Lessons Gleaned from Interviewing Top Sports Stars that Will Help Your Sales Career With Alex Chappell

This is episode 323. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. This is a replay of the Optimal Sales Mindset Webinar sponsored by the Institute for Excellence in Sales and hosted by Fred Diamond on January 21, 2021. It featured Alex Chappell. At the time, Alex was a sports reporter for ESPN and MASN. She is a now a sales professional at Amazon Web Services. ALEX'S TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Have that 1 and Oh (1-0) mindset. These are all things that I've learned with my time with the Nationals because there are so many games and if you lose or win, it's on to the next day. Maybe a game didn't go the way they wanted but that 1-0 feeling that the next day they can turn things around or how can they build off their last win in order to keep it going. Not every day is going to be a winning one, but how do you keep that momentum going? How do you stay up and not get discouraged? Going 1-0, that will to win, that passion, drive. When somebody says no, that's when the sale starts so how do you turn it around?"