By Hollie Jones

Whether you’re a female founder, entrepreneur, or freelancing queen, being a woman in business is both exhilarating and challenging.

The road of a female entrepreneur is long and winding, with plenty of bumps and potholes along the way — and we’re not all born savvy and fearless.

Luckily, there is plenty of advice, inspiration, and encouragement to be discovered along the way. Podcasts are brilliant for finding insight and enlightenment on a whole range of topics — and they’re perfect for female entrepreneurs (let’s face it, our lives can sometimes be lonely and isolating, as much as we love them).

Below, we’ve gathered six of the best empowering podcasts to listen to if you’re a woman in business. They’re all hosted by female founders or entrepreneurs, and feature some awesome guests. Check out the list here:

1.   Girlboss Radio with Sophia Amoruso

If you’re a woman in business, there’s a great chance that you’ve already heard of Sophia Amoruso: founder and CEO of fashion brand Nasty Gal and female social network Girlboss. But have you heard of Girlboss Radio? It’s well worth listening to.  

Each weekly Girlboss Radio episode tackles a specific theme, and the show features famous female entrepreneurs talking to host Sophia Amoruso about the highs and lows of growing their businesses and building their careers.

What do we love about Girlboss Radio? The honest (and humorous) conversations, the solid advice, and the inspiring stories that come out of each episode; great for women who are struggling to navigate the professional and personal obstacles of running a successful business.

2.   The Lively Show

With over 10-million downloads and reviews describing her podcast as “the #1 podcast that all female entrepreneurs should listen to” — host Jess Lively must be doing something right. And if you give this podcast a try, you’ll hear it for yourself.

The Lively Show was started with the intention of sharing a deeper approach to life and business than just “hustle and grind” success tips. It’s all about finding your own potential, becoming empowered, and solving problems in meaningful ways.

 In addition to sharing her own insights, Jess invites plenty of intelligent and fascinating guests to her podcast to tell their journeys as female entrepreneurs. Perfect for feeling empowered as a woman in business.

3.   Stellar Life from Orion’s Method

Stellar Life is hosted by Orion Talmay of Orion’s Method. This inspirational podcast takes a holistic approach to “leveling up” your life, tackling self-development, health, wealth, leadership, and female empowerment.

Orion recognizes that life is a puzzle composed of thousands of pieces, and understands the importance of maintaining that perspective. It’s all very well focusing on certain aspects of your career, but if you ignore the rest of your life, you’re going to feel unfulfilled. That’s why each episode addresses one or more of these pieces and is packed with “big picture” inspiration.

The result is an empowering podcast that offers insight and practical advice for listeners.

4.   Being Boss

Being Boss is an awesome podcast to listen to if you’re a woman in business. Aimed at creative entrepreneurs, freelancers, and side-hustlers, Being Boss is co-hosted by two successful business gurus (and good friends) — Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson.

Each episode of the successful podcast (which has been going since 2015) is full of practical and encouraging advice for the working woman. Whether it’s setting out career tactics, habits, and routines, or getting into the mindset of successful female entrepreneurs, this podcast features plenty of content that will empower and inspire listeners. 

The list of podcast guests is impressive too, with a huge variety of successful entrepreneurs and experts such as Brooke Castillo coming on to offer guidance and share their stories. There are hundreds of fascinating episodes to choose from, so get listening!

5.   The Broad Experience

The Broad Experience is not known as well as some others but all about women, success, and work.

Brought to you by journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte (British-born but based in New York), each episode tackles big subjects; things that everyone’s thinking about but not always talking about.

Ashley covers a huge range of topics, including race, gender, age and class in the workplace, parenthood (or the lack thereof), sexual harassment, and even working through menopause. She is joined by some awesome guests who help to bring their own special insight and experiences to these subjects.

Overall, it’s an intelligent podcast that helps empower women in business.

6.   Goal Digger

Popular podcast Goal Digger is hosted by Jenna Kutcher, an online marketing expert, podcaster, and educator. Based in Wisconsin, Jenna is a creative entrepreneur who made her way out of a corporate office job and grew a 7-figure empire doing something she loves. Now, she’s sharing what she’s learned and helping entrepreneurs to grow profitable, passionate and authentic businesses that allow them to live more and work less.

Each weekly podcast episode comes packed with helpful marketing advice, productivity tips, social strategies, business hacks, and inspirational stories — perfect for women in business, and particularly creative freelancers and budding entrepreneurs.

Jenna is engaging, friendly, and super-enthusiastic about each subject she tackles, which makes Goal Digger feel light (some podcasts feel like heavy lectures) while still leaving you with empowering tips and strategic tactics.

Whether you’re looking for inspirational advice and success stories from girl bosses around the world, self-care and wellbeing tips, or frank discussions on modern feminism, there are plenty of female-led podcasts to choose from these days.

If you’re a woman in business, tune into these six empowering podcasts — trust us, you won’t look back.