
Hosted by Alex Smith
★5.0on Apple Podcasts · 11 recent reviews
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.
164 episodes · publishes fortnightly · latest 2026-09-09 · ~47 min/episode
Rank
#3943
Substance
58.0
/ 100
Breakdown
Scored 2026-07
Updated monthly
Across the index
#3943 of 6203
Substance
Top 64%
outscores 36% of the index
Sell By Being Human ranks #3943 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 58.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on insight density and guest caliber. A handful of genuinely useful framings appear - procrastination as fear-of-failure coping, the distinction between problem behaviors and behaviors that are a problem - but the episode is dominated by personal backstory, inspirational narrative, and generic EQ platitudes rather than dense, actionable B2B insight. The ratio of story to substance skews heavily toward story.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
A handful of genuinely useful framings appear - procrastination as fear-of-failure coping, the distinction between problem behaviors and behaviors that are a problem - but the episode is dominated by personal backstory, inspirational narrative, and generic EQ platitudes rather than dense, actionable B2B insight. The ratio of story to substance skews heavily toward story.
“procrastination is the coping with the feeling that I might fail”
“behaviors, problem behaviors are always a, uh, coping mechanism or a consequence of what you don't know that you don't Know”
The 'behaviors that are a problem vs. problem behaviors' reframe and the coaching-by-questioning-not-telling approach are cleanly stated, but the overall content - imposter syndrome, lifelong learning, mindfulness breathing, visualising past success - is recycled coaching-circuit material with no genuinely contrarian or first-principles argument for B2B operators.
“there are no problem behaviors, but there certainly are behaviors that are a problem”
“not only can you question your thoughts, but you should question your thoughts”
Coach Monique is a legitimate 20-year practitioner with real clients, a published book, and a training company, but she is a life and executive coach rather than a B2B operator, revenue leader, or founder who has scaled a business; her credibility sits firmly in the coaching lane, not in B2B go-to-market execution.
“internationally trained life executive career coach with, uh, more 20 years experience helping individual teams and leaders”
“I am a professional speaker and I travel all over the country and um, I have clients who quite honestly could work with anyone in the world”
There are some genuine specifics - the referral percentage, the six-week close from a dinner introduction, and the detailed case study of the chronically late client whose behaviour traced to watching her father die in hospice - but named companies, hard B2B metrics, and quantified outcomes are absent, and most evidence remains anecdotal.
“within six weeks, I had the organization that she was, uh, CFO of as a client, and I was just at dinner”
“75 to 80% of my clients come to me through introductions”
The host is warm and empathetic but asks multi-part, leading questions, rarely challenges a claim, and defaults to affirmative filler rather than probing follow-ups; the conversation meanders through the guest's biography without the host steering it toward B2B-relevant territory with any sharpness.
“yeah, I mean, wow, there's so much to unpack there”
“what does that mean to you and what do you think about when you hear that term?”
First period on the Index - history builds from here.
1 scored on substance · 60 tracked in total.
I truly appreciate the human side of this craft and Alex does a terrific job with his messaging and helpful conversations!!! Thanks Alex!!!
- LARyan111
I love hosts who can pull out the heart in a good story but when they can do this for sellers- where heart can really be lacking, it’s magic! Highly recommend!
- Lyndsay Dowd
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