ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
**RETURNING NOVEMBER 9, 2021** How the secret mistakes behind marketing and sales professionals drove their future success. Every week, we'll listen to never-before-heard stories from the biggest names in marketing and sales, exclusively discussing their biggest mistakes, why they happened, and then how they managed to achieve greatness anyway. Everyone makes mistakes -- but it's the most successful of us who learn from them... and the bravest ones who come onto the Professional Confessional to share those lessons with the world.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
14 minutes
English
United States
11 episodes
since July 16, 2021
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Today's guest is content marketer Brooklin Nash, whose early career in a Guatemalan non-profit led him to a "fight or flight" situation with a stubborn, insecure director who gaslit him.
Brooklin's mistake was the bad presentation of good ideas, compounded by youthful inexperie…
SEARCH PAST EPISODES
Search past episodes of The Professional Confessional.
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Marc Maxhimer, a former middle school teacher, talks about the time he tried to help his new principal -- only to get the door slammed in his face.
Marc's big mistake wasn't confronting problematic behaviors in his boss. Rather, it was not anticipating his principal's misinterpretat…
Graphic designer Charlotte McBride talks about how her greatest strength turned into a weakness so big, she delivered 6 months' worth of bad projects.
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/professionalconfessional)
"The Godfather of Content Marketing" Joe Pulizzi describes how his first business flopped by selling the wrong service to the wrong audience.
Joe's big mistake was actually two-fold. First, he fell in love with his product before his customers validated the approach. Second, he sold…
Content marketing champion and Fortune 100 consultant Robert Rose reveals how his private insecurities kept him chained to the wrong job for 3 years.
Robert's big mistake was waiting so long to leave his corporate gig -- but more than that, it was believing that inner voice that said he'…
Serial entrepreneur Steve Teare's core mistake led him to embezzle computer parts and plunged him into homelessness before he could pick up the pieces.
Steve's big mistake was his lack of awareness of his own personality, and how it could compromise his values to the point where he embez…
Global sales manager Rob Finn introduces us to his younger self: A first-time closer with a chip on his shoulder so big, he lost a quota-doubling account.
Rob's biggest mistake was letting his personal ambitions and thirst to prove himself blind him to the red flags plastered against a prospe…
Social media branding consultant Mark Schaefer explains how his sales team almost lost $1.5 billion in revenue from a profitable (if problematic) client -- and how he managed to recover the account.
Mark's biggest mistake was not hanging up fast enough. No, really, it was a teammate's in…
Content marketer Ashley Stryker remembers the "feedback" meeting that nearly got her fired through her own self-righteous arrogance.
Today's guest is entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and unapologetic Canadian, Scott Stratten, who explains how his biggest mistake drove a mind-bogglingly successful viral video production company into bankruptcy--and how he pivoted back into success.
Scott's biggest mistake was his lack o…
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ashley Stryker, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
PODCAST SEARCH ENGINE
You can use our website to search 3,831,979 podcasts and 196,920,523 episodes by people, places, or topics.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest, so I listen to podcasts.
‐ Benjamin "Llamacorn" Franklin
SEARCH PAST EPISODES
Search past episodes of The Professional Confessional.
PODCAST IS CLAIMED
This podcast page is claimed and managed by
@AshleyStryker
EDIT
Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date.
