
The Persistent Entrepreneur
Welcome to The Persistent Entrepreneur Podcast, where grit meets inspiration. Join David Hill, two-time author, business coach, world-class sales trainer, top real estate broker, Ironman athlete, and 23 years sober, as he interviews relentless entrepreneurs, visionary business owners, and trailblazing leaders who’ve mastered the art of perseverance and refusal to quit.
Each week, David uncovers powerful stories of overcoming obstacles, seizing opportunities, and turning persistence into victory. Guided by his mantra, “I exist to persist,” David and his guests share actionable strategies and mindset shifts to fuel lasting achievement.
Whether you’re a seasoned business owner or just starting your entrepreneurial journey, this podcast will inspire and equip you to tackle your goals with persistence and purpose. Let’s rise, one story at a time!
Latest episodes

Nov 9, 2017 • 39min
“The GRIND” Hate it or Learn to Embrace it with The Grind Podcast Hosts – Joey Torkelson and Jason Harmon
The Grind Podcast Hosts - Joey Torkleson & Jason Harmon We must show up and always do our best no matter what is happening. "Every single day we have to learn to control the little voice in our heads "the drunk monkey", it's always there and it's purpose is to make you safe." Jason STEPS TO SUCCESS WITH MINDSET Take action quickly Create awareness Have a morning routine Focus on your priorities (not emails in the morning) Have passion for what you do About Joey: I believe in the people part of this business! My team takes a candid, fun, and professional approach to the experience and we are always looking for new ways to not only predict the trends, but set the trends ourselves. We won't waste your time and we will make sure that expectations are met! Keeping current with the real estate market is extremely important to us and should be to you too! Our goal is to stay abreast of the statistics that matter to buyers and sellers so we can uphold the professionalism and expertise this job demands. Our absolute specialty is residential single and multi family homes! We have a Buyer's Specialist and a Listing Specialist as well as a full time staff to handle the nuts and bolts of the day to day operations. You won't be left in the dark at anytime and someone will always be there to help! We get the job done for buyers and sellers of real estate in the Twin Cities! About Jason: I'm a proud father of four amazing daughters and have been married to my beautiful wife Christina for twelve years. I got into the real estate business in 2005 with the purchase of my first rental property. After 8 years of buying, selling, and renting out investment properties, I decided it was time to jump into real estate full time. I became a realtor in 2013 and haven't looked back. In the spring of 2015 I was fortunate enough to be hired by the FM Team as an Inside Sales Agent, which has turned out to be the best career decision I've ever made. To say real estate is my passion would be an understatement. I eat, sleep, and breathe real estate and feel blessed that I have the opportunity to do what I love day after day. Subscribe to Podcast in Apple Podcasts / iTunes www.davidihill.com www.thesalesplaybook.net

Nov 7, 2017 • 7min
TMT – John Chapin - Handling Rejection, Prospecting, Telephone Sales & Mindset – John Chapin
National Sales Trainer, John Chapin on: Be confident in yourself Don’t take things personal Model top performers Know the top objections For the full interview with John go to episode 7. About David: David Hill is a leading expert on telephone prospecting. Over the past 28 years, he has worked as a salesperson in numerous industries and depended primarily on the phone to make sales. When other salespeople have switched to email or social media to reach contacts, David has stayed true to the communication medium of his roots. In doing so, he’s invested approximately 30,000 hours talking to prospects on the phone, which is equivalent to a triple master’s degree in phone prospecting. David’s experience selling over the phone started as a kid when he took his first job as a telemarketer. He quickly learned that what seemed to be a frustrating and difficult job for his peers came surprising easy for him. After his second telemarketing job, David helped build a magazine called Condo Media, where he spent most of his day cold-calling businesses to sell advertising. David has spent much of his sales career in real estate, a highly competitive selling industry. In his first year at Keller Williams in 2002, David sold 42 homes through phone prospecting, far surpassing the average of only six homes per rep. In 2006, David founded Hill Team Associates, a sales division under KW, where he currently serves as CEO.
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Nov 2, 2017 • 43min
Prospecting Sucks! Get Over Your Fear of Interrupting People - Jeb Blount Fanatical Prospecting Author on Confidence and Rejection
Jeb Blount - Best Seller Author "Fanatical Prospecting" Jeb is a Sales Specialist who helps Organizations and Salespeople reach Peak Performance "Prospecting is not about building Rapport, its about getting an appointment." Jeb "Confidence comes from confident language. We teach people how to sound confident." - Jeb STEPS TO SUCCESS IN PROSPECTING Be ok interrupting people Be brief Be relevant Be gone Follow up systems Realize prospecting sucks About Jeb: Jeb Blount is the best-selling author of eight books including Sales EQ, Fanatical Prospecting, People Follow You, People Buy You. He is a Sales Acceleration specialist who helps organizations reach peak performance fast by optimizing talent, leveraging training to cultivate high-performance sales culture, developing leadership and coaching skills, and applying more effective organizational design. Through his companies Sales Gravy, Channel EQ, and Innovate Knowledge - he advises many of the worlds leading organizations and their executives on the impact of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills on sales, leadership, customer experience, channel development, and strategic account management. As a business leader, Jeb has more than 25 years of experience with Fortune 500, SMBs and start-ups. Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes http://davidihill.com http://thesalesplaybook.net

Oct 26, 2017 • 39min
Achieve Any Goal in 5 Minutes a Day. Karen Briscoe - Author Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day
Karen Briscoe - Best Seller Author: Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day Karen's Real Estate Team HBC Group has sold over 1500 homes with over 1.5 billion in volume. “Growth is intentional, not accidental” - Karen Top-performing mega real estate agent Karen Briscoe's Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day shows that you truly only have to invest five minutes a day to achieve a higher level of success in business and life. STEPS TO SUCCESS Growth has to be intentional Training is essential Be 1st in and last out We must have systems and leverage Take out the emotions About Karen: Karen Briscoe is Principal of the Huckaby Briscoe Conroy Group (HBC). The HBC Group has been named to the Wall Street Journal Top Realtor® Team List. Over the years, the group has sold over 1,000 homes valued at over $1 billion. Karen and her family are active members of Trinity United Methodist Church in McLean, Virginia – their home since 1994. It was at Trinity Church that Karen met Sue and Jerry Huckaby and joined the Sue Huckaby Team. Sue said that their “partnership was made in heaven”. Karen is an Associate Broker in Virginia and a Certified Luxury Home Market Specialist with the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing. She works with both Sellers and Buyers of real estate, primarily in McLean, Great Falls, Falls Church, Arlington, Vienna, Alexandria, Reston and Oakton, Virginia.
Karen began her real estate career developing residential lots with the Trammel Crow Company in Dallas, Texas. Further, she worked in commercial real estate with The Staubach Company in the Washington, DC Metro area. Before moving to northern Virginia, Karen completed a Masters Degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Her BA is from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri – her hometown. Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes www.davidihill.com www.thesalesplaybook.net

Oct 24, 2017 • 9min
TMT – The Queen of Scripts Alexis Bolin - Never Cut Your Commission Again – What to Say to Keep Your Hard-Earned Money
Alexis Bolin – Top Real Estate Agent Florida Be confident in yourself Be direct Bring massive value. "My commission is not all about this sale so if the not does not work for you, let’s throw the house back on the market." STEPS TO Keeping your commissions Know your scripts Know the most common 5-7 objections Know the questions on your clients mind Know the questions you should ask Come from contribution Know your value proposition About David: David Hill is a leading expert on telephone prospecting. Over the past 28 years, he has worked as a salesperson in numerous industries and depended primarily on the phone to make sales. When other salespeople have switched to email or social media to reach contacts, David has stayed true to the communication medium of his roots. In doing so, he’s invested approximately 30,000 hours talking to prospects on the phone, which is equivalent to a triple master’s degree in phone prospecting. David’s experience selling over the phone started as a kid when he took his first job as a telemarketer. He quickly learned that what seemed to be a frustrating and difficult job for his peers came surprising easy for him. After his second telemarketing job, David helped build a magazine called Condo Media, where he spent most of his day cold-calling businesses to sell advertising. David has spent much of his sales career in real estate, a highly competitive selling industry. In his first year at Keller Williams in 2002, David sold 42 homes through phone prospecting, far surpassing the average of only six homes per rep. In 2006, David founded Hill Team Associates, a sales division under KW, where he currently serves as CEO.
Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes www.davidihill.com/mentors www.davidihill.com/affiliates www.thesalesplaybook.net

Oct 19, 2017 • 36min
Noah St. John – Why Affirmations Don’t Work. Afformations Do! Author Get Rid of Your Head Trash
Noah St. John - Best Selling Author "Get Rid of Your Head Trash" [Interview begins at 04:22] Noah St. John helps people make money: Since 2009, he's helped his coaching clients add half a BILLION dollars in sales. “Why are we going around making statements we don’t believe…" "When the human mind responds automatically to something even more powerful?” Noah teaches Money Mindset and Marketing Mastery. A highly in-demand keynote speaker, Noah is famous for inventing AFFORMATIONS® - a new technology of the mind - and helping entrepreneurs double their business without doubling their workload. Noah Delivers Success with The Secret Code of Success The Book of Afformations (4th Edition) 5 Beliefs about Money you must avoid at all costs Remove your Trash talk Attract more wealth, abundance Attract Happiness About Noah: As the leading authority on how to eliminate limiting beliefs, Noah delivers live events and online courses that his clients call "mandatory for anyone who wants to succeed in life and business."Noah's engaging and down-to-earth speaking style always gets high marks from audiences. Meeting planners call Noah "a BIG draw" and "a MUST-HAVE RESOURCE for every organization."One of the world's most sought-after experts on business and personal growth, Noah also appears frequently in the news worldwide, including ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, The Hallmark Channel, NPR, Parade, The Jenny McCarthy Show, Entrepreneur On Fire, Woman's Day, Los Angeles Business Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Forbes.com, Selling Power and The Huffington Post.Book keynote speaker Noah St. John for your event at BookNoah.com Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes http://davidihill.com/mentors http://davidihill.com/affiliates http://thesalesplaybook.net

Oct 12, 2017 • 43min
Chris Voss; - Bestselling Author - Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It!
"As salespeople we need to start showing people we understand them instead of telling them we understand them." Chris Interview begins at 03:50 Chris Voss is a past Lead FBI Hostage Negotiator and Regular on CNN "We need people to think that they are making the choice to do the thing that we want them to do." Chris STEPS TO NEGOTIATION SUCCESS Find collaboration Understand that its emotional for some Stay away from the Yes trap Tell people what they are thinking Show people you understand them Use techniques on multiple levels About Chris: Chris Voss is the Founder and CEO of the Black Swan Group Ltd and author of Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. He has used his many years of experience in international crisis and high-stakes negotiations to develop a unique program and team that applies these globally proven techniques to the business world. Prior to 2008, Chris was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as the FBI’s hostage negotiation representative for the National Security Council’s Hostage Working Group. During his government career, he also represented the U.S. Government at two (2) international conferences sponsored by the G-8 as an expert in kidnapping. Prior to becoming the FBI lead international kidnapping negotiator, Christopher served as the lead Crisis Negotiator for the New York City Division of the FBI. Subscribe to Podcast iTunes/Apple Podcasts http://davidihill.com/mentors http://davidihill.com/affiliates http://thesalesplaybook.net

Oct 10, 2017 • 6min
TMT – The Art of BEING Present - 2 Minute Tuesday on Being Present with Your Clients
"The only way we can be present with people when we don’t have to worry about what to say next." David Hill – Author of Amazon Best Selling “ The Sales Playbook” • Top Real Estate Agent • KWU Certified National Trainer • One Thing Certified Trainer STEPS TO Being Present Know your scripts Know the most common 5-7 objections Know the questions on your clients mind Know the questions you should ask Come from contribution Know your value proposition About David: David Hill is a leading expert on telephone prospecting. Over the past 28 years, he has worked as a salesperson in numerous industries and depended primarily on the phone to make sales. When other salespeople have switched to email or social media to reach contacts, David has stayed true to the communication medium of his roots. In doing so, he’s invested approximately 30,000 hours talking to prospects on the phone, which is equivalent to a triple master’s degree in phone prospecting. David’s experience selling over the phone started as a kid when he took his first job as a telemarketer. He quickly learned that what seemed to be a frustrating and difficult job for his peers came surprising easy for him. After his second telemarketing job, David helped build a magazine called Condo Media, where he spent most of his day cold-calling businesses to sell advertising. David has spent much of his sales career in real estate, a highly competitive selling industry. In his first year at Keller Williams in 2002, David sold 42 homes through phone prospecting, far surpassing the average of only six homes per rep. In 2006, David founded Hill Team Associates, a sales division under KW, where he currently serves as CEO.
Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes/Apple Podcasts http://davidihill.com/mentors http://davidihill.com/affiliates http://thesalesplaybook.net

Oct 5, 2017 • 39min
Align Your Mindset With Your Goals. How Transformational Coaching Works. Ron Patulski Maps Coaching on Path to Mastery
Ron Patulski - VP Maps Coaching Maps is one of the largest Real Estate Coaching Companies in the World *Interview begins at 04:45 "Logic makes people think, emotion makes people act." Ron "Coaching is seeing where somebody is and bridging the gap from where they are to where they want to be." - Ron Patulski STEPS WITH TRANSFORMATIONAL COACHING • Coach to both sides of the brain • Ask great questions • Get them to understand the current impact of behavior • Get congruent • Align brain to goals • Develop awareness • Accountability Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/one-more-sale-inspiring-interviews/id1081069895?mt=2&ls=1 About Ron: "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change". This thought creates miracles. As a Performance Coach, it's been my good fortune to work with people and organizations on a daily basis to witness miracles! Check out Davidihill.com for AFFILIATES AND MENTORS PAGE http://davidihill.com/affiliates http://thesalesplaybook.net

Sep 28, 2017 • 42min
Josh Anderson: How The Team Closed 88 Million Volume with 259 Sides While Being Bored!
Josh Anderson - The Anderson Group Nashville TN 259 Closed units and 88 million volume in 2016. [Interview begins at 04:01] "Many agents confuse the difference between lead generation and lead follow up." Josh We have to learn to be OK with the boredom of success. STEPS TO SUCCESS WITH A TEAM Consistent time block Show up daily Be 1st in and last out Master follow up Keep in touch with your SOI Do what your passionate about Keep a perfect schedule Subscribe to the Podcast in iTunes About Josh: Josh Anderson can best be described as a man of high energy with a passion for real estate. He is a business savvy professional with a strong desire to cater to his clients’ particular needs. Client satisfaction is paramount! Josh’s market expertise coupled with his superior negotiating skills set.
For his buyer clients, Josh takes a keen interest in finding not only the ideal property but, more importantly, a property that proves to be priced fairly, with minimal risk, and optimal return on investment. With the most comprehensive resources, services, and solutions available to make every transition as seamless as possible, Josh continues to provide assistance after the sale is closed.
Originally from Nashville, Josh graduated from Louisiana State University in International Trade and Finance. Josh served 8 years in the U.S. Army, including a 10-month stint in Bagram, Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. These experiences, coupled with the education he received from Louisiana State, have molded him into a focused, disciplined, and strong willed.
Whether buying or selling, Josh provides you with the special attention one expects of a dedicated real estate professional whose top priority is protecting the interests of the most discerning clients. Clients praise him often for his enthusiasm, patient approach, and unwavering loyalty. http://davidihill.com/affiliates http://thesalesplaybook.net