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In this episode, our guest is Sarah Thomas, the top strategic account executive at Verkada. Sarah dives deep into the personal and professional principles that have driven her sales success, from embracing her natural strengths and "drinking the Kool Aid" for every company she's joined to cultivating a growth mindset and seeking help from those around her.

She opens up about overcoming imposter syndrome, her journey from higher education to software sales, and how authenticity and vulnerability have been central to her approach.

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In this episode, host Scott Ingram sits down with Camden Roncka, the top-performing small business account executive at HubSpot, for a refreshingly candid conversation packed with actionable insights and unconventional wisdom. Camden opens up about the three core drivers behind his rapid rise in sales: his deep personal faith, a relentless underdog mentality, and the power of curiosity and adaptability.

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In this episode, Dylan Katcher uncovers what sets an A-player apart in the sales industry: it's not just about hitting revenue targets. We explore the power of recognizing opportunities within failures, and how that mindset can propel a company forward. We'll also share some personal strategies for bouncing back from lost deals, including the vital role of feedback loops with top sales reps and product teams.

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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:

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.