Hosted by Evan Johnson
★5.0on Apple Podcasts · 13 recent reviews
Evan Johnson interviews successful entrepreneurs and business owners, revealing the podcast strategies they use to grow their subscribers and sales. This podcast will help you save time and money when starting and growing your podcast, as well as overcome your fears of getting behind the mic.
367 episodes · publishes daily · latest 2023-06-05 · ~22 min/episode
Rank
#5908
Substance
36.0
/ 100
Breakdown
Scored 2026-07
Updated monthly
Across the index
#5908 of 6203
Substance
Top 95%
outscores 5% of the index
Path to Podcast Success ranks #5908 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 36.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on guest caliber and insight density. Guest has a dramatic personal backstory and 20+ years as a speaker and coach, plus a corporate run as a director of operations. However, he is a career motivational speaker and life coach - not a B2B practitioner who has built or scaled something measurable - making him nearly irrelevant to a B2B audience.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
The episode is almost entirely personal storytelling and generic motivational platitudes. The 'tolerations exercise' is the only semi-structured framework offered, but it is well-known in coaching circles and explained without any evidence of outcome. No novel, non-obvious claims relevant to a B2B operator appear.
“I help people overcome their self-created crap without the self-help fluffy bullshit”
“you have survived 100 percent of all the things that you've been through in this particular life”
Every idea in the episode is recycled from mainstream self-help canon: the 'big why' (Sinek), eulogy-writing (Covey's 'begin with the end in mind'), morning gratitude routines, and a Nietzsche quote tattooed on the guest's forearm. There is no contrarian, first-principles, or counterintuitive thinking.
“my tattoo says, what doesn't kill me only makes me stronger”
“I have a big why, you know, honestly, I have a big why”
Guest has a dramatic personal backstory and 20+ years as a speaker and coach, plus a corporate run as a director of operations. However, he is a career motivational speaker and life coach - not a B2B practitioner who has built or scaled something measurable - making him nearly irrelevant to a B2B audience.
“I'm a motivational speaker, inspirational speaker, a mindset coach, podcaster, author”
“I became a coach before the term coach came out and I've been broadcasting for over 10 years and been speaking for over 20 years”
Personal anecdotes contain colorful specifics (18 cats, station wagon, the 2008 funeral) but there are zero business metrics, client outcome data, or named company examples. The coaching illustrations are anecdotal and unverifiable, with vague heuristics like 'about 10 things per category.'
“I lived with 18 cats and four dogs inside of a station wagon for four years of my life”
“99% of the people say that”
The host offers constant unchallenged validation ('That is incredible,' 'That is amazing') and asks entirely open-ended softball questions with no follow-up or pushback. The single structural virtue - asking for one piece of actionable advice - is undermined by immediately accepting whatever the guest offers.
“That is, that is incredible. I mean, that is incredibly inspiring.”
“I think this is going to be a particularly fun and enlightening interview for everyone listening”
First period on the Index - history builds from here.
1 scored on substance · 60 tracked in total.
Evan Johnson has done the podcasting world a favor by gathering some of the most successful podcasters today and sharing their insights. If you’re an aspiring or current podcaster, make sure to subscribe to this show - it will be a great investment of time!
- Kent Sanders, Writer
I recently got interviewed by Evan for his show and he is a great host! He really does care about helping his audience learn and grow and you can tell this from every episode. If you’re looking for genuine conversations you can learn from, this is the podcast for you!!
- Philip93675
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