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Cliff Ravenscraft started podcasting as a hobby in 2005. Two years later, he left a successful career as an insurance agent to build a thriving online business around his passion for podcasting. After helping more than 40,000 people successfully launch their podcast, he continues to serve creators, entrepreneurs, and leaders who want to share their voice with confidence and excellence. Today, Cliff is also known for his business strategy and mindset coaching, guiding clients through the clarity, focus, and structure required to build profitable, predictable, and sustainable online businesses.Â
Cliff Ravenscraft started podcasting as a hobby in 2005 and it changed his life forever.
In January 2008, he walked away from a lucrative career in his family’s insurance agency, founded by his grandfather in 1937. Though he was next in line to take over the business, Cliff felt called into something deeper. What had begun as a two-year hobby had already grown into a body of work reaching hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
His first year as a self-employed business owner stretched him to the limit. He earned just eleven thousand dollars, worked around the clock, and experienced a health scare that landed him in the hospital. That difficult season ignited a lifelong commitment to personal growth and to serving others at the highest level.
Over the following decade, Cliff built a thriving online business and became recognized as the world’s leading authority on podcasting. Through his coaching, courses, live events, and workshops, he helped more than forty thousand people successfully launch a podcast and share their message with clarity and confidence.
His flagship program, Podcasting A to Z, became one of the most successful and respected training experiences in the industry. It set the standard for quality, depth, and hands-on guidance, and helped creators launch shows that reached millions of listeners around the world.
As Cliff’s business grew, a deeper pattern emerged. More and more clients began asking questions that extended far beyond equipment, workflow, or launch strategy. They were seeking clarity. They wanted confidence. They needed a roadmap for building a business and a life that reflected who they had become. These conversations revealed a common struggle: many aspiring entrepreneurs assumed that launching a podcast was the natural first step to building a profitable business. In reality, most had skipped the foundational work needed long before content creation.
This realization led Cliff to develop his signature 11-Step Formula for Building an Online Business. His work expanded to help clients simplify their direction, establish the right foundations, and create sustainable offers and income streams that supported the future they wanted to build. Podcasting remains a meaningful part of how Cliff helps people share their voice. His deeper coaching work is how he helps them step into their next chapter with purpose and clarity.
Today, Cliff guides visionary entrepreneurs, leaders, and creators through the conversations that change everything. His coaching brings focus, momentum, and the confidence to move forward with clarity. Through his programs, private coaching, and premium experiences such as “A Day With Cliff,” he continues to help people transform their ideas into meaningful, profitable, and sustainable work in the world.
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Michael Hyatt has been both a close, personal, friend and a mentor ever since he hired me to help him launch his first podcast in January 2012. I have had the distinct honor of speaking at every one of his Platform Conference events that was based upon his New York Times Bestseller, Platform: Getting Noticed In A Noisy World.
In one of Michael's guest appearances on The Cliff Ravenscraft Show, he said, "Well I told you before. This is why I listen to your podcast. I listen to you because I like the way that you think about life, how you approach the problems you're trying to solve and just your voice. So you can talk about anything and I'd be interested."
Pat Flynn and I started working together back in July 2010. Realizing that we shared many common values in life and business, we made the decision to launch a mastermind group which is, today, called The Green Room Mastermind. Pat and I have been meeting together on a weekly basis since October 2010.
Pat shared... “Cliff, by far, has been the biggest influence on me and my career. I had struggled so much to put my voice into the world. I finally connected with Cliff and he got me going down the right path to make it happen. I only wish I worked with him sooner.”
Amy Porterfield and I became friends as the result of sharing a number of stages at high profile conferences in the Entrepreneurial space. When Amy decided to launch her Online Marketing Made Easy podcast, she hired me to help her get started.
“When I wanted to start a podcast, I knew I would need a lot of help. Cliff was my go to guy from the start. I had no idea what I was doing, or how to do it. Cliff taught me the nuances of creating a show that would be successful. II’m happy to say that my show now has over 60 Million downloads and I would not have been able to achieve that had Cliff not been my guide from the very beginning!”
John Lee Dumas had a crazy dream of launching a "daily" podcast for entrepreneurs. In May 2012, he joined one of my paid mastermind groups. Over that year, I shared everything I knew about building a powerful network that would allow you to accomplish the seemingly impossible.
In a hand written thank you note, John wrote the following: "Cliff, I wanted to take the time to thank you the old fashioned way. Your kindness, guidance, and friendship has helped to guide Entrepreneur On Fire from a spark of an idea into the roaring passion I am proud to call a business today."
Graham Cochrane is an incredibly successful online business owner, author, coach, podcaster and speaker.
His Recording Revolution Youtube Channel has over 630K subscribers and his relatively new Graham Cochrane Channel already has over 30K subscribers.
Graham describes, perfectly, the type of coaching that I do today in this video testimonial.