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April 4, 2024

Finding Purpose and Peace with Nikki Ivey

How many times have you questioned your value as a seller? You’re not alone. It’s the existential question that most of us carry, and confronting it head-on takes strength. As does challenging the transactional nature of rela...

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May 7, 2023

How Can You Build Trust and Connection Across Teams? with Kathryn Ben…

Amy’s guest today is kind of a badass. Not only in the world of selling and sales enablement, but she’s also a world record holder in strength competitions! Kathryn Bennett is a Tech Co-Founder, TEDx Speaker, and author. They...

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May 5, 2023

Why Do We Build the Cages That Trap Us? With Nick McGowan

In part 2 of Amy’s conversation with Nick McGowan, Nick talks about his work with MediaLab, which then segues into a discussion on being able to identify and solve problems effectively for clients and customers. Amy identifie...

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May 3, 2023

When Do You Know You've Hit a Breaking Point? with Nick McGowan

Amy’s guest Nick McGowan describes how he knew from a young age that he could influence people through his words and actions. His parents knew he was a born salesman, and he knew as well. Nick and Amy talk about …

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April 30, 2023

Is The Customer Always Right? with Yoav Susz

Amy jumps right into the second half of her conversation with Yoav Susz, asking him about the most uncomfortable conversations that he is having right now. He talks about the difficulty for sales teams to understand that peop...

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April 27, 2023

How Do You Build Smarter Contract Processes? with Yoav Susz

Contracts… Intimidating, long, confusing, complicated, often put together by multiple people or departments over a substantial amount of time. These multiple hands are trying to keep track of each change that happens along t...

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April 25, 2023

What Really Is Active Listening, and Are You Doing It?

Cultural, religious, generational, and regional differences in how we ask questions and communicate, Active listeners and question askers. Buyers want active listeners! Sam talks about how you can practice this and the huge ...

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April 23, 2023

How Can Using Common Connections Transform Your Sales Conversations?

Today Amy welcomes Samantha McKenna, Founder of #samsales, keynote speaker, sales outperformer, and former Head of Enterprise Sales at LinkedIn. Sam is one of the best that Amy’s ever seen at pure, effective sales technique, ...

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April 20, 2023

Why Is It So Important For Leaders To Balance Results and Compassion?…

Jumping into part two with Shawn Buxton, he talks about helping sales managers who are struggling to transition from being top-performing individual contributors to effective sales leaders. They often feel a bit lost like a f...

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April 18, 2023

How Do You Transform Sales Managers Into Sales Leaders? with Shawn Bu…

Today’s guest, Shawn Buxton is a Frontline Sales Leader Coach. He's worked for many years helping sales managers transform into sales leaders. Shawn explains his approach with sales enablement with 5 C’s - Content, Context, C...

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April 15, 2023

How can you take Your Power Back? with Ned Arick

On this installment of RRH, we’ve got part two of Amy’s discussion with the fabulous Ned Arick, Head of Growth over at ClozeLoop. They dive into Ned’s most uncomfortable conversation, discuss how what we say to others matters...

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April 13, 2023

What Does Great SDRing and BDRing Look Like?

On part 2 of Amy’s conversation with GB, they get into the performance of great SDR’s and BDR’s. Specifically how management and leadership can drive their performance and results through expectations, communication, and focu...

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April 11, 2023

What Makes a Successful BDR and AE Relationship?

Today’s show is all about relationships. Relationships in sales usually brings to mind the seller and buyer, but today it’s the internal relationships of BDR’s and AE’s that are top of mind. Amy knew that Gabrielle ‘GB’ Black...

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April 8, 2023

How Can Women In Sales Navigate The Treacherous Waters and Build Ally…

For women in sales, it’s not always an easy road. In the second half of Amy’s conversation with Lori Richardson (Listen to Part 1 from July 8th, 2022) they get into everything from the deal take- overs, the micro-aggressions,...

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April 6, 2023

What’s the Difference Between a Networker and a Connector?

In this Part 2 episode with Donne Boivin, he and Amy start off by talking about connection and how it is both situational and largely driven by your personality type. Having a better understanding of yourself can help you to …

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April 4, 2023

What’s the Difference Between Selling with Persuasion vs. Influence?

Welcome to the new season of the Revenue Real Hotline, and it starts off with a bang because Amy has invited Donnie Boivin, CEO of Success Champion Networking. He begins by telling his story of nearly losing it all, and …

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July 21, 2022

Align the SDR Function with Modern Buyers with AJ Alonzo

On this installment of the RRH, we’ve got AJ Alonzo. AJ is a principle at Demand Drive and an absolute master on all things SDRs. And together we get into some serious myth busting on all that is and can …

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July 15, 2022

How You Show Up Matters with Jonathan Mahan

On this installment of RRH, we’ve got Jonathan Mahan. Long-time tech seller. Co-founder of The Practice Lab. All-around amazing human. Together we get real about two of Jonathan’s hardest revenue conversations. What happened?...

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July 12, 2022

SDRs Are People Too with Sebastien van Heyningen

On this installment of RRH, we’ve got the fabulous Sebastien van Heyningen. Sebastien is the President of Central Metric and rev ops consultant. Considering Sebastien is an SDR turned business owner, today we dig into all tha...

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July 8, 2022

How Great Men Show Up For Women in Sales with Lori Richardson

On this episode of the RRH, we’ve got the wo-man, the myth, the legend Lori Richardson. And together we unravel fact from fiction on the gender gap in tech sales and tech sales leadership. And what to do about it. …

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July 5, 2022

How Leadership Style and Training Impacts Humans with Jim Kanichirayil

On this installment of the RRH, we’ve got the fab Dr. Jim Kanichirayil. Jim is currently a Talent Strategy Evangelist at Circa. He’s co-host of the Cascading Leadership podcast. Today Jim and I dig into all that is backwards ...

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June 29, 2022

Email Like a Human Being with Kellen Casebeer

Coaching episode alert! On today’s installment of RRH, Kellen Casebeer schools me on my outbound email game. Together we cover questions like what does personalized relevance mean? Why you should not assume people want to be ...

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June 23, 2022

Catch Burnout Before the Fire with Bryan Smith

On this installment of RRH, we’ve got the co-founder and CEO of Leon Bryan Smith. Together we dig into the impact of managing human beings and measuring burnout. Topics Discussed : What’s the impact of measuring team burnout?...

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June 21, 2022

E65: Max Out Wellness with Garrett Rafols

On this installment of the RRH, we’ve got part two of the fab Garrett Rafols. Garrett is the Senior Director of Sales Excellence at GymPass. Today we get into what selling “well” is really about. And how to do it.

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