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From Topless to Boundless: Meet Sherry Hemstreet

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Wes Schaeffer
December 13, 2022

From homeless & topless to top of the world

Professional Sales Tips you’ll learn today on The Sales Podcast…

  • Started online in 2008

  • Started with affiliate marketing

  • Went into brand management and online authority

  • Started web design

  • High school dropout

  • Made okay money

  • Had just given birth to her daughter

  • Was a topless entertainer in New Orleans for 17 years

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  • At 40, she took her first job ever in marketing to see how it was and to learn

  • It didn’t last long

  • Started helping spiritual women with their business

  • At 24 went to college once she was fully emancipated

  • Just took the classes she was weak in and wanted to learn

  • She was the only stripper that took a Bible to work!

  • Got married and had a kid and launched her business

  • Her brother was killed and told him who killed him and the police solved it so she has had some interesting spiritual events

  • 17 years as a stripper is an eternity

  • Single mother and homeless at 19

  • She learned how to sell, learned human nature, learned about wealth

  • She does not hide from her past

  • Now she helps people who sell

  • Works with women who own businesses and a few men

  • “This wasn’t given to you for your amusement.” God’s message to Sherry

  • Eventually, the script will stop working.

  • Eventually, everything stops working, and that’s when you’ll shift to a higher level.

  • Go internal.

  • Everyone is afraid of going to the next level.

  • Her calibrations happen in your subconscious.

  • “Why do you think you’ve plateaued?”

  • We answer with a symptom.

  • She’s the ultimate underachiever.

  • She’s never had to lean on a certificate.

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I know the value I bring.”

Sherry Hemstreet on The Sales Podcast

  • Humans thrive under a challenge.

  • Walking on stage at 19 and topless was a scary but wonderful experience.

  • Her biggest customers just wanted to talk with her.

  • People want status, appreciation, and someone’s full attention.

  • I never chase money I’ve already earned.

  • I always charge up-front.

  • Establish the rules up-front.

  • She went for “no” early.

  • She raised her prices from $350 to $500/mo plus champagne.

  • She thought she was playing small.

  • She had a partner and had a 7-figure business but still felt like she was playing small.

  • Things were easy and comfortable.

  • Created 28 courses, so she’s automating that.

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