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.
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 ... »
Derek De Vette is Co-Founder and Head of Strategic Communications at Halo Communications, where his team has spent three decades building visibility for brands ranging from enterprise tech to Harley-Davidson. In this Expert Insight Interview, Derek joins John Golden to explain why the old PR playbook — chase cover stories, rack up impressions, measure vanity ... »
Antoniette Roze is the CEO of WPC Global and the host of Speak Pact, a done-for-you booking agency that helps six- and seven-figure experts stop chasing speaking gigs and start filling their calendars with consistent, high-value opportunities. In this Expert Insight Interview, she joins John Golden to explain why most speakers treat the stage like ... »
Jessica Rhodes is the Founder of Interview Connections, the world’s first podcast booking agency, launched in 2013. In 2020 she hired her first sales reps to scale the company — and spent six years trying to make the model work before dismantling it. In this Expert Insight Interview, Jessica walks through the friction between commission-driven ... »
Carmen Sederino is the founder and Performance Master at Illuminated Story and a former corporate leader who managed a $300 million portfolio across 18 years before turning her professional-arts training into an executive coaching practice. In this Expert Insight Interview, she argues that the live keynote is a competitive advantage no AI tool can replicate ... »
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 ... »
