Luke Floyd was the number one Senior Account Executive in North America last year for Deel, an organization that helps businesses hire anyone, anywhere. It's global payroll for employees and contractors from around the world. Luke is a very direct sales professional who always tries to give his clients the same grace he gives himself. He knows that the most valuable asset that his prospects possess is their time and so he knows how important it is to value their time. Luke also served in the military prior to his sales career and we thank him for his service. This background has been integral in setting Luke up for sales success.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast features another panel from last year's Sales Success Summit with Deb Rapson and Paul DiVincenzo and our discussion about Stepping Up Into Leadership, and as you're about to hear it goes much deeper than that. Once again, all of this incredible content is here for you thanks to the generous support of all of our Summit sponsors: Outreach, Vidyard, Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, Skipio, and Gong. Thanks to them you can still get access to all of these video presentations on-demand as well as the slide decks at Top1Summit.com.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I have a bit of an encore episode for you. I originally shared this follow-up interview with Brandon Fluharty as a bonus episode in early June of last year, but because it wasn't one of the numbered interview episodes it's been a little hard for people to find.

So because of that AND because Brandon has just recently released his 7 Steps to 7 Figures eBook, I thought I'd share this again officially as episode 139. So for all of the links and resources, you can just click over to top1.fm/139. Here it is:

Today we're celebrating International Women's Day with Heidi Solomon-Orlick and the brand new collaborative book she's brought together featuring over 2 dozen incredible women in sales called "Heels to Deals."

Heidi is the Founder and CEO of GirlzWhoSell a company committed to closing the gender gap in B2B sales and building the largest pipeline of diverse, early-stage female career talent. GirlzWhoSell offers training, mentoring, experiential learning opportunities, career placement for college-aged women interested in a professional sales career. Here she is:

Today we’re celebrating International Women’s Day with Heidi Solomon-Orlick and the brand new collaborative book she’s brought together featuring over 2 dozen incredible women in sales called “Heels to Deals.”

Heidi is the Founder and CEO of GirlzWhoSell a company committed to closing the gender gap in B2B sales and building the largest pipeline of diverse, early-stage female career talent. GirlzWhoSell offers training, mentoring, experiential learning opportunities, career placement for college-aged women interested in a professional sales career. Here she is:

Drew Piper is the top SDR at Reward Gateway, an organization that helps more than 1,800 of the world's leading companies to attract, engage and retain their best people with an employee engagement platform that brings employee benefits, discounts and perks, reward and recognition, employee wellbeing, employee communications and employee feedback into one unified hub. Drew is an exceptionally accountable sales professional who understands the importance of being concise and genuine. Drew has a deep respect for the power of learning and takes ownership of his own learning. In fact, that is the number one thing he attributes to his success. The other two are his persistence and cautiously optimistic mindset.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast features a unique panel discussion from the last Sales Success Summit. In the two previous bonus episodes, you got to hear DeJuan Brown and Katie Jane Bailey's presentations from day 1. This was from the second day where I brought them both back up to talk more about the idea of Lifestyle Discovery, but we also turned the tables and included a number of members of the audience as well as most of the previous podcast guests who were in attendance who shared their top book recommendations.

Chris McNeill is the top Enterprise Sales Executive at Infinite Convergence Solutions, an organization that provides innovative messaging and mobility solutions and next-generation wireless communication technologies to mobile operators and enterprises. Chris is an incredibly considerate and empathetic sales professional who always puts his customers first and places a tremendous amount of value on the customer relationship. In his order of operations, it goes: customer, company, Chris; meaning that, in everything he does, Chris puts the customer and the company before himself. Chris is a big fan of puzzles and likes to keep things interesting. In fact, part of the reason he entered sales as a profession was because he wanted to conquer the challenge of selling.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast featuring Katie Jane Bailey's presentation titled Product Led Growth & the Future of Selling from the 2021 Sales Success Summit is brought to you thanks to all of our summit sponsors. Thanks to Outreach, Vidyard, Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, Skipio, and Gong you can still get access to all of these video presentations on-demand as well as the slide decks at Top1Summit.com.

Dustin Brown is the Top Global Account Executive at Outreach, an organization that helps businesses improve their sales execution to drive higher win rates, ramp up sales reps to productivity faster, and, ultimately, create better revenue outcomes. Dustin is a highly intentional sales professional who believes in the power of hard work and helping others. Dustin has enjoyed an incredibly successful career in sales and he's not even close to being done.