Inspirational podcasts for your business
Anna Stubbs • February 25, 2025
Podcasts are often on our list of things to do, but for many business owners, there are often not enough hours in the day. The recent challenges and changes in business mean it's the perfect time to make the opportunity to think about where you want your business to head in the future.
Here's 9 podcasts to provide inspiration for your next business planning session, and are great to listen to when exercising. Find them on the author’s website, Spotify or iTunes.
- TED Talks - super popular and there are thousands to choose from. Top picks include Simon Sinek and Brene Brown.
- Lewis Howes School of Greatness - Downloaded over 4 million times a month, hear interviews with world-class game changers in entrepreneurship, health, athletics, mindset, and relationships.
- The Bite-Size BizRoom - 15-minute podcasts with business advice you can easily action to grow your business.
- The Mike Dillard Podcast - Captivating interviews with inspiring leaders to help you fulfill your potential.
- The Happiness Lab - Surprising and inspiring stories based on the latest scientific research that will change the way you think about happiness.
- Building a Storybrand - Donald Miller has helped thousands of businesses grow by getting them to clarify their marketing messages.
- How I Built This - Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best-known companies. Hear about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists — and the movements they built.
- The Mindset Mentor - 10-20 minute podcasts designed to give small business owners a motivational boost.
- Entrepreneurs on Fire - John Lee Dumas is the founder and host of this award winning podcast. With over 100 million listens and more than 3000 episodes it delivers high energy inspiration and valuable insights.
Hiding in the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announcements published on 26 March was a technical note entitled ‘Modernising the tax system through Making Tax Digital‘. This note announces that the income threshold for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax & Self Assessment (or MTD for ITSA) is to drop to £20,000 per annum for sole traders and landlords. If you fall into this category, this means moving your tax completely over to digital by April 2026. But don’t worry, let’s see what MTD for ITSA is all about.
Uncertainty can be a major threat to your strategic financial planning. Being unsure of what lies around the corner makes it difficult to make those important financial decisions around operational budgets, investment and growth funding. But by using forecasting and scenario-planning, you make it easier to manage your finances and reduce some of the financial uncertainty.
Some great new enhancements have come to Xero in the first few months of the year, here's some important features that have been released: Enhancements to the new invoicing Keyboard shortcuts. Drag and drop attachments. Date Picker quick select. Exchange rate adjustments in the invoice. Tracking categories for invoices. Automated bill entry The ability to upload bills directly to Xero, create one or many bills by dragging and dropping multiple files. Xero creates draft bills with the key details, and the original document is attached. Other important features (region dependent) Bank feed updates (Australia adds Suncorp Bank, United States gains PNC Commercial). Simplified whole operations with improved sales orders (United States). Easier 1099 reporting and filing (United States). Streamlined tax workflow and compliance (United Kingdom). Easier reporting (United States Schedule C compliance report, New Zealand not-for-profit tier 3 & 4 PBE reports). For the full breakdown read Xero's update .