The Business Warrior Within

The Business Warrior Within

Hosted by: Andy Olen

Welcome to The Business Warrior Within, where we uncomplicate business skill by skill! I'm Andy Olen, your guide to unleashing your inner Business Warrior. Join me as I help talented professionals like you master...

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Episodes

The New Sales Normal: Coronavirus and Selling

Episode #23

As Sales Warriors, we have two ways to approach the challenges of Coronavirus, binge watch Netflix, or dig in and sharpen our sales skills. We choose our sales skills. Although we face challenges in our new sales...
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Good Living: An Interview with Holistic Nutritionist Maria Viall

Episode #23

Holistic Nutritionist Maria Viall joins The Sales Warrior Within. Andy and Maria discuss how sales warriors can achieve peak performance through their relationship with food and wellness. Sales and business people...
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A Painful Sales Lesson From the Iowa Caucus

Episode #22

As predicted, Campaign 2020 will deliver many sales lessons. The first was delivered in the chaos of the Iowa Caucus. A complex system fails on multiple levels. Sales Warriors can learn a lot from Iowa. Andy shares...
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2020 Outlook: Looking Good For Sales Warriors

Episode #21

Andy shares his 2020 outlook and focuses on the big three themes of the upcoming year in sales - excellent preparation, managing the election year, and how to extend social media to amplify your brand and sales...
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2019's Top 3 Sales Insights

Episode #20

Andy looks back on a dynamic 2019 and shares his Top 3 Sales Insights from the year. #yesif, communication, and less-is-more climb to the top in a year that the nobility of the sales profession continued to grow and...
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Becoming a TED Talker

Episode #19

Andy shares his TEDx journey. From the first interview to walking onto on the stage, learn how to become a TED talker yourself. Additionally, Andy shares how the process of TEDx made him a more effective sales...
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Working In Politics Shaped The Sales Warrior Within

Episode #18

Political campaigns and sales have a lot in common. Andy shares the parallels between politics and sales. The ultimate deadline, great execution, and preparing for the next "election day" are all critical sales...
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Lessons Learned from Training New Sales Reps

Episode #15

Andy reflects on training new salespeople. Once you come out of training ready to go and talk about your product, remember the first thing you have to do as a new salesperson is to build trust with your customers....
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The Vital Role of Sales Operations

Episode #17

Standing next to every great salesforce is an excellent sales operations team. This group is the bass guitar and drums of a commercial group. Andy started his career in sales ops and focused this episode on sharing...
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Marathon Running & Sales Have a Lot in Common

Episode #16

Andy recently completed his second marathon. He improved over 50 minutes in time, 17 years after running his first 26.2. He shares in this episode the learnings from his experience and applies the lessons to selling....
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My TEDx Talk Will Make Me a Stronger Sales Warrior

Episode #15

Andy recently delivered his first TEDx talk on Yes, If cooperative negotiations. In this episode of The Sales Warrior Within, Andy reflects on the TEDx experience and how he will apply the learnings from TEDx to his...
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Sales Warriors Take the Time to Taper

Episode #14

Lessons from marathon training applied to The Sales Warrior Within each of us. Don't sprint your sales career marathon! Take the time to learn, adjust, grow, and fuel up for the next big moment. Andy shares the...
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