
Hosted by Sales Leadership Marketing Startup SaaS expert - Brian Burns
If you're interested in B2B Revenue Leadership this is the show for you. From the founder of The Brutal Truth about Sales & Selling and The Sales Questions PodCast. This PodCast is Focused on Leadership in the B2B Space to drive revenue by using the most modern and scientific approaches.
100 episodes · publishes weekly · latest 2025-03-12 · ~32 min/episode
Rank
#5330
Substance
44.0
/ 100
Breakdown
Scored 2026-07
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#5330 of 6183
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outscores 14% of the index
B2B Revenue Leadership ranks #5330 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 44.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on conversational craft and guest caliber. The host shows some genuine curiosity and lands a few decent challenges - pushing on scientific evidence and probing the mechanism behind the technique - but he consistently accepts vague neuroscience framing without real follow-through and inserts his own anecdotes rather than deepening the guest's line of argument.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
The episode is almost entirely generic self-help material - limiting beliefs, the unconscious mind, reticular activation system - with a three-step technique that is basic NLP repackaged. The only B2B-relevant moment is a brief, throwaway observation about sales quotas; a B2B operator learns almost nothing actionable here.
“it's a scientifically proven concept called limiting beliefs”
“if you can think it up, you have the ability to carry it out. That's just how it works”
Every idea in the episode is recycled from mainstream NLP and pop-psychology: limiting beliefs, the reticular activation system, identity change through affirmation. There is no contrarian angle, no B2B-specific reframing, and the intellectual authorities invoked are a clichéd list pulled from the self-help canon.
“neuroscientific research that's been done by everyone from Erickson to Einstein to Carl Jung to Richard Bandler”
“it's sort of like a bug in the system that's still left over from then”
The guest claims 20 years of executive leadership experience but presents primarily as a life and executive coach whose main credential for this audience is completing an Ironman as an amateur; her relevance to B2B revenue leadership is superficial and she functions as a thought-leader rather than a practitioner who has scaled a commercial operation.
“spent 20 years in the executive leadership space in corporate America”
“pioneering in our arena, in our part of the world”
Almost no concrete data, named company examples, or measurable B2B outcomes appear; 'neuroscience' is invoked broadly with a loose name-drop of historical figures but no specific studies, and the only quantitative claim is a vague 'five-week mark' and a self-reported Amazon badge.
“neuroscientific research that's been done by everyone from Erickson to Einstein to Carl Jung to Richard Bandler”
“usually around the five-week mark, they've already achieved that first round of goals and objectives”
The host shows some genuine curiosity and lands a few decent challenges - pushing on scientific evidence and probing the mechanism behind the technique - but he consistently accepts vague neuroscience framing without real follow-through and inserts his own anecdotes rather than deepening the guest's line of argument.
“But I'm sure a lot of people think that's fluff. I mean, what is the science behind it? What are the evidence that convinced you other than you anecdotally seeing it in your own life?”
“you want the quota low because when people are over quoted, they're more confident and more likely to sell more”
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