Hello Again;
Well, I'm back again with another of my live on the inside posts where I share my most recent interviews on podcasts, radio shows, and hopefully someday television too.
As usual I am behind on my work, but then I was warned about this when I decided to start a second website. :)
So, this time I will be sharing the three interviews that I did or that were posted in the last week.
These are The Sales Whisperer With Wes Schaeffer, The Holistic Entrepreneur with Bonnie Groessl, and The Author Chat Show with Lynda Brown.
I'm going to mention my interview with Wes first because its been the longest between recording and having it go live. We sat down via skype to talk about two months ago. I met Him through twitter, and was very happy when his assistant contacted me to say he was interested.
The call started out with his commenting about how he was a Texas A & M Alum and that he would have to ask me to take off the burnt orange shirt I was wearing. This was of course a joke. I explained that I too was an alum all be it from the Corpus Christi campuss not the main one in college station.
This lead to a conversation about how I pick my clothes out and other technical questions. We discussed how even picking a date for the interview and connecting on skype can have unexpected difficulties especially for someone using a screen reader exclusively like I do.
We talked about playing to your strengths, doing what you can, and the importance of surrounding yourself with a good team. In my case most of my team are friends and family. But this doesn't change the fact that no one accomplishes a big dream or goal all by themselves.
And while it hasn't happened yet, Wes surprised me at the end of the show when he told me that his plan is to eventually post these interviews to youtube or another video site. I was happy I had cleaned up for the interview something I usually do to psych myself up for them. And I was especially happy he didn't tell me about his plans when the interview started.
The Sales Whisperer
Wes Schaeffer
His Story
You hear those stories of these 20-Something’s down and out, sleeping on their friend’s couch until they finally hit “rock bottom” and built this amazing business. That wasn’t me. I did “what I was supposed to.” I went to college, served in the Air Force, got married, raised a family, got “a good job” making over $100,000 a year traveling the country and the world and I was not happy. The economy kept changing, my jobs kept changing, my travel kept changing, but the lack-of-vision of my bosses didn’t. It was always “smile and dial” and “throw enough sh*t at the wall and something will stick.” With a wife, a mortgage, 6 kids and a dog I couldn’t hit “rock bottom” in the traditional sense, but I did hit it as far as job / career satisfaction was concerned.
That’s when I decided to do something about it. Now I make my living helping others do the same.The Sales Whisperer® is a potpourri of strong-willed, opinionated, dedicated coders, developers, trainers, writers, marketers and curious entrepreneurs. We work incessantly to develop, find, create, launch, test and perfect the coolest, most effective, easiest to use and maintain and leverage tools, from software to hosting to marketing platforms, to help professional salespeople, sales managers, business owners and entrepreneurs grow. Our success is directly tied to yours. In other words, we’re in this together.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Albert Einstein
Listen To The Show
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Direct Audio Link
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Connect With Wes
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Twitter https://twitter.com/saleswhisperer
Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesaleswhisperer
