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Oct 29, 2026
Episode 163: “How To Sell When You Hate to Sell” with Dr. Shane Smith
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Tony GrayHOST
Can you tell folks a little bit how you entered the business development profession and did you write the book?
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3:26Shane SmithGUEST
Yeah, so it wasn't by choice, right? So right out of college, which was a long time ago now, back in the 90s, I think the culture of coming out of the business school at that time, I call it the Michael J.
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3:44Shane SmithGUEST
A lot of his characters really personified the mailroom to C-suite kind of climb.
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3:54Shane SmithGUEST
And I I didn't necessarily get the dream job that I had hoped to out of college.
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4:03Shane SmithGUEST
And what that meant is instead I had to go back to the family business, which was a very strong, thriving business.
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20:53speaker_0NARRATOR
right?