Episode 67

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11th May 2022

Finding Your Essence in Sales - Rachel Druckenmiller, CEO, UnMuted

Summary:

Rachel is on a mission to humanize the workplace by igniting resilience, connection, engagement and compassion in organizations, associations and their leaders and teams. Recognized by Forbes as a Next1000 honoree in 2021, the #1 Health Promotion Professional in the U.S. in 2015, a 40 Under 40 Game Changer in 2019, and one of The Daily Record’s Leading Women of 2020, Rachel is a national thought leader in the field of employee engagement and wellbeing.

In this episode we go through how important it is to do the work to understand what your strengths are and harnessing them to connect to others. Rachel offers powerful questions you can ask yourself to find your essence. We talk about how Rachel went from being a perfectionist to finding vulnerability, what Rachel learned through burnout, and how her personal story can help you create genuine trust and connection with people.

Stay to the end to hear Rachel sing and give you some inspiration in your day!

Key Moments:

3:00: How Rachel defines Selling By Being Human through finding your essence.

6:20: Rachel's personal story of connecting to herself through being very disconnected to herself.

9:05: How You Can Find Your Essence. The Two Questions You Can Ask Yourself to Find It: What Shows Up When I do? What Qualities Do I Bring in A Room?

19:12: A story of how a teacher made Rachel feel warmth and really safe.

20:37: How Rachel changed perspectives of her colleagues around what Wellness should actually be. Through sharing her own personal story.

37:53: How Rachel thinks about building a brand - being more of what you are at your your core to fill a need for someone else.

42:29: Rachel's approach to how she sells through offering to meet needs vs selling to someone.

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About the Podcast

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.