Your podcast feed holds a few dozen subscriptions and a backlog you plan to clear after the board meeting (you will not). The commute is one of the few hours no one can book. Spend it on shows that change a decision you make this quarter.
The desk picked ten shows that published in 2026 and checked each feed on Apple Podcasts. Eight of the ten have a training company, consultancy, agency, community, venture firm or sponsors behind the microphone. Each entry names the backer, so you know which way the advice leans before you press play.
30 Minutes to President’s Club
Armand Farrokh, a former VP of sales, and Nick Cegelski, billed as a three-time top enterprise seller, host alongside Mark Kosoglow. The pitch is tactics from the top 1% of sellers with the theory cut out. The hosts sell courses through 30MPC, and the course trailers run in the same feed. Frontline managers and ramping AEs get the most from it.
#612: Sales Kickoff Masterclass: The Ultimate Planning Guide30 Minutes to President’s Club · 49 min · Sept. 29, 2026Kayde Givens has planned 16+ sales and revenue kickoffs. She builds the kickoff around five goals and plans venue, agenda, rehearsals and production months ahead.Listen on Apple PodcastsRevenue Builders
Five-time CRO John McMahon and John Kaplan, co-founder of the go-to-market consulting firm Force Management, host this weekly show for B2B sales leaders, and the firm produces it. Anne Gary, a managing director at the firm and part of the founding team behind the MEDDPICC qualification methodology, headlined the Oct. 1 replay, so expect the firm’s playbook in the background. It fits CROs and second-line leaders heading into 2027 planning.
Why Proprietary Data Beats AI Software for 2x Pipeline Growth with Ann DavisRevenue Builders · 54 min · Sept. 17, 2026Crunchbase CRO Ann Davis ties 2x pipeline growth in six months to knowing which customers to pursue. She also describes the headless AI interface she built on Salesforce, Gong and private market data to tell reps what to work on each day.Listen on Apple PodcastsThe Sales Management. Simplified. Podcast with Mike Weinberg
Mike Weinberg, an independent author and sales management coach, talks to the layer between the CRO and the reps. He promises “straight talk, blunt truth” in his listing, and both September episodes put “Blunt” in the title. This year’s episodes cover one-on-one accountability, prospecting, the profile of a new-business seller and how to open and close a sales call. First-time managers and the directors who coach them should start here.
1:1 Accountability Cadence + Consistency = A Fresh, Fat Pipeline!The Sales Management. Simplified. Podcast · 21 min · July 8, 2026Weinberg’s two keys for the manager-rep accountability meeting are cadence and consistency across managers. He rates a fresh pipeline above a fat one and names the one question he would put to each rep: what new opportunities did you create last month?Listen on Apple PodcastsThe Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)
Dave Gerhardt, a former CMO and the author of Founder Brand, hosts for Exit Five, the B2B marketing community he founded. Guests are marketing operators, founders and CMOs. CROs should listen too, to hear how marketing talks about pipeline when sales is out of the room.
How Sprout Social builds revenue marketing around segmentation (with Hailey McDonald, VP of Revenue Marketing)The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five) · 39 min · Sept. 17, 2026McDonald maps segments against solutions and turns the map into budget, channel bets and pipeline tiers by vertical. She also names the north star metric she uses in place of leads or pipeline.Listen on Apple PodcastsGTM Live
Carolyn Dilks and Trevor Gibson, co-founders of the GTM agency Passetto, host the show that grew out of Chris Walker’s Revenue Vitals. They pitch it at CEOs, CFOs and revenue leaders and keep it on measurement and unit economics. Passetto uses the show notes to plug its own offers, from a free KPI masterclass to a newly launched MCP for exploring marketing performance through AI. It earns a slot with marketing ops leaders and the CFOs who sit in pipeline reviews.
3 Major GTM Blind Spots Hurting Marketing’s Ability to Measure Revenue ImpactGTM Live · 21 min · Aug. 24, 2026A client’s pipeline spiked, the CEO asked why, and the marketing leader had no confident answer. Amber, the episode’s presenter, traces that silence to blind spots in the CRM, from manually overwritten fields to migrations that wipe out history.Listen on Apple PodcastsCHURN FM
Andrew Michael started this show for subscription businesses, and Vitally and Chargebee sponsor it. Guests come from CS, product, pricing and payments. Michael promises an episode every Wednesday, yet Apple lists seven in 2026, with nothing between June 17 and Sept. 22. Treat it as a monthly check-in for CS leaders and any CRO who owns net revenue retention.
E303 | Customer Success Is Dead. Meet the Growth Department.CHURN FM · 34 min · April 8, 2026Alex Raymond, founder of AMplify and author of The Growth Department, argues for NRR as the north star sales and CS share, and against parachuting an AE back in at renewal.Listen on Apple PodcastsGTM Science
Union Square Consulting, a GTM strategy and AI engineering firm, publishes it weekly, and Eddie Reynolds and Rachael Bueckert host recent episodes. The hosts split GTM into art and science and claim only the science: strategy, process design, growth planning and RevOps. It suits RevOps leaders and any CRO who chairs a GTM council.
How to Turn Your GTM Dashboard Into Actual DecisionsGTM Science · 57 min · Sept. 29, 2026Reynolds and Bueckert start from a familiar gap: plenty of dashboards, few people who read one on a Thursday morning and walk into the meeting with a diagnosis and a fix. They call perfect data the wrong goal and lay out a GTM council meeting built for accountability, then show how they built a dashboard with Claude.Listen on Apple PodcastsRevOps FM
Justin Norris created and hosts it, and no company appears on the listing. Topics run from sales and marketing ops to forecasting and workflow automation. Apple shows two new episodes in 2026 out of 62 in the catalog, so treat it as a library with the occasional new release. Ops leaders building AI workflows should start with the newest.
Building a Company Brain for AI - Jacob DietleRevOps FM · 46 min · Sept. 27, 2026Dietle, a consultant focused on context engineering and AI collaboration, explains how to give agents shared company context, including customer conversations an agent can reuse.Listen on Apple PodcastsThe Revenue Leadership Podcast with Kyle Norton
Kyle Norton, who ran revenue at Owner.com as its CRO, interviews revenue operators, including the CROs of Freshworks and Webflow, about how they run their orgs. Pavilion produces it as a sister show to Topline, its Sunday podcast. Queue it first if you are weighing a reorg before 2027.
E72: I Collapsed My GTM Org Chart. This Is Why | Ian Tickle, CRO @ FreshworksThe Revenue Leadership Podcast · 1 hr 17 min · Aug. 6, 2026Tickle folded global sales, CS and customer experience into one revenue org at a business with close to $1 billion in ARR. He covers the 8-12 week design process, whether the revenue leader should carry net retention, the three questions to ask before merging sales and CS, and the monthly ritual his leadership team uses to delete process.Listen on Apple PodcastsLong Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan
Brian Halligan, HubSpot’s co-founder and longtime CEO, now a Sequoia partner, interviews CEOs for a show Sequoia Capital publishes. CROs get the CEO’s side of the job: where to put attention, how to fight a competitor, when to bet on a category and how much conflict to tolerate.
Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the BestLong Strange Trip · 1 hr 14 min · Sept. 17, 2026In 2015 Databricks had $1.5 million in revenue and a board quietly interviewing other candidates for the CEO job. Ghodsi’s method: find the single biggest bottleneck in the company and give it disproportionate attention for two or three years. He also explains the playbook he ran against Snowflake.Listen on Apple PodcastsTen shows will not fit in one commute. Keep one show from your own function and give the rest of the week’s drives to the functions you depend on, because their arguments are the ones waiting for you in January planning. Before you subscribe to anything new, decide which show in your current feed loses its slot.
Sources
- Apple Podcasts: 30 Minutes to President’s Club | No-Nonsense Sales
- Apple Podcasts: 30 Minutes to President’s Club, #612: Sales Kickoff Masterclass: The Ultimate Planning Guide
- 30MPC: 30 Minutes to President’s Club home page
- Apple Podcasts: Revenue Builders
- Force Management: home page
- Apple Podcasts: Revenue Builders, Why Proprietary Data Beats AI Software for 2x Pipeline Growth with Ann Davis
- Apple Podcasts: Revenue Builders, Why Deals Don’t Close: Anne Gary’s Framework for Discovery, Champions & Economic Buyers
- Apple Podcasts: The Sales Management. Simplified. Podcast with Mike Weinberg
- Apple Podcasts: The Sales Management. Simplified. Podcast, 1:1 Accountability Cadence + Consistency = A Fresh, Fat Pipeline!
- Apple Podcasts: The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five)
- Apple Podcasts: The Dave Gerhardt Show, How Sprout Social builds revenue marketing around segmentation (with Hailey McDonald, VP of Revenue Marketing)
- Exit Five: B2B Marketing Podcast with Dave Gerhardt
- Apple Podcasts: GTM Live
- Apple Podcasts: GTM Live, 3 Major GTM Blind Spots Hurting Marketing’s Ability to Measure Revenue Impact
- Apple Podcasts: GTM Live, AI Is Exposing a Massive Problem With B2B Marketing Data
- Apple Podcasts: CHURN FM
- Apple Podcasts: CHURN FM, E303 | Customer Success Is Dead. Meet the Growth Department.
- Apple Podcasts: CHURN FM, EP305 | What Happens When Marketing and CS Share a Leader | Rebecca Stone
- Apple Podcasts: CHURN FM, EP306 | Beyond Retries: Why Payments Fail and How to Recover Them | Jack Cregan
- CHURN.FM: show home page
- Apple Podcasts: GTM Science - A show for GTM and RevOps leaders
- Apple Podcasts: GTM Science, How to Turn Your GTM Dashboard Into Actual Decisions
- Union Square Consulting: home page
- Apple Podcasts: RevOps FM
- Apple Podcasts: RevOps FM, Building a Company Brain for AI - Jacob Dietle
- Apple Podcasts: The Revenue Leadership Podcast with Kyle Norton
- Apple Podcasts: The Revenue Leadership Podcast, E72: I Collapsed My GTM Org Chart. This Is Why | Ian Tickle, CRO @ Freshworks
- Freshworks: Leadership
- Pavilion: The Revenue Leadership Podcast
- SaaStr: How Owner.com’s CRO Is Closing $2M+ in ARR Per Rep With AI: 5 Things You Can Steal
- Apple Podcasts: Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan
- Apple Podcasts: Long Strange Trip, Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the Best
- Owner.com: Leadership
- Apple Podcasts: The Revenue Leadership Podcast, E74: Your Agent Isn’t Broken. Its Foundation Is. | Jonathan Moss, EVP Growth & Partnerships @ Experity
- Webflow: About
- Apple Podcasts: The Revenue Leadership Podcast, E67: Your Buyer’s AI Is Pitching YOUR Product (Badly) | Adrian Rosenkranz, CRO @ Webflow