According to a recent study, over 44 million Americans claim to have a side hustle to boost their personal income besides their normal job. The millenials are the ones more attracted to this because the side gigs offer them less dependecy on the day jobs, more flexibility and a hobby that literally pays for itself. Just imagine that only 25 percent of younger millennials make more than $500 a month.
The demand for bussines podcast has started years ago with more people over the world looking for new ways to boost their personal income. Also, the recent acquisition of Audiable by Amazon helped push audio books to the maintstream.
So if you’re ready to start making some extra income on the side, stop living paycheck to paycheck, and enjoy the passion of a side-hustle can provide, then add these shows to your listening queue and enjoy the ride. Why not listen and learn in the car, metro or whilst queuing up and build up your dream.
We’ve currated for you below the top 5 podcasts we think will help you motivate, learn and launch your side hustle fast
Enjoy!
1) The Side Hustle Show
This is by far our favourite podcast of all. It has weekly editions and it is literally filled with interviews of people who started side hustles from scratch.
Side Hustle Show is the kind of podcast that is so interesting you will have to take tones of notes. It goes deep in the technicalities and processes of how side hustlers begin their journey and build their business (sometimes million dollar businesses).
What I love about this show is that the host (Nick Loper) usually starts with a few basic questions and then dives into the details of how his guests made it. Because of this, prepare to take notes and reflect upon the thigns you hear.
You will listen to hustlers who start businesses in e-commerce, facebook groups, content marketing and even trading. It also covers “offline” side hustles like
The podcast is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
2) Smart Passive Income
Pat Flynn, the creator of Smart Passive Income is already a legend amongst the digital entrepreneurs.
If you’re interested in creating a website, running a blog, or making money on the internet, listen to this show.
Pat conducts interviews with epic guests who have built really great businesses from book writers to Amazon FBA.
Smart Passive Income has actually developed into an educational business that offers courses for digital entrepreneurs like email marketing, affiliate marketing and more.
SPI empowers its community members to take action toward achieving their goals by providing best-in-class educational content and training experiences. Beyond its own creations, SPI partners up with other industry experts to develop and champion useful resources that further enable its own mission.
You can listen to his side hustle show on Spotify and iTunes weekly.
3) The Foundr Podcast
The host of the show is Nathan Chan who is also the CEO of the Foundr magazine. Hence this “hustle” podcast is actually a spin off from the entrepreneurial magazine which has featured many familiar faces in business. Among them are Ariana Huffington, Richard Branson and Jack Dorsey.
Even if this show is apparently for more seasoned entrepreneurs, you will still find TONS of info about niche businesses and ideas on how to grow your side gig. The topics covered in this podcast are extremelly variate. You will find out the success stories of entrepreneurs who hustled in the fasion industry all the way to interview with the founders of Product Hunt and Dollar Shave Club.
The podcast runs weekly and you can listen to it on SPotify or iTunes.
The foundr Podcast has even been endorsed by Gary Vaynerchuck
“If you’re looking for a great resource to hear the stories of today’s successful entrepreneurs & learn what’s needed to be successful yourself, Foundr Magazine is where you should be allocating your time.“
Gary Vaynerchuck
4) The Indie Hacker Podcast
Another side hustle podcast that totally deserves to be on our list is The Indie Hacker. Its creator, an MIT graduate developer named Courtland Allen, started Indie Hackers in 2016 with the mission to interview solopreneurs who’ve built profitable side hustles. The cool thing about this show is that the interviewer goes into a lot of details about the founders’s stories from their challanges at startup to the revenue generated.
We totally recommend reading their blog as well which is more of a reddit like forum filled with entrepreneurs discussing ideas and issues. The website is trully inspiring for any entrepreneur who wants to put a dent in the univers and is an endless source of valuable information.
Indie Hackers podcast is available on Spotify and iTunes
5) Radically different
This is a new and probably unknown podcast founded by a fresh graduate in 2018.
His goal is to provide a look into the minds and lives of driven and passionate young people at different stages along their path. The show is mostly focused on the struggles of the youngsters who try to become entrepreneurs in foreign countries like Vietnam and Thailand.
The show also feature some very interesting episodes with digitgal nomads about how they travel, where they live and how they make money working remotely. We found this podcast to have a sort of uniqueness and freshness to the entrepreneurial community so it’s definitely worth a try.