Episode
Strippers, RTO and Sales - Season 4: Episode # 73
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- The Cheat Code & Friends
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- Sep 26, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 3199
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Summary
A former single mom, stripper, and felon turned two-time author and VP of Innovative Disruption at Lift Enablement, Dr. V lays out hard lessons and simple truths on resilience, sales talent, and reporting—without the euphemisms. In this episode, we talk about what most teams tiptoe around: who you hire, how you build culture, and why “return to office” means nothing if the office isn’t safe. This episode is candid, occasionally spicy, and packed with immediately usable hiring and enablement takeaways. Chapters 00:00 — Cold open & why “Dr. V” 03:00 — From single mom & felon to author and executive 06:10 — Sales lessons from the club: price floors, personas, and conversion 14:20 — The RTO debate: safety, reporting, and retaliation 28:30 — Are remote teams less productive? Training vs. environment 33:40 — Hiring beyond pedigree: what hunger looks like on a sales team 46:30 — What “disruptive innovation” work actually is (and isn’t) 53:10 — Founders: take calculated risks on people References in the Show: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/violence/about/index.html#:~:text=Quick%20facts%20and%20stats&text=Of%20those%20victims%20who%20experienced,5%20days%20away%20from%20work https://drvboykin.com/pages/fix-your-face-the-book https://stopstreetharassment.org/our-work/nationalstudy/2024metoostudy/ Quote of the Show: “Well, I'll be happy to return to work when the workplace becomes safe. What does that mean? Well, women aren't safe in the workplace and they're not free from sexual harassment. 38% of women have reported experiencing sexual harassment. That's one in seven women who have left a job or declined a job because of sexual harassment. 60% of women have said they'd experienced unwanted sexual attention in the workplace. And in some industries, more than nine out of…