Tea and Timbits

Tea and Timbits

Global perspectives on business development to help you prosper.

"Business Development" is so much more than sales and marketing. This podcast is for motivated business leaders dealing with complexity, wanting to make changes happen. Brought to you weekly by Andy Baqone and Scott Snowden, you'll get validation that you're on the right track and you'll come away with new ideas to accelerate your plans. From the rocky shores of Lake Ontario and the dreary streets of London, this transatlantic duo opine about the things they wish they'd known long ago - most of which they've just figured out.

Challenger Selling: “That’s Not Your Real Problem”
Tea and TimbitsJune 03, 2026
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00:24:1822.26 MB

Challenger Selling: “That’s Not Your Real Problem”

Sales methodologies month has begun, and we’re starting with the Challenger Sale. This one is all about helping customers think differently — which sounds noble until you realize it also means saying, “Are we sure that’s actually the problem?” without getting escorted out of the room. In this episod...

Complex Selling Tools: Turns Out It’s Mostly Pens, People, and Not Panicking
Tea and TimbitsMay 27, 2026
133
00:23:0621.16 MB

Complex Selling Tools: Turns Out It’s Mostly Pens, People, and Not Panicking

Complex selling sounds like it should require a giant tech stack, seven dashboards, and at least one acronym nobody fully understands. But in this episode, we discovered something slightly annoying: the best tools are often the simplest ones. We talked about: – borrowing ideas from completely differ...

Stakeholder Engagement: Herding Cats Without Setting the Sales Process on Fire
Tea and TimbitsMay 20, 2026
132
00:21:1119.4 MB

Stakeholder Engagement: Herding Cats Without Setting the Sales Process on Fire

Complex selling is never just about “the buyer” and “the seller.” We wish it were. It would make life much easier, and we could probably all spend less time in meetings pretending the spreadsheet is “basically under control.” In this episode, we talk about stakeholder engagement — the people inside ...

Complex Selling: Executive Selling Isn’t Just Suits in a Boardroom
Tea and TimbitsMay 17, 2026
131
00:22:0920.28 MB

Complex Selling: Executive Selling Isn’t Just Suits in a Boardroom

This week, we’re recording together in London for a rare in-person episode, which naturally means things go slightly off the rails before we even get to the topic. We kick things off with a story about hiring event security, where we learned the hard way that ticking qualification boxes doesn’t alwa...

Big Deals: Why Team Selling Isn’t a Crowd Sport
Tea and TimbitsMay 06, 202600:25:1023.05 MB

Big Deals: Why Team Selling Isn’t a Crowd Sport

This week, we dive headfirst into the world of complex deals and team selling — and discover that the secret to winning big opportunities isn’t bringing eleven people and a 300-slide deck into a meeting. In fact… it’s usually the opposite. We explore why complex deals are more often lost to internal...

Show Up, Stay Sharp, and Stop Guessing: The Real Work Behind Healthy Results
Tea and TimbitsApril 29, 2026
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00:21:5720.1 MB

Show Up, Stay Sharp, and Stop Guessing: The Real Work Behind Healthy Results

In this bonus episode, we doubled down on what actually drives healthy teams and results—and spoiler alert: it’s not luck, and it’s definitely not another fancy spreadsheet. We kicked things off with a simple but powerful reminder: just showing up (literally, in person) can unlock opportunities you ...

Fifteen Minutes That Changed Everything (And Why Zoom Never Will)
Tea and TimbitsApril 22, 2026
128
00:21:5920.14 MB

Fifteen Minutes That Changed Everything (And Why Zoom Never Will)

This week, we wrap up our “Healthy Team, Healthy Results” series with a tools episode—but not the kind you’d expect. We kick things off with a story that perfectly proves why getting out from behind the screen still matters. What started as a routine 15-minute client meeting turned into a game-chang...

Healthy Leaders, Healthy Teams: Why Your Calendar Might Be Your Best Workout
Tea and TimbitsApril 15, 2026
127
00:20:0418.38 MB

Healthy Leaders, Healthy Teams: Why Your Calendar Might Be Your Best Workout

We used to think “healthy body” in business conversations meant… well… eating a salad and pretending we enjoy it. Turns out, it’s a bit more important than that. In our latest episode, we got into something that doesn’t get talked about enough: > Leaders set the tone — not just with strategy, but...

Culture Isn’t a Poster: Why Your Team Feels It (or Doesn’t)
Tea and TimbitsApril 08, 2026
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00:19:4318.05 MB

Culture Isn’t a Poster: Why Your Team Feels It (or Doesn’t)

In our latest episode, we got into a conversation that started with a global meeting powered by live AI translation (very cool, slightly sci-fi), and quickly turned into something deeper: Why do some teams just work … while others feel like chaos in slow motion? We’ve both seen businesses where: The...

Don’t Be the April Fool: Why Great Teams Train the Basics (Relentlessly)
Tea and TimbitsApril 01, 2026
125
00:19:5318.21 MB

Don’t Be the April Fool: Why Great Teams Train the Basics (Relentlessly)

Ever sat through “training” where you click play, zone out, and hope there’s no quiz at the end? 😅 Yeah… we’ve all been there. In our latest episode, we talk about why most training doesn’t work—and what actually does. Turns out: It’s not about more content It’s not about clever hacks And it’s defi...