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15 Podcasts Every Entrepreneur Needs to Download

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Entrepreneurs have an outrageous and unpredictable schedule. Time is limited, so it’s difficult to learn and keep up with everything going on in the industry. It is crucial for every entrepreneur to continue learning new things and a way to do that is through a podcast. 

An average podcast lasts about 30 minutes – takes just enough time to fit into your daily schedule. The precious time within those drives to meetings or commute to work, every entrepreneur can consume new information. There are 250,000 available podcasts, so find which podcast is best for you. Here are 15 podcasts every entrepreneur needs to download: 

The Blind Entrepreneur 

Johnathan Grzybowski is a tech startup founder and podcaster. His podcast aims to help millennial entrepreneurs strive and form their ideas into something bigger. Johnathan interviews top notch entrepreneurs and marketers for personal insight and tips. Everyone is an entrepreneur now, but by listening to The Blind Entrepreneur, you can learn how to make a business successful. 

Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss is an author known for the novel The Four Hour Workweek. He is the host of a business podcast where he interviews influential entrepreneurs from around the world.

Tim Ferriss focuses on helping others grow by offering tips, tricks, and other forms of guidance in each episode. 

Freakonomics

The podcast is hosted by Stephen Dubbner, a former journalist at The New York Times. Freakonomics is often co-hosted by economist Steve Levitt as well. The podcast covers some of the Western world’s socioeconomics. Entrepreneurs are the top people who should be keeping up with economic trends, numbers, and etc. Listen to Freakonomics to stay up to date with how society is doing. 

Ask Gary Vee Show

Gary Vaynerchuk is an Entrepreneur, YouTuber and Podcaster. He is a powerful social media influencer for business consulting and motivational speaking. Using the hashtag #AskGaryVee, the serial entrepreneur answers questions from his audience. The topic of discussion can include questions about startup life, social media branding, or even career tips. 

Smart Passive Income

Smart Passive Income weighs in as one of the most popular business podcasts by viewers. The show aims to discuss ways to make money through affiliate marketing. This podcast is a great deal of help to entrepreneurs or listeners who want to make money through a step by step guide. From their helpful work, Smart Passive Income has earned them 33,000,000 downloads. 

Startup Chat

The podcast is directed by two serial entrepreneurs, one speaker is Steli Efti, CEO of Close.io. His co-host is Hiten Shah, Co-founder of Crazy Egg and Quick Sprout. The two entrepreneurs have an open discussion about problems that the startup community has for founders. The podcast provides tips for sales, management, and more. 

PR Is Dead

The host of PR is Dead is an actual PR expert, named Doyle Albee. This podcast teaches listeners how to correctly get press. Doyle Albee gives extensive insight on the business behind public relations then teaches you lessons on how to get good press. The tips are thorough and helpful to entrepreneurs looking to enhance their brand recognition. 

ZenFounder

This podcast proposes to “help entrepreneurs survive, thrive, and connect”. The host is a psychologist and founder of ZenFounder, Dr. Sherry Walling. Sherry talks about the psychology of being a founder. She covers topics like dealing with stress, motivation, and more.

The Pitch 

This podcast takes a spin on giving a startup pitch. The Pitch allows founders to pitch their ideas to investors on air. By pitching on the podcast, founders get feedback on their ideas and pitch by possible investors to the company. 

The Twenty Minute VC

Harry Stebbings is an entrepreneur and investor that hosts The Twenty Minute VC. The podcaster interviews startup founders to talk about funding, development, and growth. The podcast aims to help the startup community by securing tips on topics that only an investor would know. 

Product People

Product People is a podcast made to interview great products and the people behind the products. This includes authors, tech entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. Entrepreneurs can listen to this podcast to understand what these creative innovators had to do to get to their position today. 

ProBlogger

Darren Rowse is an Australian blogger who covers the importance of content marketing. Darren shares his personal story on how he grew his blog into a profitable affiliate marketing platform. Darren has an episode in Problogger that teaches listeners how to make a better blog through optimizing and focusing on SEO. By listening to Problogger, marketers and writers can learn how to grow their traffic and audience. 

Productivity Show

Productivity is important in the realm of business, especially for startups. Working 24/7 in order to grow seems to be glued into the startup culture. The podcast teaches entrepreneurs to manage time more efficiently, prioritize better and even delegate work. The show teaches much more useful tips on improving your overall schedule.

IdeaCast

Idea Cast is created by the Harvard Business Review, where you can listen to interviews with every Harvard professor or a world renown incredible influencer like Jerry Seinfeld. Ideacast is a selective podcast that provides listeners with the best minds to dissect into. Entrepreneurs can get a different range of insight from academic updates to life tips. 

Entrepreneur on Fire

John Lee Dumas is the host of Entrepreneur on Fire. The host creates an interview everyday and has over 1,500 episodes. The podcast features some of the world’s most known and successful entrepreneurs as a source of motivation to listeners. He exploits the path to success and gives the audience some insight on how they can work better.

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Ginny Nguyen

Ginny Nguyen is a Content Writer and Marketing Assistant for Penji. She reports on technology, innovation, and business trends to entrepreneurs. With a background in startup culture, she helps the startup leaders through their entrepreneurial journey.