Home / Aligning Passions, Values & Skills for Sales Success Aligning Passions, Values & Skills for Sales Success Ep. 57 - Guest: Alaina Love The road to success in sales is paved with passion and purpose. Understanding your personal wiring as well as your customers’ leads to measurable results. Most people understand this concept on a surface level but have a hard time being introspective enough to actually connect their passion with their work. Alaina Love, speaker, consultant, and CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting, shares actionable advice for aligning your passion and purpose with your work for optimized sales performance. She explains how authenticity and reflection allow you to build trust with your customers and teammates, and shares how to use the ten passion archetypes to foster lasting relationships. Listen Now Amazon iHeartRadio GoodPods More Options Your Host Will Milano Chief Marketing Officer, Integrity Solutions In this Mental Selling episode, you’ll learn: How to align your passions, values, and skills for sales success How to implement reflective practices in your day-to-day How to leverage passion profiles to build trust with customers What to listen for: [01:30] How passion and purpose impact sales [08:00] Leveraging the ten passion archetypes to improve outcomes [15:00] Authenticity in sales [17:00] Developing the habit of reflection [23:00] Reconciling gaps between your purpose and daily responsibilities [25:00] Aligning your skills, passions, and values [31:00] Creating your passion-linked action plan [37:00] Leveraging your team members’ passions Understanding your purpose and passion not only provides personal fulfillment, but it also enables elevated sales success. Hear more from Alaina as she explains that awareness of your passions informs how you interact with customers and teammates, leading to improved sales performance. Additional Resources From This Episode: Follow Alaina on LinkedIn and on Twitter Purpose Linked Consulting website Read Alaina’s book: The Purpose Linked Organization; and keep an eye out for Alaina’s upcoming book: Permission to Be Raise your Mental Selling acumen with us by following us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts SoundCloud, Amazon, GoodPods, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. Please rate our show or leave a comment— we value YOUR feedback! SalesHacker and FeedSpot have each also named us as one of the best sales podcasts. Share This Post: Related Episodes The Mindset Behind Modern Revenue Leadership with Mike Head Guest: Mike Head In this Mental Selling episode, you’ll learn: Jump into the conversation: Additional Resources From This Episode: Raise your Mental Selling… EP. 129 February 27, 2026 25:40 Why Does Integrity in Sales Matter More Than Ever in 2026? With Brian Snader Guest: Brian Snader In this Mental Selling episode, you’ll learn: Jump into the conversation: Additional Resources From This Episode: Raise your Mental Selling… EP. 128 February 12, 2026 9:27 Niche Down for Stronger Go to Market Focus with Cate Hollowitsch Guest: Cate Hollowitsch In this Mental Selling episode, you’ll learn: Jump into the conversation: Additional Resources From This Episode: Raise your Mental Selling… EP. 127 January 30, 2026 32:11 Getting Buyers to Buy When They’ve Already Made Up Their Minds Guest: Em Holldorf In this Mental Selling episode, you’ll learn: Jump into the conversation: Additional Resources From This Episode: Raise your Mental Selling… EP. 126 January 16, 2026 28:14