30 podcasts on health, leadership, parenting and the outdoors

We asked friends for the podcasts that help them get through the day, find inspiration, or learn new things. Here’s their top 30 for 2019 on topics from entrepreneurship and parenting to health and the outdoors.

Entrepreneurs, leaders and creators

1. How I Built This. Host Guy Raz on the stories behind some of the world’s best known companies. He takes you on a “journey about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the movements they built.”
2. Recode Decode. Kara Swisher hosts hard-hitting interviews about the week in tech with influential business leaders and outspoken personalities from media, politics and more.
3. Masters of Scale. LinkedIn Co-Founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman shows how companies grow from zero to a gazillion. Masters of Scale commits to a 50-50 gender balance for guests.
4. TED Radio Hour. A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.
5. Exponent. Ben Thompson and James Allworth explore the effect technology is having on society. Ben is the author of Stratechery, a blog about the business and strategy of technology. James is co-author of How Will You Measure Your Life and a writer for the Harvard Business Review.
6. Worklife. You spend a quarter of your life at work, so shouldn’t you enjoy it? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant takes you inside some of the world’s most unusual workplaces to discover the keys to better work. Whether you’re learning how to love criticism or trust a co-worker you can’t stand, one thing’s for sure: You’ll never see your job the same way again.
7. Rework by Basecamp. A podcast about a better way to work and run your business. They bring you stories and unconventional wisdom from Basecamp’s co-founders and other business owners.
8. No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis. No Limits is where the most-impressive women in the world go to let their guards down and share honest stories about what it really takes to build an empire. 
9. The Boss Files. CNN’s Poppy Harlow goes beyond the headlines, and the talking points, with the men and women leading global companies – and those committed to making a positive impact beyond the bottom line.
10. Girlboss Radio. Sophia Amoruso interviews boundary-pushing women who’ve made their mark—eschewing polite conversation and extracting solid advice from the lessons they’ve learned along the way.
11. Skimm’d From The Couch. theSkimm’s co-founders, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, started their company from a couch. Now they’re bringing it back to one, and inviting powerful female leaders to sit down and chat about everything from celebrating career wins to the worst advice they’ve ever received. We also get valuable advice about digital marketing and how home based entrepreneurs can play alongside the bigger companies with the right online strategy.
12. Second Life. MyDomaine co-founder Hillary Kerr chronicles the career changes that can come at any age.
13. How I did It. Business Insider talks with leaders from business, sports, entertainment, and government. Candid interviews with Sheryl Sandberg, LeBron James, and the founders of companies like Lyft and Tinder to offer advice about how to succeed.
14. ReplyAll. “A podcast about the internet’ that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it.” – The Guardian. Hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman, from Gimlet.
15. StartUp. A documentary series about entrepreneurial life launched in 2014. Its first season has been adapted into an ABC sitcom called Alex, Inc. starring Zach Braff. StartUp has won a Gracie Award and the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.
16. The Pitch. In each episode, they take you behind closed doors to the critical moment when aspiring entrepreneurs put it all on the line. The Pitch delivers on the high-stakes promise of a live pitch without shying away from the nitty-gritty details of what happens after everyone shakes hands and walks out of the room.
17. Business Wars. Sometimes the prize is your wallet, or your attention. Sometimes, it’s just the fun of beating the other guy. The outcome of these battles shapes what we buy and how we live. Business Wars gives you the unauthorized, real story of what drives these companies and their leaders, inventors, investors and executives to new heights — or to ruin.
18. Information 411. Each episode highlights some of the major happenings in tech business world, featuring the reporters at The Information. It’s interviews, analysis, and wrap-ups to help give you insights into what the biggest companies in the industry are thinking.

Parenting and kids

1. Wow in the World. A new way for families to connect, look up and discover the wonders in the world around them. Every podcast episode, hosts Mindy and Guy guide curious kids and their grown-ups away from their screens and on a journey. Through a combination of careful scientific research and fun, they go inside our brains, out into space, and deep into the coolest new stories in science and technology. Click find this – WebDesign499 for more details.
2. Mom and Dad are Fighting from Slate. Gabriel Roth, Rebecca Lavoie and Carvell Wallace discuss all aspects of parenting from toddler to teens.
3. Nursing & Cursing. Changing the world one diaper at a time. 
4. Wellness Mama. A weekly series covering the health topics of real food, stress, sleep, fitness, toxins, natural living, and much more to give you actionable steps to improve your family’s health.

Health and the outdoors

1. 10% Happier. Dan Harris is a fidgety, skeptical ABC newsman who had a panic attack live on Good Morning America, which led him to something he always thought was ridiculous: meditation. Dan talks with smart people about whether there’s anything beyond 10% to explore whether you can be an ambitious person and still strive for enlightenment. New episodes every Wednesday morning.
2. REI Podcasts. REI does what it does best — stories of life outdoors on the Co-op Journal.
3. Bulletproof. Bulletproof was born out of a fifteen-year single-minded crusade to upgrade the human being using every available technology. It distills the knowledge of world-class MDs, biochemists, Olympic nutritionists, meditation experts, and personal self-experiments.
4. The Sharp End. Documents accidents in North American mountaineering and talks to victims, rescuers and experts to discuss what went wrong, how it was managed and how it could have been avoided. A good reminder on risk management and staying safe during any sort of potentially dangerous activity.
5. Almost 30. Honest conversations about topics like wellness, entrepreneurship, spirituality & self-development.
6. The Outside Podcast. Applies Outside’s longstanding literary storytelling methods to the audio realm, creating features that will both entertain and inform listeners along the way.

Fun and entertainment

1. WTF with Marc Maron. In September 2009, Marc changed the podcast landscape when he started WTF, featuring revelatory conversations with iconic personalities such as Conan O’Brien, Terry Gross, Robin Williams, Keith Richards, Ben Stiller, Lorne Michaels and President Barack Obama. It became a worldwide phenomenon, with more than six-million downloads each month.
2. The Bill Simmons Podcast. HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons hosts one of the most downloaded sports podcast of all time, with a rotating crew of celebrities, athletes, and media staples, as well as mainstays like Cousin Sal, Joe House, and a slew of other friends and family members who always happen to be suspiciously available.
3. UnStyled. A weekly podcast hosted by Refinery29 Global Editor-in-Chief & Co-founder, Christene Barberich, that explores the funny, inspiring, sometimes heartbreaking tales of life, work, and love—as told through the things that we wear.

Politics and news

1. Pod Save America. Four former aides to President Obama — Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor — are joined by journalists, politicians, comedians, and activists for a freewheeling podcast about politics and the press.
   
2. KCRW’s Left, Right & Center. Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW’s weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn’t lack personality. Featuring four of the most insightful news analysts anywhere, this weekly love-hate relationship of the air reaches about 50,000 of the most influential radio listeners in Southern California.