Recommended Podcasts for Creative Training Companies

If you’re a creative teacher, coach, or course creator, there’s a lot to learn beyond simply being great at what you teach. Building a successful training business means wearing a lot of hats—from creating courses and building communities to marketing your offers, managing operations, understanding finances, and choosing the right technology.

That’s why we’ve curated this list of podcasts specifically to help creative teachers and training business owners learn from experienced entrepreneurs, educators, marketers, technology experts, and other industry leaders. These shows cover the practical topics that can help you build, improve, and grow your online training business.

Whether you’re launching your first course, growing a coaching business, managing a membership community, or taking your established education business to the next level, there’s something here to help you learn and keep moving forward.

Here our list of some of our favorite podcasts:

For Creative Teachers & Coaches

• ArtsyCourseExperts Tech Podcast – Helping creative teachers and coaches use technology to build and grow better training businesses. Hosted by Angel (Lead tech and coach at Artsy Course Experts), the podcast covers practical strategies for planning, building, maintaining, and scaling online courses, membership communities, coaching websites, and the technology behind them. Episodes range from quick 15-minute lessons to deeper 30-minute discussions, with a focus on helping you use technology confidently and without letting tech become a barrier to your growth.
  • This is our own podcast, created specifically for creative teachers and coaches who want practical, down-to-earth advice on technology, systems, marketing, and growing their training business.
• The Online Course Show – About exchanging knowledge and helping course creators succeed. I LOVE going straight to the source and hearing people’s firsthand knowledge about what has worked for their business. And it’s always great to share my own observations and bounce ideas off other people in the same entrepreneurial space. There is something for everyone on the show. Funnel hacking, high level strategy, nitty gritty processes, book reviews, productivity tips… the list goes on. My guests and our discussions run the gamut: we leave no niche uncovered and no online course topic unexplored! No matter where you are in your journey, The Online Course Show is the best way to stay current on online course trends and learn from successful course creators.
  • Jaques is a cool smart guy that has actually run a profitable music (piano) course. Now focused heavily on AI.
• The Art of Selling Online Courses – The goal of this podcast is to share winning strategies and secret hacks from top performers in the online course industry. We are interviewing successful business owners, asking them questions on how they got to the point where they are right now, and checking how their ideas can help you improve your online course!
  • Super smart sales and conversion techniques for teachers. Also helps a lot of creatives and language teachers.

Instructional Design

• Everything is Teachable – Welcome to your go-to business podcast. Hear from your favorite creators about their work journeys, biggest successes and failures, and time-tested best practices. Each episode focuses on one creator’s personal story and the unique ways they’ve transformed their skills—like house plant care, social media marketing, or finance—into profitable online businesses. This podcast is presented by Teachable: your go-to platform for course creation. Since 2014, we’ve helped more than 100,000 creators earn over $1 billion from online courses and coaching products.
  • By one of my favorite course building platforms Teachable.
• Unique Genius – Learn from your peers about how to run and scale a sustainable creator educator business. Every two weeks, you’ll get actionable insights from the world’s top creator educators as they share what’s worked, what’s failed, and what they’re focused on for the future. Join Thinkific CEO Greg Smith as he asks these high-performing entrepreneurs like Jon Youshaei, Ellie Diop, and XayLi Barclay and asks them the tough questions: “What makes a strong creator business? How do you define your purpose? Should you let your values guide you or should you follow the data?” Listen in as they share intimate stories about their own successes and failures, setbacks and celebrations, to help you unlock your own Unique Genius.
  • From thinkific, one of our favorite course platforms.
• The Art of Online Course Creation – The Art of Online Course Creation is the podcast for experts, coaches, and entrepreneurs who are ready to build a high-quality online course: not just a course that exists, but one that actually gets results. If you want to create an online course that does more of the heavy lifting for you in your coaching business so that you can spend more of your 1:1 time with clients actually coaching, personalizing, and troubleshooting, you’re in the right place. Your host, Shannon Boyer, brings a master’s degree in education and 25+ years of experience as an award-winning curriculum and course designer. She takes the guesswork out of online course creation by breaking down the strategies, frameworks, and design decisions that separate courses people complete and implement from courses people abandon.
  • Shannon is a friendly and smart real teacher sharing her tips.
• Dr. Luke Hobson – Discusses designing learning experiences, teaching, and learning. The purpose of this show is to help folks, like yourself, learn about best instructional design practices by sharing stories and bringing on incredible guests. We also discuss career tips and guidance for transitioning into instructional design and related learning and development positions. Other podcast topics include higher education and online learning. If you are a learning nerd, you are welcomed here.

Business Side of Training

• The Amy Porterfield Show – Getting real about what it takes. The Amy Porterfield Show is a podcast devoted to helping online business owners grow their revenue, audience, and team in a sustainable way that doesn’t just require more time and hustle. Host Amy Porterfield, New York Times bestselling author and $130MM online business owner, shares insights from her own 16+ years in business, as well as candid conversations with leaders in the industry, captivating experts, and the unexpected entrepreneurs who’ve cracked the code on financial and lifestyle freedom, so that you can go from struggling in your business to systemizing and growing your business with stronger marketing …more revenue… better help… more ease… and greater confidence.
  • Excellent advice from a really decent woman, and while she’s now focused on bigger business coaching, she has incredible experience and content around selling courses.
• Course Creator Show – The Course Creator Show is your no-BS guide to building a wildly successful online course business—without sacrificing your sanity. We’re talking big revenue, part-time hours, and the kind of freedom that lets you work in your pajamas or from a café in Paris (because why not both?). Hosted by Gemma Bonham-Carter, an online business strategist who’s helped over 14,000 entrepreneurs through her paid programs, this show dishes out the insider strategies, real talk, and no-fluff advice you need to hit those big business goals. From behind-the-scenes peeks into her own 7-figure business to lessons from the best in the digital product game. 
  • Seems to have stopped in 2025.

Creators

• Creator College – Everyone has a platform now. Whether you’re a creator, founder, or just someone with a point of view, your decisions and identity are increasingly shaped in front of an audience. Hosted by Jun Yuh, Creator Unplugged explores what it means to live and build in public. Each episode aims to unpack the deeper forces shaping our lives today: success, discipline, money, relationships, the psychology of being seen and more. Expect bold ideas, unconventional thinking and a willingness to sit in nuance.
  • Fun, humble, hard working, and smart conversations about how creators get started. I also love his agency partner Shan Hanif.
• The Creator Playbook – Do you dream of quitting your day job and starting a business that gives you the freedom to spend your time in a way you value? Chances are you’re ready to stop living paycheck to paycheck, but you’re also smart enough to know that starting an online business isn’t as easy as today’s influencers make it out to be. We get it — taking the leap of faith to start an online business can feel overwhelming, confusing, and downright terrifying. Lucky for you, you don’t have to figure it out alone. Join us each week on the Creator’s Playbook podcast to learn from successful creators to gain insights into how they built their businesses so you can get inspired and scale your growth.
  • By Kajabi – the BMW of Course Platforms, but stopped in 2024.

Community

• Membership Geeks – Join Mike Morrison – founder of the Membership Geeks – for advice, tips and insight on planning, running and growing a successful membership website plus interviews with existing membership owners and industry experts.
  • Mike is nice, smart, and practical. A real pro – doing this stuff for a while.
• Skool Stories – Stories from people earning a full-time income doing what they love on Skool.
  • Related to Alex & Layla Hormozi (great business tips) -> See The Game. He’s co-owner via Acquisition.com
• Community At Heart – Community at Heart is a strategy-first podcast for creators, educators, coaches, and entrepreneurs who are ready to build, grow, and monetize a paid membership community, and turn community into a real growth engine for their business.
  Hosted by Rachel, a Circle Expert, Certified Partner, and founder of coCreator Society, the show delivers practical community building strategies, real-world insights, and proven frameworks for designing, launching, and scaling a membership community inside Circle and beyond.

Coaching

• Instructional Coaching with Ms. B – Welcome to Instructional Coaching with Ms. B, where we believe that every teacher deserves a coach, and every coach does too! I’m Chrissy Beltran, an elementary teacher who became a coach and I had to create my own coaching program that worked. Now I teach coaches how to design their coaching programs, build a school-wide action plan, and use differentiated strategies to support teachers. Plus, I’ve got a special spot in my heart for literacy coaches! This podcast will cover instructional coaching strategies including modeling, co-teaching, and observations, coaching cycles, and more! We’ll also talk about how to coach resistant teachers, how to establish yourself as a coach and define your role, set goals, manage your time, facilitate PLCs, and more! We chat with instructional coaches, principals, school leaders, and researchers!

Other Topics

• Jim Kwik – A fun, fast-paced show designed to help busy people learn and achieve anything in a fraction of the time! Your coach, Jim Kwik (his real name), is the brain & memory trainer to elite mental performers, including many of the world’s leading CEO’s and celebrities. In this easy to digest bite-sized podcast, you will discover Kwik’s favorite shortcuts to read faster, remember more, and ‘supercharge’ your greatest wealth-building asset: your brain. Whether you’re a student, senior, entrepreneur or educator, you will get the edge with these simple actionable tools to sharpen your mind, enhance your focus, and fast-track your fullest potential.
  • Great good guy and solid helpful information about health, brain, productivity

Our Podcast

Don’t forget to check out our podcast made specifically for creative professionals that need tech and coaching help to grow their training business. We take all the tech and business mumble jumbo and explain it in everyday English, so a typical creative pro at a cafe can understand and use it.

Summary and Next Steps

You don’t need to listen to all of these podcasts—or even try them all. Pick two or three that match where you are right now and give them a listen. Find the ones that teach you something useful, challenge your thinking, or give you ideas you can actually put into practice.

Once you find a few favorites, go back and binge their best episodes. Look through their archives for topics that match the challenges you’re working on today, whether that’s marketing, technology, sales, operations, or growing your community.

Most importantly, don’t just listen—use what you learn. The goal isn’t to consume more content; it’s to discover ideas that help you build a better training business.