Ep 123: Women in Sales Club – The Fierce, Female Future of Sales: A Conversation with Alexine Mudawar & Gabrielle Blackwell

In this episode of the Startup Selling Podcast, I interviewed Alexine Mudawar & Gabrielle Blackwell.

 

Who is Alexine Mudawar?

 

Carrying 8+ years of SaaS sales experience, Alexine is backed by numerous President’s Club awards, quarterly high achievement recognitions, and a consistent track record of surpassing quota. 

 

Outside of her day-to-day sales role, She is an Adjunct Professor and teaches sales courses for Aspireship, Victory Lap, and Re: Work Training. 

 

She’s a champion for diversity and inclusion in the workplace and has founded two women-focused Employee Resource Groups. She currently serves as Co-Founder of the Women in Sales Club alongside Gabrielle Blackwell.

 

Who is Gabrielle Blackwell?

 

Gabrielle Blackwell, also known as The Sales Development SaaStress, started her career in as a sales development representative and has since then held positions as an Account Executive, Sales Enablement Manager, and has now focused her career pursuits on Sales Development leadership. 

 

She is currently leading a Sales Development team at revenue intelligence platform, Gong.io and co-hosts Women in Sales Club, a Clubhouse event focused on enabling, empowering, and promoting women within the sales profession.

Some of the key topics and questions that we covered in this podcast are:

 

• Community questioning the inner critic 
• Owning your voice
• Personal branding 
• The stigma of sales
• Tokenization of an individual 
• How The Women in Sales Club came into existence
• How Alexine and Gabrielle came to working together
• Core issues such as race, gender, sexual preference, and other diversity markers
• The importance of being empathetic
• Understanding what it means to be a woman in the workplace
• Strategies of how men can do better to support women

Links and Resources:

 

LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-sales-club

 

Clubhouse club: www.joinclubhouse.com/club/womeninsales

 

Alexine on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alexine-mudawar

 

Gabrielle on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielleblackwell

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