Upsource recommends: Our best podcasts for business owners

We love podcasts as a business resource. They’re free, easy to access and great to listen to while you’re taking a break, walking around the block and looking for new ideas to grow your business.

We are not gatekeepers at Upsource, so we’re sharing some of our favourite podcasts for business owners, whether you’re just starting out or scaling up.

Women’s Business

Nicky Elliot speaks to women about their career stories, from first jobs to where they are today. Thought provoking, inspiring, often funny, sometimes tear jerking, Nicky is a great conversationalist and isn’t afraid to ask difficult questions. If you’re inspired by the stories of other women and small business owners, try this podcast.

Winging It

Lucy Hitchcock is a marketeer, business owner and wine influencer, who’s podcast is a really transparent look at how she runs her businesses, the strategies she has used and what did and didn’t work. Not only is Lucy charming, but she’s candid. The podcast started as she went self-employed and has charted her journey to multiple scaling business owner, so wherever you are in your business journey, there’s helpful information for you.

The Small Business Sessions

Weekly podcasts from Enterprise Nation interviewing small business owners in all kinds of industries, and discussing important questions and themes like diversity and inclusion, community building and branding. This podcast is excellent for small business owners who need to be across everything top level, with practical tips and talking points.

Next Big Thing

Web3 can be an intimidating subject for those of us not embedded in the industry. Lauren Ingrams, found of Women of Web3, breaks down big concepts like blockchain, and decentralised tech accessible. If you’re curious about tech, AI, what’s coming up next this podcast has lots of useful information and resources. As Lauren says, this tech affects everyone, not just people in the industry and levelling up your knowledge could give you invaluable skills.

Starting the Conversation

Another transparent small business owner, Alice Benham is a business and marketing strategist who openly shares her sales techniques, breaks down and evaluates her product launches and perhaps most helpfully, encourages business owners to take ‘messy action’. As business owners we can try too hard to get everything ‘right’; for Alice, done is better than perfect, which is a message we all need to hear.

Strategy & Tragedy: CEO Stories

Steph Melodia speaks to business owners and founders and gives not just insightful commentary but practical food for thought. An ex-CEO herself, Steph is a shrewd  interviewer with guests that include business strategists and investors as well as entrepreneurs to give expert advice that founders need!

How I built this

Guy Raz speaks to the brains behind some of the biggest brands and businesses in the world. Want to hear how the guy behind Twitter, Medium and Blogger did it? From a Google DeepMind brain? The founder of Duolingo and reCAPTCHA? This is the podcast for you. Insightful and inspirational behind the curtain conversations with some of the biggest names in industry.

Bump to Business Owner

We couldn’t have a podcast rundown without including this! Caroline’s podcast speaks to female founders who are raising a family while scaling their businesses. Interviewing some big names as well as women who are towards the beginning of their business journey, Caroline asks some hard questions. But the podcast and its guests are testament to what female founders can achieve because they are mothers, no despite being mothers.

If you have some more recommendations for us, let us know! Or, if you’re feeling inspired by the podcasts on the list and are looking to scale your business, get in touch with Caroline and she can match you with your ideal Virtual Assistant, so you can take your business to the next level.