School of Sales by Macy McNeely
The School of Sales by Macy McNeely, CEO and Founder of The Salesgirls®, drops new juice every week, providing tangible takeaways to level up your sales, communication and leadership skills. Macy McNeely answers your questions centered around personal growth, entrepreneurship and all things sales. At School of Sales, we are passionate about making sales cool again and helping you reach your full potential in all parts of life. Sit back and enjoy. 🍋
Episodes
560 episodes
If You Avoid Your Taxes, Listen to This!
You can make good money and still feel like it slips through your fingers. Most of us were never taught how to keep it.Barb Schreihans wasn’t either. She grew up on food stamps and now runs an extremely successful tax firm with 47 full-...
How to Build Systems to Actually Achieve Your Goals
I lose my wallet constantly, forget to close the fridge, and found gum stuck to my journal in church. I still hit my goals.This isn’t about throwing your phone across the room or never buying cookies again. It’s about the system running...
How to Stop Dreading the Work Your Business Needs
I gave myself a full year to fix the part of my business I hated most and it only took 30 days.After training about 3,000 women in sales, I keep noticing one thing that separates the ones who win from the ones who don't and this keynote...
How to Never Run Out of Content Ideas Again
I never wanted to be a content creator. I wanted to train women in sales. So I stopped creating content and started extracting it.If you sell an offer, you already know you have to say the same thing a million times. The hard part is do...
My Business Got Better When I Stopped Doing This
I sat in maybe two planning meetings for my own live event this year AND it was the best one we've ever hosted!!This is the behind-the-scenes of how I stopped orchestrating every detail of Sales Mastery Live, our annual in-person event,...
Why Most Women Quit Before Their Business Takes Off
Most women don't fail at building a business online, they quit before it works!!Jasmine Star is one of the OGs of online business. She walked away from a full-ride scholarship to UCLA Law School to become a photographer before she even ...
The Real Reason "Starving Artist" Is Still a Thing
The painting behind me in almost every ad we run was made by the woman in this video. Her name is Sydney Faulkner.Three years ago I went looking for a "woman in the arena" piece, the Roosevelt quote as an image instead of words, and a s...
Why More Ads, More Offers, and More Team Won't Grow Your Business
Sales are being made in your business. That's proof sales happened. It's not proof that your ability to sell is what made them.Most female founders skip the skill entirely and go straight to more ads, more funnels, more offers, more tea...
Stop Saying This Before a Sales Call
The exact phrase that gets a cold lead to book, show up, and buy — and the one word that's quietly costing you the sale before the call even starts.Macy breaks down the difference between a "learning state" and a "decision state," why "c...
I Was Trying to Be the Wrong Kind of Working Mom
⏱️ Timestamps0:00 — Intro1:10 — Why I thought I'd have to give up my business3:36 — Crying myself to sleep over the fear of choosing4:49 — Searching for a role model who'd done both8:01 — Why I hated "manufacturing magical m...
How to Build a Cult-Like Community That Follows You Anywhere
She has 90 people show up to a first event with zero track record. She has a mastermind where nobody yes-es her to death. And she has a community so loyal that if she says "we have thousands," you can double it and still be under.In thi...
How To Handle Objections Before They Ever Come
Objections aren't the problem. Desire is. And once you know how to create it, objections start solving themselves.In this episode, Macy breaks down why the salesperson who says "I don't have any questions" is the one who was never buyin...
What the #1 AI Trainer in the World Taught Me About Leading People
She's the #1 AI trainer in the world. She's also, in my opinion, one of the best people leaders I've ever watched work.Nobody asks Callan about the second thing. This is that conversation — the call that had nothing to do with AI, the l...
The Smarter You Sound, The Less You Sell
You knowing your stuff is almost never the problem. This one's for the expert who can talk about their craft for an hour and still watch a client's eyes glaze over. If you can't say it simply, you don't know it as well...
How to Make Every Piece of Your Offer Worth the Full Price
In this video, I'm breaking down why rushing your offer reveal is the most common (and most expensive) mistake in one-to-many selling, and what to do instead. We'll get into why over-teaching flattens your pitch before you even get...
Why Every Coach Needs a Coach
Ever wondered who gets the manic voice memos from the coach YOU send manic voice memos to?Meet Kris Plachy — the woman who's been in Macy's corner through the hardest season of building Salesgirls, and the one voice that cuts through wh...
Boring Makes Billions: The Creativity Mistake
I'm on challenge number 25. Same offer, same sales machine, every single time, and every single time it gets a little sharper. The stories get better. My conviction gets stronger. I sat down with a friend in Boston last week who's r...
The Mental Block Keeping You Broke
I'm not sure if you know this but there's a really good chance that you're letting your brain turn something simple into something impossible.Macy knows because it happens to her too. That's the exact reason she recorded this video 30 m...
How to Get an ROI on ANY Investment, Ever
Most people walk away from a program, a book, or a hard season and think it didn't work. And almost always: they're wrong. The diamond was there. They just didn't know how to extract it.In this podcast, Macy breaks down the 5...
How to Sell Something Nobody Thinks They Need
You can Google polyvagal theory. You can read every book on nervous system regulation. You can technically learn everything Emily Judice teaches — for free.So why are high-level CEOs paying her for it?This conversation with regu...
How to Sell Something Nobody Thinks They Need
You can Google polyvagal theory. You can read every book on nervous system regulation. You can technically learn everything Emily Judice teaches — for free.So why are high-level CEOs paying her for it?This conversation with regu...
🟢 Live Coaching on Stage - Watch This Before Your Next Sales Call
Macy coaches a real sales conversation live on stage — and the nuggets in here are ones you can apply today.12 minutes of real coaching, no theory. You'll hear exactly what most women do in sales conversations without knowing it, and wh...
The Real Reason Your Sales Calls Feel Awkward
You know that feeling right before you get on a sales call — the tight chest, the over-rehearsed opener, the weird energy you can't shake?It's not nerves. It's not inexperience. It's something specific, and it's fixable.In this ...
The Person You're Missing (And Don't Have a Name for Yet)
Most founders are missing a person on their team that they don't even have a name for yet.She's not a social media manager. She's not a VA. She's the person who understands the vision deeply enough to build the brand without the founder...