Sharper selling for expert-led businesses.
The Selling Show is an interview-led business podcast about selling ideas as much as services. David Newman steers fast conversations with authors, founders, strategists, and advisors on branding, thought leadership, risk, revenue, prosperity, and expert positioning.
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The Selling Show sits at the intersection of sales, branding, leadership, and expert positioning. It is less about closing tricks than the harder work before the close: making an idea credible, making expertise visible, and making change feel worth the risk. David Newman leads the conversations with a quick, personable style. He tends to start broad, pull out the guest’s backstory, then press toward the business lesson hiding inside it. That structure gives the show a useful rhythm. A guest might arrive with a book, a framework, a firm, or a sharp point of view, and the episode turns that material into questions a founder or executive can actually use. Deborah Reuben brings a lens from finance, software, and work between business and technology. Maeve Ferguson connects diagnostic thought leadership with agentic AI and diagnostic infrastructure after a striking detour as a steeplechase jockey. Alan Gregerman argues for the business value of not knowing. Reilly Newman talks logos, design, and brand strategy through the work of Motif Brands. Gail Calvert brings the conversation back to marketing that is responsible for revenue. Randy Gage pushes prosperity, ideas, and wealth without apology. Susan Schramm makes risk the center of selling a big idea. Bob Gentle focuses on personal brand, trust, testimonials, and the long buying journey. The tone stays casual, but the questions are usually aimed at serious commercial outcomes. There is room for jokes. There is also a steady bias toward clarity, differentiation, and buyer confidence. The best moments come when the show turns a familiar business word into a sharper operating question: What makes expertise experiential? How should a seller talk about risk? What does a brand make easier for the buyer? Why would marketing own revenue? For listeners building an expert business, agency, consulting practice, or executive platform, The Selling Show offers lively interviews with an obvious bias toward action.
Made for: The show is for founders, executives, consultants, agency leaders, and expert-service operators who need to sell ideas, strategy, change, and credibility. It especially fits listeners working on personal brand, thought leadership, revenue accountability, or buyer trust.
What sets it apart: The Selling Show stands out by treating sales as a blend of positioning, leadership, risk management, and expertise design. Its interviews stay practical while still making room for unusual backstories, blunt business metaphors, and fast pivots from story to lesson.
The Selling Show with David Newman is an interview-based podcast focused on the intersection of selling, branding, and leadership—geared to a core audience of CEOs, founders, and corporate executives who know that selling isn't just about products or services. It's about selling your ideas, your point of view, and your personal brand to the people who matter most.If you're ready to achieve Market Eminence, amplify your influence, and attract high-value clients, investors, partners, talent, and media opportunities—with less chasing and more confidence—this show is for YOU. Each episode delivers strategies, insights, and instant-action advice to boost your visibility, credibility, and brand pr…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
David Newman turns guest frameworks into practical questions about persuasion, buyer confidence, visibility, and execution.
The Selling Show treats sales as the work of making ideas credible, visible, and easier to act on. David Newman leads energetic guest interviews that move from professional speaking and LinkedIn content to buyer risk, owned media, innovation, prosperity, and corporate…
The person choosing your keynote speaker might not have the title; David Newman wants you to look closer.
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A blunt prosperity conversation that treats ideas as the real asset.
The Selling Show spends this hour on Randy Gage's case for wealth without apology, tracing his path from a violent start at 15 to the work he is doing now, including a 16th book heading to pre-order.
Risk, named early, becomes part of the sale.
David Newman centers this episode on a stubborn sales problem: how to sell a big idea without pretending risk is a side note. Susan Schramm's Fast Track Your Big Idea, Navigate Risk, Move People to Action, and Avoid Your Strategy Going Off Track sets the frame, and the…
A grounded episode on turning personal expertise into trust, stronger relationships, and a more useful business asset.
The Selling Show treats personal branding as a business tool rather than a vanity project. Bob Gentle lays out how a CEO, founder, or senior executive can make ideas, point of view, and personal brand more useful to the people they need to reach.
A grounded episode on making speaker value visible to the people who decide bookings.
The Selling Show looks at what it takes for a speaker to become easier to book, with Maria Franzoni tying speaking opportunities to the people who can actually approve them.
A clear case for building business authority around media a company can keep closer to home.
The Selling Show's conversation with Prosper Taravinga lands as a practical reminder that social platforms are useful, but unstable foundations.
Innovation gets a human test as executive ambition meets the uncertainty of changing how work gets done.
The Selling Show approaches future readiness through Deb Rubin's grounded take on innovation and transformation. David Newman brings Rubin, author of Enter the Tomorrow Zone, into a conversation shaped by finance, software, internal organizational work, and the space between…
A clear, practical case for treating rebranding as research, alignment and patient execution.
Rebranding comes across here as a full organizational project with marketing as only the visible edge. Jim Heininger draws on roughly 25 years in the big-agency world, including strategic communications, branding, change management and internal communications, to make the case…
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
This episode features an interview with Dave Dubeau, discussing his journey from starting a language training company to achieving market eminence through direct response marketing and high-ticket sales strategies.
This episode features an interview with Lieutenant Colonel Oakland McCulloch about his 23-year military career and how it informs leadership legacy concepts for executives.
Host David Newman interviews Michael Liebowitz about his journey into neuro-linguistic programming and how it relates to personal branding and persuasion for business leaders.
David Newman interviews Jim Heininger, founder of RebrandingExperts.com, about strategic rebranding for mid-market companies.
David Newman interviews Deb Rubin, author of 'Enter the Tomorrow Zone', about why 70% of digital transformations fail.
Carol Ring, author of "People Problems Solved," presents a nine-driver model across three levers, direction, framework, and alignment, to turn workplace culture into something measurable.
This episode features an interview with Deb Rubin, author of 'Enter the Tomorrow Zone', discussing her background in finance and software and how CEOs and executives can sell their ideas and build influence.
This episode features an interview with Maeve Ferguson about diagnostic thought leadership, exploring how professionals can effectively showcase their expertise to build influence and attract opportunities.
This episode features an interview with Alan Gregerman about his book 'The Wisdom of Ignorance,' exploring how embracing not knowing can drive innovation and improve sales, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
Host David Newman interviews his son Riley Newman about his journey from logo design to brand strategy and his book 'Brands: 101 Sips of Wisdom for Attaining a Successful Brand'.
This episode features an interview with Gayle Kalvert, founder and CEO of Creo Collective, discussing how marketing can drive revenue and profit for agencies.
Prosperity gets practical fast.
The Selling Show opens by framing sales as selling a big idea.
The Selling Show episode 528, Amplify Your Expertise, features David Newman and Bob Gentle discussing how CEOs, founders, and executives can turn a personal brand into a leadership brand.
David Newman opens by asking about a speaker's bookability quotient.
The Selling Show features Prosper Taravinga on why relying on Facebook, LinkedIn, X, or YouTube can leave a business exposed to platform control, and David Newman frames the conversation around market eminence and personal brand.
Host David Newman interviews Suzanne Evans, founder of Driven Inc., discussing her journey as an entrepreneur and her impact on business growth and personal branding.
Host David Newman interviews Stephen Shapiro about his professional journey from industrial engineering to becoming a Hall of Fame speaker and author, focusing on how his background informs his current work in business and selling.