The Bird's Nest

Amanda Bagley was employee number fourteen at Chili Piper.  She has made her career in tech start-ups that has included the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.  She goes into both of those areas…

Cold calls or cold emails are his thing.  Clint Steveson just waves to people, has a great conversation, offers to help them with whatever they need and has a built a new business off of this mindset…

Emily Mireault faced burnout twice, an unexpected layoff and has turned that experience into becoming a published children's book author, a valuable member of a team she loves with a product she trul…

Every team, company and department is looking at their goals for this year and will need top talent to hit the mark.  I spent over a decade at a recruiting agency working with Fortune 50 companies to…

LinkedIn used to be where you posted a resume.  It is now the world's premier professional networking platform and Danny DelVecchio discusses how video is the future on the platform.  He has created …

LinkedIn Influencer Marketing is only going to increase and at a very rapid pace as brands recognize the power of the platform and the reach to various audiences.  Alexis Rivera Scott discusses this …

Maddie Bell and her husband left church on a Sunday.  By the time they got home they had an idea for an AI tool that would change the way businesses scheduled meetings forever.  Fast forward through …

Laid off after being a top sales person, Kristine Kapatos turned to her faith and began her journey into what is now a thriving business.  Kristine opens up about how she beat her self-doubt and limi…

Aaron Wallace was a 6th Grade Math Teacher and is now a thriving Account Executive in one of the most respected companies in the SaaS industry.  He tells his story of breaking into tech sales but als…

Stephanie Whalen, President of Ullico, provides how she raised her hand over the past 25 years to take on the tough assignments or in her words "figure it out".  She came into the organization with a…

My wife of almost 23 years uttered those words as I was "quietly fired" from my last company.  She looked me dead in the eye and said in a way only she could, "They Don't Know You!"  It set me on a j…

Julie Raeder is a story in understanding that winning in whatever you do is not an isolated incident but a continous journey.  Julie takes us through her progression as a D1 athlete to her career cha…

What started as Grayson Hogard and his wife started baking cookies out of their townhome for friends has now turned into a wildly successful business.  The Groove Cookie Company is a simple story of …

JR Butler, the CEO of Shift Group, is a former athlete who after a successful career in sales started his company focused on helping former athletes like himself as well as veterans find their identi…

Brian LaManna from Gong joins the program to speak about his incredible journey in sales.  He speaks on his rise from SDR to one of the top producers in his company and how he became a leading voice …

James provides his vision on where the AE and SDR roles will eventually evolve to given the state of sales, AI, and how people buy.  He also discusses his journey of finding a new role after going th…

Dan Goodman, Founder and CEO of TruCommish, discusses how sales professionals are losing millions of dollars each year in commissions that are rightfully owed to them in their compensation plans.  Da…

Both ultra successful, John Lane and Will Barfield were forced to pivot their businesses due to the pandemic.  They came together to form a partnership and a new business venture that will fuel them …

Mando Sallavanti III goes into the law of attraction that allowed him to go from making nothing in his first three months in sales to over $50k by month five.  Mando is super bright, articulate and b…

Most of us think that to be truly successful you can never be content.  Jacob Karp proves this wrong to discuss his journey through sales, but also his mindset of being content.  He is a super succes…