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    UnFictional

    Your Future in Sales

    On this episode, three stories about young people let in on the secrets of selling, both good and bad... (Repeat)

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    By Bob Carlson • May 1, 2012 • 28m Listen

    Three stories about young people let in on the secrets of selling, both good and bad.

    In Jackie Kashian's house growing up, sales was part of the basic building blocks of her upbringing. She had a sales expert living in the house... her father. She learned everything she needed to know about skimming off the top, moral compromise and the "post-close warm down."

    The Dork Forest and has a half-hour special on Comedy Central. She's been on Last Comic Standing and This American Life. One of those was more exciting for her.

    Jackie in her days during sales training

    Jackie today

    In the second story, young Dave White finds everyone at home embracing the sales game with a religious fervor. But despite his family's enthusiasm, Dave has trouble "visualizing success."

    Exile in Guyville, and he contributed to the anthology Love is a Four-Letter Word. He written for movies.com, MSNBC.com and Slake. He also co-hosts a movie podcast called Linoleum Knife.

    Dave White

    In the last story, actress Carrie Seim reads the monologue she wrote and performed at the age of nine for an audition at a local production of A Christmas Carol. Nine-year-old Carrie threw herself completely into the project, fueled by an appetite of Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys.

    Tyra Banks Show and GuySpeak.com.

    http://www.carrieseim.com.

    Young Carrie Seim, author and actress

    The original monologue manuscript

    This program originally aired on October 7, 2011.

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      Bob Carlson

      host and producer, 'UnFictional'

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      Dave White

      film critic and co-host of the movie podcast Linoleum Knife

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