#1035: It’s just painful… until it isn’t: how real progress happens on Amazon

Silent Sales Machine Radio

Jim Cockrum

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4.8 • 805 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What if the thing holding you back isn’t a missing tool but the belief that progress should feel easier?

In this Coaches’ Corner episode, Brian and Robin Joy Olson dive deep into what it actually looks like to build an Amazon business, when you're not just learning the rules but putting in reps under pressure.

Drawing from real coaching sessions, they explore three key moments every seller faces:

When overthinking kills momentum and how to shift into motion
When “it’s just painful” and why that’s not a red flag
When you need to see progress but can’t find it on the sales graph yet

This episode is packed with honest coaching insights, emotional truth, and specific tools for staying in the game long enough to start seeing wins. Whether you’re brand new or rebuilding, this one’s a mirror and a map.

Special guest at the conclusion of today's show, Jeff Schick of JeffSchick.com answers the question: "If I've sold a brand for a long time, can Amazon re-gate me? How can I avoid this risk?"

Watch this episode on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/2TwZvPoOWNQ

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Silent Sales Machine Radio. You're your co-hosts. I'm Brian. And I'm Robin Joy. And this is Coach's Corner. Hi, everybody. Hey, how's it going? It's going great for me. How about you? Yeah, I'm doing wonderfully. Wonderfully. L.Y. So, you had some coaching clients this week. Did you have a good week of coaching?
0:21.5	Oh, yeah.
0:22.2	Of course I did.
0:23.1	You know, since we've been back from the Proven Conference and vacation, I've been full in terms of like every available opening that I have in my calendar is full.
0:33.2	Yes.
0:33.4	You're experiencing something similar.
0:35.1	I've been sending people to you for those special sessions.
0:37.8	Yeah. Yeah, which is awesome. I mean been sending people to you for those special sessions. Yeah.
0:38.1	Yeah, which is awesome.
0:39.0	I mean, there's nothing we always talk about.
0:41.9	I can tell when I get home from work when Robbins had a day of coaching because she's just lit up.
0:46.3	And, you know, she's talking about this and that and this person and that person and everything.
0:50.5	And so my coaching sessions are generally in the evening. And so then can sometimes
0:56.1	turn into long nights because I'll be coaching until seven or eight o'clock. And then we come out and have
1:02.1	the long conversations about what those coaching sessions were. We enjoy those conversations so much.
1:05.9	It's because we're having a ton of fun. That's right. Yes. Well, and we're so proud of, of the clients that we're working with.
1:12.1	I know.
1:12.8	Like,
1:13.0	they're just doing great. I love when, when they show up for a session and, well, you know, any session. Yeah, I love, but love when they're like, they showed up because they had a light bulb moment. Yes. in between sessions.
1:08.3	Let me show you what I realized.
1:09.8	Yep.
1:10.2	You're like, yes.
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