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One Playlist. Sixty Free PDUs. Zero Hassle.

We’ve made it incredibly easy for you to earn your Professional Development Units (PDUs) using Spotify. In this episode, Cornelius Fichtner explains how you can listen to 60 hours of curated podcast content from The Project Management Podcast and self-report those hours as free PDUs with PMI.

Here’s how it works:

• Step 1 – Download the Tracking Spreadsheet: Use this spreadsheet to track your learning ➡️ Download Spreadsheet
• Step 2 – Listen and Track: Open the Spotify playlist, start listening, and log your progress in the spreadsheet ➡️ Open Spotify Playlist
• Step 3 – Self-Report with PMI: Use PMI’s CCRS platform to self-report your earned PDUs ➡️ Report at PMI

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🎓 Apply for a PBP Scholarship Worth $1,000+

We're offering 7 full scholarships for the upcoming Project Business Professional (PBP) seminar, taking place September 8–11. This live, interactive training is for project managers working on client-facing, outsourced, profit-driven projects.

To apply, visit pm-podcast.com/scholarship and complete the short form by August 18. Tell us why you want to become a PBP—and you could be one of the seven randomly selected.

Premium subscribers: this time, you must opt in too!

👉 Apply here before August 18.

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Episode Summary

Many project managers are trained to manage scope, schedule, and cost. But what happens when the project itself is the business? In this solo episode, Cornelius Fichtner introduces the Project Business Professional (PBP) certification and explains why it fills a major gap in traditional project management education. Drawing on his own recent experience earning the PBP credential, Cornelius walks through what makes project business fundamentally different from internal project delivery and why nearly half of all project managers are already operating in this external, client-facing space—whether they realize it or not.

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This episode flips the script on traditional project management education by using memes to deliver real, applicable insights. Cornelius Fichtner selects seven past podcast interviews and distills their core lessons into memorable memes. Each meme acts as a springboard into deeper project truths, making this a visually rich episode that’s equal parts fun and functional. Topics span remote leadership, stakeholder communication, power skills, data literacy, and more. This creative format makes complex ideas stick and gives project managers simple reminders they can laugh at and learn from.