16 Top Coaching Podcasts Coaches Should Listen To

Coaches, like all professionals, benefit from being part of a community.

Sharing experiences, discussing lessons learned, and exchanging techniques strengthen knowledge and build expertise (Cox et al., 2018).

Whether you’re just starting out or have years of experience under your belt, some podcasts can help you develop your business and coaching skills and feel part of this life-changing profession.

In this article, we identify 16 podcasts that will inspire you as a coach and support you in your work with clients. There are interviews with life, career, and executive coaches and guidance to help you grow professionally while supporting clients.

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3 Best Podcasts for Coaches

The following three podcasts offer a wealth of expertise and experience gained by coaching professionals. There are plenty of others, but these provide both broad and in-depth coverage of the coaching profession.

They will help you develop skills and overcome many of the challenges faced in building a successful business.

1. The Coaching Crowd

Hosted by Master Accredited coaches Zoe Thompson and Jo Wheatley, The Coaching Crowd explores what it looks like to develop as a coach over time, covering topics like supervision, ethics, and the realities of training and practice.

Episodes often combine personal experience with practical guidance, making the show especially relevant for coaches who are training alongside work, family, and other commitments.

Highlight:

How to Train as a Coach When Working Full Time teaches you how, with the right structure and perspective, training as a coach while working full time is 100% achievable—and rewarding.

2. Natural Born Coaches

Marc Mawhinney started his incredibly successful Natural Born Coaches podcast in 2014 to help coaches grow their businesses.

With an enormous back catalogue of episodes, Mawhinney continues to provide entertaining and insightful interviews with coaching professionals each week.

Highlight:

In a 2025 episode, attorney and legal coach Heather Pearce Campbell outlines the essential legal protections coaches need when operating online, offering a helpful way for coaches to think about legal risk and responsibility in their business.

3. The Art of Coaching

The Art of Coaching provides extensive support for coaches via a collection of podcasts, books, online courses, and live events.

The podcast, hosted by best-selling author, speaker, and performance coach Brett Bartholomew, includes hundreds of interviews, covering everything from leadership to reasons why you are not reaching your full potential.

Highlight:

The Why You Are Not Getting Anything Done episode explores distraction—and how to avoid it—and why we often go to bed believing we have failed to achieve all we could.

Inspiring Life Coaching Podcasts

We are all aware of the importance of work–life balance, and yet, we’re often unclear about how to fix it. Coaches help identify and reduce imbalances while bringing clarity to life goals and talking through changes to impact your world positively.

Life coaching, while powerful and transformative, must be safe, supportive, and confidential. The coach will be working with clients on particularly sensitive areas of their lives—finance, marriage, stress, relationships—and need to be equipped to do so.

The following podcasts deliver practical insights that can help put meaning at the center of your own and your client’s life. They will also offer encouragement to you as a coach and enthuse you in the profession.

1. Life Coaching with Christine Hassler

Hosted by Master Coach and author Christine Hassler, this podcast offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the actual practice of life coaching by featuring real-life coaching calls.

Listeners gain an inside view of how a skilled coach listens, asks questions, and helps clients uncover patterns, shift perspectives, and move forward with greater clarity.

Highlight:

One powerful session features Nina, a high-achieving woman who wonders why love feels so hard to receive since learning to rely on herself since childhood.

2. Courage & Spice

We all, at times, suffer from self-doubt.

Sas Petherick’s Courage & Spice podcast provides inspiring stories and evidence-led research to navigate uncertainty and life-limiting lack of confidence as a coach.

Having researched the field, Sas offers valuable insights into dealing with unhealthy beliefs, issues of lack of self-esteem, and self-acceptance.

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Reality Is Neutral is an exceptional deep dive into how we bias our perception of a neutral world through our values and belief system—and what to do about it.

3. Coaches Rising

While Coaches Rising provides certified coach training, it also offers a series of podcasts aimed at sharing expert knowledge through a series of interviews with coaching professionals.

Every episode since the podcast’s launch in 2016 aims to empower listeners to become impactful, transformational coaches.

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Getting Your Client’s World offers an incredible insight into how leaders can deal with and overcome complexity while going through periods of change.

Podcasts for Business and Executive Coaches

The goal of business and executive coaching is to maximize the potential of organizations and their senior managers for growth, transformation, and success.

Executive coaching allows a professional to stop and reflect, bounce ideas, and share concerns in a safe environment. Successful sessions lead to more resilient leaders, with increased motivation and clarity over the steps to reach their next goal.

The following four podcasts offer support to coaches, business leaders, and executives along that journey.

1. Coaching Real Leaders

Produced by Harvard Business Review, Coaching Real Leaders offers a unique opportunity to observe coaching at the highest levels of organizational leadership.

Each episode features real coaching conversations with senior leaders facing complex professional challenges, including role transitions, ethical tensions, authority, and identity shifts.

Highlight:

In one episode, the host, Muriel Wilkins, coaches an executive client who is grappling to stay true to his values when facing leadership decisions he does not fully agree with.

2. The Double Win

Hosted by Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller, The Double Win explores pathways for high-growth individuals to experience a balance of both personal and professional fulfillment.

Featuring insightful weekly conversations with executives, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs, this podcast is a staple for unlocking secrets to productivity, wellness, and work-life balance.

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3 Habits of Wise Leaders offers examples of avoidable mistakes and how to prevent them while acquiring the skills and practices needed to make the best decisions.

3. Coaching for Leaders

Dr. Dave Stachowiak’s hugely popular podcast, Coaching for Leaders, has been running since 2011.

Each week, Stachowiak shares insights from a decade of leading a global leadership academy and hosts bestselling authors, proven leaders, and expert thinkers to help leaders thrive throughout their entire careers.

Highlight:

An interview with Bonni Stachowiak, Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, answers questions on how to get started in leadership, exploring how to handle confrontation, empower others to lead, and more.

4. Manager Tools

This podcast is for those who are tired of management theory and want immediately actionable tools to improve their management performance.

Having won several awards, Manager Tools is praised for exploring many useful actions professionals can take to achieve their desired management and career objectives.

Highlight:

In the episode “It’s Not My Fault,” the hosts discuss this common response to negative feedback and explore how best to handle it as a manager.

For Career Coaches

We can all benefit from guidance on career options and how to start, change, or re-think our future, and a career coach can help a client see options more clearly.

The following podcasts offer some worthwhile insights into realizing your potential and meeting those career goals.

1. Career Tools

An accompaniment to Manager Tools, Career Tools is a weekly podcast focused on specific actions listeners can take to grow and enhance their careers.

This practical and applied podcast won the Podcast Awards’ Best Business podcast in 2010 and has received many more nominations, speaking to its widespread popularity.

Highlight:

One interesting 2025 episode explores actionable guidance for measuring and communicating your true professional value using metrics and tracking so that you can demonstrate your impact to your organization when seeking advancement.

2. Breaking Work

Breaking Work is a fascinating podcast featuring interviews with everyday people who have dared to break apart their careers and design amazing lives.

Hosted by entrepreneur and work-life design expert Michael Gardon, the range of subjects covered is vast, addressing interviewing, creating resumes, using social media, and job hunting.

Highlight:

Rather than continuing with an out-of-date CV style, Modernizing Your Resume and Mastering Your LinkedIn Profile will help you receive the level of interest you are aiming for and the next career move that you deserve.

3. This Is Work

Hosted by leadership coach Shelley Johnson, This Is Work explores all aspects of navigating your career and the modern workplace.

Having run since 2019, this podcast features a range of helpful interviews with guests, as well as quick tips to attract more opportunities and find more enjoyment at work.

Highlight:

In a 2024 interview with author Claire Seeber, Shelley unpacks the trend of hustle culture, exploring why it’s harmful and how to create a sustainable career that protects you from burnout.

4. Happen to Your Career

Happen to Your Career is a weekly show that aims to provide the inspiration and tools to find work that feels meaningful and fits your unique strengths and talents.

The episodes include many inspiring career change stories from guests and help you discover how to turn career setbacks into opportunities.

Highlight:

In one 2025 episode, you’ll hear how Karen’s story of being passed over for a role led her to uncover her deepest values and connect with her dream job.

A Look at The Life Coach School Podcast

Brooke Castillo is a Master Certified instructor, author, and curriculum creator for The Life Coach School. Her training programs guide you through exploring your own and others’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors leading to certification as a coach.

The school’s top-rated podcast has hundreds of episodes and covers everything from changing your life and adopting a new mindset, to improving relationships and dealing with stress. It uses lessons from real clients with genuine problems and discusses practical coaching that works.

Highlight:

Being able to enjoy your life and yourself is less straightforward than it first appears. If, like the rest of us, you need help enjoying the moment, listen to the How to Enjoy Yourself episode.

Note on the Anxiety Coaches Podcast

In the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, Gina Ryan discusses lifestyle changes that can help you manage stress, anxiety, and panic attacks better.

With hundreds of episodes to choose from, this podcast provides an essential resource for handling everything from poor sleep, regaining a sense of calm, and managing your emotions more effectively.

Highlight:

Gina’s episode on how to Practice Best and Worst-Case Scenarios to Ease Anxiety provides particularly useful guidance to achieve better outcomes.

After reading about all these great coaching podcasts, if you are keen on starting your own, here is an excellent video that we hope will inspire you:

Helpful Resources From PositivePsychology.com

Are you a current or aspiring coach looking to build up your coaching toolkit? At PositivePsychology.com, we have many resources to support you.

To begin, consider taking a look at the following helpful articles:

• The Wheel of Life: How to Apply It in Coaching
  The Wheel of Life is a versatile coaching tool that helps clients quickly visualize which areas of their lives are thriving and which need attention. This article walks practitioners through using the wheel to spark insight and support meaningful, balanced personal growth.
  
• 32 Coaching Techniques Effective Coaches Use
  This article is an excellent resource for coaches looking to confidently select the right technique for each client’s needs. It offers a clear overview of 32 evidence-based coaching techniques, from foundational models like GROW to more specialized tools that strengthen motivation and behavioral change.

For some helpful free resources, take a look at the following PDFs:

• Checklist for Building a Coaching Program
  This practical checklist guides you through all the steps you need to take to build a signature coaching program.
• Coaching Program Blueprint
  This table is a simple and structured tool for collecting and displaying all the activities or lessons in your coaching program.
• Online Feedback Request Form
  This feedback form gathers information from prospective clients about their challenges and areas for growth to help guide the development of your coaching program.

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A Take-Home Message

Working with clients to identify beliefs that stop them from achieving their goals, change how they feel about themselves, or make better use of their strengths takes expert coaching, the right tools, and experience (Franklin, 2019).

Receiving the right coaching training, certification, and accreditation is crucial to providing that support, being successful as a coach, and growing your business. Nevertheless, the journey can be a lonely one, logging long hours to achieve the knowledge required.

Podcasts can help. Learn from others’ successes and failures. Whether traveling or sitting comfortably at home, a recording of a well-put-together interview or conversation between experienced professionals can transport the listener to that of the coach’s office as a client or practitioner.

Whether you are currently undergoing training to become a certified coach or a seasoned professional, engaging with the podcasts created by professional coaches can offer vital insights into your chosen profession.

Listen to the podcasts and find ones that entertain you, hold your interest, and guide you through the art of coaching and how to grow your business. Take notes in a dedicated journal or online notebook and build up a library of resources that you can refer to when you face challenges or obstacles.

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