The CEO and the Salesman Podcast

About The CEO and the Salesman Podcast

The CEO and Salesman Podcast explores today's business issues for small and medium-sized companies looking to grow. Join Matthew Whyatt and Daniel Perry as they share lessons learned and provide practical tips for business leaders seeking to modernise marketing and sales strategies.

Publisher

Matthew Whyatt

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Jul 2022

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

56 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   From Receptionist to CEO: Leadership Lessons From the Dot Com Crash | Damon Lembi

   Damon Lembi went from chasing a Major League Baseball career to the reception desk at Learnit, and eventually to the CEO seat. In this episode he shares how over-expanding before the dot com crash nearly ended the business, the decision making habits he built from it, why being involved in everything made him the bottleneck, and how he learned to celebrate great people moving on rather than taking it personally.

2. 

   8 Sept 2026

   How to Land Whale Clients With Pig-Headed Discipline — Stacey Hylen

   Stacey Hylen worked beside Chet Holmes for years and has spent 25 years coaching business owners to land bigger clients. In this episode she breaks down the Dream 100 and why so few people execute it, how to set the buying criteria so prospects arrive at the sale already sold, the billion dollar pen story every scrappy company should hear, why a marketing problem is often a positioning problem in disguise, and how to use AI with a real strategic objective instead of just scaling chaos.

3. 

   25 Aug 2026

   Three Rules for Choosing Your Next Business — Stan Markuze on Building, Exiting, and Idle Cash

   Stan Markuze exited his last business at seven times revenue, then wrote three rules for choosing his next one: work with people you like, learn things that interest you, and sell to people who can and will pay. In this episode he unpacks how to spot a genuinely underserved market, why he built Balance to put idle company cash to work, the customer feedback that had his team shipping a fix overnight, and the honest truth that a lot of success comes down to luck, so you focus on what you can control.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

5,140

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

22

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

60

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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