Episode Summary:

In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Ben Reed welcomes Maddison Brusman, a spiritual coach who helps entrepreneurs unlock their full potential by addressing the inner emotional blocks that hold them back.

From a chaotic retreat in the Costa Rican jungle to life-altering breakthroughs in business and personal growth, Ben and Maddison explore the transformative journey of reconnecting with oneself, letting go of control, and embracing authenticity as a driver of true success.

What You Will Learn:

• Why emotional intelligence and inner work are essential for peak business performance.
• The incredible story of a healing retreat in Costa Rica that led to spiritual breakthroughs.
• How fear, abandonment, and control sabotage success—and what to do about it.
• The power of surrender, authenticity, and self-awareness in sales and entrepreneurship.
• Practical steps to begin your own spiritual development journey.

Featured Guest: Maddison Brusman – Spiritual coach for entrepreneurs and high performers.

Connect with Madison:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maddisonbrusman/
• Instagram: @maddison.brusman
• YouTube: @maddison.brusman

Host: Ben Reed, host of the Next Gen Sales Leaders Podcast.

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-aaron-reed/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BenjaminAaronReed
• Instagram: @nextgensalessystems

Work with Ben:

• https://www.nextgensalessystems.com/

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Episode Summary:

Join us on this episode of Next Gen Sales Leader as Benjamin Reed sits down with Kristie Jones, founder of Selling Your Way In and seasoned SaaS B2B advisor. Kristie shares her unconventional journey from retail management to leading a revenue-growth-focused sales consultancy.

Discover how she pivoted into subscription-based sales in 2000, built deep connections in the St. Louis startup community, and transitioned into the consulting world, where she specializes in helping early‑stage SaaS founders formalize and scale their GTM motion.

Kristie reveals her playbook—from building fractional leadership, crafting sales hiring systems and playbooks, to a unique mindset around matching candidate fit to roles. This episode highlights the importance of knowing your differentiation, going beyond generic lead generation, and hiring for grit, alignment, and process maturity to avoid misfits and churn.

What You Will Learn:

• How Kristie made the leap from department store retail to subscription‑based sales and SaaS leadership.
• The importance of embedding formal processes, documentation, and sales training into early-stage growth.
• How she turned fractional sales leadership into scalable consulting frameworks for documenting processes and hiring.
• Insights on effective hiring: using assessments, behavioral traits, candidate ICPs, and the “three‑day challenge.”
• Why lateral thinking about sales hiring—like athlete backgrounds or unrelated high‑pressure roles—can signal grit and match.
• The nuance between billing people into roles vs. matching their natural drive and strengths.
• How founders and consultants can focus on micro‑segmentation, ICP clarity, and leading workshops to align sales teams.

Featured Guest: Kristie Jones – Founder of Selling Your Way In, SaaS sales consultant and advisor to early-stage B2B founders.

Connect with Kristy:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristiekjones/

Host: Benjamin Reed – Host of the Next Gen Sales Leader Podcast.

Connect with Benjamin:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-aaron-reed/
• Work with Ben: https://www.nextgensalessystems.com/

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Episode Summary:

Today’s Next Gen Sales Leader podcast features a powerhouse roundtable on email deliverability, co-hosted by Benjamin Reed and Christian Oland. They brought together nine top cold email deliverability experts to tackle the biggest inboxing challenges and share proven strategies to improve cold email results by helping you get your cold emails into inboxes in 2025.

What You Will Learn:

• Why ongoing education on deliverability is critical, as best practices are constantly evolving and outdated strategies can tank results.
• How to diagnose deliverability issues, starting with domain health checks using inbox placement tools.
• The importance of diversifying infrastructure using multiple ESPs, sequencers, and domain registrars to avoid a single-point failure.
• Proven tactics in domain and IP strategy, including using aged domains, geo-TLDs, and subdomains to enhance deliverability.
• Best practices around warmup—sending positive, human-like engagement to boost domain reputation—and why volume management is key.
• Insights into ESP-specific strategies: Outlook presents new challenges, but long-aged domains and low volume-per-domain tactics can still get high reply rates.
• Infrastructure platforms from each panelist, showing how they help scale safely and improve results.

Hosts:

• Benjamin Reed – RevyOps, Revyops.com
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-aaron-reed/
• Christian Oland – Founder, RevGen Labs & RevReply
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-oland/

Featured Guests:

• Kidous Mahteme – Co‑founder, Inframail
• Dean Fiacco – Founder, ScaledMail
• Frank Sondors – Co-founder, CEO, Salesforge
• Felipe Aranguiz - Director of BD, Instantly
• Ken Volk – Co-Founder & CEO, Mailrun
• Namit Jindal – Founder, Aerosend
• Piotr Mikrut – Founder, Experiment5m

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