52 Podcasts That Inspire My Creativity & Productivity

Podcasts I listen to:

1. Feeling Good – Psychiatrist and Author David Burns discusses mood improvement tips and exercises.
2. Happier with Gretchen Rubin – Gretchen (author of The Happiness Project and The Four Tendencies) and her sister Elizabeth Craft (TV writer) discuss habits
3. Happier in Hollywood – Liz Craft and Sarah Fain discuss the struggles as TV writers in the male-dominated entertainment industry.
4. Awesome Etiquette – The great-grandchildren of etiquette author Emily Post discuss modern manners in the digital age based on the tenants of consideration, respect, and honest.
5. Getting Things Done – Productivity tips from author and consultant David Allen.
6. TED Radio Hour – TED Talks adapted for audio
7. The James Altucher Show
8. The Upgrade by Lifehacker
9. Slate’s Dear Prudence – Life advice from columnist Mallory Ortberg
10. Windows Weekly – I’m both a Mac and Windows user. Power tips for power users of Microsoft’s operating syste
11. Pop Culture Happy Hour
12. InDesign Secrets
13. By The Book – Jolenta Greenberg and her  friend Kristen Meinzer live by the practices of a self-help book each episode to find out which ones might work
14. Hidden Brain
15. HBR IdeaCast – Business and management ideas from Harvard Business Review.
16. PBS NewsHour – Rated as one of the more objective sources of news coverage.
17. Hello From the Magic Tavern – A man falls through a dimensional portal behind a Burger King into a magic land filled with wizards, magical monsters, and adventurers. Starring Chicago Improvisers.
18. That’s How I Remember It – Actors flawlessly recreate perfectly exactly movies they’ve seen and haven’t seen from memory on the spot.
19. A Way with Words – A call-in show about the English language linguistics, slang, new words, jokes, word games, grammar, regional dialects and word history.
20. The Marie Forleo Podcast
21. Radical Candor – Workplace advice
22. I Hate My Boss – Workplace advice
23. The Dinner Party Download
24. If I Were You
25. Dear Sugars
26. Get-Done Guy’s Quick and Dirty Tips to Work Less and Do More
27. The Savvy Psychologist’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Mental Health
28. Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
29. The Nutrition Diva’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Eating Well and Feeling Fabulous
30. Money Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for a Richer Life
31. Planet Money
32. Freakonomics
33. Recode Decode with Kara Swisher
34. Recode Media with Peter Kafka
35. Katie Couric
36. Judge John Hodgman
37. Anna Faris Is Unqualified
38. The Backline – An Improv Podcast
39. This Week in Google
40. All About Android
41. The Accidental Creative
42. Side Hustle School
43. The Mortified Podcast
44. Schmanners
45. Myths and Legends
46. Hannah and Matt Know It All
47. Improv Nerd with Jimmy Carrane
48. improv4humans with Matt Besser
49. The American Life
50. Design Matters with Debbie Millman
51. Marvel Cinematic Universe – Covering Marvel Comics films.
52. FiveThirtyEight – Politics through the eyes of statistics and probability

Also check out my podcast Uncanny Creativity. What are your favorite podcasts? Any I missed that need to be included?

Brian E. Young is a graphic designer and artist in Baltimore, MD.

Also published on Medium.