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Why Selling Feels Gross (And What's Actually Going On)

If selling feels uncomfortable, it's probably not because you're bad at it. It's because most of what you've been taught about selling was designed for someone with a very different relationship to people than you have. 🌱

The classic sales playbook — urgency, scarcity, objection-handling scripts, "close the deal" language — comes from a world where the seller and the buyer don't have an ongoing relationship. You close, they disappear, you find the next one.

Most of us aren't building that kind of business. We're building something where the people who buy from us stick around, come back, tell their people. Which means every sales interaction is also a relationship interaction. And manipulation — even soft manipulation — poisons that.

So the discomfort you feel when you try to sell using those tactics isn't weakness. It's your instincts working correctly.

Here's what actually tends to happen when you strip the tactics out and sell plainly:

You attract people who were already close to buying and just needed clarity.

You repel people who needed to be convinced — and those people are usually the hardest to work with and the first to ask for refunds.

You feel better about your business. You stay consistent instead of dreading the "sales part."

The goal this week isn't to make you a better closer. It's to help you sell in a way that feels like you — so you'll actually keep doing it.

To start: think about the last time you bought something without any sales pressure. What made you decide? That answer tells you more about ethical selling than most courses will.

Drop it in the comments if you want to share. 👇

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Why Selling Feels Gross (And What's Actually Going On)