Episode 66

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4th May 2022

Defining Your Karma in Sales - Prya Kumar, Founder of Pivot My Profit

Summary:

Priya Kumar is a heart centered entrepreneur. She's the founder of Pivot My Profit, a consultancy practice centered around helping business owners find freedom with their financial literacy. She's also a hospice volunteer, an entrepreneur, a transformation coach, a blogger, an author, and a marathon runner. She started out as a Tax Investigator and now coaches entrepreneurs on finance strategy. All the while doing it with a service mindset.

Priya is East Indian and her family immigrated from Figi. She has had to reinvent herself through some incredibly tough life experiences but she has grown through the way she shows up for herself and others.

This episode we chat about the meaning of Karma and how it relates to sales, how you learn from clients who may take advantage of you, and what you can do to help people in ways to get them to listen even if its about something difficult to hear.

Key Moments:

6:30 - Priya's story of her Dad and Karma

9:55 - How Priya rebuilt her life after a divorce and decided how she wanted to show up for others. Defining her mission.

16:56 - Concept of Trust in sales even when people may want to take advantgage of your generosity

18:07 - Your mindset in sales of selling first, why that's not serving you.

20:00 - Flipping your approach of your vision as a business to your vision for your clients.

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Sell By Being Human
On the Sell By Being Human podcast, award-winning sales professional Alex Smith provides the proven way to harness your innate human skills like empathy, curiosity, and kindness to learn how to sell and navigate the sales journey.
This is where human connection and sales meet. You may be someone whose success depends on influence, negotiation, and your ability to create change, but you may reject aggressive sales tactics. Maybe you feel stuck in corporate "autopilot," knowing your best asset is your genuine personality, but you struggle to use it to get what you want. Then this channel is for you.

It will teach you how to close the gap between wanting to be ethical and feeling pressured to sell aggressively. You’ll also learn actionable strategies for translating emotional intelligence into high-trust results. Join Alex and top guests, including NY Times bestsellers, keynote speakers, and global founders, as they prove that being truly human is the ultimate sales advantage.

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Alex Smith

Alex Smith is a seasoned sales professional and podcast host who champions a human-first approach to selling. With nearly two decades of experience, he explores how empathy, curiosity, and genuine connection drive influence in everyday life. Through his podcast, he highlights stories from people across all professions, showing that anyone can persuade and create impact simply by being human.