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Sales POP! is your shortcut to sales, marketing and leadership excellence, offering short, insightful episodes with top global thought leaders, hosted by John Golden.
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Strategy author Ganzorig Ulziibayar, founding chairman of Mandal Financial Group, explains why strategy is a subconscious attitude rather than a set of conscious frameworks. He shows how three attitudes- giving, customer perspective, and productivity- awaken the strategist that every person is born with. Learn more at https://strategyisattitude.com .
29 min
Warren Kornblum, CEO of Shadow Branding and former Global CMO of Toys "R" Us, joins John Golden to break down how brands earn lasting emotional loyalty. Kornblum explains how to win share of heart by defining a clear brand purpose, delivering it consistently from the CEO to the front line, and adding human empathy where AI and automation fall short. Learn more at https://shareofheart.com/
24 min
Christopher C. Papin, attorney, CPA, and insurance producer at Papin CPA and Papin Law, explains how professionals move clients past price objections by anchoring proposals to the client's stated goals and framing fees against measurable ROI, such as spending $5,000 to save $15,000. He also shows where AI helps advice and where credentialed judgment must take over. Learn more at https://www.papincpa.com/
24 min
Ron Johnson, creator of the Apple Store and author of Shop Different: How Retail Revealed Apple's Genius , explains how to build winning retail by designing stores around people rather than transactions — empowering frontline employees, keeping spaces radically simple, and treating every visit as a step in the sales cycle. Johnson also shows why physical retail is thriving, with 85% of all revenue still flowing through stores or their online arms. Learn more at https://ronjohnsonshopsdifferent.com/
21 min
Keith Wyche, leadership consultant, Brink's board member, and author of Uncommon Leadership, explains how leaders rebuild trust by keeping promises consistently, listening to frontline employees before prescribing solutions, and choosing people over power. He shares the listening discipline that helped him turn around operations at Pitney Bowes and win customers back. Learn more at https://keithwyche.com/
26 min
Edward M. Brady, CFA, a realtor and author of Awaken Your Financial Star, explains why high earners still feel financially insecure and how anyone can build lasting wealth using four simple principles: Savings, Time, Assets, and Returns (STAR). Drawing on 25 years as an SEC examiner, Brady shows how to avoid lifestyle creep, spot investment fraud, and treat money as a tool rather than a moral failing. Learn more at https://edwardbrady.exprealty.com/ .
30 min
Fred Marshall, founder and CEO of Quantum Learning, explains how to thrive in the age of AI by moving from overwhelm to agency — directing your attention across priorities, obligations, and noise, and using AI as an accelerator for what matters most. Marshall, author of Thrive: The Antidote to Future Shock , shares practical systems to future-proof your work and life amid exponential change. Learn more at https://thrivefutureyou.com/
28 min
John Fees, Co-founder & Managing Partner of GradGuard, explains how salespeople stay irreplaceable in the AI era by asking the human questions AI can't — and by leading with his "three A's": Ask, Authentic, Authority. He and host John Golden also weigh whether a college degree is still worth the cost and what skills students need to thrive alongside AI. Learn more at https://gradguard.com/ .
23 min
Tayo Lusi, Founder of The One Percent University, explains how IT professionals can scale their income to $500,000 a year by mastering the right mindset, building real cloud engineering projects, and negotiating their true worth. He shares how he went from a $55K help desk job to nearly $500K, and why he now teaches $500,000 as a baseline minimum rather than a dream. Learn more at https://apexedu.io/ .
25 min
Callum Kennard, Head of Sales at ClickSlice, explains why overplanning can be worse than bad execution and how to fix it by baking in iteration, defining a narrow ideal customer, and prioritizing citation quality over volume in SEO and AI search. He shows sales and marketing leaders how to stop confusing activity with progress and set realistic timelines for SEO and AEO results. Learn more at https://www.clickslice.co.uk/ .
24 min
Juan Munoz, a top-producing Denver realtor, licensed lender, and former NASA aerospace engineer, explains how he left a secure engineering career to build a referral-driven real estate business rooted in "Trust, Value, Results." He shares how he overcame self-limiting beliefs, handles tough pricing conversations with data, and has earned 136 five-star reviews by putting each client's best interest ahead of his own. Learn more at https://www.homesindenvernow.com/ .
23 min
Franchise Coach and Consultant Giuseppe Grammatico explains how to build financial and time freedom through franchising by choosing the right brand, preparing real numbers, and treating year one as a "builder year." He busts the common franchising myths, details what it costs to qualify, and shows how franchisors now use AI to run leaner. Learn more: https://www.ggthefranchiseguide.com/press-kit
26 min
Laura McCracken, Founder & CEO of Blackheath Advisors and The Board Alchemist, explains what a board of directors really does — providing oversight, managing risk, and owning company culture rather than conferring prestige. She shows how management teams can turn the board into a strategic asset and shares a five-part resilience model that ends in a live crisis simulation. Learn more: https://www.blackheathadvisors.com/
23 min
Rob Snyder—serial startup founder, Harvard Innovation Labs fellow, and author of The Power of Pull —explains why customers buy: they have "blocked demand," meaning they're already trying to do something urgent but their current tools fall short. He shows founders how to stop pushing, spot real pull, and find the customers who rip a product out of their hands instead of wasting months building for people who won't buy. Learn more at https://robsnyder.org/
24 min
Kevin Cope, Founder and CEO of Acumen Learning, explains how salespeople earn a seat at the table by mastering business acumen — reading a prospect's P&L, mining earnings calls for buying signals, and pairing that insight with the EQ that AI can't replace. He shares why two-thirds of salespeople don't understand their clients' industry and how to close that gap. Learn more at https://www.acumenlearning.com/ .
23 min
David Dean, author, keynote speaker, and business AI realist, explains how to future-proof your job in the AI era by strengthening the human judgment, lived experience, and accountability that AI cannot replicate. He shows why managing AI is more behavioral than technical and why your inbox holds the real map of how your organization works. Learn more at https://edwardbrady.exprealty.com/
24 min
Jim Effner, Founder & President of P2P Group, explains why AI won't replace financial advisors: personal financial services is a human-behavior business where clients need an advisor they can implicitly trust, understand them, and genuinely care. He breaks down the traits, courage, and language that set elite advisors apart. Learn more at https://jimeffner.com/
22 min
Maximos Lih, founder and CEO of Emboldened LLC and former Google Ventures operating partner, explains how leaders win in the agentic age by treating AI failure as a business opportunity rather than a layoff equation. He shows how IKEA reskilled 8,500 service agents to build a $1.4 billion interior design business rather than cutting headcount. Connect with Maximos: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximoslih/
23 min
Glenn Fleischman, Chief Revenue Officer at AYTM, explains how sales teams can adopt AI successfully by fixing their human processes first — then scaling with AI rather than multiplying a broken motion. He shares why enterprise sellers who master AI will out-earn those who resist it, and how AYTM builds research expertise directly into its platform. Learn more at https://aytm.com/
24 min
Glenn Sandifer, a 20-year sales and marketing executive at Securos USA, explains how sales leaders can adopt AI responsibly by automating manual tasks like list-building and follow-up while keeping a human in control of every first touch and close. He makes the case that AI's biggest gift to leaders is time — time to return to the weekly one-to-one coaching that builds rep confidence. Learn more at https://www.glennsandifer.com/