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A Solutions Engineer's Guide to Emotional Intelligence | Yusuf Cattaneo | Ep. 40 (opens the original)
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Assalamu Alaykum! This week we're joined by Yusuf Cattaneo, a solutions architect who grew up in Northern Virginia, was homeschooled, and studied at Ta'limul Quran at ADAMS before eventually landing in Raleigh, North Carolina (yes, we get into the NoVA vs Raleigh debate early on). Yusuf's path wasn't a straight line into tech. He started in finance as a business analyst at The Carlyle Group before making the jump into pre-sales, leaning hard on self-learning and curiosity to make it happen. What
Say Yes First, Figure It Out Later: A Muslim Woman's Rise in Tech Sales | Nashmia Burney | Ep. 38 (opens the original)
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Assalamu Alaykum!This episode is one for anyone who's ever felt stuck between the life they're expected to live and the one they actually want. Nashmia Burney is Director of Forward Deployed Engineering and Pre-Sales Operations at Quickbase, but her path there started nowhere near tech. She grew up moving between the US and Karachi, and at 17, with no lawyer able to help her family, she researched her own immigration case, walked into a US Embassy with a binder of paperwork, and got the officer
Ranked #1 SDR in Europe (Out of 1,000) | Saad Ghafoor | Ep. 37 (opens the original)
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Assalamu Alaykum! This week we sit down with Saad Ghafoor, a man who was voted the #1 SDR in Europe out of a thousand competitors, and who's now closing deals as an Account Executive at Clearpay (Afterpay's UK arm, part of Block, an S&P 500 company). Saad walks us through the two-year climb that got him there, but the real story isn't the award. It's what happened right after he hit his number. Instead of feeling triumphant, he felt hollow, and it took a trip to Mecca for umrah to show him why.
Google Sales Rep Earns $1M in One Year, Then Quits | Yousuf Imran | Ep. 36 (opens the original)
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Assalamu Alaykum! Yusuf Imran joins the Deen and Deals podcast for Muslims in tech sales to share his journey from immigrating to Queens as a child to a 20-year sales career that produced two seven-figure W-2 years. He opens up about early struggles, dark periods in his life, and the cold-calling mortgage job that accidentally led him into sales. Yusuf breaks down his path through Mimeo (including building and leading their first EMEA sales team in England), Salesforce, and Google, and explains
6 Failed Businesses Before The Exit | Ibraheem Alani | Ep. 35 (opens the original)
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Assalamu Alaykum—Futhallah interviews Ibraheem Alani on the Deen and Deals podcast for Muslims in tech sales about his shift from a cybersecurity degree into entrepreneurship. Ibraheem shares early job-hopping, multiple failed business attempts, and how he learned sales with no background, emphasizing confident pricing and focusing on process over outcomes. He explains building a LinkedIn outreach agency with a simple promise of “10 qualified meetings,” scaling by hiring and training a sales tea
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