In April 2017, Ghomeshi launched a new creative endeavor called The Ideation Project. The Ideation Project is a music and podcast series featuring all original words, music, recordings and production by Ghomeshi, which has Ghomeshi commenting on a range of cultural and newsworthy topics. Ghomeshi launched The Ideation Project with a monologue called "Exiles" on the topic of what it means to not have a homeland. Season 1 includes 13 "tracks" on various subjects. The web series, distributed by Ron Hartenbaum's WYD Media Management was described by "The Globe and Mail" as a "less than triumphant return" despite what they refer to as his slick voice and delivery. Additional backlash to Ghomeshi's return to media resulted in Art19 backing out of hosting the media files, which were subsequently relocated to SoundCloud. Adam Ragusea's review of the first four episodes of The Ideation Project for "Slate" calls it "a podcast version of Ghomeshi’s signature opening essay segment" on the CBC show "Q". However, Ragusea says that without that CBC show's "crack team of producers behind him, the top-tier guests they booked, [and] the cultural “moment” the show inhabited", he thinks there is not anything "particularly special about Jian Ghomeshi" when he is podcasting alone. Ragusea criticizes Ghomeshi's "hackneyed" platitudes about culture and society, the tone of "self-righteous self-pity", and the way the monologues are delivered, in a rhyming rap style over Ghomeshi's own electronica loops. In mid-April 2020, Ghomeshi started Roqe, a new podcast series, which is aimed at an audience of Iranian-Canadians and the global Iranian diaspora. Roqe focuses on Iranian culture-related topics and has interviews with guests of interest to its target audience. Examples of guests include Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion (episode 1.1), kickboxer Farinaz Kari (episode 1.2), and Bollywood actress/model Mandana Karimi (episode 8). The name "Roqe" is a Farsi word that means “candid, or straightforward in conversation.” With the support of "unnamed investors" and a well-known member of the Iranian-Canadian community, Mehrdad Ariannejad, Roqe can afford higher production values than The Ideation Project.