01 · Career and industry
Women in your industry
The niche is the advantage. A show for women in one field (localization, construction, nursing, finance, law) finds its listeners faster than a general career show, and guests say yes because they rarely get asked.
- Women in [your industry]: one career story per episode
- First jobs: how women in your field got started
- The negotiation episode series: real numbers, real scripts
- Returners: coming back after a career break
- Women founders before the first funding round
- Leading a team for the first time
- Side projects that became businesses
- Mentors and the one piece of advice they gave
- Women in [your city]'s small business scene
- Your company's employee resource group, internal only
02 · Working moms
Podcast ideas for working moms
Working-mom shows work best when they're specific and short. Fifteen to twenty minutes recorded at nap time on a phone is a real show. See how to start a podcast on your phone.
- The commute: 15-minute episodes for other working parents
- Back to work after leave: one return story per episode
- The mental load, divided: couples on how they split it
- Moms in [your industry]
- Childcare in [your city]: options, costs, waitlists
- Mompreneurs: businesses built in the margins
- Single working parents
- School-run conversations with other parents
- Career pivots after kids
- What I wish I'd known: one guest, one lesson
03 · Life stages
Life stages and wellbeing
Topics many women want to hear discussed openly. Bring a qualified guest when the subject is medical, and keep your own story as the thread.
- Your 30s, 40s or 50s: honest conversations by decade
- Perimenopause and menopause, with clinicians as guests
- Fitness after kids
- Money for women: investing, pay gaps, first homes
- Living alone and loving it
- Caring for ageing parents
- Faith and womanhood
- Starting over after a divorce or move
- Friendship as an adult
- Rest: what it actually looks like
04 · Culture and conversation
Conversation shows and culture
Two friends talking can outgrow an interview show. One co-host we spoke to switched from expert guests to just the two of them, and listening went up because people felt like they were in the room. Compare the options in podcast formats.
- Two friends, one taboo topic per week
- Women in your diaspora or community
- Book club for one genre
- Reality TV and pop culture recaps
- Dating in your city
- Women in sport, local level
- Creative women: artists, makers, writers
- Travelling solo
- Cooking from your grandmother's recipes
- Letters to my younger self, with a guest each week
05 · Choose
How to pick the idea you'll keep making
Write ten episode titles for your top two ideas. The one where the titles came easily is your show. Then name it with our podcast name ideas or the free podcast name generator.
- Ten titles test
- Can you record it in the time you actually have?
- Who are the first 20 listeners you can name?
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