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.
Instead of looking at failure as a setback, you can see it as an opportunity to grow. In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Alina Timofeeva, a multi-award-winning female leader, mentor, and podcaster, whose TEDx speech has been seen by more than 355,000 people. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major ... »
What makes the US Marines “bulletproof?” In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Shawn Rhodes, a former war correspondent with the US Marine Corps and an expert on pivoting in challenging environments. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations. »
What does it take to start a sustainable and ethical fashion brand nowadays? In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Shannon Lohr, a sustainable fashion advocate and the founder and CEO of Factory 45. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations. »
There’s a lot of work involved in having the right mindset and breaking the negative cycle. In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Sallie Wagner, a best-selling author, speaker, and life consultant. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations. »
If you need to cross a minefield, find someone who has already crossed it and follow them. In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Ruben Gonzalez, a professional speaker, writer, and four-time Olympian. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations. »
So how do you decide as a local business what the best marketing approach is? In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Laura Nelson, the VP of Marketing at Signpost and a local business advocate. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations. »
The only way to truly connect with somebody on an emotional level is to ask them a lot of deep questions and establish more than a basic rapport. In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Justin Cunningham, the CEO of JustinCunninghamOnline. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations. »
When you find people who are lost, broken, and in pain, you have to understand that you must be there to help them. In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Elias Kanaris, the author of Leading from the Stop: Positive Influence and Heartfelt Resilience in a Time of Adversity. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also ... »
Rob Snyder—serial startup founder, Harvard Innovation Labs fellow, and author of The Power of Pull—argues that customer demand, not better features or harder selling, is the only thing that makes a startup succeed. The fastest path to growth is to find people who already feel “blocked” while trying to do something urgent, then unblock them. ... »
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 ... »
