In this recorded sales call, Christian Polk pitches an $8,000 investment to a prospect (Speaker B) who raises the common objection, "I need to talk to my mom first." Christian navigates the objection by probing the prospect's decision‑making process, emphasizing the difference between personal trust (the mother) and domain expertise (Christian), and questioning the value of advice from someone without relevant experience. He uses analogies about his own father's advice, highlights the risk of relying on uninformed opinions, and frames the opportunity as extraordinary and potentially "crazy" in a positive sense. The conversation culminates with the prospect affirming confidence in his ability to proceed, while Christian seeks a concrete next step to secure the commitment.
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So the investment is going to be $8,000.
Like, I'll sound crazy for saying this, but I want to talk to my mom first.
It's not crazy. Sometimes people want to talk to their mom just so I can send over the most relevant info, man. Like, what do you— what do you actually need to go over with her just to see, you know, how I can best help?
Number one, she has my best interest. And number two, I trust her. We just met. I trust your sales skills, but she is just like my life advice.
I would hope you have a better relationship with your mom versus me. We've only— we've only been We've only been together 45 minutes, right? I would hope we can deepen this connection. But yeah, no, I understand, man. Like, what do you feel like this conversation with her is going to be about? Like, what are you going to go over just to make sure, like, we're on the same page?
Should I do it?
Is she in sales? Has she done things like this before? Does she have insight into this world?
Well, insight into this world, but just not sales.
When we're talking about getting advice from people and different things along those lines, for example, like, I love my dad, but I never take financial advice from my dad. He actually told me not to get into sales. And like, now I make what he makes in a year in a month. And so it's like, I'll trust him on certain things. But when it comes to like finances, sales, different things on those lines, it's just not something I talk to him about just because he doesn't have the insight. He's only going to give me information and he's only going to give me advice from the prism of how he views the world. So it comes down to, for you, do you feel like it actually would help you going to somebody who just doesn't really have much insight on this to give you advice on whether you should do it or whether you should not do it?
That makes sense.
Does it make sense to go get advice from somebody who doesn't have the insight?
Logically, no.
Why not?
They don't know what they don't know. They've never done it before.
If we're getting advice from people who've never done it before, even if they have your absolute best intentions at heart, is there a possibility that they lead you astray?
Yeah.
So it just comes down to like, what do we actually want to do in this situation? You're going to have a lot more insight into this space. So how do you feel about like what we covered and everything along those lines and your ability to actually do the work? How do you feel about it?
Yeah, 100%. I can do it.
So if you feel like you can do it, why would we act in any other way?
My mom's going to be mad about me.
If we're going to do great things, if we're going to do uncharacteristic things, we cannot expect everyone to be on board and understand exactly what we're doing. On some level, we got to be a little bit out of the ordinary. For example, if I go back and I talk to any of my high school friends, do you feel like they would have any understanding of how I view the world and the risks I've taken? No, they just haven't done it, dude. Do you want to be the person who follows ordinary path and gets advice from people who just haven't done it before? Or do we want to do something that's extraordinary? Probably do something that some people might even say it's a little bit crazy.
Got to do what's crazy.
What do we got to do now, man, to just make sure we do the thing and we actually get the results we want?
