23 Podcast Success Stories [2023]

Over 150 high-end vehicles glistened in the sunlight, Porsches, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Mercedes, all polished and lined up in neat rows.

My colleagues do an amazing job with their contributions to our overall automotive journey. On that note, I’d like to take a moment to put a special “thank you” out to all of the Cars of Carlisle team members, emphasizing how much I value everything they give to the business. In two years, I went from a dozen downloads and investing five figures of my own savings to now an annual revenue that is increasing, while downloads are exceeding 12,000.

My name is Noah Labhart - I’m a startup founder, CTO, and podcast host of the up and coming startup show, Code Story. On the show, I interview tech visionaries, uncovering the gritty details in building the next big digital thing. I've interviewed startup CTOs, CEOs, founding engineers, and tech visionaries about how they built their MVP's, scaled them, matured them, and built the teams to support their startups.

We are currently 88 episodes in and are working on early edits for Season 4, starting in January of 2020. We've interviewed individuals from digital startups of all shapes and sizes, and have amazing guests such as Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers, George Deglin of OneSignal, Tim Specht of Dubsmash, Ryan Graciano of Credit Karma, and Chris Slowe of Reddit.

Heyo! John Lee Dumas (JLD) here, founder and host of Entrepreneurs On Fire, an award-winning podcast where I interview inspiring Entrepreneurs who are truly ON FIRE!

My goal from the very beginning: to inspire my audience, Fire Nation, to take their own entrepreneurial leap.

Hey, y’all I’m Cinquanta Cox-Smith I hate putting myself in a box, but If I had to explain what I do: I’m a Multipreneur. (Author, Podcaster, and Entrepreneur) I’ve been helping entrepreneurs start an EASY Print On Demand side hustle from anywhere for about 3 years now. I’m originally from a small town in South Carolina called Georgetown. It’s historic in many ways, especially for the Geechee Gullah culture. I’m an Army Veteran and my Husband (Shawn) is an active-duty soldier. We have 2 kids Kyree (15) and Sharye (12). Let’s not forget about our dog ChuChu. He's most definitely the star of this show.

I’ve always felt like this was just a hobby, or I was just making shirts but Print On Demand is so much more than that. It’s helped me create $7,000 in one month selling POD journals on Amazon KDP, it’s helped me land a Magazine Cover with my T-Shirts for Stars & Stripes (American Military Newspaper). It’s helped me teach over 10,000 people how to create passive & residual income from home with just a computer and some wi-fi. Most importantly it’s allowed me the gift of TIME. Time to spend and travel with my family. Once we get further along into this interview. I’ll tell you about how I accidentally started in the Print On Demand industry 12 years ago.

EcomCrew is an ecommerce blog and a podcast where myself and Michael Jackness take off our ecommece hats and pretend to be journalists and investigative reporters.

We started EcomCrew around 2014. For the first 3 years we never monetized EcomCrew. This year we finally began to sell a membership to our private ecommerce group that includes exclusive access to ecommerce courses, webinars, events, etc.. Currently we do around $35,000 a month in revenue.

I'm Kurt Elster, and I host The Unofficial Shopify Podcast. With 750,000 downloads, 200 episodes, and four sponsors, it’s become quite the media machine for us.

My name is Sean Green and I’m the co-founder of The Sports Gambling Podcast Network and co-host of The Sports Gambling Podcast. In 2011 I hosted the first episode of The Sports Gambling Podcast with my partner Ryan Kramer. At the time I didn’t realize I was starting a business, I just thought I was talking about betting on football with my buddy.

In the following ten years, we’ve grown it from two guys recording their conversation in a garage to a legit sports gambling media empire. We have over 15 shows under our brand, multi-million downloads per year and have reached $30K/month in revenue.

My name is Jessica Miller-Merrell, and I am a workplace change agent, author, and consultant focused on human resources and talent acquisition living in Austin, TX. Recognized by Forbes as a top 50 social media influencer, I am the founder and CEO of Workology, a workplace HR resource, and host of the Workology Podcast.

Workology also has a training and development platform for HR professionals called LEARN by Workology. We offer on-demand courses for HR certification with Ace the HR Exam, career development for HR professionals with Upskill HR, courses for SHRM (Society for Human Resources Management) and HRCI (Human Resource Certification Institute) recertification credits, new manager training, audio courses, practice tests, and more.

Today Content Allies is doing ~$75k MRR. We produce 20+ podcasts and we have released well over 500+ episodes for our clients.

Hello, my name is Annette Thomas. I am the Creator and Founder of The Digital Vibe Podcast and Network. The Digital Vibe Podcast started as a Podcast and evolved to become a Network that comprises, a podcast, a publishing company, a network of affiliates, and a global brand that is networked and heard all around the world!

If you sum up all of these income streams it would be around $20k per month.

My name is Tom Hunt and we start and grow the world's most profitable podcasts at Fame.

We currently run this process for 10 clients and make approximately $17k per month.

Hey there! I’m Jeremy Enns, the founder and Storyteller In Chief at Counterweight Creative, a podcast production and strategy agency.

I started the company 3 years ago, in 2016 with one client, making $15/hour and have grown into a team of 10 contractors producing more than 30 shows per week with revenue of over $10K/mo.

• Together with Brian Kearney, Pete Mockaitis founded Awesome Pros, a specialized drop-servicing business that now generates $10k in recurring income each month.
• Pete and Brian aspired to create a company that provided the top virtual assistants for people looking to build and publish their own podcasts.
• The founders help their clients with audio editing, transcript & show notes, and as well as promoting the podcasts. They want their client to focus on delivering the message while they take care of the rest.
• The strategies Pete and Brian used to expand their clientele can help you determine your niche and pricing. They took their company from an in-house solution to a $10k/mo business.

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My name is Cary Jack and I’m a lifestyle entrepreneur, founder & author of The Happy Hustle, top .5% globally ranked podcast host, international keynote speaker, professional actor/model, biohacker, eco-outdoorsman, and humanitarian striving to make a positive impact on this planet.

As founder of The Happy Hustle, my mission is to help fellow purpose-driven entrepreneurs avoid burnout and achieve blissful balance in their personal and professional life while putting the Happy in their everyday Hustle!

Brandon Gaille is the creator of the BrandonGaille.com. His blog primarily covers business tips, funding options, marketing tactics, growth hacks, and more.

He is also the creator of RankIQ.com, an AI-powered SEO tool that assists bloggers in finding keywords and summarizing their articles, and The Blogging Millionaire Podcast.

Additionally, Brandon hosts The Blogging Millionaire, a podcast about blogging that has received the most downloads on Apple. Brendon is getting a combined 6 million visits/month across three of his websites.

Since the 1990s, Brandon has been blogging and working online. He has amassed enormous wealth, overcome some terrifying health issues, and is now one of the most successful bloggers on the internet.

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• One of the biggest podcast production companies in the world, JAR Audio, was founded by Roger Nairn, Jen Moss, and Aaron Johnson.
• They eventually started the agency to replace traditional advertising with high-quality, high-performing podcasts.
• JAR Audio is a full-service branded podcast agency that assists brands in making meaningful and quantifiable connections with their audience.
• JAR's podcasts consistently achieve listen-through rates of 95–100%. Comparatively, the watch-through rate for professionally made YouTube videos is around 50%.

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In 2013, I started the Side Hustle Nation blog, accompanied by the Side Hustle Show podcast. Naturally, it was a side hustle for me. There was no business model or business plan in the beginning — I just set out to create the kind of content I wanted to consume: light on the theory, heavy on the tactics. With a $50 mic in the corner of the living room, I started interviewing other side hustlers and entrepreneurs about how they got their ideas and grew their businesses.

• In 2018, Graham Cochrane, a young entrepreneur from Tampa, Florida, began mentoring people on how to earn money amid the Great Recession.
• He provides coaching and workshops to assist people in developing passive income streams. He helped set up his enterprises to work five to six hours each week.
• In 2005, Graham received his bachelor's degree in Arts, corporate communications & media from James madison university. He worked as an audio engineer in a 9-to-5 job to pursue his musical desire in a practical way.
• Following the loss of his employment as an audio engineer in 2009, he launched The Recording Revolution, one of the largest online resource platforms in the world for music production and audio recording.
• The second phase of his journey as a trainer began in 2018 as he started teaching people how to generate money from their hobbies by selling online courses and coaching programs.
• After six months of coaching, he earned $120,000 per month in passive income through his online courses.
• He also very recently penned a book named "How to Get Paid for What You Know," which was published by BenBella Books. Plus, he has been a business consultant to over 2,800 clients.

Main outcomes:

• The founder of the most loved online audio recording and music production resources.
• Graham is a business coach with over 3,500 premium customers worldwide.
• He now hosts over 80,000+ monthly followers on his podcast, blog, and YouTube channel combined.
• His online music business currently generates seven figures in revenue.

I’m Bobby Hoyt, former band director turned personal finance blogger and course creator. I teach millennials how to make more money, save more money, and pay off debt. I started my site, Millennial Money Man, while I was still teaching and paying off my student loan debt.

Last year we broke the seven-figure revenue mark through course sales, monthly recurring subscriptions from our coaching group, and affiliate sales.

My name is Ashley Bray, and I am the host of the Get Out Alive Podcast and owner of Get Out Alive LLC. At this moment, our business primarily produces podcasts every other week on our main feed about animal attacks and merchandise from our podcast, and our customers are typically those who love wildlife, true crime, or just want to learn more about the wild animals they live around.

We make all of our money from Patreon and website sales, and in a little over a year we made nearly $400/month on Patreon.