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.
Meet Violet, a sales consultant, and speaker who’s on a mission to revolutionize the corporate landscape by debunking traditional sales methodologies. Violet is known for her creative and fun way of teaching leaders and salespeople how to improve their sales performance quickly and easily. She was just featured in Forbes. Violet is an expert in ... »
Occupational mental illness is rising. Mental illness is stigmatized despite awareness. Stigmatizing mental health. This makes getting and giving help difficult. Open Psychiatry Amanda and the speaker discuss workplace mental health openness. Share staff stories. Coworkers and sufferers avoid addressing mental health. Misunderstanding mental illness. Speech should be empathic and supportive. Mindfulness Universal mental health. ... »
Salespeople and entrepreneurs need sales. Sales? Salespeople are seen as aggressive and greedy. False. Mental change sells. We’ll show you how problem-solving and product confidence may help you sell. Problem-Solving-Driven Businesspeople benefited. Pushy sales fail. Clients learn problem-solving. Ethical companies solve issues. Solving problems makes selling easier. Self-Esteem Selling requires problem-solving. before selling. This question ... »
Mental health is an important issue that affects many young adults. It can manifest in a variety of ways, from anxiety and depression to substance abuse and other negative behaviors. Unfortunately, mental health struggles often go undiagnosed and untreated in young adults, leading to a range of negative consequences for both their physical and mental ... »
Mental health struggles are a common yet often misunderstood and under-discussed topic. They can be caused by various external and internal factors, such as stress or trauma, however, the emotional and physical toll that mental health struggles can take on individuals is profound. As such, it is important to raise awareness of this issue in ... »
Selling like a woman refers to a sales approach that emphasizes collaboration, relationship building, and value exchange, rather than aggressive tactics. It challenges traditional sales stereotypes that depict sales as a male-dominated, product-focused, and transactional field, and recognizes the unique skills and qualities that women bring to the profession, such as communication, empathy, and stakeholder ... »
Depression is a serious mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. The signs and symptoms of depression can vary from person to person, but some common indicators include feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and helplessness; a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed; changes in appetite and sleep patterns; difficulty concentrating; and feelings of ... »
Nick has a passion for using technology to support the human side of sales. Turning cold online outreach into warm offline conversations can be challenging, but with the right approach, it is possible. Some key strategies that Nick could use to achieve this include: Personalization: Personalize the outreach by using the recipient’s name and mentioning ... »
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 ... »
