Episodes

When’s the last time you took responsibility over everything in your life? That’s a heavy one right, but it’s one to really take time to reflect and consider. Many times people relate fault with responsibility. Think, “Who’s responsible for this,” but some things weren’t your fault. Some things happened when you were a kid, Some events blindsided you and knocked you down. The universal response from others is for you to move on, but how do you do that? Today I’ll help you reclaim your power-i...

“Video is structural, not cyclical.” says my guest Patrick Frank Author of the book, “Zoom Out. The Video First Playbook.” There’s no question that video is not going away but while we acknowledge that it is here to stay, we don’t fully embrace it. Today you’ll learn how to leverage the power of video From creating a more memorable visual greeting card of your very own, to learning how to create consistent, clear testimonials in sales. Sadly, you’ll discover that the highest rate of suicide ...

TSL let's goooo! One of my favorite quotes is by Elanor Roosevelt, "Do what you cannot do." You'll develop strength, character, confidence, and belief if you do. Fail and benefit in 4 ways! How rewarding is that! Today I'll show you the benefits of taking failure head-on. Like my college football coach used to say, "If you're going to fail, do it full speed." Thanks for listening or watching this episode of The Sales Life. If this is your first time here, stick around by subscribing and if you...

What does it mean to get 1% better every day? I believe in the idea, but do I just show up and "do a little better?" Today, I'll show you how to take the idea of 1% daily improvement and put it into practice using the Lead/Lag Method. Lead is the effort. Lag is the result. How often have you given up, because you haven't seen the results? I've got you covered on this one :) Thanks for listening. Show your support by sharing this episode with someone else. Where in the world are you listening...

Coaches have a 2-minute drill or hurry-up offense where they create worst-case situations and coach their players to achieve best-case outcomes …a win. Today you are going to learn how to use “worst case” scenarios to achieve your best case results. If you’re setting a new goal to lose weight, sell more, save more, or you’re maybe you're trying to figure out how to buy that thing that you just have to have, you’re probably looking at everything through a best-case scenario lens and you’re not ...

If you're thinking about getting into sales, in a sales funk, or want to develop the life skills of selling to have more, do more, and be more, this episode is for you. Today is my privilege to bring to you David Perry, author of "Game of Sales. Lessons Learned Working At Adobe, Amazon, Google, And IBM." David is unique because he's not going to tell you how he did it. He will tell you how he's doing it because he is still working as a top salesperson at Adobe. In this episode, you'll learn: ...

Wow! What a time to be alive! Seriously. Disruption is all around us. There's the word technology...but then you've got cryptocurrency, NFT, AI, and VR. There's so much disruption in fact that companies are changing their name to match the metaverse. Disruption can blow your face off. To deal with the rapid change flying at us, instead of embracing the change, we instead resist by dismissing it and predicting that "it'll never work." Even if it's crazy. Even if you don't fully understand or gr...

Empty hands are due to a full mind. Good or bad. Right or wrong. In your control or out of your control, empty your mind out. Play empty-minded, not absent-minded. In today's episode, you'll learn the cadence that I use when I am feeling less than and overwhelmed. This clip comes from episode 559. To hear the full episode, click the link. https://www.marshbuice.com/559-chop-wood-carry-water-how/ Connect with me! www.marshbuice.com. Find hundreds of episodes, blogs, links to the socials where...

Today Airbnb is used as both a noun and a verb. ("Let's Airbnb it!) But 10 years ago it sounded like the craziest idea ever. Imagine someone wanting you to invest in a business that rented a room or a fully furnished house to total strangers. Uh, negative. Brian Chesky went from the worst idea to a $40 billion valuation...and then the pandemic hit. As told on the Jordan Harbinger Show, when the world shut down, 80% of Airbnb's business was wiped out. "And we didn't know if we'd be around to se...

You wouldn't want to win all of the time. I know it sounds crazy, but think about it. If you won every time, what would you be grateful for? If you always finished first, what would challenge you to push higher? Diversity creates strength. I hope you lose today because if you're willing to lose, then you're set up to win. Just like light needs dark, so too do wins need losses. Wins and losses go hand in hand. Today I'll show you how they complement one another and are the source of your succes...

Where were you in 2009? At the height of the financial crises, a company's stock price valued at $60/share sunk to less than $1. In a panic, many people liquidated their stocks and PERMANENTLY locked in their losses. If they'd stayed in, they would've seen exponential gains when the market roared back to life, and if those who owned shares continued to invest-even fractionally, they would've become wealthy. This episode isn't about investing in the market; it's about investing in you. No matte...

There is not a soul on this earth that hasn't freaked out or panicked. Many of those moments we are not proud of. How you handle yourself next time is dependent on what you learned from the situations before. Think of success as a 3-legged stool with each leg weighted at 33%: Preparedness, experience, and reflective thinking. If you're missing one of those legs, then you're chopping your chance of success by a whopping 33%! By the end of this episode, I will ensure that you have all of three l...

There are some things in your life that you cannot put a dollar value on it. The Sales Life Podcast is that for me. Even though I've invested thousands of hours into creating nearly 700 episodes, monetarily, I've got little to show for it. But I have profited in so many other ways that far exceed any amount of money I could have received so far. Unlike income that can be taxed, my profits from TSL have compounded and will continue to pay out massive dividends. By happenstance, today's episode ...

Guitar gurus say, "Tone is in your fingers." I could buy the guitar and equipment that Eddie Van Halen had, but I'm still going to sound like me. On the flip side, Eddie Van Halen can buy a guitar at a garage sale and still sound like Eddie Van Halen. In the book "Rework," Jason Fried writes, "You don't need special equipment to be good, and you definitely don't need it to get started." Have you been waiting for the "perfect" time to start your creatives, such as a podcast, YouTube channel, wr...

Early in my management career, I was told, "You can't teach decision making." That never sat well with me because babies aren't born good decision-makers, but as we grew older, we stopped making decisions because we quickly realized there were consequences. To avoid being grounded, whipped, or have our cell phones taken away, we did as we were told and little else. So it is no wonder today, most people don't make decisions for fear of it being the wrong decision. With my newfound best friend bo...

Isn't there more to your life than doing only what you're "supposed to do?" You're supposed to get to work on time, pay bills, and be a full-time mom, but is that all? What if my life goes off the rails? Am I "supposed to" get it back on track? "Supposed to" is waiting for others. Outlaw Logic takes matters into your own hands. "Outlaw logic" is a term that I nearly threw away. It is a philosophy that actor Mathew McConaughey's family has governed their life by. Today, through examples of oth...

Celebrity Trainer Dolvett Quince's method to generate massive weight loss in those he trained on the TV show, The Biggest Loser was to give them "glimpses of potential." Coaching them to a final result seemed too hard, so instead, he broke it down to ticks. Quince took them one tick above their "cant's" to reveal "glimpses of potential." As the ticks increased, so too did their results, and they ended their sessions with, "I didn't think I could do that!" What is potential? What if you get to ...

What if I told you that saying no to your customers would add trust, reduce your stress, increase your confidence, and help solidify future business? A large reason people don't like salespeople is that they don't follow through on what they said they were going to do. It's not that salespeople mean wrong. They don't mean wrong, but they did wrong because they implied that they would check on a specific request and never got around to doing it. Today, you're going to learn to "sell the no," b...

If everybody has the same amount of time in a day, then haven't you achieved more? Why aren't you in better shape? Why haven't you become an expert in your field or started that business? You'd probably say, "There's just not enough time," right? You don't need more time. You need more focus. Using Tim Grover's phenomenal book, W1NNING, I'll show you how world-class athletes and entrepreneurs manage their focus and not their time.

One of the joyous/depressing moments as a creative is 1) Releasing an episode 😄& 2) You have 6 days to create a new one. 😫But In this episode, I'll explain how shorter feedback loops are key in mastering your craft. Takeaways: The difference between loving your work and falling in love with it. Implement shorter feedback loops in your scheduling. Embrace your fast-paced, "no-rest-for=the-weary" career. How will self-imposed feedback loops make your career explode? This and so much more on...

You don't have to be David Goggins-like to be disciplined. Discipline means "improvement." That's it! So no more excuses of, "I'm not disciplined enough." Here's a quick rule for you when you're struggling with a choice: "If it improves, choose. If it won't, don't." Enjoy this lite episode of The Sales Life!

It's impossible to live a burden-free life, but it is possible to have fewer burdened moments. Think about how many burdens we impose in our own lives by pre-judging how moments are going to negatively turn out? Instead of walking into situations with "guns loaded" and assuming the worst, "what if you walked into every encounter assuming that they were moments for you to learn, teach, share, inspire, or be inspired," writes Scott O'Neil in his book, "Be Where Your Feet Are." Listen to this epi...

You probably don't have to think back very long or hard of a time when you were supposed to get off early, yet stayed until close, only to NOT make a sale :( Or the times when you came in on your day off only to get a text hours later that your customer bought elsewhere. Rejection is tough. Being rejected after giving your all, and then some can rip your heart right out of your chest, but if you're not careful, you can end up in a dark, cynical place and burn out in your sales career. Today I...

My daughter's drawings suck! Her words, not mine. Like any proud dad, I hang her drawings up in my office. When I came home from work the other night, she told me how embarrassed she was of the drawing hanging in my office. Then she ran to her room and grabbed her sketchbook to show me what she'd drawn since then. She was right. Her drawings were remarkably better than before & they'll get even better if she maintains her creator's eye and keeps carving into her craft. How about you? Are you s...