Unexpected Entrepreneurs

Stories of people in diverse cultures thriving through entrepreneurship.
 A documentary-style podcast with original, on-the-ground reporting.
Where business, travel and culture collide.

As a journalist, I have seen more than my share of seemingly hopeless situations. In Unexpected Entrepreneurs, I tell optimistic, untold stories about people succeeding, where the impossible becomes possible. 

Amy Guttman

About the Podcast

Have you ever been told something won’t work? Each person in Unexpected Entrepreneurs has been told the same thing. They did it anyway and succeeded. You’ll meet them.

Each episode takes you to a place you might not know anything about, to meet an entrepreneur who had an idea for a business that’s solving a local or universal problem.

You’ll learn how they overcame barriers to build a successful business, hear personal stories that connect to the bigger picture and get to know fascinating insights about parts of the world you might never visit and people you might never meet.

Unexpected Entrepreneurs is where the impossible is possible.

Get a brief taste of Unexpected Entrepreneurs

It often takes an outsider’s perspective to solve a local problem. That vision can change a whole industry – across an entire continent. That’s what happened when a young European moved from Copenhagen to Nairobi.
In Syrians Fleeing War Taste Sweet Success, you’ll travel to Jordan and meet Moe, a tech founder who fled Aleppo for Amman and brought his know-how to help develop the country’s startup ecosystem.

About Amy

As a journalist, I’ve spent my career travelling to the far corners of the planet.
In Unexpected Entrepreneurs, I tell optimistic, untold stories about people succeeding – where the impossible becomes possible.