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.
In this podcast episode, John Golden and Nathan Young discuss the role of the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) in aligning sales and marketing departments. They emphasize the importance of understanding each other’s metrics and priorities and avoiding overcomplicating things. The speakers also discuss the potential impact of AI on sales and marketing but agree that ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden, host of the Expert Insight Interview, and Molly Sider, host of the “I Am This Age” podcast, discuss the importance of sharing personal stories. They emphasize that vulnerability is essential for building connections and creating a safe space for others to open up. Molly advises starting small and being ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden and Rob Buffington discuss the shift towards outsourcing and remote work, the benefits of hiring remote workers, and the need for companies to adapt their organizational structures to accommodate remote workers. They emphasize the importance of creating new job descriptions based on what the company needs, rather than trying ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden from Sales POP Online Sales Magazine and Coevera interviews Matthew Brackett, a leadership resilience educator and coach, about the concept of hybrid leadership in the context of the changing nature of work and organizations. They discuss the challenges of building a culture in a hybrid workplace, the importance of ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden from Sales Pop Online Sales Magazine and Coevera interviews Faisal Siddiqui, a strategist who specializes in making brand marketing more accountable and effective. They discuss the challenges of scaling with performance marketing and the importance of defining campaign objectives and targeting the right audience. Faisal emphasizes the importance of ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Tommy McNulty, founder and CEO of Rhythm, about how to use sales P&L to be a people-first leader. Tommy shares his personal experience of discovering the importance of understanding metrics beyond just activity and pipeline, such as customer acquisition costs, lifetime value, profitability by customer segment, and payback ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Ryan Staley about the use of AI in sales and marketing. Ryan shares his experience with AI and how it can be used tactically and from a management perspective to get rid of time-consuming tasks and allow salespeople to focus on more high-value activities. He emphasizes the importance ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden from Sales POP Online Sales Magazine and Coevera speaks with Mark Meers, the Chief Growth Officer for Leaf Growth Ventures, L.N.C. The episode focuses on the concept of hybrid leadership and the components of a hybrid leader, based on Mark Meers’ research and his bestselling book, “The Purposeful Growth ... »
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 ... »
