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Breaking Sales — 246 episodes

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Your Value Doesn't Matter Yet

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The Skill That Rewrites How You Handle "No"

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Biases Dominate Your Prospect's Decision Process

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Why We Stick to What's Not Working with Annie Duke

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How you start does have a cost!

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The Work Nobody Sees with Coach Urban Meyer

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Why You Choose to Play It Safe with Roy Baumeister

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Is Development Fatigue Real?

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Self-Awareness and Performance with Dr. Mark Leary

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Designing a High-Performance Day

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The Neuroscience of Trust with Dr. Paul Zak

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Providing for Today vs. Building for Tomorrow

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Rewiring Your Response to Adversity with Erez Avramov

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The Questions Your Prospects Can't Ask Themselves

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The Warrior's Sales Playbook with Chris Harris

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The Price of Reaching Your Potential

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Where Is Your Prospect in Their Decision Journey?

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Planning for 2026 When You're Tired of the Same Results

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The Uncomfortable Truth About Giving Feedback

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How Victim Mentality Sabotages Performance

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Staying in the Game When Conversations Go Sideways

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The Cost of Poor Preparation

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What Do You Actually Mean By That?

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Stop Forcing Sales Conversations

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Are You Tracking Performance or Just Hoping for the Best?

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Are All Nos Equal?

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Stop Making Outreach Decisions Based on How You Feel

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Choose Your Pain Wisely

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Stop Selling Today's Pain; Start Selling Tomorrow's Vision

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The Hidden Threat Sabotaging Your Sales Conversations

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Four Closing Skills that Your Prospect Will Value (Part II)

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Rethinking the Close: Why Winning Isn't What You Think It Is (Part 1)

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Release Performance Anxiety with Emily Smith

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If You Don't Change - Nothing Changes with Emily Smith

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Your Calendar as an Asset: The Zero-Sum Approach to Time Management

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Say Less To Get More: Embracing The Power Of Silence In Conversation

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How to Break Inherited Patterns: The Psychology Behind Sales Performance

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Do You Feel Like You're Chasing The Day?

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Are You Good or Are You a Professional?

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What Do Your Routines Say About Your Real Priorities?

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Are Your Solutions Actually The Problem?

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Is Your Need to Prove Your Value Actually Destroying it?

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What Are You Really Running From?

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How To Release The Past To Create Your Future

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What Is A High Performance Process? with Tim Filewicz

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How to Break Free from the Friend Zone with Tim Filewicz

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Trust Starts with Permission to Walk Away

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Stop Half-Assing Your Mindset

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A New Approach To Setting Goals

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SNIPPET: Mindset Drives Results

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Humility Drives High Performance

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Reshaping Your Inner High Performance Dialogue with Psychologist Rachel Turow

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High Performance Self-Talk with Psychologist Rachel Turow

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Empathy is the Key to Building Trust

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Taking the First Step Toward High Performance with Dr. Eric Potterat and Alan Eagle

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The Power of Mental Disciplines with Dr. Eric Potterat and Alan Eagle

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Unlocking Learned Excellence with Dr. Eric Potterat and Alan Eagle

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Women Asserting in the Workplace

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SNIPPET: Preparation Over Talent

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Familiarity Kills Performance

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High Performers Need to Rejuvenate

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SNIPPET: Demos Are Often a Crutch

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If You're Selling, You're Not Differentiating

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Turning RFP Presentations Upside Down

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SNIPPET: Asking Tough Questions

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What Are Your Prospects Actually Saying?

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SNIPPET: The Right Way to Build Rapport

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Tough Questions Build Trust

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It's Time To Create Positive Tension

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SNIPPET: Helping Your Prospects Think Critically

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Mindset Should Come From Within

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SNIPPET: Sticking to Your Process

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The Real Prospecting Silver Bullet

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How to Create Freedom With Your Calendar

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The Myth of Sales Effectiveness

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SNIPPET: The Relationship Between Trust and Competence

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Rethink RFPs

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Your Strength Is What You Can Control

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How High Performers Keep Accountable

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Language Creates Courage with Dr. George S. Everly, Jr.

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Routine and Cognitive Function with Dr. George S. Everly, Jr.

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Do You Make Careful or Committed Decisions? with Dr. George S, Everly, Jr.

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Meet the Lappin180 Team: Feedback Strengthens Everyone

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Stop Labeling Conversations As Bad

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SNIPPET: How Do You Know That You're Evolving?

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The Controversy Between Choices and Commitment

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Start Your Conversations With More Trust

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Bonus Episode: Meet the Lappin180 Team

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SNIPPET: Stop Being The Main Character in Your Prospect's Story

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Competing When The Pressure Is On with Kirsten Markley

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How to Compete Against Goliaths and Win

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Risk Perception Outweighs Risk Reality

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Powering Through Your Prospects Procrastination

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SNIPPET: Discipline Overcomes Procrastination

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Strengthen Your Results Through Gratitude with Chris Schembra

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Deepen Your Impact on Others Through Gratitude with Chris Schembra

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Resilience Through Gratitude with Chris Schembra

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SNIPPET: Learning to Ask Questions

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How a Seasoned Veteran and Top Performer Changed His Mindset with Jeff Vertun

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In The Real World, Curiosity Outperforms Competency with Jeff Vertun

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Best Of: Making High-Intent Work For You

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Best Of: Recognizing Scarcity to Achieve Abundance

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Best Of: Making Detachment Work For You

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Curiosity That Differentiates

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SNIPPET: Mindset Helps You Stay the Course

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How To Activate Your High-Performance Mindset

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SNIPPET: How to Save the Deal: Ask Questions

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Why Abrasive Outreach Fails

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Empower Yourself and Speak Up with Stephen Shedletzky

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The Attributes of a Successful Leader with Stephen Shedletzky

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SNIPPET: Don't Confuse Arrogance with Confidence

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Exactly What Is Mindset?

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SNIPPET: How Commitment Builds Resilience

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SNIPPET: Accomplish More by Being Thoughtful

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Saving Your Asks with Chris Tuff

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How To Optimize Cross-Generational Connection with Chris Tuff

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SNIPPET: How Top Performers Deal with Emotional Pressure

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Positive Tension and Vulnerability with Colin Hunter

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Forming Relationships that Impact with Colin Hunter

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Three Universal Poor Performance Triggers

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Healthy vs Unhealthy Comparison

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SNIPPET: Avoiding Confirmation Bias

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Dan Lappin Raw

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SNIPPET: How To Be a Thoughtful Giver

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Don't Make Your Outreach About You

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Detach from Attachment with Ken Mossman

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SNIPPET: A Nuanced Definition of Failure

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Stop Confusing Your Drive, Performance, and Identity with Ken Mossman

129

SNIPPET: Why Process is More Important Than Goals

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On the Receiving End of a Bad Sales Call

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SNIPPET: Are Your Excuses Winning?

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Four Methods of Detachment

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Disappointment - The Gateway to High-Performance

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SNIPPET: Stop Chasing Results

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Building Credibility With Questions

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The Pros Aren't Very Good

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Not All Trust Is The Same with Dr. Nicole Fisher Roberts

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SNIPPET: High-Performers Understand Something Different

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Giving People What They Need with Dr. Nicole Fisher Roberts

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SNIPPET: Like vs. Trust

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Evolving Trust with Kent Grayson

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To Be Clear, You're Not Being Clear

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It's PAMB, P-A-M-B, the B is Silent

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SNIPPET: Taking Your Conversations to the Next Level

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Your Mindset Impacts Your Results: Part 3

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Dan's Mystery Speaking Event

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SNIPPET: 9 Conversation Standards for High Performers

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Your Mindset Impacts Your Results: Part 2

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Outreach Gimmicks Turn Away the Prospects You Want

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SNIPPET: Why Reciprocity is Key to Your Outreach

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Your Mindset Impacts Your Results: Part 1

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Asking for 15 minutes discredits you

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SNIPPET: You're tracking your pipeline wrong

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3 Unique Barriers to High Performance

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This outreach didn't even have an email signature

156

SNIPPET: 4 Assumptions blocking you from success

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Mindset Work Makes or Breaks Your Prospect Meetings

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Break the pattern of BS outreach

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3 Ways to Build Resilience

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SNIPPET: Your body language is killing your virtual meeting game

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Winnie for the Win

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Does Your Prospect Seek or Resist Change?

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SNIPPET: Your smallest habits are keeping you from your goals

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The Power of Questions

165

Promises Breed Skepticism

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SNIPPET: Meaningfully Engage With Your Prospects

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Stress or Freedom – The Many Perspectives of Discipline

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Closing Your Outreach with Detachment

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The Relationship Between Trust and Risk

170

Lazy Language Could Be Killing Your Outreach

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SNIPPET: Introducing Snippets + Which player are you?

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When's the Last Time You Tested Yourself?

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Behavior Over Skill

174

Reach Out With Relevance

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You Can't Grow Until You Measure

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Kermit the Frog Killed Your Outreach

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Sharing Your Credentials Can Damage Your Credibility

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Does Your Outreach Sound Like You're Begging

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Five Behaviors That Will Change the Game

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Choosing a Chicken Sandwich over Credibility

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Building Trust with a Hesitant Prospect with James Chalmers

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When the Need for Control Holds You Back

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Good Cadence, Bad Content

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The Myth of Work-Life Balance

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Before and After: Refining Your Outreach

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Failure: The Building Blocks of Success

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Getting Comfortable with Uncomfortable Conversations with Jacob Bobek

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Outreach Automation Disaster

189

Activate a High-Performance Mindset

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Why Your Process is More Important than Your Goals

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The Catalyst to Change

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Four Paths to Transform the New Year

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Stop-Start-Continue: An Exercise to Gain Clarity

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How Mindset Delivers with Byron Shultz and Barry Goodrich

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How to Make Your Mindset a Competitive Advantage with Collin Henderson

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Do You Emphasize the Negative or the Positive?

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Take The Urgency Out of Your Outreach

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Emphasize Learning with Empathy

199

Email Outreach that Builds Trust

200

The Power of Being in the Moment

201

It Might Be Your Approach

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No Shortcuts to Sales Success with Quinn Damon

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Disqualification in 15 Minutes

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Disqualifying You Is Easier

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When Sounding Different Sounds Bad

206

Practice: Don't Be Afraid To Fail

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Are Gift Cards an Effective Outreach Strategy?

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Prospect Conversations: How High Performers Do It Better

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When Buzzwords Are a Buzzkill

210

Compliments Can Spark Doubt

211

The Difference Between A, B, and C Players

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Don't Make Assumptions. Ask Questions.

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Start Asking and Start Giving with Jeremey Donovan

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Give Before You Ask

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Speak Your Prospect's Language

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Outreach Automation Gone Wrong

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4 Assumptions that Hurt Your Performance & Limit Trust

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The Right and Wrong Way to Automate Prospecting

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The Hippo Prospecting Strategy

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Are You Measuring the Wrong Things?

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Are You Annoying and Destroying?

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How Top Performers Self-Motivate with Neel Doshi

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What Your Outreach Reveals to Prospects

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Your Virtual Brand From Home

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Think Different to Sound Different

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Accomplishment or Excuses (Who's Winning?)

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How High Performers Will Approach 2021

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Questions That Build Trust with David Thompson

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The 9 Characteristics of High Performers with Mike Sarraille

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Are You Opting In or Out of High Performance? with Mike Sarraille

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How do your prospects describe their relationship with you? with Dan Lappin and Kiley Schmitz

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How You Prospect Reflects Your Character with Tom Short

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What are today's high performers doing? with Bob Wierema

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Prospecting: The Missing Link with Pam Evanson

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Healthy Habits for Sales Success with Nick Hardwick and Erica Ballard

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Preparing to Win with NFL's Nick Hardwick

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Sales and Dating with Psychologist Dr. Karin Anderson Abrell

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Getting Unstuck to Move Forward

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Finding Sales Flow with Brian Decker

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From US Special Forces to NFL to Sales: Brian Decker and Resilience

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Maybe It's Time to Rethink Prospecting

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High-Performance Mindset

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Breaking the Sales Mindset with Danielle Lombardo

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Building Trust

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Your Prospect's Point of View

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Introducing Breaking Sales: A New Way of Thinking When it Comes to Sales