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How to Get Booked on TED Business

TED Business is a business podcast with 322 episodes. Your strongest route into TED Business starts with evidence from its feed and the contact path this show publishes.

TED Business is not affiliated with Let's Make A Podcast. We cannot book its guests.

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What TED Business is about

Whatever your business conundrum, there’s a TED Talk for that, whether you want to learn how to land that promotion, set smart goals, undo injustice at work, or unlock the next big innovation. Every Monday, host Modupe Akinola of Columbia Business School presents the most powerful and surprising ideas that illuminate the business world.

In the show’s own words, from its public feed.

Publishes
a few times a week
Latest episode
Oct 5, 2026
Catalogue
322 episodes

Recent episodes

Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.

  • Who controls your city's money? | Trinity Tran
  • Why countries should measure dreams and ambitions (just like GDP) | Lance Katigbak
  • Growing Your Career: How to ask for more — and get it | Alex Carter
  • Growing Your Career: Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume | Regina Hartley
  • Growing Your Career: How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure

Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-10-10.

3 show-specific steps to pitch TED Business

  1. 1

    Listen before you pitch

    Start with the latest episode of TED Business, which publishes a few times a week, currently “Who controls your city's money? | Trinity Tran”. Listen for how the host frames the conversation, then make your angle fit TED Business.

  2. 2

    Use the guest form TED Business publishes

    TED Business takes guest pitches through a submission form on its own site, at ted.com. That is the process the host chose, so it is where they actually look. Use it instead of a cold email, and paste in the pitch you wrote. Open the TED Business guest form.

  3. 3

    Lead with a specific, relevant angle

    Hosts want an operator who can share real numbers, decisions, and lessons, not generic advice. Open with one sentence on why you fit TED Business and the exact topic you would bring to an episode. See our pitch template, or write it now, prefilled for TED Business, then grade the draft against TED Business.

Pitch basics: read the complete guide. TED Business is listed from Apple Podcasts (iTunes Search API), public directory data; its host can manage it below.

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