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65 :: How To Close More Profitable Deals By Stacking 1% Improvements Daily

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64 :: Why Helping Builders Make Money Isn't Enough to Win a Deal & The Real Reason They Take Their Business to Someone Else

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63 :: Why Positive Thinking Alone Won’t Fix Your Sales Slump & The Mindset Change That WILL

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62 :: The Secret Skill You Need To Exceed Clients Expectations & Win More Repeat Business

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61 :: How Bernie Marcus Built Home Depot By Doing What Didn’t Scale: Caring

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60 :: Why Your Sales Pitch Isn’t Working & The Secret Hack That Will Help You Win More Deals

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59 :: How To Raise Prices Without Losing Trust By Using Relationship Driven Sales

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58 :: From Old Guard to Young Guns: Leading Sales Succession With Clarity and Standards

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57 :: The DAM Problem: Why Salespeople Stop Selling and What to Do About It (Live from Nashville LBM Strategies 2025)

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56 :: Stop Asking For Help. Start Building a Business Case Instead. Here's How.

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55 :: Why Not Saying No Is Killing Your Sales Productivity in LBM (The Oscar-Nominated “I Won’t Read Your Script” Rant)

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54 :: Three Books Your Buyer Is Using to Negotiate Against You

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53 :: The 6 Ways to Lead a Sales Team That Doesn’t Rot Under Pressure (Looking at You, Michigan)

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52 :: How FAST Meetings Became the Only KPI That Turned Around Sales Performance

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51 :: How Wilson Lumber Built a Sales Team That Wins Big Accounts Without Destroying Operations with Josh Hendrickson

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50 :: Listener Mailbag: Should the LBM Industry Be Afraid of Brad Jacobs and QXO?

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49 :: If LBM Sales Is a Relationship Business… Why Are You Still Losing Orders?

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48 :: Why “Waiting for the Market to Improve” Is a Terrible Sales Strategy

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47 :: How Builders Actually Choose Suppliers (It’s Not the Lowest Price)

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46 :: Why Being the “Best Kept Secret” Is Costing Your LBM Business Talent & Revenue with Stefanie Couch

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45 :: How an LBM Sales Hunter Turned 17 Accounts Into $1.7M Without Competing on Price

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44 :: Why QXO’s Acquisition of Kodiak Is Impacting Every LBM Sales Team in 2026 with Jon Vaughan

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43 :: How to Break Through “Happy With My Current Supplier” in LBM Sales

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42 :: A Sales Manager Shares the Hard Lesson Behind 4 Straight Months of Missed Sales Goals

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41 :: Top 3 Lean Strategies LBM Sales Pros Use to Eliminate Waste & Sell More Profitably

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40 :: Why Bill Belichick’s Hall of Fame Snub Is a Warning for LBM Sales Pros

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39 :: Why To-Do Lists Fail Salespeople—and What a Real System Looks Like

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38 :: From Golf Galaxy to LBM Sales Leader: How Cody Nuernberg Turned Retail Hustle Into Industry Influence

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37 :: Ghosted Before Christmas: Hartmann’s Sales Loss and Why “Always Be Closing” Doesn’t Work in Complex LBM Sales

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36 :: Struggling With LBM Sales Rejection? How The War of Art Can Flip Your Mindset and Your Numbers

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35 :: GOST Your LBM Sales Team: How to Turn Confusion Into Confidence and Close More Deals With Just 4 Letters

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34 :: How Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys Became the Perfect Case Study of Sales Leadership Gone Wrong

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33 :: This One Mistake Nearly Ended a 30-Year LBM Sales Career—UFP's Mike Ellerbrook Shares His GOAT Sales Story

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32 :: Saying “It’s a Relationship Business” Means Nothing If You Don’t Collect the Dots—Hospitality Legend Danny Meyer Explains Why

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31 :: Account Management Isn’t Selling: The Time Audit That Fixes LBM Sales in 60 Days

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30 :: How to Goose Sales in 30 Days With No Cold Calling and No Excuses

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29 :: How To Coach Sales Reps Like an NFL Head Coach: The 3 Essentials You Need Every Month

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28 :: Forget Your Gut Instinct—How "Curb Qualifying" Wrecks Your Credibility and Your Win Rate

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27 :: The $37 Insult I Still Think About Every December

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26 :: Don’t Give Up on December: Dark December Is the Month That Separates Sales Amateurs From the Pros

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25 :: Joe Rogan Breaks Down Kevin Hart’s Bold Move on Jeff Bezos: The Lesson Every Sales Rep Needs to Hear

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24 :: Stop Asking Builders for 15 Minutes—Why That Pitch Is Killing Opportunities and What You Should Do Instead

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23 :: Waiting for the Buyer to Decide? Here’s Why That’s a Losing Strategy (Every Time)

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22 :: Your Top Rep Might Be Overpaid and Underperforming—Here’s the Hard Truth

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21 :: Live Coaching Call: Rebuilding a Sales Pipeline From Scratch With AI & Little Product Knowledge

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20 :: Listener Pushback: Are the 10 Commandments of LBM Sales Excellence Even Realistic?

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19 :: The 7 AI Sales Tools LBM Pros Are Testing Right Now—And Why You Should Too

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18 :: The 10 Commandments of LBM Sales Excellence

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17 :: It’s Not FOMO Builders Are Afraid Of—It’s This.

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16 :: How Baseball's Five-Tool Player Concept Can Transform Your LBM Sales Performance

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15 :: The 7 Counterintuitive Time Management Tips LBM Sales Reps Need to Close More Deals

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14 :: Monitoring Emails Doesn't Grow Sales—Here’s the Pipeline Strategy That Will

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13 :: Why Thoughtful Gifting Beats Cold Calling for Prospecting in LBM Sales

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12 :: What Singer (And Former U of Michigan Hooper) Adrien Nunez Taught Me About Sales

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11 :: How to Be Confident in Sales—Even If You’re Getting Rejected Right Now

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10 :: How Relationship-Based Trust Turns a Framer Into a Sales Advocate For You

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9 :: Four Sales Books Every LBM Sales Pro Needs to Sell Value Without Competing on Price

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8 :: There’s a Reason They Shoot the Messenger: A Smarter Way to Raise Prices

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7 ::  How to Introduce Yourself Without Sounding Like a Salesperson

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6 :: How Bill Belichick’s Petty Move Reveals a Sales Strategy that Protects Your Time and Gross Margin

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5 :: How to Navigate Around Your Most Common Sales Objection

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4 :: Why Chasing Every Builder Hurts Your Pipeline—and How PRIME Fixes That

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3 :: “Everyone Likes You, But We’re Not Buying”: What I Learned From the $500K Loss That Nearly Sunk My Business

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2 :: Stop Chasing Every Deal: The Two-Word Filter to Close More Deals by Qualifying Better Prospects

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1 :: Sales Prospecting that Actually Works: The RRI Framework

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0 :: Want to Close More LBM Deals Without Dropping Your Price? Start Here.