Aim As High As You Can featuring Eliane Guindon Éliane has more than 20 years of experience within the Information technology sector in companies such as HP and IBM. Prior to joining SAP, she worked as a Client Executive at SAS Canada, focusing on Federal Government accounts as well as partners such as KPMG, Deloitte, and E & Y. She is a goal oriented professional with experience in both the private and public sector. Over the years, she has developed strong sales and account management skills which led her to achieve excellent results. Éliane started her career as an Account Manager at Purolator in Montréal after graduating. In her spare time, Éliane practices hot yoga several times a week. She is a mother of two girls that keeps her very busy. She has a passion for good red wine and fine food.

Jon Levesque - Video Branding on LinkedIn for Canadian Sales Jon Levesque started his sales career with his first company that he started in college @ Seneca with my friend Shabby. It was a music entertainment company and he was selling our college/university campus hip hop tours across the country. He was also selling our artists album to Sunshine Records and HMV stores across Canada back when CD’s mattered.  He got fired from Future Steel Buildings in Markham, went to a 3rd party collection agency for a year then got into my first tech sales job at Softchoice in Liberty Village.  He got into sales Leadership at SHI International  He later entered Software vendor sales at BMC Software and now he’s in his dream job at Datadog. "I saw 'A' an opportunity to do something very unique and in terms of branding and building a brand in Canada from literally the ground-up, it's exciting...... and how do you get your name out there? I think that I wanted to be able to use multiple vehicles and I felt like LinkedIn was probably the best platform to reach as many people, I'll call my target audience, as humanly possible."

EP15 Mike Coyle - Three Pilars to Any Business Mike Coyle, 47 year old Sales and Marketing professional. Currently VP Sales Americas for Powertraveller - manufacturer of portable power and solar products. Most of those that know Mike see him as a strong leader who blends the power of being honest with a healthy dose of empathy. He places enormous emphasis on being straight forward often at the detriment of political correctness. “Strong leadership comes from being able to be honest with people to help them get out of their own way and focus on the task at hand”, are words you will often hear from Mike. Combine those leadership skills with his ability to plan strategically and implement tactically, you end up with a new breed of sales and marketing tactician required in todays fast changing business environment. His most recent success came with a multi million deal landed with one of his current employers largest customers. “we had kind of fallen off the map with these guys and after several meetings the decision came down to one person. A Japanese gentleman, who rarely spoke. He held all of the cards and as he listened to me speak for a 20 minute presentation, he said nothing. At the end I asked for the business, he paused for an agonizing 2 minutes. After lots of pondering and almost comical facial expressions, he agreed. That was the longest 2 minutes of my life.” Mike is currently facing his latest challenge building a new business segment for the company he works for, applying the strategies he has learned over the years. He is a major asset for the company he works for today. He treats the business as if it were his own and uses his own set of values and principles to guide him.

Edmund Yeung is an award-winning sales and marketing executive with more than 25 years of experience. He was one of the top ranked sales leaders with Oracle in North America. Edmund achieved an average of 300% over a 5-year span. As an accomplished sales professional, he has sold multiple multi-million-dollar deals. He has also set and broken many sales records in his career. Edmund’s clients include some of the biggest companies in the world including, Barrick Gold, Kinross Gold, RBC, Bank of Montreal, Desjardins, Intact Insurance, Virgin Mobile and Direct Energy. “We are the ambassador of the brand. In a way, you have to have somebody who is credible to be able to represent a brand - a company brand. So it goes hand-in-hand but again, you have to take the time to understand the different positioning to be able to do it properly but it all comes back to credibility, If you don't have credibility, go and sell anything - it's not going to be easy.”

François Lemay has 20 years experience as a sales consultant in the software industry. Started his career at IBM (7 years) then worked for other software and consulting services organization in the banking and financials services industry. ---- "Let's talk about #metoo for a second - a lot of harassment in the IT industry. I can share with you as a gay male, it was extremely difficult to fit in because they always looked at me as -the gay guy - he's no good, but I was good. People did not like to see a gay guy thriving and also over achieving their sales quota."

Jennifer King would be considered a sales transformation specialist. She brings clarity and quantification to the sales organization with proven metrics and processes.  This includes People, Process, Culture and Infrastructure. She works with organizations that need to take their sales teams to the next level.  Jennifer’s biggest win was truly outstanding in dollars and impact, but the real wins are in passing this magic on and working with sales people in coaching and mentoring and reaching their goals.  An evangelist in the arena of Goal Setting and a life coach under Bob Proctor’s Life Success series, including Born Rich and Goal Setting,  Jennifer conducts seminars and public speaking not just in the high tech space but in how it applies to personal growth in all aspects of life.  An avid cycler and instructor with Goodlife Fitness, she brings this passion into the gym teaching cycling and yoga along with the goal setting that is needed in this environment.  Jennifer’s passion is the heart of sales.

He started selling at 17 years old and in his first week he made $ 500, and the second week $ 1500. This was 39 years ago. Since then he’s gone on over 8000 appointments. Ira has studied everything related to sales. Study, go out there and try. he learned what worked and want didn’t. He’s a certified professional coach through iPec coaching, and specializing is sales coaching. He’s a NLP practitioner and a consultant/trainer in LAB Profiling (Language and behaviour profiling which is based on NLP). Ira believes that anybody can be great in sales if they have the aptitude and the desire.

Dave Jackson has been podcasting since April of 2005. He is the founder of the School of Podcasting and his School of Podcasting show has over 1.7 Million downloads. He’s helped hundreds of people launch podcasts. He is the author of the book More Podcast Money. He is a tech support person for Libsyn.com, and has been a featured and keynote presenter at many podcasting events. You can hear his podcast on this site at schoolofpodcasting.com

Daniel J Lewis talks about his first 9 podcasts in 2 years. His discussed improving his podcast when he started to focus his time, and make podcasting a part of his life. Daniel shares messages about authenticity, being criticized for someone who you no longer are, learning how to communicate, running a business, and making yourself better.

Colin Gray is a podcaster, speaker, PhD and founder of thePodcastHost.com and AL EH 2 Alitu.com. The Podcast Host is a podcast network and a huge content resource on creating a successful show. Alitu is a tool for podcasters which automates and assists editing and production, making podcasting quick and easy! Twitter - thepodcasthost Instagram - the_podcast_host

Clay Groves is obsessed with fish and best known for a quest (with former host Dave Kellam) in 2011 to catch and eat every kind of freshwater fish in New Hampshire. After catching and eating 48 species of fish and ending the epic quest, he could not stop talking about the adventures or the fishy people met along the way. Thus, the podcast was born.  The style has been described as a cross between NPR’s Car Talk and the Tonight Show Night (Fallon, not Leno). The podcast is just about to have it's fifth birthday with the recording of the 200th episode scheduled for memorial day. The Fish Nerds have been featured on National Public Radio, Boston Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and nearly every news outlet in New Hampshire. In addition Clay is a nationally recognized speaker who has spoken at the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center, on stage at WGBH Boston and at the Boston Symphony. When Clay is not podcasting he writes grants to fund afterschool programming and runs a Fishing Guide Service.

I bring you this special 100th episode. It's how I used the art and process of podcasting to heal a recent wound. Please visit http://podcasterscoach.com Alexander, The Podcaster's Coach ----- I haven’t connected with a friend since Christmas. We were over-due to connect and I was heading toward his neighborhood one day. He always makes time to have a coffee for me. I’ve known him for 12-13 years. I call him. His phone is out of service. It’s happened one time before. He has a crummy job and goes through these periods of no work. He lost his phone before, but managed to get it back. He called me when it happened. This time around, he did not give me a heads up. I waited for a week. Nothing. Fed up of calling a phone number that was invalid, I went to his apartment. No luck. There was mail in his mailbox. I wrote a note and stuffed it in. What’s going on? Give me a call. Another week, nothing. I leave messages at the place where I think he works, but is not in the directory. I find out who the property owner of his building is and leave messages…..more like pleas. Do you have any info. Somebody feels sorry for me and calls me back. He moved a couple of weeks ago. So he hasn’t died. I am suppose to be his emergency contact. I am relieved, but I have no way to reach him. We had no mutual friends. He is a single city dweller and I am a family man in the sub-burbs. Two weeks I worried, almost always assuming the worst. When I found out he moved, I was mad. Why isn’t he connecting with me. I have sent emails. He can check his email at the library. Why? What is wrong. Then the pain set in. He loved his neighborhood. He had been living in his apartment for about 20 years. He’ll never afford his neighborhood now. He’s almost 60. He’s slower. He’s been having major allergy issues. Last time I visited, we walked to the coffee shop and he had to stop midway to catch his breath. Where is he? Is he on the street? Is he sick? Did he lose his job? No one will hire him. He’s too old. How can he get by? He has no family. What’s happened? Why? On and on this went inside my head. My body would follow feeling grief. I was in grieving over circumstances that I did not have information on. Grief became my meditation practice. I was totally fine when it was out of mind, but when it came back, I struggled. The grief sucked my energy and I was sad. Quite frankly, I was sick of myself. I wanted to get out of myself. I just wanted a break. I have not touched booze in 3 months, but it was the only solution to escape myself. 4 beers and a movie. My children stayed away, without me even asking, and I had a few hours of forgetting. But of course, I would pay for it. Even thought it was only 4 beers, it completely ruined my sleep. My body detests alcohol. It fights it. While I try to sleep, my body is going crazy working the alcohol out. It keeps me up. I wake up, not rested, and therefore unproductive. Thank god for Sundays. My focused moved from my lost friend to my stupidity. When Monday came around, I began to realize that I was grieving over fiction. I had created various negative situations regarding my lost friend. I knew 2 things only - his phone number does not work and he moved. I know nothing else. I formed these attachments. I became attached to the melancholy. I became attached to grief. I became especially attached to myself - how dare he not call me? Am I not his friend?! Then I became attached to an old coping mechanism, beer, that I knew stopped working. It’s no good, if the end result is bad. The end result being a full day of being tired and not well rested, not to mention being harmful to this vehicle called my body. Let me tell you something about this experience, and I want you to think about it. Do you do this too? I grieved over fantasy. I went with worse case scenario and experienced a roller...

Boss it on Social Media Ian Farrar joins me today with some great insights on social media. Some highlights include: - Don't just sell - 3 X 30 minute sessions - Meaningful content - Boss one platform - The slow burn - a hack for algorithms - AND Ian't top 5 tips Check Ian out at http://industryangel.com/ Listen at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/industry-angel-business-podcast/id1081088439?mt=2

My special guest today is Ian Farrar of the industry Angel Business Podcast. http://industryangel.com/ ----- http://podcasterscoach.com

I was recently a guest on Life Transformation Radio with Sean Douglas talking about my journey as the Podcaster’s Coach and the recently released, Book on Podcasting. It was a lot of fun and I really appreciated the opportunity. There were several things that came up during the interview that I would like to expand on today. The book I wrote is about how the process of podcasting and podcast creation can change a person’s life. Regardless to say, I am a huge advocate for people to start their podcast…..today! Right away! Don’t delay if you haven’t already. Today I present a podcast on 3 ways podcasts can improve your life. On the second part of this podcast, I am joined by Mr Ian Farrar of the Industry Angel Business Podcast. He’ll join me for a Micro Podcast Improv. @Industry_Angel @Ian_Farrar ---- @podcasterscoach http://podcasterscoach.com

Alexander Laurin, The Podcaster's Coach & Lorraine White https://www.lifestrategist.co.uk/lorraine-akalya-whyte/ http://podcasterscoach.com

Keep in mind these things to combat feels of perfectism -  Remember something in the past that you took on and compare yourself from day 1 to day 60  Embrace your imperfection. Listen to the imperfection of others. Listen to podcast #1 from your favorite podcaster.  Tell yourself that it is ok that you are not perfect  When you see perfection in social media, remember that this can be a snap shot in someone elses life. You don’t even know that its real.  Cut yourself some slack. Love yourself. Don’t beat yourself up  And create a range from 1 to 10. Put someone at 1 and anther at 10. Where are you? Practice will move you up. ----- Lorraine Whyte from the Unlock Your Soul Podcast joins me in the second half for a Micro Podcast Improv. You can hear our full interview this coming Friday. ----- http://podcasterscoach.com

Special Guest: Cory Johnston of the Brainstorm Podcast.

If you want to be someone new or re-invent yourself, then you have to just do it. You have to start somewhere. You start being who you want to be on day one, and you build your experience up. It’s going to be hard, and you will meet opposition, but you have to persevere. You must not allow negativity from strangers get you down. They are strangers and not a meaningful part of your life. Of course, if I was approach by a stranger with courteous feedback and valid points, that would be meaningful. If it is something other than that, brush it off. This episode is about a strategy on dealing with criticism which appears negative and unhelpful. Cory Johnston from The Brainstorm Podcast joins me for a Micro Podcast Improv. I’ll share a short interview that we did together this coming Friday. Have a great week! Alexander http://podcasterscoach.com