About This Role
This podcast host and producer role involves taking charge of the Freelance to Founder podcast, a business advice show for freelancers. You will lead conversations with callers seeking business advice, guiding them to practical solutions for growth. The position suits a natural conversationalist with a strong understanding of freelancing and entrepreneurship, who can manage the entire production process from idea development to publishing.
Responsibilities
- Host engaging, conversational episodes with freelancers seeking business advice
- Guide callers toward solutions by asking insightful follow-up questions and identifying underlying challenges
- Bring business savvy to discussions on topics like client acquisition, pricing, sales, marketing, positioning, cash flow, and business growth
- Make every episode compelling, focused, natural, and entertaining, ensuring listeners gain useful insights
- Coordinate guest co-hosts, including identification, scheduling, and preparation
- Own podcast production, managing recording, audio editing, sound quality, episode assembly, and final production
- Develop episode ideas by spotting recurring freelancer challenges and timely topics
- Manage the publishing workflow, preparing episodes for release, coordinating show notes and titles, and ensuring accurate and on-schedule publication
- Contribute to audience growth by improving episode quality, listener engagement, discoverability, and overall reach
Requirements
- Strong hosting and interviewing skills, comfortable leading conversations and making callers feel heard
- Genuine understanding of freelancing and service-based business realities, including client acquisition, pricing, sales, and managing inconsistent income
- Practical business judgment to help people think through problems, challenge assumptions, and guide conversations to solutions
- Excellent communication skills: articulate, personable, curious, and able to explain complex ideas in plain English
- Podcast production experience, capable of independently recording, editing, and producing polished audio using tools like Descript, Audacity, or Adobe Audition
- Strong editorial instincts to recognize interesting stories, ask better questions, cut tangents, and keep episodes moving
- Reliable project management skills to coordinate recordings, manage deadlines, and maintain a consistent publishing schedule
- A listener-first mindset, prioritizing audience help over self-promotion, and willing to challenge callers empathetically
Nice to have:
- Experience hosting a business, entrepreneurship, personal finance, or advice-oriented podcast
- Firsthand experience as a freelancer, consultant, agency owner, or independent service provider