Sales POP! Podcasts: Insights from Top Experts in Sales, Marketing, Leadership & More.

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• Glamorous Club or Risk Watchdog? The Truth About Board Roles - Laura McCracken 03.07.2026 26min

  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/
• Find Customer Demand Faster and Stop Wasting Months Building - Rob Snyder 02.07.2026 23min

  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/
• Business Acumen for Sales Success: Your 2026 Edge Over AI - Kevin Cope 02.07.2026 24min

  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/.
• Future-Proofing Careers With AI: David Dean on Judgment & Accountability 29.06.2026 23min

  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/
• Financial Advisor Sales Training in 2026 with Jim Effner 26.06.2026 24min

  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/
• Is AI Coming for Your Job? Maximos Lih Says It's Not 25.06.2026 22min

  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/
• Trade Low-Value Work for High-Value Work With AI 24.06.2026 23min

  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/
• AI Automates, Humans Close: Glenn Sandifer on Sales in 2026 23.06.2026 24min

  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/
• Turn Your Marketing Team Into a Lead Machine — Charlotte Johnson 20.06.2026 21min

  Charlotte Johnson, founder and CEO of Drew and Rose, explains how to bridge the sales and marketing gap by making marketing accountable for lead generation — tying marketing compensation to leads, putting both teams in the same weekly meeting, and mapping the full funnel together. She shares her agency's results guarantee and a three-step "do it for you, do it together, you do it yourselves" framework that builds lasting alignment. Learn more at https://drewandrose.com/
• How do you lead with value instead of pitching your service? 18.06.2026 22min

  Chad Coe, Founder of Coe Financial Group and author of The Power of Peopleizing, explains how to win more sales by leading with genuine care instead of a pitch — using his 3% rule and a long-game follow-up system that reframes ghosting as testing. He shares why patience and faith separate the top 1–2% from everyone else. Learn more at coefinancial.com.
• 40% of Your Job Is Automatable — Dilip Chetan on the Other 60% 17.06.2026 25min

  Dilip Chetan, founder of Recursion Lab and creator of the Defensible Zone framework, explains how leaders can win with AI by flipping the question from "What can we automate?" to "What human value must we protect?" He shares his three-moat test, why first-contact sales must stay human, and where AI still can't reach. Learn more at julianlighton.com.
• Build a Confident Career Path With Julian Lighton's 7 Steps 16.06.2026 29min

  Executive coach Julian Lighton, author of Navigating Your Next and a former McKinsey associate partner, explains how to take control of your career by clarifying what you truly want and building a deliberate path to get it through his seven-step framework. He breaks down the four unavoidable career transitions, why no meaningful goal is reached alone, and why success always comes at a cost. Learn more at https://www.julianlighton.com/.
• AI Won't Save Bad Leaders: Curtis Sprouse on Trust in 2026 14.06.2026 24min

  Curtis Sprouse, Founder & CEO of Eureka Connect, explains how to develop better leaders by using validated behavioral-science data to build self-awareness, trust, and consistency across a team. With 30+ years in pharma, healthcare, and executive coaching, he shows why even accomplished CEOs miss their own blind spots—and why AI won't replace human judgment. Learn more at https://eurekaconnect.com/.
• 500% Productivity in Flow State — Deri Llewellyn-Davies Explains 11.06.2026 30min

  Deri Llewellyn-Davies, Strategist & Board Advisor and Founder of Freedom Founders, explains that peak performance is a state problem, not a motivation problem — you shift it by choosing flow, focus, peak, recovery, and connect states through breathwork, phone-free mornings, and purpose. He shares flow research showing 500% productivity gains from two protected morning hours, and why burnout stems from values misalignment rather than workload. Connect with Deri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thestrategyman/
• Why 85% of B2B Startups Fail at Market Entry with Bruce Cleveland 11.06.2026 23min

  Bruce Cleveland, CEO and Founder of Traction Gap Partners and author of Market Engineering, joins John Golden to explain why product engineering is now table stakes and how CEOs can apply a five-tenet discipline — category design, positioning, messaging, storytelling, and thought leadership — to build enduring market leadership. Learn more at https://www.tractiongappartners.com.
• The 3 Buckets of Value Every Leader Misses with Lee Benson 08.06.2026 29min

  Lee Benson, Founder and CEO of Execute to Win and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, joins John Golden to challenge the growth-at-all-costs mindset and unpack the three categories of value creation that powered his 21.6x EBITDA exit at Able Aerospace. Learn more at https://www.etw.com/about.
• Retirement Planning: The 5 Red Flags to Avoid with Chris Maduri 06.06.2026 21min

  Chris Maduri, Retirement Planning Specialist at Vibrant Retirement, joins John Golden on the Sales POP! Expert Insight Interview to unpack the Retirement Red Zone, the five red flags that derail retirement, and why predictable income beats chasing returns. A practical conversation for anyone within ten years of leaving work. Learn more at https://vibrantretirement.com/.
• Clarity, Simplicity, Action: The Leadership Trifecta with Greg Hoover 04.06.2026 23min

  Greg Hoover, author of Lead Anyway and former CEO of Bekins Van Lines, Arnold Relocation, and New World Van Lines, joins John Golden to challenge the idea that leadership belongs only to those with titles. He shares the habits — decisiveness, simplicity, and intentional mentorship — that empower any employee to lead from where they stand. Learn more at https://www.thirdstar.net/.
• The New Rules of AI-Assisted Coding with Menil Vukovic 03.06.2026 30min

  Menil Vukovic, CEO of Pear Shadow, joins John Golden to discuss software engineering practices in the era of AI — including the engineer's new role as an AI orchestrator, why experience is now an advantage rather than a liability, and how teams move from chaotic adoption to structured AI workflows. Menil shares the three stages of AI integration his team worked through, why documentation matters more than ever, and the rules that keep vibe coding from destroying production codebases. Learn more about Menil and Pear Shadow at https://www.pearshadow.com/.
• Can Leadership Survive the AI Revolution? - Dustin Kenyon 02.06.2026 26min

  Dustin Kenyon, Chief Revenue Officer at Motivosity, joins John Golden to explore what human leadership looks like in an AI-driven world. Dustin shares why the learner's journey is now non-negotiable for every professional, how to cut through AI-generated noise, and why his executive team operates by a simple rule: no dinosaurs. Learn more at https://www.motivosity.com/.