Podcasts to Inspire for Founders, Entrepreneurs and Startup Life

Podcasts are synonymous with keeping our startup community inspired with stories and actionable do’s and don’ts from founders and entrepreneurs who’ve been there through the journey to tell their tales. Here are a few of our favourites. What are you listening to? What favourite podcasts have we missed? Give us a shout as we’d love to hear what’s inspiring you.

Secret Leaders: UK's top business podcast featuring the stories and struggles from founders of companies like Slack, Calm and Shazam, along with some the investors crazy enough to back them and group interviews on managing mental health, equality, managing in the time of crisis and more.  

Masters of Scale: Hosted by the co-founder of LinkedIn where each episode shows how companies grow from zero to a gazillion, testing Reid's theories with legendary leaders.  

How I Built This:  Podcast about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists and their stories about the movements they built at some of the world's best known companies.

Rocketship.fm: Essential listening for Entrepreneurs, product managers and anyone working in tech today.  Dive into everything from product to growth, culture to sales and everything in between.  

Startups Magazine: The Cereal Entrepreneur Grab a bowl & dig into this! Editor of Startups Magazine interviews the most innovative startups of the moment. She stirs in some startup lessons & failure fables as well as a sprinkling of inspirational advice.

Exponent: This podcast seeks to explore the massive effect technology is having not just on technology companies, but also on society as a whole. 

Productivityist: Podcast that discusses tips, tools tactics and tricks that are designed to help you take your productivity, time management, goals, to do lists, habits and workflow to new heights - both at work and at home.  Especially relevant when work and home have become so intertwined in the past months.