I am almost always listening to a podcast. It's constantly amazing to me how much high quality content is available on the web for free. Of course, there's a lot of crap out there too.
So, to help you avoid the crap, here's a curated list, in no particular order, of my favorites.
- Against the Rules. Micheal Lewis, author of The Blindside, Moneyball, and The Big Short discusses the decline of referees in American society. I am listening to "The Seven Minute Rule", a show about student loan servicing companies screwing their customers.
- Hardcore History. Dan Carlin. Carlin does a deep dive into various historical periods. My personal favorite is "Blueprint for Armageddon", a six part series on World War I. It's over 20 hours of high quality content that I'd put up against any college level course on the Great War. Plus Carlin's voice is awesome.
- Akimbo. Seth Godin. A quirky podcast in Godin style.
- Daily Boost. Scott Smith. A nice first thing in the morning pick me up. About 10 minutes of self improvement.
- Day1. Short sermons.
- Focus on This. Michael Hyatt and Company. Setting goals, etc.
- Mom and Dad are Fighting. Slate Magazine podcast on parenting. I listen to a ton of business/leadership/self improvement stuff and I figured I should try something on parenting. The title grabbed my attention.
- White Lies. NPR. Seven episode podcast covering the murder of James Reeb, a Boston priest and civil rights worker murder in Selma, Alabama in 1965. Some of locals interviewed last year for the podcast still refer to MLK coming to Selma to "stir up trouble".
- The Minimalists. Ryan Nicodemus and Joshua Fields Milburn. Watch the Netflix show then listen to the podcast. Hard to believe, but we've got too much shit and businesses are trying to get us to buy more.
- The One Thing. Based on the principle in the book. Great weekly podcast on focusing on the "lead domino" and getting stuff done.
- Entre Leadership. Dave Ramsey Network. Yes, that Dave Ramsey.
- The Tim Ferriss Show. Tim Ferriss. Tim is the author of The Four Hour Work Week and he is an excellent interviewer. The show is long form interviews with thoughts leaders from across the spectrum.
- Blackout. Fictional radio drama about a power outage from an unknown source that sends a Maine town into chaos and anarchy. Rami Malek from Mr. Robot and Bohemian Rhapsody plays the lead.
Any favorites you want to share?
