Worlds Top 5 Podcasts for Entrepreneurs
The podcasts for entrepreneurs that are represented in this article are considered high-quality content. As the access to legitimately gain traction in your business model due to the ability to create duplicable “mental models”.
These 5 podcasts give the listeners a chance to understand “what it takes to think, start, & build ” a startup.
Our goal is to teach you how to think while enjoying each audio. Thus establishing a framework that will give one access to duplicate those frameworks in their business.
In addition, we hope to help create a healthy habit of curiosity that leads to a plethora of mental models.
Our Worlds Top 5 Podcasts for entrepreneurs give a chance to take away tangible insights and mental models!
Marketing School
Despite the podcast mainly providing value from a digital marketing perspective for online companies, Neil and Eric does an amazing job articulating the exact tactics around how to execute simple and sometimes difficult tasks.
With their fast pace 10 min podcast style, Neil and Eric leave no time to waste. Takedown notes and listens for the key insight that may pertain to their marketplace.
Mental Model takeaways of “Marketing School”
The unique 10 min podcast model helps young entrepreneurs go from a wannabe entrepreneur who simply enjoys hearing entrepreneurial stories; to an entrepreneur that seeks and expects tangible insights.
When seeking tangible insights, some strategies may not be applicable today. As you grow, your product grows and your team grows certain tactics will become more and more applicable.
Most just listen to a tactic and since it doesn’t apply in the “now” they disregard it.
The key is to create an organized folder or files that are clearly broken up into distinct sections (culture & leadership, business development for ‘Xyz brands’ banner ad marketing, content marketing, influencer marketing, etc).
How I Built This
This amazing podcast provides listeners with a new and fascinating way to experience the world of podcasts.
How I Built This provides interesting breaks, storylines, and themes that keep your attention and extend the time you’re engaging with the podcast.
The podcast keeps subscribers on their toes, eager for the next episode.
“Mental Model takeaways of “How I Built This”
With each episode comes an extremely in-depth look at the beginning times of each individual entrepreneurs journey.
We encourage you to pay attention to the questions Guy Raz asks and ask yourself the same.
This podcast helped us learn how to view the world from so many different entrepreneurs’ perspectives. Collecting data and walking down the “empathy lane” helped us understand how to be more effective leaders, product developers, marketers, and entrepreneurs.
Listening to each story from the entrepreneurs and taking the findings to spread the keys with your internal team or comparing best practices to your current marketing or leadership strategy, makes you a more authentic and well-rounded entrepreneur.
Mixergy
Amazing, Fantastic, Irreplaceable.. and that’s an understatement. This long-running podcast provides so much value from the first few minutes while the host dives deep into revenues, to the last few minutes where the host does an amazing job going over key points from the interview.
“Mental Model takeaways of “Mixergy”
Uncovering the true “reasons” behind major failures in one’s business model is a strength for the Mixergy host. This is also one of many fundamental keys for any entrepreneur looking to establish consistency.
Keep a notepad ready, you will definitely be able to grow aspects of your business in real-time.
EntreLeadership Podcast
Entreleadership podcast is a great podcast for financial, staff, and overall organizational growth.
This podcast explains how to think, how to see the world, which provides a secure foundation for one’s tactics.
While most entrepreneurs enjoy happiness, respect, passion, love & appreciation for one’s work; most of their day-day actions point in another direction.
See only the great entrepreneurs and brands can explain how much of an impact culture & leadership can have on product design, energy levels, creativity, and overall company success.
Yet so many tend to solely target their energy towards the latest and greatest tools and ideas that they feel will improve the company and not the “people” that will internally execute those tools and functions. Entreleadership focuses directly on improving these flaws.
This podcast is brilliant and this may be the most impactful yet the most underrated mental model of the entire article.
Inside Quest
Now this selection was incredibly difficult due to the inconsistency of their podcast rollouts.
Tom, the host of Inside Quest may present 2 interviews per month and then 2 per week, yet despite the low volume, each episode is packed with amazing content that Tom brings out of each amazing guest.
Interviewing & Organizational Culture: These are the two main mental models that you will develop while listening to Inside Quest.
Tom does an amazing job with his interviewing style, whether you adopt his unorthodox habits of question generation, or you adopt his way of giving back and providing disproportional value to his staff with his “live show; which he invites the entire team to so they can grow as people” both will serve you and your brand incredibly well.
The goal of each listen should be to take away something incredibly valuable.
These are some of the Worlds Top 5 Podcasts for Entrepreneurs. If you have any other suggestions do let us know and we can feature them in our next article.
