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.
Kevin C. Roy is the founder and CEO of Green Banana SEO, a full-stack agency based in Boston that has been guiding clients through search evolutions since 2009. In this Expert Insight Interview, Kevin joins John Golden to unpack how AI has rewritten the rules of search — and what companies need to do now ... »
Irwin Hau is the founder of Chromatix, an award-winning Melbourne-based conversion design agency, and the creator of Conversion Cow, a SaaS platform that turns ordinary websites into high-performing sales assets. Over 16 years, he has analyzed more than 60,000 websites and developed the Trust and Authority framework that fuses behavioral psychology, conversion strategy, and UX ... »
Michael Hofer is a CFO, transformational executive, and founder of ByMichaelHofer with more than 30 mergers and acquisitions executed across multiple industries and continents. In this episode, he joins John Golden to reveal what separates deals that create lasting value from the ones that collapse during integration — and how AI is now changing the ... »
Lane Kawaoka is a former engineer turned full-time real estate investor and fund manager who oversees a portfolio exceeding $2.1 billion. He achieved real estate millionaire status by age 31, left corporate life by 35, and has since syndicated more than $250 million in private equity while distributing over $450 million to investors. In this ... »
Gregory Kovsky is the President and CEO of International Business Associates (IBA), the Pacific Northwest’s oldest and largest business brokerage firm. With 32 years of M&A experience and more than 300 business sales facilitated, Gregory is one of the most seasoned intermediaries in the country. In this episode, he walks business owners through everything they ... »
Mark Myers is the founder of Tax Wise Partners, a former Marine Corps sergeant, and a tax saving architect who has helped 500+ high-income earners and business owners permanently cut their annual tax bills by 30–60%. In this episode, Mark reveals why roughly 90% of businesses overpay taxes every year — and exactly what to ... »
David Farrell is a 25-year sales veteran and leader at Salesloft, an AI-powered revenue platform that helps sales teams build pipeline, close deals, and predict renewals. In this episode, David joins host John Golden to cut through the hype around artificial intelligence in sales and offer a grounded, practical view of where AI delivers real ... »
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 ... »
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 ... »
