Top Business Podcast of 2021
I love podcasts! This is no surprise – I’m the proud host of one of the world’s top 3% most popular shows.
When I’m not talking to and learning from one of our fantastic guests on the show, I’ll be feeding my brain with new information, fresh perspectives and inspiring ideas from other podcasts. This New Year’s Eve, I bring you some of the best podcasts I’ve listened to over the year. I hope they help you grow and expand your understanding of the world.
The Trusted Leader Show
In The Trusted Leader Show, Global Trust Expert, Trust Expert in Residence at High Point University, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and CEO David Horsager sits down with influential leaders from around the world to discuss their leadership style and the strategies and lessons they have learned throughout their careers. Join us as we assemble the top tactics leaders and organizations need to perform at their best and get faster results. After listening to these engaging conversations, you’ll leave with actionable takeaways that you can immediately apply to your life so that you can become a more Trusted Leader.
Business Made Simple with Donald Miller
The author of Marketing Made Simple, StoryBrand and Business Made Simple, Donald Miller helps business owners take the mystery out of growing their organisations. In the past, he’s had some amazing guests such as Matthew McConaughey, Seth Godin, Rachel Hollis, Patrick Lencioni, Daymond John, Ken Blanchard, Mel Robbins, Dave Ramsey, Scott Hamilton, Auntie Anne, Charles Duhigg, Daniel Pink, Blake Mycoskie and hundreds of others.
In each episode, Miller brings thought-provoking content and insightful interviews, as well as the opportunity for business owners to share their frustrations when it comes to their growth and be a guest on an episode that will be a coaching session to help identify where their business is blocked and what you need to do to fix it.
Your First Thousand Clients
Business Owners of every kind will want to hear from some of the leading marketing, sales, growth and management experts in the world right here on Your First Thousand Clients! The show that gets you to YOUR first thousand clients and beyond!
The Liberators Network
If you’re excited about unleashing organisational superpowers, then this is the podcast for you. We talk about Scrum, Liberating Structures and creating better workplaces. This podcast is created by Christiaan Verwijs and Barry Overeem. Both are Professional Scrum Trainers for Scrum.org and stewards for the Professional Scrum Master II class they created. Aside from their extensive background and experience with Scrum, they are very excited about Liberating Structures and are active members of this worldwide community. We aim to release a new episode every Friday.
The 20 minute VC: Venture Capital
The Twenty Minute VC takes you inside the world of Venture Capital, Startup Funding and The Pitch. Join our host, Harry Stebbings and discover how you can attain funding for your business by listening to what the most prominent investors are directly looking for in startups, providing easily actionable tips and tricks that can be put in place to increase your chances of getting funded. Although, you may not want to raise funding for a startup. The Twenty Minute VC also provides an instructional guide as to what it takes to get employed in the Venture Capital industry, with VCs giving specific advice on how to get noticed from the crowd and increasing your chances of employment. If that wasn’t enough our amazing Venture Capitalists also provide their analysis of the current technology market, providing advice and suggestions on the latest investing trends and predictions. Join us so you can see how you can get BIG, powerful improvements, fast.
Eat Sleep Work Repeat
Better workplace culture… How can make work better? Each week Bruce Daisley chats to scientists and experts to improve our jobs.
HBR Ideascast
A weekly podcast hosted by Senior Editors of Harvard Business Review, Alison Beard and Curt Nickisch, featuring the leading thinkers in business and management. They’ve covered timely topics like the future of work, diversity in the workplace, the problem of pricing, exponential growth and much more.
Finding Mastery
Finding Mastery takes you inside the minds of the world’s best athletes, business leaders, scientists, doctors, and artists pushing the perception of what’s possible. This podcast pulls back the curtain on their self-discovery process and the mental skills that allow these people to be great — things like confidence, calm, grit, focus, trust, optimism, setting a vision for your life and more. Finding Mastery is hosted by Dr. Michael Gervais, a high-performance psychologist who’s clientele consists of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, Olympians and MVPs from every major sport, world record holders, internationally acclaimed artists and corporate leaders.
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
You might think you know what it takes to lead a happier life… more money, a better job, or Instagram-worthy vacations. You’re dead wrong. Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos has studied the science of happiness and found that many of us do the exact opposite of what will truly make our lives better. Based on the psychology course she teaches at Yale — the most popular class in the university’s 300-year history — Laurie will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
Scaling Up Business Podcast with Bill Gallagher
Scaling Up Business is all about how a few companies make it…and why the rest don’t. These podcast shows are drawn from the lessons of clients, coaching partners, and the leading authors that contribute to the Scaling Up Conferences and the Scaling Up best-selling book by Verne Harnish, and the Team at Gazelles.
Show Your Business Who’s Boss with Pia Silva
A fantastic podcast by Pia Silva, to help you Ignore the crap that’s holding you back & discover what it really takes to be The Boss.
a16z Podcast
The a16z Podcast discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This podcast is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.
Disrupt Yourself Podcast
Best-selling author Whitney Johnson (“Disrupt Yourself”) explores her passion for personal disruption through engaging conversations with disruptors. Each episode of this podcast reveals new insights about how we work, learn, and live.
Written by business growth coach Dominic Monkhouse. Find out more about his work here. Read his book, ‘F**k Plan B’ here