaningful questions that are relevant for his audience and was spirited in his interview approach with curiosity and enthusiasm. It was an honor to be able to spend the time on his show and become a new raving fan of his content.
Rhonda Petit PC
I loved being a guest on the Sales POP podcast! John's easy going and insightful presence created a great conversation where we offered up content to help others Build a Vibrant Culture!
Nicole Greer PC
it was a pleasure to be interviewed by John on my book "Communicate or Die: Getting Results Through Speaking and Listening." John is an empathetic, thoughtful, and dynamic interviewer
Dr. Thomas Zweifel 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 is a wonderful interviewer, exuding warmth and insight. It's clear he cares deeply about elevating the conversation about all things leadership and motivation.
Amy Wong PC
Having been a guest on many podcasts, I put this experience among the most enjoyable and professional
Eric McNulty PC
John works to get to the heart of the matter so listeners can find what they need, wisdom to grow and advance.
Scott F. Paradis PC
John is a gracious host and truly has a great sales mind. Ultimately selling is about people and John understands this well. He is one that sells with dignity!
Harry Spaight PC
Dominic Forth, CEO of Thought Leaders America, spent years in broadcast journalism with the BBC and major U.S. networks before turning his attention to how executives and founders convert credibility into revenue. In this episode, Dominic unpacks why technical expertise alone loses deals, how media principles translate directly to modern selling, and what top performers ... »
April Martini and Anne Candido are co-founders of Forthright People, a leadership performance company that helps ambitious professionals build influence from the inside out. April is a certified life coach, TEDx speaker, U.S. Army veteran, and Procter & Gamble alum. Anne brings deep PR and brand strategy expertise from her work on household consumer brands. ... »
Cory Dunham is a values-driven executive advisor, keynote speaker, and co-owner of a 46-year-old family marketing firm, where he has spent four decades, from errand-runner to co-owner. He partners with founder-led service businesses to clarify their message, align their teams, and turn core values into bold, decisive action. In this Expert Insight Interview, Cory joins ... »
Jon Benson — the copywriter who invented the video sales letter format in 2010 and founder of BNSN AI — joins John Golden for a candid conversation about the marketer’s new reality. Marketing teams everywhere are caught between excitement and dread as AI takes over tasks that once filled entire roles. Jon argues that the ... »
Justin Goodbread is a globally recognized business strategist, keynote speaker, and founder of Relentless Value Coaching. He has built, scaled, and successfully exited seven companies across multiple industries — including a Registered Investment Advisor firm that reached an eight-figure enterprise value in under four years. In this Sales POP! Expert Insight Interview, Justin joins John ... »
Laura Kriska is the founder of We Building Solutions and a globally recognized expert on building trust across cultural, language, and organizational divides. The first American woman to work inside Honda Motor Company’s Tokyo headquarters, Laura has spent 30 years helping Fortune 500 companies across four continents turn fragmented teams into united “we” cultures. In ... »
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