Episodes

Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling™, is an author, speaker, sales trainer, and sales coach. She is recognized as one of the leading authorities on lead generation, cold calling, and new business development. Her clients include Avon Products, ADP, Sprint and thousands of entrepreneurs throughout the world. The Queen of Cold Calling joins us to dispel the nasty reputation that is associated with cold calling and shares some awesome strategies on how it can be useful for bringing in business!

Erin is a former professor of organizational communication turned professional speaker and master coach. She helps smart, ambitious women get out of their heads and into their strengths. Her clients are doctors, lawyers, speakers, business owners, corporate employees, and more. They all want the same thing, to stop all the worrying, questioning of their capabilities, and fearing negative feedback. Erin helps them to break these patterns, perform to their potential, and feel good while doing it. ...

Bryan Kramer is a renowned business strategist, global keynote speaker, executive trainer and coach, two-time bestselling author and Forbes contributor. As former President and Co-Owner of PureMatter, a Silicon Valley global marketing agency since 2001, he sparked the Human-to-Human H2H movement that set out to humanize business through simpler communication, empathy, and celebrating our imperfections Bryan talks about his transition from running two agencies to speaking, coaching, and consulti...

Bill Cates, CSP, CPAE, Referral Coach International works with organizations and individuals who want to acquire more clients/customers through word of mouth, referrals, and personal introductions. Bill talks about his new book, 'Radical Relevance' and why he felt the need to write it! He also talks about almost everything there is with being relevant in your business and how to retain that relevance with your clients!

Contrary to popular belief, success is actually easy! Debbie Allen talks with David about why this fact can be hard to comprehend for some, how your mindset plays a role in your success, and the importance of taking actions and making decisions!

Jane Sagalovich is a process development and strategy expert, a finance and investment specialist, a growth mindset nerd, and an entrepreneur. Thriving on inspiring and enabling others to live a life of contribution, wealth, and freedom. Jane talks about online courses! From the process of creating one to using them effectively to scale your business!

Conor Boyland shares some common mistakes small businesses make with copywriting, and offers tips on creating genuine and effective copy! He also talks about his service, CopyPro, the best mediums to use for marketing, and how to best use each one!

Grant Baldwin, of The Speaker Lab, talks about his new book 'The Successful Speaker', and how he came to write the book in the first place. Grant also shares his story of entering the speaking world, how he finds his leads, sets his fees, and his problem with delegating his marketing!

A seasoned sales guru with decades of success behind her, Nikki Rausch has a passion for the art of authentic selling. After 25 years of experience selling to such prestigious organizations as The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, and NASA, Nikki decided to trade in her road warrior status so she could help entrepreneurs sell in a way that builds relationships, creates true connection, and results in more closed deals and long-term clients. As a sales coach, trainer, author, and ...

Raoul Davis, of Ascendant Group, talks about the reasons behind CEO branding, the typical processes when working with clients, LinkedIn strategies, and developing a global presence!

James empowers people to pursue their potential and helps leaders achieve sustainable business and leadership growth. During his twenty years in leadership in companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Allstate, and LegalShield, James has created and guided high-performing teams through delivering double-digit growth, mergers and acquisitions, offshoring, outsourcing, startups, and well over 300 partnerships. James talks about how his journey towards following his purpose and focusing his time on his no...

Tom Varjan talks about his transition from being a computer engineer to an expert in business development for IT firms, how his business fell and recovered, and why he chose the solopreneur path over delegating!

Lisa Kohn is an accomplished leadership consultant, executive coach, author, and keynote speaker with a strong business background and a creative approach. She has over 20 years of experience partnering with Fortune 500 clients in areas of leadership, communication styles, managing change, interpersonal and team dynamics, and strategy, as well as life balance and fulfillment. Lisa's latest book is her memoir to the moon and back: a childhood under the influence Lisa talks to David about her pro...

Rebecca Tracey is the head/only honcho at The Uncaged Life where she works with online business owners to get clear on their brand message, create packages that sell, and helps them learn what it actually takes to get and keep clients in this crazy online world (all while working from home with no pants on). Rebecca runs a free online community of over 12k solo-preneurs. She started her business while living in a van, and loves rock climbing and riding her bike around Toronto with her dog Rhubar...

The Dynamic Communicator, Jill Schiefelbein, returns to The Speaking Show to talk about where a sales conversation goes wrong, selling for different communication modes, and effective listening strategies!

John returns to the podcast to share his expertise on effectively leveraging a podcast to establish relationships and progress your business! John also talks about the evolution of his business Rise25, how his team can help with podcasting strategy, and using testimonials!

Viveka, LinkedIn expert, and Chief Visibility Officer & Co-founder of Vengreso, talks about the misunderstood concept of social selling, and shares some pointers on how to determine the right type of content to create, making connections properly, and establishing a presence in the marketplace!

Celeste Warren, Vice President of Global Diversity & Inclusion Center of Excellence, talks about internal thought leadership and how she uses speaking as an influence strategy to promote her ideas and diversity and inclusion. She also discusses how she handles biases, her team of diversity ambassadors, and recently being an MC at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women!

John Jantsch talks about his new book "The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur" and shares some of and David's favorite excerpts from the book! John also talks about the evolution of his business, asking for help, and his process of writing the book!

David Schloss is an online entrepreneur who began marketing in 2007 from his college apartment. Over the years, he has helped hundreds of businesses improve their website traffic, customer acquisition, and revenue using social advertising. David Schloss talks about building his business as a college student, becoming a Facebook Ads expert, and how he utilizes speaking to continue to build his business!

Dhairya Pujara is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Ycenter. He designs and implements programs for helping Leaders in Corporate organizations, students in Universities and NGO professionals to be Innovative problem solvers using the power of Design Thinking. Dhairya uses the art of storytelling as a medium to communicate in his blogs, public lectures and workshops. Dhairya tells us about his experience as a TEDx curator, his E.P.I.C. online learning platform, and describes the mindset...

Matt is a marketer, entrepreneur and podcasting expert. As the founder of Pursuing Results, a podcast PR & production agency based in San Diego, Matt runs a virtual team helping business coaches and agencies break in and dominate new markets through podcasting. Matt and David talk about the best formulas, formats, and mindsets to creating a podcast that effectively sells your product as a speaker, consultant, and coach!

Over the past 10 years, Trevor Turnbull has educated thousands of Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, and Professionals on how to get REAL results from LinkedIn. As the CEO of Linked Into Leads, Founder of the Expert Selling Machine mentoring program and instructor for the popular LinkedIn training programs LinkedInfluence (with over 26,000 members) and 30 Day Sales Machine (with over 1000 members), he has a solid history of providing results-based training, mentoring & coaching. Trevor and David ...

David gives us a sneak peek of his upcoming book, 'Do It! Speaking' available in hard copy, digital, and audio formats in January! Listen in to hear some of the valuable bits this book has to offer, where you can pre-order it, and where you can claim your bonuses!