Ten Podcasts to Give You Serious Business Motivation
Below we’ve listed our ten top favourites, all of which will give you some brilliant insights into being an entrepreneur and will help you to stay focused on your journey.
1. The Disruptive Entrepreneur
Hosted twice weekly by investor, entrepreneur and educator, Rob Moore, The Disruptive Entrepreneur is a must-listen for any budding businessmen and women. Including his own content, and featuring some of the biggest names in the game as guest speakers, this is sure to get your entrepreneurial creativity flowing!
2. Ted Talks: Carol Dweck: ‘The Power of Believing That You Can Improve’
Although this talk was based on education and children, the importance of ‘not yet’ and a growth mindset still very much apply to businesses and entrepreneurs. Instead of looking at ‘right now’, look at the ‘yet’ in your success and achievements.
3. Ted Talks: Angela Lee Duckworth: ‘Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance’
“We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them. We need to measure whether we’ve been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.”
While Duckworth’s talk was largely focused on instilling ‘grittiness’ into the younger generation, the resounding message applies to business, too. The understanding that failure is not the end point is of paramount importance to many business scenarios.
A self-proclaimed “documentary series about entrepreneurial life”, this podcast has been downloaded tens of millions of times since first launching and has even been turned into an ABC sitcom. Hosted by entrepreneur and journalist Alex Blumberg, this podcast presents “a show about what it’s really like to start a business”.
Fancy insights into what life as an entrepreneur looks like? Award-winning entrepreneur Steven Bartlett — CEO of media group Social Chain and receiver of awards including Great British Entrepreneur of the Year and Most Influential Agency Figure 2018 — shares his brutally honest ‘behind the scenes’ in the form of personal diary entries.
According to host John Lee Dumas — an American entrepreneur — “if you’re tired of spending 90% of your day doing things you don’t enjoy and only 10% doing things you love”, then Entrepreneurs on Fire is the place for you. In fact it’s his mission through this podcast to inspire your entrepreneurial journey and help you live the life you’ve dreamed of. Sounds good to us!
7. Entrepreneur Stories 4 Startup Motivation
Featuring conversations with a whole host of successful entrepreneurs, this podcast is sure to inspire you to tackle any obstacle you may face in the way of your business dreams, whilst also reaffirming that everyone’s business journey looks different!
8. The Positivity and Prosperity Mindset
It’s no secret that mindset plays an important role in success in many areas of life, but particularly in business too. Therefore we thought it would be good to include in this list a podcast that focuses on how you can “master your mindset” in order to go for your dreams.
Featuring a medley of motivational talks, this podcast continues on the theme of motivation and mindset. A definite feel-good!
Business mentor Dickie Armour shares with you his tips and tricks to inspire both you and your business. With advice on sales, marketing, social media and everything in between, you’re sure to find some inspiration in what he shares!
The Takeaways
We hope you’ll give these podcasts a try, and that they inspire you and your business in some way.
