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.
In 1961, President John F Kennedy famously announced his goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth before the decade was out. As we know, in July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the moon, and were brought back to Earth safely, achieving JFK’s goal. At a time when most people hadn’t even been on an aeroplane, landing on the moon would’ve felt unachievable and overwhelming. However, such a massive goal united people with a purpose; the story goes that even a cleaner mopping the floor at the space station said his job was to help put a man on the moon. So, how did they make the goal achievable? They broke it down into milestones, with each one taking them closer and closer to achieving their ultimate goal. The first milestone was to achieve lift off. So, they set about resolving this challenge. The next milestone was to reach orbit, so they had a team working on this milestone. Then, they had to reach the moon’s atmosphere, land safely on the moon, take off from the moon, enter Earth’s atmosphere and land safely back down to Earth. You can see how breaking the goal down into milestones gave everyone a more achievable objective to focus on which was less overwhelming. Those milestones were then broken down into the actions which needed to be completed. Each action was essentially a small step towards reaching the ultimate goal.
Are you undercharging for your services? It can be hard to tell, particularly if you’re in a niche industry or you’re a contractor. Costs have been rising, so it may be time to rethink your own pricing.
For your business to make money, you need to generate revenue. You produce revenue through your usual business activity, by making sales, getting your invoices paid, or taking cash from paying customers. So, the better you are at selling your products/services and bringing money into the business, the higher your revenue levels will be. But what actually drives these revenue levels? And how do you get in control of these drivers?