A Salesman’s Guide to Mastering Your Mind | Entrepreneur Yoni Kirschner

About this episode

Yoni Kirschner discusses his journey from sales to founding an AI platform, emphasizing the importance of resilience and interpersonal skills in a tech-driven world.

Elevator 243: Yoni Kirschner is the founder and CEO of 1Konnection, a platform leveraging AI to fix the broken, inefficient cycles of networking and market intelligence in healthcare. After a career spent in the trenches from selling candy in a red wagon to becoming a top regional sales manager at CVS Health, Yoni has mastered the art of turning a "no" into momentum. In this podcast: Yoni shares how he used the resilience learned from door-to-door sales to build an AI platform with zero coding experience. We dive into why interpersonal skills are the only thing that will save your career from automation and how to leverage "Authentic Intelligence" to differentiate yourself in a tech-driven world.

People in this episode

Hosts: Sam Panitch, Parker Yablon

Guest: Yoni Kirschner

Topics covered

• sales
• entrepreneurship
• AI
• networking
• resilience
• interpersonal skills

Keywords

• sales
• AI
• networking
• resilience
• interpersonal skills
• entrepreneurship
• automation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 1Konnection, CVS Health

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