The Guide
Building a company is lonely work — the right show in your ears makes it less so. These are the podcasts we recommend to every woman starting or scaling something: honest conversations, real tactics, and hosts who have actually done the work.
Published August 26, 2026
Our pick — obviously
Hosted by Carrie Moreau
Our own show, and the reason this guide exists. Carrie — entrepreneur and co-owner of Certified Best Roofing — sits down with women founders, operators, engineers and makers for the raw, unfiltered stories behind entrepreneurship: the highs, the hard lessons, and the work behind the work. New episodes drop weekly.
Best for: Founders and aspiring founders who want honesty over highlight reels.
Hosted by Harvard Business Review
A long-running show from HBR that tackles the real dynamics women navigate at work — negotiating, leading teams, being heard in rooms where you're outnumbered — with research-backed guests and candid hosts.
Best for: Operators and leaders inside companies, not just founders.
Hosted by Marie Forleo
One of the longest-running business shows hosted by a woman, blending practical business advice with mindset and life design. Interviews alternate with solo Q&A episodes drawn from listener questions.
Best for: Early-stage founders building a business and a life at the same time.
Hosted by Jenna Kutcher
A marketing-first business show: launches, email lists, social strategy and pricing, taught through Kutcher's own experiments and guest case studies. Episodes tend to be tactical enough to act on the same day.
Best for: Founders doing their own marketing who want concrete tactics.
Hosted by Doone Roisin
Hundreds of interviews with women building consumer and e-commerce brands, focused on the unglamorous middle of the journey — manufacturing, cash flow, wholesale, hiring — rather than just the launch story.
Best for: Product and DTC founders who want operator-level detail.
Hosted by Nicaila Matthews Okome
Spotlights Black women entrepreneurs who turned side hustles into profitable businesses, with a practical focus on how the first customers and first dollars actually happened.
Best for: Anyone building a business alongside a day job.
Hosted by Mandi Woodruff and Tiffany Aliche
A money-and-career show covering the financial side of running a business and a household — pricing yourself, paying yourself, and building wealth while you build a company.
Best for: Founders who want the personal-finance conversation too.
New conversations with women builders drop every week. Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
