Sales Talk for CEOs

About Sales Talk for CEOs

Welcome to Sales Talk for CEOs, where host Alice Heiman goes deep with female founders and experts on the real story behind building a company and a life at the same time. After 5+ years and 190+ episodes, the show has pivoted to focus exclusively on female founders/CEOs and their journeys on both the business and personal sides. In each episode, Alice explores not just what it took to build and grow a sales organization, but the full picture: getting funded, managing health and family, and driving revenue all at once. This is the founder story most podcasts don't tell.

Publisher

Alice Heiman

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Jul 2021

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 200 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Building Without a Plan B: Tamar Gill on Bootstrapping, Better Data, and People-First Growth

   Building a company without outside funding requires more than a great idea. It requires resilience, focus, and knowing exactly what you refuse to compromise. In this episode of Sales Talk for CEOs, Alice Heiman sits down with Tamar Gill, Founder and CEO of eCore Services, to explore her journey from practicing law in the Republic of Georgia to building a 150-person, fully remote B2B data company. Tamar shares how becoming a mother reshaped her career, why an unexpected remote job introduced...

2. 

   2 Sept 2026

   Why the Best Leaders Slow Down: Elatia Abate on Reinvention, Presence, and the Future of Leadership

   Leading through uncertainty doesn't require moving faster, it requires thinking differently. In this episode, futurist and leadership strategist Elatia Abate shares practical frameworks to help female founder CEOs lead through rapid change without defaulting to outdated strategies. She explains why slowing down can become a competitive advantage, how to shift from past-anchored planning to future-led thinking, and why the quality of the questions leaders ask ultimately shapes the future they ...

3. 

   26 Aug 2026

   From Retail Shelves to Every Bathroom Stall: How Denielle Finkelstein and Thyme Sullivan Pivoted a Period Product Startup

   Denielle Finkelstein and Thyme Sullivan are Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of Unicorn in Every Stall. Before becoming entrepreneurs, Denielle spent more than 20 years in fashion leadership, including executive roles at Ann Taylor, Coach, Kate Spade, and Talbots, while Thyme built a 27-year career at Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Nestlé. Both were the primary breadwinners for their families when they made the decision to leave corporate life and pursue something entirely new. Their journey began with a Faceb...

Inside a recent episode

Ep189 How Accelevents Grew with Inbound Sales, Customer Focus & Events That Close Deals

Published 23 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Just pure Outbound, hey, let's book a demo or something like that has never been successful for us. No, I think you're an events company. Why not have an event? Yeah, exactly. So we've been doing past couple of years a series of dinners with partners throughout the US. We also do events on the back of industry events and we'll get anywhere between a 22 to 38, 40 people in the room, no pitching. But in our space, there's not, you know, a given company is going to have one head of events or one VP of events. They don't have a peer within their company to come, you know, sort of camaraderie with. […]

Who has been a guest on Sales Talk for CEOs

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• Marie Berry
• Cheryl Sew Hoy
• Nikita Jain
• Yvonne Lines
• Jonathan Kazarian

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

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75

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0

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