Who needs college when you have access to all the business and marketing podcasts in iTunes?

Seriously, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve made myself appear smarter than I really am in a conversation because of what I heard on podcast 10 minutes before. (Thanks for Episode 144, Pat!)

When it comes to business and marketing podcasts, there is no limit to the amount knowledge you can gain. I joked about who need needs a college degree with all the business and marketing podcasts, but it’s true.

The problem is that there are so many podcasts out there, it’s hard to decide which ones to listen to. It’s even harder to decide which ones you can trust.

The podcasts listed below are podcasts that I’ve had personal experience with, and I have deemed valuable and trustworthy. These are the podcasts you can learn from and trust the information to be good. I will add that these podcasts aren’t ranked in any order.

1. Smart Passive Income Podcast

Pat reveals all of his online business and blogging strategies, income sources and killer marketing tips and tricks so you can be ahead of the curve with your online business or blog. Discover how you can create multiple passive income streams that work for you so that you can have the time and freedom to do what you love, whether it’s traveling the world, or just living comfortably at home. Although Pat confesses he is not a millionaire, he’s been supporting his family 100% with passive income generated online, easily earning a six-figure salary while working only a few hours a week. Automation, outsourcing, crowdsourcing, search engine optimization, building authority and trust, niche sites, social media, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Podcasting, eBooks, online courses, affiliate marketing, getting things done and everything that works (and doesn’t work) to help you better understand how to crush it with your online business.

“If you don’t share things that show you’re a real person people will go to someone else.” -Pat Flynn

2. Online Marketing Made Easy

Amy Porterfield shows you exactly how to monetize your online marketing and blogging efforts using her own tested, actionable lead generation strategies — so you can successfully launch and promote a new program, grow your email list, get more leads, build your authority, turn your customers into raving advocates OR simply find the time (and mindset!) to rock your social media and content marketing. From creating an online course to video marketing, webinar recording, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, new content creation (including eBooks, guides and cheat sheets) and email marketing, Amy is going to reveal what works (and what doesn’t) once and for all.

“It’s just like anything in life, to get big results you’ve got to show up!” -Amy Porterfield

3. Seth Godin’s Startup School

Seth Godin is a thought leader in the marketing and business world. In this rare live recording, hear Seth as he guides thirty entrepreneurs through a workshop exploring how they can build and run their dream business. This podcast was recorded and put into iTunes more than two years ago, but the advice and knowledge that Seth shares is pure gold. Seth provides you with concepts that really gets you thinking about your business and how to make that business successful.

“The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.”-Seth Goin

4. New Rainmaker

New Rainmaker provides the knowledge you need to build your own digital platform for marketing and sales. Listen in every week with Brian Clark (and special guests), and start building the foundation of your own online empire today. Brian’s New Rainmaker podcast is an all-in-one online marketing podcast. He interviews THE top industry experts, and his episodes are packed full of juicy and informative content. Brian also has other podcasts sponsored by Rainmaker that are extremely valuable as well although Brian isn’t the host of those.

“Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on having a blog that’s great for your readers.” -Brian Clark

5. Freedom Fastlane

Ryan Moran from Freedom Fast Lane inspires, educates, and empowers people to live extraordinary lives. On Freedom Fast Lane, you’ll discover how to escape the rate race and enjoy financial freedom so you can travel the world and live in your passions. You’ll become a better person as you learn how to enjoy meaningful relationships and improve your health and fitness. You’ll also be inspired to awaken to your purpose and grow as a person so that you can give more, be more, and do more, and live a life that is extraordinary.

“I didn’t understand the world until I got out of my own world & went to a place that was uncomfortable.” -Ryan Moran

6. New Business Podcast

Chris Ducker, serial entrepreneur, outsourcing expert, international keynote speaker, bestselling author and small business marketing coach helps startup, as well as established entrepreneurs to catapult their small business into the 21st century by utilizing ‘new business’ marketing, tips and growth strategies such as blogging, online video, podcasting, outsourcing and working with virtual assistants, social media and much, much more! He also coined the term “Super Hero Syndrome” and you’ll have to listen to his podcast or read his book Virtual Freedom to learn more about Super Hero Syndrome. Hint: We’re all guilty of it!

“Building a team is the nucleus for every piece of success” -Chris Ducker

7. #AskGaryVee

On the #AskGaryVee show, Gary answers your questions about marketing, social media, and entrepreneurship. Want to get on the show? Tweet your question with #AskGaryVee! Find Gary on Twitter and Instagram at @GaryVee! What’s great about Gary’s show is he answers questions that his audience asks. If you’re in online marketing or online business, you are Gary’s audience, so all of his podcast episodes are directly answering your questions. Gary is direct and full of enthusiasm which is contagious and get’s you motivated to take action.

“I attract a crowd, not because I’m an extrovert or over the top. It’s because I care.” -GaryVee

8. Entrepreneur On Fire

Entrepreneur On Fire is a podcast created for you, the Serial Entrepreneur, Side-Preneur, or Small Business Owner. If you are looking for inspiration, motivation, and actionable advice during your daily commute, workout, or “me” time, John Lee Dumas delivers 7-days a week. Each episode brings you a successful Entrepreneur who shares their journey: Their failures, AH-HA moments, successes, and much more. Each episode ends with the lightning round where John extracts priceless resources and action steps for you, fire nation!

“Invest in yourself. This allows you to press the fast-forward button on your success.” -John Lee Dumas

9. This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life with Michael Hyatt is a weekly podcast dedicated to intentional leadership. The goal is to help you live with more passion, work with greater focus, and lead with extraordinary influence. Michael is able to bring so many ideas and tools that can be used in both personal and professional life. He talks about living a great personal life and how that impacts your career and business. He is very positive and incredibly easy to learn from. Whether you are new to blogging, an intermediate, or advanced, there is something you can take away from listening to his podcast.

“You can’t fail it you don’t quit. You can’t succeed unless you start.” -Michael Hyatt

10. Social Pros

Social Pros shines the spotlight on social media practitioners, people doing the real work for real companies. Each episode includes an insight from a leading social media strategist, the Social Media Stat of the Week, discussed and ratified or debunked by Jay Baer of Convince & Convert and Jeff Rohrs of Salesforce, plus #HolySocial, we uncover a crazy social media happening. Finally, each episode ends with The Big Two where our guest gives us their rapid-fire answers to two important questions.

“You have to give away information snacks to sell knowledge meals.” -Jay Baer

11. The Side Hustle Show

The Side Hustle Show is the podcast for part-time entrepreneurs who are looking for business ideas, actionable tips to start a business, and killer strategies on how to turn their side hustle dreams into a growing business. We cover all aspects of starting a business and making money (online and offline), including small business marketing, sales, websites, social media marketing, blogging, time management, and more. Learn how to turn your business idea into your own thriving small business.

“What’s riskier: starting a business, or relying on a job as the only source of income?” -Nick Loper

12. Art of Paid Traffic

Facebook ads expert Rick Mulready brings you The Art of Paid Traffic, revealing the best paid traffic tips, tactics and strategies for generating leads and sales for your business on autopilot. Discover how to create freedom in your business through paid traffic without having to empty your wallet in the process. Learn how to automate your leads and sales from the top experts in paid traffic on Facebook ads, to YouTube ads, Twitter ads, Google Adwords, retargeting, native advertising, Instagram, LinkedIn ads, sales funnels, analytics, landing pages, sales pages, how to write good ad copy, banner ads, ad networks, buying email lists, affiliate marketing and more.

“Social media marketing is a skill that marketers who want to thrive in the marketplace NEED to master.” -Rick Mulready

13. Entrepreneur & Coffee

The Entrepreneurs and Coffee Podcast will not only spur you on to purposeful and deliberate action, but also bring you key insights and valuable feedback from today’s most successful and inspiring entrepreneurs. Brendan knows how to get the information across in his podcast. If you like to draw some great experience and knowledge from other high performing entrepreneurs like Nick Unsworth, Michael Hyatt, and Hal Elrod just to mentioned a few, you should realy check out Entrepreneur and Coffee.

“To create radical change in your life & business, purposeful action is crucial.” -Brendan Hufford

14. Content Inc.

Content Inc. is for entrepreneurs and startups who want to be big – not by creating and selling more products and services – but by developing a loyal audience through remarkable content. Podcast creator Joe Pulizzi, known as the “godfather of content marketing,” believes that most small businesses and startups are going to market in the wrong way. Instead of leading first with product, Joe believes entrepreneurs should be building audiences…then they can sell whatever they want. Each podcast contains one inspirational idea that can change your business – all in less than 15 minutes per episode.

“Before creating more “great content” figure out how to market it first.” -Joe Pulizzi

15. Social Media Marketing

Social Media Examiner’s Michael Stelzner helps your business navigate the social jungle with success stories and expert interviews from leading social media marketing pros. Discover how successful businesses employ social media, learn new strategies and tactics, and gain actionable tips to improve your social media marketing. If you’re just getting started with-social media and need to get the lay of the land, this is the podcast for you. Each episode lasts about 45 minutes and includes social media success stories, interviews with well-known industry experts and tips from Stelzner on how to improve your social media marketing.

“Social Media is not about promotion, it’s about engagement.” -Miek Stelzner

16. Eventual Millionaire

Real Talk with Real Millionaires. Business coach Jaime Tardy interviews millionaire entrepreneurs to learn their failures, advice, tips and stories. Jaime does a great job of getting useful and entertaining interviews from her guests. She is engaged, easygoing, and obviously really cares about her topic. She has a really unique mix of guests across a lot of different businesses, and asks interesting questions that add a lot of the interviews. Want to become a millionaire? Jaime intereviews guests that will teach you how.

“Give yourself time to achieve your dreams because it definitely takes effort.” Jaime Tardy

17. School of Greatness

Lewis Howes is an author, Lifestyle Entrepreneur, former pro athlete and world record holder in football. The goal of the School of Greatness is to share inspiring stories from the most brilliant business minds, world class athletes and influential celebrities on the planet; to help you find out what makes great people great. Lewis interviews some amazing people, one being Tony Robins which was one of my favorite podcasts Lewis put out.

“I want to make the ceiling my new floor everyday.” -Lewis Howes

18. Marketing Optimization

Make more money from your existing website traffic. Learn from the best in conversion rate optimization, content marketing and web analytics. Grow your startup’s success to maximize ROI. Improve conversions, generate more leads and make more money from your website every Sunday. Suggest your topics and guests on twitter @AlexDesigns. Alex really provides amazing information on how to substantially optimize conversions. His podcast coaches the ever eluding ROI with straight-forward, no non-sense techniques any website needs to enjoy.

“If you’re not measuring, you’re not growing.” -Alex Harris

19. Flipped Lifestyle

This podcast is about how Shane and Jocelyn make money online through Internet business, and how it lets them live a lifestyle other people can hardly imagine. Their goal is to help other families create, market, and sell digital products on the internet. Selling digital products helped them earn more money, have breathing room in their budget, and eventually quit their regular jobs. They’ve seen the power of online business first hand, now they want to help you see it too!

“It’s not easy, but we can assure you it’s totally worth it.” -Shane & Jocelyn Sams

20. Build Your Tribe

Chalene teaches you how to create influence that matters and content that creates conversion. She produces interviews and practical strategies from top internet influencers on how to build your email list, create a virtual community, strengthen a tribe and bring a powerful group of like-minded people together to make a difference in the world. Chalene provides solid business advice on how to be successful while keeping family a priority. She doesn’t deliver any fluff or fillers – it’s just valuable info to help you grow your business or learn what you need to do.

“Figure out the habits of successful people, and adopt them for yourself” -Chalene Johnson

Did a favorite podcast of yours not make it on the list? Let us know in the comments!

20 Business & Marketing Podcasts originally appeared on MarketRiser.