Episode 130

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12th Feb 2025

How A Revenue Operations Guy Exhibits Genuine Care to the C Suite - CEO, Founder Midgame Consulting

Summary:

This episode I invite my good friend Rich Bishop to the mic. Rich has had a pretty extensive career in the world of sales and revenue operations. He's currently the CEO of Mind Game Consulting, where he works with venture capital and private equity companies to conslut around key operations strategies.

Part of Rich's role is to come into organizations and uild trust quickly with the C-Suite.

We discuss Rich's definition genuine care, and how you express that in sales. He expresses this through a story of his personal life and it's one that really anyone can relate to even if you don't have a quota for a living.

Rich shares personal experiences that shaped his understanding of empathy and the significance of connecting with others. We emphasize the value of maintaining relationships and how these connections can lead to business opportunities, all while focusing on the human aspect of sales.

We discuss the challenges of change management and the necessity of executive buy-in for successful projects. Rich shares insights on using evidence to influence decisions and highlights that everyone engages in some form of selling in their daily lives, whether in professional or personal contexts. It's not every day you get to open the curtain to how a an operations consultant approaches the executive suite and this is a good look into how genuione care shows up for him.

Key Moments:

00:00 Introduction to Human Connection in Sales

06:07 Empathy and Genuine Care in Sales

12:06 Building Connections and Relationships

23:55 Nurturing Connections Without Expectations

30:51 Navigating Change Management and Executive Buy-In

40:19 Selling Beyond Sales: Influence in Everyday Life

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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.