Episode 2 with Christine Rogers: Sales Training, Inherited Legacies, and Outlasting Yourself

Welcome back to Energy Exchange Live with host Alane Paulley. This episode opens the way the best conversations do: over food, a little nostalgia, and zero small talk. Alane brings a German-American butter cake, Christine brings Italian red sauce energy, and from there the two dive into everything that actually shapes who you become as a leader.Christine Rogers is the owner of M3 Learning, a sales training company built on a methodology that has worked inside some of the biggest companies in the world. But her path to owning it is unlike almost any entrepreneurship story you've heard. Christine didn't start the company. She inherited it, unexpectedly, from her mentor Skip Miller, just ten days before he passed away from cancer. She shares the full story of that phone call, what she said yes to before she had any idea how to pull it off, and what it has meant to carry someone else's life's work forward.From there, Alane and Christine go deep on what it really looks like to sell without pushing people, why your native genius is often the hardest thing to teach, and how to build a team that can execute the work even when the founder is the one who does it best. They also talk about parenting, resilience, raising kids who can handle discomfort, and why small T trauma might actually be doing your children a favor.If you are building a business, leading a sales team, or trying to figure out how to grow something that does not fall apart the moment you step back, this episode is for you.