Business Travel – What are you listening to?

Business travel provides many great opportunities to see different places and experience new points of interests. There can be many hours to get to your destination and I wanted to know what people listen to when they travel for work? That is the question I thought about when I realized that I listen to similar songs and stations when I’m driving or flying. Many of the songs I listen to reminded me of being home or wanting to be home. I wondered what my guests use to fill their time, and ears, while traveling for their work. I started asking the guests on new podcasts and went back and asked the previous guests as well. The results started coming in and I was shocked that the vast majority of the guests had completely different interests in their music and podcasts.

The wide range of listening choices of my guests made me realize that as I work hard on making a podcast for other business travelers I need to be patient. All of the media being made available now makes it easier to get your work out in to the ethos of the internet but it also increases how many options there are for listeners. Growing up there were only a few radio choices to listen to music, sometimes being very repetitive. There are literally hundreds of terrestrial and satellite radio stations available now for business travel. Hundreds of thousands of podcast shows available thru your phone on multiple different platforms. Television was only antenna stations, roughly 8 main channels. Now there are multiple streaming platforms, cable tv with hundreds of channels, movies on demand. Grabbing attention is the key.

Here are my guests in order of appearance on my podcast and their listening choices while they travel for their business. You can click on their name below to be re-directed to their episode page on my website. My list is at the bottom, and while my list literally grew from seeing my guests’ choices, the ones below are my mainstays.

Hunter Cure –

• Chris Stapleton “Traveller”

Cowboy Troy –

• Social Distortion “I Was Wrong”
• Dwight Yoakam “Blame the Vain”

Kevin Ford –

• Twenty One Pilots

Nicole Tenace –

• Janis Joplin

Kevin Geiger –

• Music is easy. Jazz playlist I have and an alt-country playlist. Also a Style Council playlist that calms me down.
• Sturgill Simpson, Ryan Bingham, Band of Horses, Coltrane, Monk, Miles Davis
• Favorite song is Southside of Heaven right now. Ryan Bingham.
• I throw on Relax & Rest app and meditate for first 15 minutes of the flight during takeoff.
• Podcast – Wait Wait don’t tell me – puts me in a good mood

Jon Grundmeyer –

• Brad Paisley
• John Legend “All of Me” for his wife

Adrian Cosby –

• Bon Iver is my favorite band. I try and see them live all over the country whenever I can.

Karissa Cook –

• Lane 8 and Rufus du Sol are her favorite go-to’s

Smush Parker –

• Michael Jackson

Chris Castellano –

• Tim Ferriss Podcast
• James Altucher Podcast

Kevin Krohn –

• King’s X is perfect when he’s fighting driver fatigue

Steve Frick –

• Dave Mathews “Grey Street”
• Christopher Cross “Sailing” a memory he shares with his wife

Bobby Dover –

• Alice in Chains

Andrew Howard –

• Podcasts – Pardon My Take; Lights, Camera, Barstools; The Throwback Podcast
• Music – As for music, I have a wide range of favorite artists. But what I do like to do while traveling is listen to music from that area. For example, when I was in Nashville for the NFL Draft I listened to a lot of country.

 Scott Carson –

• Motley Crue and Guns N’ Roses

Asia Hall –

• Favorite audible was Shoe Dog (the founder of Nike’s memoir)
• Currently listening to Unlabel (Marc Ecko’s memoir)

Darci Smith –

• Podcast – How I Built This (entrepreneurial)
• Podcast – Lady Gang (pop culture)
• Music – SHAED

Carey Portell –

• Lauren Daigle
• Poison & Ozzy Osbourne
• Little Big Town

Dr. Nii Darko –

• I’m all about Afrobeatz when I travel. It’s a genre of music from West Africa

Jake Zweig –

• Podcasts – Ed Mylett, Gary Vaynerchuck, Grant Cardone
• Music – Darius Rucker

Landon Turner –

• An eclectic taste of music ranging from Future to George Strait. Various podcasts including one called Stream Key. It’s about tips for streaming on Twitch.

Danny David –

• Silento @silento

Sandy Knights –

• Elvis Pandora station
• If I’m really tired I turn on the Disney station

Pete Koch –

• Podcast – The Drive: Peter Attia MD

Valerie Thompson –

• Dr. Billy Alsbrook “Blessed and Unstoppable”

Erin Lamont –

• Bob Marley station on Pandora

Dina Parise –

• Podcasts – Ed Mylett, Dee Snider “I Wanna Talk”
• Music – Spotify; Queen, Def Leppard, Billy Joel, Elton John, etc.

Jesse Iwuji –

• Rich Dad Poor Dad audio book

Kevin Gootee –

• Nirvana and Bad Religion
• “punch you in the face” punk playlist when the mood is right
• High energy or House music when heading to Vegas

Hakeem Valles –             

• Gary Vee audio experience podcast

OG Mack Drama –

• Top Star Hip Hop Podcast

Curtis Fisher –

• Rage Against the Machine

Marcus Peterson –

• RnB, Hip Hop or soft jazz.
• I’m more of a mood guy so it could be various hip hop artists or Sade.

Tanya Stanfield –

• Road Warrior Strong playlist

Toni Nicole –

• DMX “Party Up (Up In Here)”

Jeanine Wright –

• Song – Shake Shake Senora, Harry Belafonte
• Podcast – The Longest Shortest Time

Big Sandy –

• He listens to the various albums he bought while traveling on previous trips.

Jethro Alcuaz –

• Reggae music, but it also depends on my mood

Pete Kotzbach –

• Michael Buble “Home”
• Journey “Faithfully”
• Travis Tritt “It’s a Great Day To Be Alive”
• Zac Brown Band “Colder Weather”
• Phil Vassar “Just Another Day In Paradise”
• Motley Crue “Home Sweet Home”
• Montgomery Gentry “My Town”
• Tears For Fears “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”
• Neil Diamond “I Am… I Said”
• Pearl Jam “Just Breathe”
• U2 “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”
• Aaron Lewis “Country Boy”
• Jamey Johnson “In Color”
• Podcasts choices are varied. I am listening to shows about SEO, websites and listening to other interview shows to improve my interviewing skills thru others.

Business travel allows for more and more choices to listen, relax, learn and interact with the advent of smart phones and the growth in the internet platforms. Technology takes asking the question “what are you listening to?” to a whole new level.