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 a business environment that's currently highly volatile and changeable, it pays to scenario-plan for all eventualities. What is scenario planning? Scenario planning is the process of using your existing business data to project and forecast the future path of your finances, sales and growth as a small business. By running various scenarios, you get an overview of the potential opportunities, threats and financial pitfalls that lie ahead, giving you time to plan for these eventualities.
“Many small businesses are now operating under pressures comparable to those experienced during the Covid pandemic, but this time without an emergency support framework in place.” “SMEs are facing late payments, rising energy costs, increasing crime, a complex tax system and barriers to growth that are compounding rather than easing.” Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the Business and Trade Committee.
The new financial year is a new beginning. As a business owner this a great time for you to reflect on where you are at and think about your business goals for the financial year ahead. Setting goals is an essential part of personal and professional growth. These could be lofty goals, or even setting out a plan to achieve some more mundane (but equally important) projects. Whether that is getting paid faster, reassessing expenses or bigger things like automation of processes and new markets. You may be looking to expand your business or create more time for yourself.