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5 Career & Business Podcast Recommendations

Each issue of our newsletter is curated by a different person.

These podcasts tell stories of the leaders and companies who built something real, made non-linear decisions, and stayed values-led in moments that rewarded the opposite. These are the conversations that remind me why the craft still matters.

Jenny Sidorova, EarBuds Curator

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Acquired

Ben and David take a business story you thought you knew and reveal the drama, complexity, and ambition underneath it.

The history of LVMH and Bernard Arnault is a masterclass in how luxury empires are actually built: not with elegance, but with strategy, risk, and a few twists nobody saw coming.

TWO

Worklife with Molly Graham

The full range of human emotion can happen on the job: ambition and failure, joy and burnout, confidence and self-doubt.

This episode is a rare thing: an honest conversation about the tension between data and intuition, hosted at the exact moment Molly takes over the show from longtime host Adam Grant. It's part interview, part handover, and entirely fascinating.

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THREE

The Meaningful Shift

This is a space where real people share how they've shifted their mindset and found their own paths to fulfillment.

Hiwote's career pivot is a case study in choosing joy over expectation. In a world that rewards hustle over happiness, this episode is a quiet act of defiance.

FOUR

CEO.com

These are unfiltered conversations with CEOs from public and private companies.

Leslie Hall has run her company for over two decades by leading with empathy, prioritizing her employees' wellbeing, and holding onto her integrity. This conversation is a reminder that values-led leadership does exist, even in today's world.

FIVE

Dots and Dreams

Real, vulnerable stories of navigating major life transitions like career pivots, relocation, motherhood, reinvention. 

Not a career advice episode — a real, in-the-moment account of what it actually feels like to job search for fourteen months in the hardest market ever seen, and the three things that genuinely helped.

SIX

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Notes from the New World

The old world is crumbling. The new one is being built in real time... what are you building?

Notes from the New World, hosted by Chelsea Riffe, is for world builders: the deep thinkers, visionaries, philosophers and creators who ready to imagine something different, energizing and unconventional.

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Green Tide Rising is an eight-episode bilingual series that spotlights Latin America’s Green Wave movement and how it’s shaping some of the most progressive abortion policies in the world.

Green Tide Rising positions the Global South as a beacon of hope and a reminder of what’s at stake for the Global North if we don’t act now.

Classified

👩 Girl Overboard is a limited-series that tells the story of love, addiction, loss, and what remains. Get to know and love the girl who went overboard through her friends, family, and industry experts.

🎹 The Hook & Bridge Podcast is for people who love arguing about the songs, bands, and moments that shaped their lives. Hosts Harley, Taylor, and Chris mix music news, ridiculous games, rankings, nostalgia, and candid conversations with artists into a show that feels more like hanging out with music-obsessed friends than listening to a traditional interview podcast.

💻 Code Story is a startup podcast for technical founders building and scaling software products. Each episode features SaaS founders, engineers, and product leaders sharing how they built their product, found product-market fit, and navigated early-stage growth.

Community News

👂 In this major episode of Divorce Happens, North Carolina State Senator Woodson Bradley shares how she lost her savings, career, home, and sense of safety during a divorce—and how rebuilding her life ultimately led her to public office.

📺 The Egotistical Podcast published a stand-alone episode: in a future classroom, an AI teacher guides virtual students through an increasingly strange journey across the history of intelligence.

👩‍💻 In this week’s issue of Podcast the Newsletter, Lauren Passell recommends… Emotionally Online. She writes:

I am approximately 1,000 years older than the target audience for Emotionally Online, a chatty, friendshippy show hosted by YouTuber Maddie Dragsbaek and Meg Ruocco but I tune in every time, and genuinely look forward to these genuinely very funny people’s conversations.

They talk about things I don’t think I’m that interested in: anxiety, grief, confidence issues…it’s all stuff I deal with but just find so boring. But these women are funny so I don’t care.

—Lauren Passell

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