My first job was cleaning old, dusty guitars in the back of a music shop. I quit because part of the job meant talking to customers -- and I physically couldn't do it. I'd stutter. I'd go silent. People would stare at me waiting for words that wouldn't come.
I had social anxiety so bad that basic conversations felt impossible. At 19, I moved to London for what was supposed to be my dream job -- working with some of the biggest music festivals in the world. For two years, I dreaded walking into that office. After two years of pretending I was fine, I gave up, flew home to Ireland, and finally told my family how much I was struggling.
Then one night, my brother took me out for a drink. He told me someone at his company was making $5,000 a month in sales. I almost spat out my beer. "$5,000 a month? I'll clean the bathrooms at the office for that money." He laughed -- then told me I could give it a try.
A week later I was staring at my first Zoom call. The prospect joined. I froze. The silence was so painful that he left the meeting. I sat there thinking I'd be fired the same day.
But I had more calls in my calendar. And I'd made a promise to myself that I wasn't going to do what I always did -- give up and let my shyness ruin my life. So I put my head down. 16, 17 hours a day. Studying everything I could find on sales, psychology, communication. I didn't leave my room.
One week later, a Slack notification popped up on my screen: "Adam Courtney just made a $3,997 sale."
I was standing in my childhood bedroom, laptop balanced on a pile of old books that had been sitting around the house for years. I jumped up. Ran through the house. Nearly cried.
Twelve months later, our head of finance messaged me: I'd collected my first $1,000,000 in sales. And I'd broken every single sales record the company had ever tracked. Month after month -- the highest performing rep. Year after year, the numbers kept climbing.
Today, that number is over $8,000,000. All on Zoom. All through conversation. And now I travel the world training people to do what I once thought was completely impossible for someone like me.
I built this course because I know exactly what it feels like to believe you're not the "sales type." To freeze up, to stumble over your words, to feel like everyone else has something you don't. You don't need a gift. You need a system. And that's what Sell Anything is.
