10 Podcasts for Independent Professionals

The life of an independent professional is one of continuous learning. Whether you’re experienced or just starting out, there are seemingly endless opportunities to expand your knowledge. Whether you’re looking to deepen your industry expertise, optimize the way you run your business, or simply pick up a new hobby, the ability to choose what you want to learn and directly apply that knowledge to your business is one of the best things about being an independent.

Podcasts can be a great way to educate yourself on new topics, obtain advice from experts, and entertain fresh perspectives. Often, you’ll discover the answer to a question you hadn’t thought to ask, or get to hear an interview with an industry figure you admire. Whether you’re a dedicated listener, or simply scroll through to find episodes that relate most to you, podcasts can be a useful tool to keep your knowledge up-to-date. Check out these 10 podcasts geared towards independents.

1. The Solopreneur Hour

Each episode of The Solopreneur Hour features a range of guests who provide tangible advice, steps, and tools to turn your skills into a business. Host Michael O’Neal, an entrepreneur himself, provides online write-ups for each episode that include resources such as books, websites, or articles that were referenced.

2. The Accidental Creative

Looking for advice on how to adjust your mindset to become more effective as an independent professional? The Accidental Creative features interviews with artists, authors, and business leaders who share their advice on life and work. Past guests include Wharton professor David Robertson and best-selling author Seth Godin.

3. Double Your Freelancing

Double Your Freelancing aims to help listeners succeed in their independent business ventures. Each episode features an expert who speaks about a specific topic such as the legalities of freelancing, effective sales techniques, and offline marketing strategies.

4. Side Hustle Pro

Side Hustle Pro features black women entrepreneurs discussing how they turned their side hustles into successful businesses. Host Nicaila Matthews aims to help women gain the confidence, motivation, and strategies needed to start their own businesses.

If you like Side Hustle Pro, check out Girlboss Radio with Sophia Amoruso, founder of Nasty Gal and author of the New York Times bestseller #Girlboss. Amoruso interviews inspiring girl bosses from all different industries about lessons they’ve learned throughout their career journey and advice they have for those starting out.

5. Invisible Office Hours

Invisible Office Hours is a weekly podcast that explores how to keep your mindset on track as you grow your business. Topics include branding, how to deal with negativity, and juggling multiple projects at once.

6. Online Marketing Made Easy

Marketing your services is an important part of getting the word out about your business. Online Marketing Made Easy answers essential questions about how to make your business as profitable as possible. Episodes provide step-by-step guides, actionable strategies, and insight from experts.

7. How I Built This

Each episode of How I Built This features a different entrepreneur, innovator, or idealist about how they built a product, service, or movement. You’ll get to hear how leaders of some of the most recognized brands and companies such as Zappos, Patagonia, and Angie’s list built their businesses from a single idea.

8. Earn Your Leisure

Earn Your Leisure is a revolutionary media platform that gives rise to emerging and established content creators from the world of business, finance, and entrepreneurship whose perspective, expertise, and in-depth insight has been undervalued and overlooked. At its core, Earn Your Leisure’s ultimate purpose is to build, as we climb as a community highlighting collaboration over competition.

9. The GaryVee Audio Experience

The GaryVee Audio Experience is one of the most popular podcasts, it’s not one of my favorites. Gary Vaynerchuk is an incredibly successful entrepreneur — having grown his family business to a $60 million empire, and then making smart investment and branding choices to build his own media empire.

10. Startup Stories – Mixergy

The Mixergy community is like having access to a college curriculum on entrepreneurship, taught by the best in the business. The Startup Stories podcast features relevant topics and answers all of the questions that business founders have.

Do you have a favorite podcast that inspires or informs your work? Let us know! .

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