Not all coaching podcasts are worth your time. These are the ones coaches actually recommend, organized by what you'll get from listening to each one.
TL;DR
- The best coaching podcasts are specific: they serve a niche or solve a specific problem rather than covering "all things coaching."
- Shows focused on practice-building help coaches grow their business; shows focused on methodology help coaches become better practitioners.
- The most valuable shows for new coaches are different from the most valuable shows for established practices.
- Many of the best coaching podcasts are also good examples to study if you're launching your own show.
- Quality matters more than volume. Ten great episodes from the right show beats one hundred mediocre ones.
There are a lot of coaching podcasts. Thousands, actually, if you count every show that has appeared in major directories over the past few years. Most of them have stopped publishing. Many that are still active produce generic, surface-level content that sounds like it was written by committee.
The ones worth your time are different. They're specific, opinionated, and actually useful for coaches trying to improve their practice or grow their business. This list focuses on shows that are worth recommending in 2026, with clear notes on who each show is best for.
Podcasts for Coaching Business and Practice-Building
The Mind Your Business Podcast
Hosted by James Wedmore, this show focuses on online business building with a strong emphasis on mindset alongside strategy. While not a coaching-specific podcast, it's consistently recommended by coaches building online practices because Wedmore's frameworks translate well to coaching business models: offer design, audience building, and the internal work required to scale. Particularly useful for coaches in the consumer-facing market (life, health, mindset coaching) who are building digital-first businesses.
What it does especially well: connecting business strategy to the beliefs and mental patterns that either support or undermine execution.
The Coaching Show
A straightforward title for a show that delivers what it promises. The Coaching Show has been running for several years and covers a consistent mix of methodology discussions and business-side conversations. Guest quality is high, and the host brings a practitioner perspective rather than just an interview format. Good for coaches at the one to three year mark who are solidifying their approach.
Business Coaching Secrets
Specifically aimed at coaches who are building or growing a coaching business, this show focuses on the operational and marketing side: client acquisition, pricing, retention, and team building. Less focused on coaching methodology, more focused on running a practice as a business. Good for coaches who feel comfortable with the client-facing work but want more help on the business-building side.
The Coaches Coach Podcast
Probably the most explicitly practice-building show in the space. Hosted by Rhonda Hess, it covers the nuts and bolts of coaching business development for newer coaches: niche selection, pricing, client conversations, and positioning. The advice is concrete and actionable. Best for coaches in their first two years who are building foundational systems.
Podcasts for Coaching Methodology and Client Work
The ICF Podcast
The official podcast of the International Coaching Federation covers coaching methodology, ethics, research, and professional development for credentialed coaches. If you hold or are pursuing an ICF credential, this is worth subscribing to. The episodes lean toward the professional development side rather than the business side.
What it does especially well: keeping coaches current on ICF research, competency updates, and ethics discussions. Not a casual listen, but a valuable professional development resource.
Coaching for Leaders
Hosted by Dave Stachowiak, this show has over 600 episodes and focuses on leadership development coaching. Episodes typically run 30-45 minutes and cover specific leadership challenges with practical frameworks. Good for coaches who work with leaders and executives. Also a good study in how to build a consistent long-running podcast, since Stachowiak has maintained quality and frequency for over a decade.
The Coaching Lab
More methodology-focused than most, The Coaching Lab covers specific coaching techniques, research on coaching effectiveness, and approaches to challenging client situations. Useful for coaches who want to keep developing as practitioners, not just as business people. Episodes tend to be shorter and more focused than general coaching business shows.
Podcasts Worth Studying as a Coach Launching Their Own Show
This is a slightly different list. These are shows worth listening to not just for the content but as examples of podcast structure, format, and positioning done well.
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Dare to Lead with Brené Brown
Not specifically a coaching podcast, but one of the most studied shows in the personal development space. Brown's interview style, the depth of her conversations, and her ability to bring a consistent framework to diverse guest topics make every episode a masterclass in how high-trust audio content is built. If you're going to launch a coaching podcast, understanding why this show works is useful.
The Tim Ferriss Show
Similarly not a coaching podcast, but the show that many coaching podcasters point to as a structural reference. Ferriss's long-form interview format, his preparation depth (he notoriously researches guests extensively), and his ability to extract specific, usable information from successful people are all qualities worth studying. The show is occasionally excellent and occasionally over-long, but the best episodes demonstrate what's possible in the interview format.
How I Built This (NPR)
An example of narrative non-fiction podcast structure. Each episode tells the story of how a company or idea was built. Coaches who want to use more storytelling in their shows, particularly around transformation narratives (which is essentially the core of coaching work), can learn a lot from how Guy Raz structures and paces these stories.
What to Look for in a Coaching Podcast (Before You Subscribe)
With thousands of shows available, filtering takes some judgment. A few things to evaluate before adding a show to your regular rotation:
Is the host a practitioner or primarily a content creator? Shows hosted by people who actually coach (or have extensively coached) tend to be more specific and more useful than shows hosted by media personalities who happen to cover coaching topics.
When was the last episode published? Check the most recent episode date before subscribing. A show that hasn't published in six months may not be coming back. This matters both for current content and for its usefulness as a potential guest opportunity.
Does the show go deep or stay at 30,000 feet? The most useful coaching podcasts tackle specific problems with specific answers. Shows that stay vague and inspirational at all times are usually less useful for actual practice development.
Who are the guests? A show whose guests are consistently practitioners, researchers, or real clients tells a different story than a show whose guests are primarily other podcasters and influencers.
Building Your Own Podcast Listening Practice
The coaches who get the most from podcast listening treat it as professional development with intention, not just background noise.
One approach that works well: designate two or three shows as regular weekly listening, and use the commute, exercise, or low-focus tasks for the audio. Keep a notes document (simple phone note or voice memo) for ideas or frameworks that land. Review those notes monthly.
If you hear someone on one of these shows and think "they should interview coaches like me," that's exactly the instinct to act on. The podcast pitch template for coaches makes it straightforward to reach out professionally.
And if you're considering launching a show of your own after getting a sense of what's out there, the coaching podcast strategy guide covers everything from concept to first episode to audience building.
The best research for your own podcast is listening to the shows that are already working. Not to copy them, but to understand what makes them resonate with their specific audience. That understanding, applied to your own niche and voice, is the starting point for a show worth building.
A Note on the State of Coaching Podcasts in 2026
The coaching podcast space has matured significantly. The wave of "started a podcast during lockdown" shows that launched in 2020-2021 has largely faded. What's left, broadly speaking, is a smaller number of shows that have genuine audiences and consistent publishing schedules.
That's actually a good thing for coaches considering launching a show now. The competition for listeners is real, but it's healthier competition. An audience for a focused, high-quality coaching podcast is absolutely attainable for a coach with something genuine to say. The bar is not prohibitively high; it's just higher than it was in 2020.
Worth noting: the best coaching podcasts listed here also happen to be good places to find clients. Coaches who are actively building their authority, whether through guesting or hosting, consistently report that podcast-sourced clients tend to convert more quickly and have lower resistance to fees. They've already spent hours with your thinking before they reach out.
That's the real argument for podcasting. Not just another content channel, but a trust-building format that compresses the path from stranger to client in a way most other marketing can't match.
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