Welcome to Decoding Sales, a podcast, we're an engineer, that's me and a sales person.

That's me. me.

Talk about the art and science of sales

and how it relates to life in engineering.

In this episode, we're gonna take a step back

and explore Peter's journey to becoming the salesperson that he is today. and downs and emotional challenges of sales and some of the challenges of being an

Asian man in sales just not your stereotypical sales person and we're going to

hear a little bit about how he thinks about mentoring the next generation and bringing what he's learned and sharing it outward through things like this podcast and in other ways.

So Peter, just to kick things off here, I'm actually pretty curious, when you were like five and your preschool teacher or your kindergarten teacher was like, what do you want to be when you grow up?

What did you say?

Yeah, you know, for me, I actually, believe it or not, I wanted to be when you grow up? What did you say? Yeah, you know, for me actually, believe it or not, I wanted to be in the Army because I was into military stuff when I was younger. And then when I was in middle school, high school, I actually wanted to be a politician.

So I was really active in like student government.

So never, when I was young, did I actually, I don't think I even understood what sales was,

not at that age, but definitely didn't have

aspirations to be a salesperson I'd say even in college I was looking to be their

investment baker consultant and so this was not a planned profession I would say up until I got into the workforce.

Well how did that well so first of all I'm kind of curious about this politician angle that you had

what happened to that dream?

Yeah, you know, I think I realized I didn't have a passion in it.

My father, he was a political science professor.

So I grew up around politics, you know in the household he specialized in actually de-escalating

conflict between North and South Korea.

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