Short YouTube clip by Jeremy's AI Helper (May 28, 2025) offering conversational sales coaching. Two speakers analyze a salesperson's line—'Hot and sweaty. Not gonna lie.'—and recommend avoiding the phrase "I'm not gonna lie" because it primes the listener with the word 'lie' and can reduce perceived trust; they suggest alternative phrasing that conveys authenticity without invoking 'lie'.
Hot and sweaty. Not gonna lie. I'll be quick. I know you're busy. Who do you have for pest control?
Three days.
I like this. Can I offer a few tweaks here? This is really funny the way. So he's using a playful hot and sweaty. I'm not gonna lie to you. See, that's a playful tone. That's good. It's disarming. That's really good. What I would simply say instead, like, oh, how you doing? Oh, man, I'm dying out here. It's like 112 degrees out here. Have you been outside all day? So I might want to do a little bit instead of saying I'm hot and sweaty. I'm not gonna lie. I don't want to say, I'm not gonna lie because just heard what I'm lie meaning less trust. See how you're consciously putting into their subconscious, I'm lie. That's not something you want them to focus on is I'm not going to lie because they're just focusing on lie. That's not a good word for a salesperson. And that's how they already view salespeople as liars. So you're actually enforcing that into their brain. Take that word out.
