Whether you’re a creative freelancer just starting out in your graphic design or branding business, or a seasoned freelance veteran who loves to create show-stopper design projects, we know the best graphic design podcasts to keep your professional energy (and creative inspiration) flowing.

 

Here are some great podcasts that will show you how to get graphic design clients, grow your freelance design business, and let’s face it: stay sane on the wild ride of entrepreneurship.

The Profitable Graphic Designer

A podcast helping graphic designers grow their businesses, get more clients, and increase their revenues to $10K+/month. Real-life stories and real-world results.

What You Need to Know

Successful freelancer and graphic design studio founder Kady Sandel explores topics related to business development, creative mindsets, freelancing techniques, and profitability.

Take your freelancing to the next level by following Kady’s easy-to-understand, actionable business recommendations, all based on her own experience building a successful branding studio in Austin, Texas.

What You’ll Gain From Listening            

Everything a freelance graphic designer needs to know to have a profitable business! Learn how to live the dream and leave your 9-to-5 behind.

 

C-E-OVER-IT

This podcast shares stories related to difficult freelancing/business experiences and has fun along the way. For creatives who both love and hate running their own business.

What You Need to Know

Carli Anna is a brand designer, educator, and host of this “chill & fun podcast for creatives.” With play lengths from 30 – 60 minutes, each episode explores a business-related experience through casual chats between besties. This isn’t a “how to,” but you’ll learn lots by listening in to some great conversations.

What You’ll Gain From Listening

Hear real-life stories of clients who don’t pay, hustle culture pressures, the difficulty in staying on top of the latest creative trends, and why creative businesses suffer from unprofitability.

 

Design and Prosper

Graphic design business conversations, stories, and strategies from the “fairy godmothers” of the design industry.

What You Need to Know

Kris and Donna host a podcast featuring honest, open conversations about running your graphic design business. With industry experience and educator backgrounds, the hosts have run multiple six-figure graphic design businesses and talk about the do’s, the don’ts, tips, and insider secrets.

What You’ll Gain From Listening

Learn how to make your graphic design business thrive with valuable insights and strategies you can apply immediately.

 

Per Our Last Email

Show Description

A reminder that you aren’t alone in the crazy entrepreneurial life you’ve chosen.

What You Need to Know

Hosts Arabela and Elle are creatives working together at a San Jose, CA design studio. After swapping stories about crazy client experiences, the podcast was born as a “tipsy on cocktails” take on the freelance business lifestyle and its challenges.

What You’ll Gain From Listening

Listen in on the ups and downs of the freelancing life from the podcasts hosts and their guests. Listen, learn, and laugh while you enjoy a cocktail (or two) over each long-form episode.

The Futur

Show Description

A show that explores the interesting overlap between design, marketing, and business.

What You Need to Know

Chris DO, CEO of The Futur, hosts candid conversations with inspirational professionals from design, technology, marketing, business, philosophy, and personal development backgrounds.

What You’ll Gain From Listening

Get ready to go deep as you understand incredible people and what drives them. Learn by listening to stories of challenge and success.

 

Better: The Brand Designer Podcast

Show Description

Honest, soul-chat-level convos that help freelance brand designers navigate the competitive, confusing world of branding.

What You Need to Know

Jen and Esther are biz buddies who run design studios in Texas and Illinois, respectively. An hour of insider know-how and comforting shop talk from brand designers who know what it’s like to be a creative running a business.

What You’ll Gain From Listening

If your freelance focus is branding, this podcast is made by brand creatives for brand designers.

 

Creative Pep Talk

Show Description

Build a thriving creative practice! This podcast will help you get back on the path to reaching your creative potential.

What You Need to Know

Host, Andy Pizza, is an illustrator and public speaker. Episodes feature pep and strategy interviews and reflections with creative powerhouses like Joseph Gordon Levitt, Abbi Jacobson, and Morgan Harper Nichols. Reach your creative potential with positivity and inspiration.

What You’ll Gain From Listening

This podcast is a weekly check-in to make sure you aren’t getting lost on the creative journey.

 

How I Built This

Show Description       

Dive into the stories behind some of the world’s best-known companies on the How I Built This podcast.

What You Need to Know

Guy Raz takes audiences on a narrative journey, telling the stories of innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists through intimate interviews. Enjoy inspiration and long-form, thoughtful conversations that explore the ups and downs of starting your own business.

What You’ll Gain From Listening

Expert advice from the personal experiences of founders and visionaries and the movements they built.

 

Smart Passive Income

Show Description          

Insightful conversations with online business pros and industry experts. Go inside the minds of successful entrepreneurs and behind-the-scenes in their businesses.

What You Need to Know              

Winner of Best Business Podcasts from the Academy of Podcasters and a top iTunes Business Podcast, Pat Flynn introduces listeners to strategies and advice for building an online business the smart way. Past guests include Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Chalene Johnson.

What You’ll Gain From Listening               

Learn about online business strategies, income sources, marketing tips, and killer tricks so you’ll be ahead of the curve with your digital-based business. Maximize your flexibility with start-up advisor content.

 

The Future Belongs to Creators

Show Description   

A podcast for creators, by creators. Explore the creator economy with experienced industry professionals.

What You Need to Know

Charli, Miguel, and Haley host dynamic, weekly episodes of a short-and-sweet, content-rich nature. Well-known for their live YouTube show about turning anxiety into creative output, the podcast stream provides a consistent source for growing your audience as a creator, how to freelance, and remembering humor is key to long-term success.

What You’ll Gain From Listening

Practical tips and lessons from creators, spanning mental health, budgeting, competition, apps, and lots more.

 

Listen and Learn — Podcasts for Freelancing Profitability

Sometimes you need to break through all of the noise and really listen. Tune in and learn from the masters. Or overhear the struggles others have experienced, and know you aren’t alone. Listening to podcasts for creatives can provide you all of this and more.

We hope you’ll tune into The Profitable Graphic Designer Podcast, as each episode focuses on encouraging your freelance business profitability through clear presentation of business and creative essentials.

Pick a podcast platform to use (Apple, Spotify, Google, etc.) and subscribe for free to receive notifications of new episodes when they drop. Subscribing also keeps your podcasts organized, for quickly locating a great show when you’re driving around in your car or out for a morning run.

 

Your Freelancing Future is Here — Are You Tuned In?

Podcasting is where communication is at, right now. Expected to double in the next two years, podcasting is exploding onto the education, motivation, and marketing scene. You can learn by listening and there’s a podcast for every topic you can think of.

If you want to get inspired, be productive, and enjoy yourself at the same time, then it’s time to incorporate some podcast one-on-one time into your weekly schedule. Build your freelance graphic, branding, or web design business by listening to what those who have gone before you have to say.

For more great, free and affordable resources to build out your freelance business, check out Aventive Academy’s resources. Our free $12k Client Masterclass is the perfect way to hit the ground running with freelance profitability and long-term success.