Written by Sean McPheat | 

The best sales podcasts that made this list include Sales Gravy, Make It Happen Mondays, Sales Babble and The Sales Evangelist. In total we’ve listed 39 of the very best sales podcasts which cover a wide variety of topics including sales motivation, B2B selling and professional development.
So if you’re looking for expert insights, real-world sales strategies, and the motivation to succeed? These sales podcasts deliver it all.
Whether you want to refine your sales skills or enhance your sales training approach, these podcasts offer valuable lessons from top industry sales leaders.
Honestly? Because reading a sales book takes discipline most of us don’t have on a Tuesday morning. A 25-minute podcast episode on your drive in? That’s doable.
The better shows don’t just throw theory at you. They feature people who’ve actually been in the trenches and who’ve lost deals they should have won and won ones they had no business closing. They talk about both! That honesty is where the real learning happens.
You’ll pick up things like:
Short answer: the host. A great host pushes back, asks follow-up questions, and doesn’t let guests hide behind buzzwords. Bad hosts just nod along for 45 minutes and call it an interview.
Beyond that, look for:
Will Barron has built something genuinely different here. The guest list alone sets it apart: NASA astronauts, Formula 1 drivers, and seasoned sales leaders sharing how high performance actually works. The core focus is finding buyers and winning business in ways that don’t make you feel like a pest. Recent episodes tackled AI’s limits in sales, the psychology behind cold emails, and what to do when a prospect ghosts you completely.
This one’s been around long enough to have real credibility. Episodes run between five and twenty minutes, short enough to actually finish, meaty enough to walk away with something. The focus is less on scripts and more on how experienced salespeople think. Good recent topics: why team alignment matters more than individual heroics, and finding an authentic path in sales that doesn’t burn you out.
Built for people who are running revenue, not just hitting quota. Gordon interviews CEOs, CROs, and sales leaders about what’s actually working at scale. If you’re thinking beyond your own number and into how teams and organisations grow, this one fits well.
Barrows is one of those people who’s clearly done the job and isn’t pretending. The episodes run long (up to an hour) but they tend to earn the time. Covers B2B prospecting, personal brand, mindset, and the kind of foundational stuff that differentiates good reps from average ones over a career. A recent episode on breaking free from founder-led sales was particularly sharp.
Wrapped up in 2024 after 370 episodes, but don’t let that put you off. Helmers’ whole thing was no jargon, no fluff, just sensible advice you could use that week. The archive is genuinely worth exploring. Episodes on selling in the buyer’s language and building confidence as a seller hold up well.
Full transparency: this one has shifted over time. It started as a business and entrepreneurship show with some great episodes on selling and strategy. Lately it’s drifted toward more culture-adjacent territory. The back catalogue is still solid, and episodes like “How to sell to billionaires” are entertaining at minimum.
High energy, relationship-focused, and consistently entertaining. Kelly keeps things upbeat without being hollow about it. The show genuinely helps reps who want to build actual connections with prospects rather than just blast through a list. The episode on “going around the block” when someone says they’re not interested is the kind of tactical stuff you’ll actually use.
Blount’s a bestselling author and it shows, the man can articulate a sales concept clearly and quickly. Episodes range from tight five-minute bursts to longer guest conversations. Good for squeezing something useful into a short gap in your day. The cold calling episode is worth a listen even if you think you know it all on that topic.
Underrated. A lot of sales training ignores the presentation and pitch side of things, which is wild given how much rides on it. Lee covers communication, delivery, and how to actually hold a room. The episode on why introverts often make better presenters than expected is worth your time.
Richardson interviews women sales leaders across industries about their actual experiences, what they’ve navigated, what’s worked, and what they’d tell younger versions of themselves. Practical, honest, and a different perspective than most shows on this list offer.
Produced by Consalia, the UK’s sales business school, this one takes a more academic view without being dry. Topics around digital transformation, customer engagement, and evolving B2B relationships. Particularly good for anyone managing key accounts or thinking long-term about client relationships.
Regularly cited as one of the top sales podcasts going right now, and the reputation is earned. Short, direct, no fluff. Named after the annual award for elite reps, it sets the tone: ambitious, practical, and focused on what actually moves the needle. Great recent episode on protecting your pricing when buyers push back.
One of the better names on this list, and the content matches it. Aust gets guests talking about the real stuff; habits, failures, secrets they’d never put in a LinkedIn post. A recent episode on writing in ways that busy people actually respond to was immediately applicable.
The format here is deliberately deep. Long interviews with top performers digging into how they actually built their success, not the highlight reel version, but the systems, habits, and mindset behind it. If you’ve got a longer commute or a flight, this is a good one to queue up.
Formerly Blissful Prospecting, same quality, sharper focus. Bay is excellent on cold outreach: what works, what’s died, and where the edges are. If your pipeline depends on outbound, this show is worth following consistently.
Three hosts makes for a livelier dynamic than the typical solo or duo format. Good coverage of topics that don’t always get discussed, like sandbagging (and whether it’s ever ethical) and the mental resilience side of sales that most shows skip over.
Laser focused on where selling is right now: social selling, di
gital tools, LinkedIn strategy, and how sales leaders are adapting. If you want to understand what the best reps are doing on LinkedIn to fill their pipeline, the algorithm episode is a good starting point.
Ended in 2024 after 111 episodes, but left a solid archive. The focus was sales leadership specifically, not just how to sell, but how to lead people who sell. Guests like John Barrows made appearances, and the episodes on self-awareness and expectation-setting in leadership are still relevant.
The name isn’t false advertising. Burns goes at B2B enterprise sales without softening the edges. Complex sales, long cycles, big organisations, he covers the messy reality of it. If you’re selling into large accounts and feel like most podcast advice is too basic, this one’s calibrated differently.
Targeted specifically at people leading sales teams, not just contributing individually. Mitchell covers building high-performing teams, sustaining results without burning people out, and developing the kind of leadership presence that actually earns respect. Good recent episode on conscious leadership.
Revenue.io’s podcast is smart and often underrated. Brown brings in serious guests, authors, operators, analysts and digs into the infrastructure side of sales: the tools, processes, and systems that let teams perform consistently. More strategic than tactical, which makes it a different kind of useful.
An Australian show from GrowthForum.io, and a good one. No-nonsense advice on lead generation, objection handling, and deal strategy. The episode on spotting which deals you’ll actually close is practical in a way a lot of shows aren’t.
Buyer psychology, persuasion, and what’s actually happening in the prospect’s head when they make decisions. Antonio makes behavioural science accessible and ties it back to real selling situations. More conceptual than some on this list, but the concepts stick.
Niche, but excellent if you work in or adjacent to enablement. Krueger talks to practitioners who are building programmes, not just theorising about them. Less about closing deals individually, more about what makes whole sales organisations better.
SaaStr is one of the biggest communities in software sales, and Lemkin knows that world deeply. If you’re in SaaS, selling it, building the team or scaling revenue, this is required listening. Recent episodes on AI’s role in B2B SaaS and usage-based pricing models are particularly timely.
Diamond takes a broad view: leadership, personal development, career trajectory, and the softer skills that separate good reps from great ones over a career. Wide variety of guests and topics, good for mixing in with more tactically focused shows.
Designed for senior revenue leaders thinking about the whole picture, not just sales, but the intersection of sales, marketing, and customer success. Sanderson’s guest conversations tend to go somewhere interesting. The episode on using gratitude and mindfulness to drive productivity sounds soft until you hear the data behind it.
Not a sales podcast technically, but worth including. Mylett interviews elite performers, athletes, executives and psychologists, about what separates people who consistently excel. The mindset stuff is relevant to anyone in a performance-driven role, and sales qualifies.
Built for medical device and pharmaceutical reps specifically. Covers the neuroscience of performance, AI in medical devices, and what elite MedTech selling looks like. Niche but genuinely useful if this is your world.
For people selling technology – what works, what’s changed, and how to build a career in an industry that moves fast. Good guest conversations and honest about the grind involved.
Interviews with agents doing real volume (100+ homes a year), who break down how they actually do it. Practical and unpretentious. The social media episode on closing 100 deals using online channels is worth a listen even outside real estate.
From the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising – relevant to anyone working in or selling to the agency world. Covers effectiveness, new business development, and industry trends with more rigour than most trade podcasts.
Sales, marketing, and mental health within the insurance industry. Surprisingly candid on the mental load of insurance sales, which is an industry that doesn’t always talk about that honestly.
Oriented toward startups and smaller businesses figuring out outbound from scratch. Good for early-stage sales hires or founders building their first real sales process. Personal brand and recruiting episodes stand out.
Sales and business development for construction companies specifically. Covers hiring, ops, and why traditional selling often fails in that industry. Practical for a space that doesn’t have many focused resources.
For recruiters who see themselves as salespeople (because they are). Covers business development, moving into leadership, and breaking into new markets. The US expansion episode is honest in a way a lot of international growth content isn’t.
Strategy, brand, and commercial thinking within fashion. Sales in fashion looks different because there are longer brand cycles, wholesale relationships, retail dynamics and this podcast understands that context.
More focused than SaaStr, specifically on performance, how reps, teams, and leaders in SaaS can improve output. Good recent episodes on partner-led enterprise sales and agile approaches in FinTech.
GTMfund’s show, featuring the operators and founders behind some of the fastest-growing software companies. Heavy on go-to-market strategy and the lessons that only come from having actually built something at scale. Smart guests, honest conversations.
Don’t just listen to sales podcasts. Throw in shows on psychology, decision-making, negotiation, or whatever industry you’re selling into. The cross-pollination is where you’ll find ideas nobody else on your team has heard.
And don’t make the mistake of listening passively. The point isn’t to feel informed – it’s to do something differently. Pick one thing from each episode and try it before the next one.
That’s how these actually pay off.
When you are ready to take what you are learning and put it into practice with proper support behind you, our Essential Selling Skills course is a great starting point for turning good intentions into better results. And if you are looking for something built specifically around your team and how you sell, our In-House Training is designed around your exact requirements.

Sean McPheat
Managing Director
MTD Sales Training
Updated on: 19 May, 2026
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