Okay. Let's address the elephant in your inbox.

You haven't heard from us in a while.

No emails. No tips. No clever pop culture references. No, Ryan pretending he knows more about golf than he does.

Just... silence.

The kind of silence we literally told you NOT to fill in a previous newsletter. (we didn’t take our own advice)

Here's what happened: Funnel Vision went on a little "finding itself" journey. Think Eat Pray Love, but with fewer Italian carbs and more whiteboard sessions. 🍝

The good news? We figured it out.

The better news?

We came back with a new name, a sharper focus, and zero plans to ghost you again.

(That last part is a promise. Probably.)

Funnel Vision, you were good.

Great, even. #nobias

You helped a lot of people think differently about business development. You had tips. You had frameworks. You had Ryan's dubious golf analogies. ⛳️

But here's the thing… "Funnel Vision" always sounded like we were going to sell you a CRM. 

Or worse, explain what a CRM is.

The name was doing us dirty.

Meanwhile, the best stuff? 

-The reader questions.

-The real stories from the field.

-The moments where someone admitted they panicked in a pitch, froze at the close, or caved on price because the silence got too loud?

That was the magic. And that was always... kind of a… confession.

So the content isn't changing. The mission isn't changing.

Just the name. And honestly? It's a better name.

Funnel Vision, we love you. But Confessions it is. 🍻

Same Elana.

Same Ryan.

Same world class guests.

Same commitment to radical candor and useful content that doesn't put you to sleep.

But now we're going deeper.

Confessions is where we share what's actually happening… inside leadership teams, in advisory practices, and yeah, sometimes in our own business too.

-The stuff that doesn't make it onto polished LinkedIn posts.

-The moments that were messy before they got good.

Because at a certain level? Tactics only get you so far. What separates the great advisors, consultants, and salespeople from everyone else isn't the framework.

It's the willingness to say the thing that nobody else will say.

That's the confession.

At this level, it’s not strategy.

It’s trust.

And trust doesn’t come from polished thinking. It comes from saying the thing.

Most people know what’s really going on.

They just don’t say it.

They keep it safe. And safe gets ignored.

The ones who create impact?

They say:

That’s the moment people remember:

“That needed to be said.”

That’s Confessions.

While we were "away" we were creating.

And we now have TWO podcasts living under the Confessions umbrella.

With names you just might know:

🎧 Confessions of an Implementer — [listen to Mark C. Winters]

🎧 Confessions of a Vistage Chair — [listen to Mark Taylor]

Start with whichever feels closest to your world.

You won't be sorry.

Got something sitting in the back of your mind?

A tricky situation, a pattern you keep seeing, a thing that happened in a meeting that you still can't explain?

Send it our way. 📩 We'll give you a straight, honest take — no fluff, no judgment, no 47-bullet framework.

Just real talk. Which, as it turns out, is kind of our whole thing now.

(On the hiatus. We're not going anywhere. (we’re pretty sure))

To your sales success— whatever you're confessing to 🚀

-Elana & Ryan
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P.S. If you unsubscribed while we were gone... we get it. But also, DAMN. 😬

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