Feb 9, 2022
This week on the Catapulting Commissions podcast Anthony welcomes Jeff Riseley. Jeff is the founder of the sales health alliance, which was created to empower sales professionals and sales leaders to reach peak levels of performance and well-being through better mental health. The company seeks to align sales leaders with health experts and tech providers on building awareness around mental health within the sales industry.
Jeff started his journey in sales in the classic “sink or swim” sales environment. He did well in that space, but behind the scenes he was not okay. He had insomnia, anxiety and panic attacks. It was after a panic attack landed him in the hospital that he realized something needed to change.
That led Jeff to try to learn everything he could about living his daily life in a way that protected his mental health while still allowing him to do this job he loved so much. He knew that stress and anxiety were not optional in sales; he just had to figure out how to navigate that.
Today he and Anthony discuss how to eliminate and improve the most toxic elements in the sales industry to optimize the mental performance of everyone involved.