5 inspiring career women podcasts
The podcasts all boss ladies should listen to now
Besides coffee, these podcasts will be your go-to energy boost, equipping you with strategies and tactics to make every Monday at work more meaningful.
The emotional roller coaster of building a career can be overwhelming, especially if you are striving to achieve a work-life balance. Whether you’re feeling stuck professionally, trapped in uncomfortable work situations, unable to communicate your work needs or trying to prevent a remote working burnout, these podcasts are your new recorded plan to launch your dream career and cultivate happiness. Podcasts for career women by career women are recorded to communicate development, success, and inspiring failures. After all, education and shared awareness are the key components of female empowerment.
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We gathered five podcasts with all the advice you’ve been searching for, from successful women in business:
01 Great Women of Business
Recorded to empower and inspire, this special limited-run series spotlights the alluring journey of women entering the business arena by fighting sexism. Each episode serves as audio transportation to the stories of the most powerful women leading the business narrative, examining the most innovative work principles. Among the 12 episodes, Coco Chanel initiates the listener to “The Art of Branding”, Martha Stewart teaches “Commitment to Quality”, whereas Madam C.J. Walker comforts “Necessity” as the mother of invention, and Estée Lauder highlights the value of “Dedication” when building a billion-dollar legacy.
Press play and get inspired on Spotify, Apple Podcasts
02 Femails
They say, ‘never judge a book by its cover’, but with a name like that, Femails got our attention! A top-ranked business podcast on iTunes, the Femails delivers helpful, actionable office tips, and all the insights of what it takes to build a successful and fulfilling career on your terms. This episodic series unravels the demanding yet empowering world of the feminine workplace by interviewing a variety of women about their working explorations, failures, triumphs. Lauren McGoodwin, Career Contessa's CEO will be your host and mentor, on your journey of overcoming any obstacles putting your professional development on pause.
Press play and get inspired on Apple Podcasts, Spotify
03 The Classy Career Girl Podcast
An audio version of the Classy Career Girl, an e-learning platform for women in career transitions and one of the top 35 most influential career sites named by Forbes, this podcast contains the A to Z of starting your own business. Founder and CEO, Anna Runyan, shares her enthralling entrepreneurial path, on an effort to aspire the listener’s professional fulfilment. A series of tactics on launching your dream career, provided to the audience through success stories, Q&As, interviews with business-owning women, to clarify your goals and turn them into an organised plan.
Press play and get inspired on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts
04 Women at Work
A journalistic approach to what it takes to be a woman in business. Produced by editors at the Harvard Business Review, Women at Work is the answer to all your working “how’s”. From how to communicate a health crisis and how to speak your mind at work to how to start your career in a pandemic or how to welcome back remote work, this podcast untangles the struggles and successes of women in the workplace, with unique insights from experts and studies, statistical evidence, and personal anecdotes.
Press play and get inspired on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
05 Advice To My Younger Me
If you could write a note to your younger self... this podcast is the upgraded digital audio file. Host Sara Holtz and her expert guests will equip you with the needed tools and advice, successfully guiding you through the sometimes-confusing workplace. Learn the cure for burnouts, the secret steps to achieve work-life balance, or how building confidence is an “inside job”, from those who have “been there, learned this”. Advice To My Younger Me is a great and pain-free way to learn from other people’s failures without experiencing their subsequent scarring.
Press play and get inspired on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts.
