The Sam Linton Show
The Sam Linton Show
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Episode 70: 8 Speaking Habits That Are Quietly Killing Your Credibility
You've earned the room. These eight habits are what quietly lose it. Sam watched a genuinely credible executive — a legend to their own direct reports — flop in front of a room. Not because they didn't know the material, but because of a...
Episode 69: 3 Sales Lessons From the Worst Pitch I've Ever Sat Through
Your sales team knows the product cold. They can recite the sourcing, the specs, the packaging. And they still lose the room. Sam's wife sent him four separate texts about a "tired eyes" treatment during a family cruise. (One text is a s...
Episode 68: The Likability Gap — 5 Ways to Become a Leader People Actually Like
If I could isolate the one thing most people are totally overlooking about executive presence, it's this — and nobody talks about it, because talking about it requires getting self-aware very quickly. It's the Likability Gap.In this epis...
Episode 67: Presence Trumps Program — 3 Lessons from One of Vistage's Best Speakers
You've done the work — the degree, the experience, the framework. But when you finally get into the room that matters, you cling to your outline, race through your points, and slip out the back the second it's over. And you wonder why the messa...
Episode 66: Why I Became a Vistage Speaker (and Why I Work With Leaders)
After 18 months of work, Sam has some news: he's officially a Vistage speaker. But this episode isn't a victory lap — it's a look under the hood at why he works with leaders at all.Sam walks through five reasons Vistage aligns with every...