Elevation Plane: 10 Podcasts for Emerging Global Business Leaders
Taking the big leap into the business world can be overwhelming. You’ve got that brilliant idea you badly want to execute. You may already have the funding or you’re still sourcing. Either way, you want to take it from potential to kinetic.
For many emerging entrepreneurs, they have to take the lonely walk of translating their business ideas into reality.
Successful business leaders are busy and it can be tough to get them to cut you a slice of their time. Still, you need help.
The world is going through an unprecedented time and it seems your plans have taken a punch in the face. You’re not the only one.
Many successful global business leaders have faced what you’re currently facing. They got over it and created systems that are even surviving the COVID-19 pandemic.
You may not have the time to read their books or get some as mentors, but for an hour or two a day, you can listen to them.
Maybe You’re Not Into Entrepreneurship
Chances are you want to be a corporate leader or attain the zenith of your profession. These podcasts are also for you.
The global workforce is rapidly shifting towards being fully knowledge-based. You want to understand the sales funnel and the economics of scale of 21st-century businesses.
Your mind is your best asset and it weighs more than your curriculum vitae in the new marketplace.
Not everybody will attend Harvard, but you’ve got to be knowledgeable to think like you went to Harvard. You’ve got to build your MBA.
The List
Listed below are podcasts that host business leaders, professionals, celebrities, people who have failed and have got back up, and a host lot of intellectual goodness.
Let’s dive right in. Shall we?
This podcast interviews world-leading professionals, musicians, actors, billionaires, comedians, athletes, etc who have become successful at what they do and have found financial freedom doing it. The podcast doesn’t just give a typical success story, it gives the story of rigor and struggles the successful went through and how they succeeded.
The host makes the sessions relatable for young businesses and allows guests to relate their ideas with emerging businesses.
Like I mentioned earlier, the entrepreneurial walk is a lonely one. To survive, you’ve got to do it differently. That’s why you need a unique selling point.
This is a weekly podcast with serial entrepreneur, Dave M Lucas, and it gives business and smart entrepreneurship insights from the world’s top entrepreneurs with a focus on non-traditional methods for achieving success which is their misfit side.
This is the podcast where the conclusion was made that “A dash of insubordination is the secret to Google’s success.”
Started by LinkedIn co-founder, Reid Hoffman, this podcast introduces a theory on how successful businesses are and tests the validity by interviewing founders about their path to success. It has featured guests like Starbucks founder and former CEO Howard Schultz, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and a host of other important persons.
This is the podcast listened to by millions of American entrepreneurs. They break down what led to the guest’s success on this show.
This has been ranked №1 business podcast out of over 500,000 in the niche. This audio show features successful personalities in sports, business, entertainment, fashion, etc. to bring out principles they have applied to their lives and have proven effective.
You want to build that business from scratch, but you don’t know how to start. Listen to this show.
This is a podcast that features founders of companies who share their stories and experiences in building their business. With every podcast, you get to learn the principles that helped them grow and become multinational giants.
I love technology, but I sometimes get scared of it. Still, the world has got to move forward. This is where you get a balanced view of the issue.
This is a podcast that focuses on how science and technology are changing the whole wide world. The host, Jennifer Strong, every Wednesday takes millions of listeners on how science and technology influence our lifestyle and the impact of this. She travels to feature top tech names in the show.
There are 3.88 billion people on social media. Massive, right? You wanna know how to make it work for your brand, listen to this.
Also known as Social Media Examiner, this podcast comes twice a week which focuses on how to successfully advertise on social media. This talk show is organized by Michael Stelzner and a long list of celebrities that have been interviewed on this podcast is on the website.
The last time I listened to this show, here is what I learned:
When you are trying to sell to someone and after your pitch, the person says “let me think about it.” chances are they’re not coming back. You’ve got to seize that opportunity by asking this simple question: what are your concerns? Price, indecision, a missing detail… this will help you narrow down the problem.
This is an online podcast that focuses on teaching ways of marketing to businesses over the internet majorly. You get insights on how much you should allocate to marketing and how to target your customers. This podcast is hosted by Neil Patel and Eric Siu.
The hosts are two of the biggest digital marketers in the world. If you’re in this niche, you want to follow them.
If you’re in the business world, you’d understand this quote perfectly:
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
If you’re not standing out, then you’re not indispensable. Someone else can easily replace you. That’s what Seth Godin teaches.
This podcast operates as a school where 30 entrepreneurs learn how to build and run their dream business. The host, Seth Godin, is a thought leader in the marketing and business world. This podcast has been acknowledged by many as one innovative and brilliant show that has helped a lot of business owners.
I bet you wouldn’t want to make the mistake someone else made in the past. That is why you’ve got this show.
This podcast has been featured as one of the best podcasts ever. People who have failed in one aspect or the other in the past are made to tell their stories on how they rose from losers to legends. Successful people from CEOs, Presidents of Companies, technology leaders, authors, superior court judges, sports champions, terrorist negotiators, and recovering alcoholics are invited to share their experiences over the podcast.
It is not about the number of times you failed, it is about the times you got back to your feet.
Bonus
This basically takes less than 10 minutes to discuss economic terms and how they affect the American economy. With hosts, Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia, economic terms in the news are simplified.
This podcast gives you principles of success that have been tested and proven to work for human beings. It discusses ways by which wealth and success can be built.
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So, there you have it. The ten podcasts as promised and two others as a bonus. You can get all these for free with just a Google search.
You’ve got any insightful podcast I should include, let me know in the comment section below. Please, feel free to share.
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