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Aug 25
Tue
12:00 pm
Discovery Questions That Surface Real Pain Fast
James Buckley
Helena Clisby
Charles Muhlbauer
About

Great discovery isn't about extracting answers, it's about earning enough trust that the buyer does most of the talking, because they feel understood instead of interrogated.

Charles Muhlbauer and Helena Clisby will break down the exact questions and phrasing that get buyers to open up instead of shutting down.

You'll get the openers that make a first call feel like a conversation instead of a deposition, the specific questions that move buyers past one-word answers, and how to test whether a pain is real and urgent without making the buyer shut down.

Walk away being able to run a first call that gets buyers to voluntarily share their real pain, with exact lines that replace "it's slow" with concrete evidence and stakes.

  • Opening lines that give buyers permission to be honest from minute one
  • Stealable questions that turn vague adjectives into concrete pain and evidence
  • How to test a pain's urgency without pushing the buyer to shut down
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Aug 27
Thu
12:00 pm
Use These Data Backed Cold Call Openers
Will Aitken
Isa Sher
About

"Did I catch you at a bad time?" isn't a polite opener anymore. It's a scripted exit, handed to the prospect before you've said anything worth hearing.

Isa Sher, Founding Account Executive at Symbe, is naming the openers quietly killing cold calls and reworking them live, no theory, just language you can use on your next dial.

She'll break down why permission-seeking openers now trigger instant resistance, then hand over what's replacing them: openers built on real research, upfront honesty about the call itself, and patterns that catch a prospect off guard in the best way.

Walk away with a framework to build your own opener and test it against your current one this week.

  • Why classic openers now trigger instant resistance instead of trust
  • The opener language reps are using to keep prospects on the line
  • A framework to build and test your own opener this week
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Sep 1
Tue
12:00 pm
How to Get a Prospect's Real Budget Range
James Buckley
Morgan Shelly Erazo
About

Asking a prospect for their budget almost never gets you a straight answer. It gets you a stall, a vague range, or a flat 'we haven't figured that out yet.'

We will break down how to get a real number without ever asking for one directly.

You'll get the exact sequence for opening with impact and cost-of-inaction questions before money comes up, the anchoring language that gets a prospect to react to a range, and the proxy questions (team size, tool stack, headcount) that reveal budget indirectly.

Plus the follow-up phrasing for when a prospect deflects, lowballs, or says they haven't allocated for it yet. Walk away with a verbatim script for surfacing a prospect's real budget range without ever asking what their budget is.

  • The exact question sequence to anchor budget before naming a number
  • Proxy questions that reveal budget through team size and tool stack
  • Fallback phrasing for when a prospect still won't commit to a number
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Sep 2
Wed
12:00 pm
Build Better: The GTM System That Improves Itself
Heath Barnett
About

Most GTM stacks are open loops. You ship motions, book the meeting, close the quarter, and never learn which input caused the output. The tools make you busier, not smarter.

We will walk through the loop we actually run: how outcome data flows back into targeting, messaging, and sequencing, and where AI closes the loop faster instead of just automating the guess.

You'll see why most attribution is theater, how self-reported data exposes what the software can't, and how to feed wins, losses, and churn back into your ICP and signal library so the next motion gets smarter.

Leave being able to audit your stack for open loops and stand up one real feedback loop where an outcome changes the next action.

  • Why most attribution is theater and what actually compounds
  • How to feed wins, losses, and churn back into your ICP
  • How to stand up one weekly loop the system improves on its own
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Sep 8
Tue
12:00 pm
The Re-Engagement Playbook for Deals Gone Quiet
James Buckley
Iryna Begma
Mitch Schoenman
About

A deal that stops replying isn't dead. It's just waiting for a message worth answering.

Iryna Begma built her outbound approach around one rule: every touch has to move the deal forward or it doesn't get sent. Mitch Schoenman brings a psychology-driven, multichannel lens from B2B media sales, where deals live and die by budget cycles.

They'll cover why deals actually go quiet, from budget freezes to champion turnover, and the exact language that turns a stalled thread back into a live one. You'll get live scripts for the first, second, and third re-engagement touch across email, LinkedIn, and phone.

Walk away with a re-engagement message you can send today, built with a reason to exist instead of another 'just checking in.'

  • Why deals actually go quiet, from budget freezes to champion turnover
  • How to write a follow-up that has a reason to exist
  • A decision framework for telling a quiet deal from a dead one
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Sep 9
Wed
12:00 pm
The 4-Part Relevance Check for Every Cold Email
James Buckley
Yurii Veremchuk
Darryl Bassett
About

Fake personalization is easy to spot. A first name, a company name, maybe a nod to a LinkedIn post, and prospects know within a sentence that nobody did the work.

Yurii Veremchuk and Darryl Bassett will break down what real business relevance looks like instead.

They'll show you where to find the signals that prove real understanding (earnings calls, job postings, LinkedIn activity, review sites) and how to pull it off in 3 to 5 minutes per prospect. Then they'll cover exactly where that insight belongs in the email: the subject line, the opener, or the ask.

Walk away with a repeatable 4-part relevance check you can run on any prospect before you hit send.

  • The 4-part relevance check that replaces personalization theater
  • Where to find real signals in under 5 minutes per prospect
  • How to place relevance in your subject line, opener, or ask
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Sep 10
Thu
12:00 pm
The Cold Call Strategy That Earns You Time
Will Aitken
Elliot Kircher
About

A cold call is decided in its first ten seconds, before the pitch even starts. Prospects aren't deciding whether they like your product. They're deciding whether to hang up.

This episode breaks down exactly what to say in that window: a structured, permission-based opener that earns the right to keep talking, built from real call phrasing you can lift directly.

You'll get the full pre-pitch sequence step by step: the pattern interrupt, the permission-based opener, and the context-setting line that leads into your pitch, plus how it flexes across warm, cold, and referral calls.

Walk away with a repeatable opener you can use on your very next call, one that earns permission to pitch instead of triggering defensiveness.

  • A permission-based opener that earns the right to pitch
  • The pattern interrupt that beats "How's your day going"
  • How to adjust your opener for gatekeepers vs decision-makers
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Sep 15
Tue
12:00 pm
How to Sell Into Budget Before It Disappears
James Buckley
Brian LaManna
About

Not every stalled deal has a decision-maker problem. Sometimes the real blocker is a calendar: a fiscal year-end, a use-it-or-lose-it budget, a grant cycle about to close.

Brian LaManna, Enterprise AE at Gong, breaks down where these expiring budget signals show up publicly and how to build outreach around them.

He'll cover where to spot fiscal year-end and grant cycle deadlines, how to tell a real deadline from a soft one, and the exact messaging shift that works when urgency comes from the calendar instead of the rep.

Walk away knowing how to spot a real spending deadline in a target account and reframe your outreach before the money's gone.

  • Where fiscal year-end and grant cycle deadlines show up publicly
  • How to tell a real budget deadline from a soft one
  • The messaging shift for outreach when the blocker is a deadline, not a decision-maker
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Sep 22
Tue
12:00 pm
How to Turn AI Research Into Call-Ready Notes
Jed Mahrle
Sunny Huang
About

Ask AI to "tell me about this company" and it hands you back the About page, dressed up. That's not prep. That's noise.

Sunny Huang built a prompt library that turns AI into an actual pre-call advantage, and she's breaking down exactly how it works.

He'll cover the inputs that actually change AI output (recent news, job postings, competitor mentions, a prospect's own LinkedIn activity), the exact prompt structures for surfacing pain points and objections, and how to turn all of it into notes you can actually use.

Walk away with prompts you can copy, paste, and run before your next discovery call.

  • Why vague AI prompts just regurgitate the About page
  • Copy-paste prompt structures for pain points, questions, and objections
  • How to turn AI output into call-ready notes in 5 minutes
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Sep 24
Thu
11:00 am
The End of Quarter Moves That Maximize Your Q4 Numbers
Will Aitken
Jacob Karp
Bar Yakir
About

By the time Q3 closes, the best three or four weeks for building Q4 pipeline are already gone.

Jacob Karp and Bar Yakir will break down how to build a Q4 coverage model in September instead of waiting for certainty.

They'll walk through the math behind turning a 3x to 4x coverage target into weekly pipeline numbers per rep, adjusted for ramp, pipeline health, and close rate. He'll also cover which prospecting activities can run alongside active Q3 deals without pulling focus off them.

Walk away with a repeatable formula for setting Q4 pipeline targets by rep and by week, without derailing the Q3 deals still in motion.

  • A formula for turning quota into weekly pipeline targets per rep
  • How to adjust targets for rep ramp, pipeline health, and close rate
  • Prospecting activities that don't compete with active Q3 deals
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Sep 28
Mon
12:00 pm
Live & Unfiltered: The Cold Call Clinic
Jack Frimston
Zac Thompson
About

A cold call doesn't fail in the pitch. It fails in the first ten seconds, before the pitch even starts.

This is a live, unscripted cold call clinic. A real attendee volunteers to cold call on air, working against a real, skeptical reaction instead of a friendly practice partner.

The show breaks down what happens in the opening seconds of the call, walks a live objection through the ACERS framework (accept, clarify, explore, redirect, summarize), and shows what separates a soft close from a real ask.

Walk away able to run a cold call using ACERS instead of freezing or arguing when a prospect pushes back.

  • How to open a cold call so the prospect doesn't hang up in ten seconds
  • Work through a live objection using the ACERS framework
  • Ask for next steps without giving the prospect an easy out
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Oct 15
Thu
12:00 pm
Live & Unfiltered: Cold Email & Cold Call Teardown
Jack Frimston
Zac Thompson
About

A weak cold email or cold call isn't a mystery. It has a specific, findable reason it isn't working.

This show reviews real submitted cold calls and cold emails live, scoring each one against a clear rubric before rebuilding it on the spot.

Watch a real submission get diagnosed line by line, whether that's the subject line, opener, value prop, and CTA for a cold email, or the opener, objection handling, and close for a cold call. Then watch it get rebuilt in real time, with the reasoning behind every change explained as it happens.

Walk away with a rubric you can run on your own pitch and know exactly which line to fix first.

  • How to score a cold email or cold call against a clear rubric
  • What separates a weak opener from one that earns a reply
  • Ways to rewrite a pitch line by line using the same process
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Oct 29
Thu
12:00 pm
Live & Unfiltered: The Unscripted Cold Call Experiment
Jack Frimston
Zac Thompson
About

A script protects you until the prospect says something it didn't plan for. Then you're on your own.

This is a live, unscripted cold call with no safety net. The audience votes on the industry and the persona live, then watches a real dial happen using a framework instead of a script.

The call runs largely uninterrupted, rough moments included, followed immediately by a full breakdown of what worked, what didn't, and what's worth stealing regardless of how the call went.

Walk into your next cold call with a repeatable framework instead of a script, and know how to stay in control even when it doesn't go as planned.

  • How to run a cold call on a framework instead of a script
  • What to do when a live call doesn't go the way you planned
  • How to stay in control of a conversation you can't predict
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Nov 12
Thu
12:00 pm
Live & Unfiltered: Diagnose a Stalled Deal Stage by Stage
Jack Frimston
Zac Thompson
About

A deal doesn't just go cold. It dies at a specific stage, for a specific reason, and that reason is usually findable after the fact.

This show runs a real submitted deal through a full stage by stage autopsy: the prospecting approach, the first meeting, discovery, and every follow up in between.

The breakdown pinpoints exactly where the deal actually died, and which signals got missed or misread at the time. Then it covers specific moves for next time, not general advice like "follow up more."

Walk away able to diagnose exactly where and why a deal in your own pipeline is stalling, using the same stage by stage review.

  • How to walk a stalled deal stage by stage to find the exact break
  • Which signals get missed or misread before a deal goes cold
  • Specific moves to try at each stage instead of vague advice
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