Denise Griffitts - Your Partner In Success™ Radio!
Your Partner In Success™ Radio, ranked in the top 1.5% of podcasts globally, is where real entrepreneurs tell the stories they don't usually get asked for — the messy middle, not just the highlight reel. Host Denise Griffitts AKA as a Nerd In Stilettos, sits down with founders, innovators, authors, and business builders, digging past the polished pitch to find out what actually worked, what didn't, and what they'd tell themselves at the start. It's a show built on the idea that the best business education comes from people who've actually lived it — recorded, fittingly, from a home office assisted by a pair of famously opinionated giant ginger cats.
Episodes
There's a moment in every sale — every negotiation, every deal — when you can feel it.
You think: I've got this.
And sometimes, that feeling is the most dangerous thing in the room.
Ben Gay III has been in sales long enough to watch people win deals they hadn't closed yet — and lose them because of it. He's seen it happen to rookies. He's seen it happen to veterans who should have known better. And somewhere along th...
Most high-achieving entrepreneurs look successful on the outside… but quietly white-knuckle pressure on the inside. Because the world is moving faster than most leaders are built to handle.
Today's returning guest, Angus Nelson helps executives build Leadership Stability — the capacity to maintain clear judgment and strategic timing under sustained pressure.
He is the founder of Evolve Leadership, author of Neuro-Resilie...
What do you learn when you suddenly get access to people who are operating at a level you've never seen before?
Ben Gay III is a veteran sales trainer, author, and entrepreneur who became one of the most prominent figures in the early direct-selling industry. He started with Holiday Magic as a distributor and eventually rose to become president of Holiday Magic in the United States at age 27.
What happens when someone you admire turn...
He Fired His Lawyer, Won Sole Custody, and Rebuilt Two Companies — Mark Aylward on Divorce Recovery for High-Achieving Men
Mark Aylward is a divorce coach for high-achieving men — founders, CEOs, and executives who are watching everything they built come apart at the same time. He works with men who've decided to leave, are fighting through divorce, or are rebuilding after it, and his credibility in this space comes from...
Your Body Is Talking: How to Turn On Your Body's Natural Healing Chemistry with Dr. Anna Marie Frank
Your body is talking. Are you listening? Dr. Anna Marie Frank, The Mindset Doctor™, returns to Your Partner In Success Radio to reveal how stress, burnout and negative self-talk affect your health and performance, and how to activate your body's natural "inner pharmacy" for energy, confidence and lasting well-being.
Dr. Anna Mar...
Ben Gay III has been selling on commission for more than 60 years. He was the youngest buyer in Macy's history, president of the world's largest direct sales company at 25, the final mentee of Dr. Napoleon Hill, and attitude coach to the Apollo astronauts. He's the author of The Closers, the "sales bibles," and he's my co-host, my mentor, and my friend.
Last week, Ben took us from Pearl Harbor to a drag race with the King of Norway....
Think you need to follow all the “rules” of podcasting? Think again.
My guest Matt Mawhinney, founder of PodAssist, has been behind the scenes of podcast production since 2015 and has worked on more than 8,500 podcast episodes.
So when Matt says, “There really are no rules,” he has some experience to back that up.
In our conversation, we talk about what actually matters when you're building a podcast, why podca...
What can business leaders learn from actors, directors, and the theater?
Quite a bit as it turns out.
In this episode, Carl Walsh shares how his twenty years in theater and nearly three decades in the corporate world shaped the way he thinks about leadership, communication, creativity, and decision-making.
We talk about why different perspectives can lead to better decisions, how organizations can create room for creativity, what caus...
The Stories Behind the Man: What Life Taught Ben Gay III
We've spent a lot of time on The Closers Inner Circle Podcast talking about selling, closing, decision-makers, and the lessons inside The Closers books.
But who is the man behind all of those lessons?
In this episode of the Closers Inner Circle Podcast, Denise Griffitts sits down with Ben Gay III for a more personal conversation about the experiences that shaped his life, his th...
I am Denise Griffitts and this is Your Partner In Success Radio.
What does it really mean to build a successful small business?
Is it simply about making more money? Growing bigger? Working harder?
Or is there another way to look at success?
Today we're talking about Profit, Impact, and Enjoyment, and how those three things can work together to create a business that actually works for the person who built it.
My guest today is Andy Cla...
What does it really take to lead with clarity, build credibility, and turn purpose into performance?
In this episode of Your Partner In Success Radio, I’m welcoming back Mitchell Levy, a Global Credibility Expert, executive coach, two-time TEDx speaker, and author of more than 60 books.
Mitchell is the creator of the Executive Abundance™ leadership framework and has spent decades helping leaders and organizations build trust, c...
Finding the Real Decision-Maker — It’s Not Always Who They Say It Is
One of the most expensive mistakes a salesperson can make is assuming that the person sitting across the table is the person who can actually say yes.
Sometimes they are.
Sometimes they aren't.
And sometimes they have influence, but not authority.
The real skill is learning how to identify who actually makes the decision, who influences it, who controls the...
The Divided Brain: Understanding Human Behavior in Branding and Business with Paul Larche
My guest today is Paul Larche, author of The Divided Brain and a behavioral brand strategist.
Paul spent more than four decades building media brands, including founding Larche Communications, which grew into a five-station radio group. He’s also a member of the Ontario Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Today, Paul focuses on what h...
The Goo Is the Grow: What Every Leader Needs to Know About Real Transformation with Rachel Burr
Forget the highlight reel — real leadership transformation is messy, uncomfortable, and the best thing that will ever happen to you.
Rachel Burr is an executive coach, author, speaker, leadership consultant, and people expert — and what I enjoy about her is that she brings this unique blend of insight, action, and humor to ever...
Sales Infiltration: The Final Lesson From San Quentin and Lompoc on Getting Inside the System
What happens when a legendary sales trainer spends years inside San Quentin and Lompoc? Ben Gay III learned that some of his most valuable lessons about sales, relationships, influence, and human behavior would come from behind prison walls.
In this final conversation about his prison experiences, Ben shares how he used what he calls &...
This week on Your Partner In Success Radio, I sit down with Mitch Matthews — keynote speaker, coach, and host of the top-ranked DREAM THINK DO podcast to talk about why you're not starting over, you're just getting started on the next thing. We dig into the difference between being burned out and bored out, why accomplished people feel stuck even when everything "looks fine" from the outside, and how to build something real w...
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is a behavioral scientist, bestselling author, and CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts. Known as the “Disaster Avoidance Expert,” Gleb helps leaders and organizations make better decisions, avoid costly cognitive biases, and navigate the human side of workplace change.
He is the author of several acclaimed books, including Never Go With Your Gut, and his newest release, The Psychology of AI Adoption at ...
The Closers Inner Circle Podcast Episode: Sales Infiltration Behind Bars — From San Quentin to Lompoc
Ben Gay III spent 11 and a half years in and around prisons — five years teaching at California's infamous San Quentin State Prison, and more than six years as an inmate at Lompoc Federal Penitentiary. In both environments, he learned how to read the system, identify the people who mattered, establish trust, and ultimat...
Welcome back to Your Partner in Success Radio. I’m Denise Griffitts, and today we’re talking about something that happened more than two decades ago, but whose lessons are still very much with us.
August 29th marks the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a catastrophe that changed New Orleans and the Gulf Coast forever. My guest today knows that story from a very personal perspective.
Sandy Rosenthal is the founder of Lev...
Sales Infiltration: What San Quentin and Lompoc Taught Ben Gay III About Getting Inside the System
Last week on The Closers Inner Circle Podcast, Ben introduced us to a concept that I think deserves a much closer look: sales infiltration.
And if you thought that was simply a colorful phrase from Ben's extraordinary experiences, you were wrong.
Ben spent 11½ years in and around prisons, including five years at San Quentin State Pris...
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