10 Best Motivational and Self-Help Podcasts to Listen Right Now
List of Top 10 Podcasts Everyone Should be Listening To
Podcast listening continues to skyrocket, as we’ve all needed something to stay entertained and motivated through a turbulent year. It is one of the best ways to learn new things and gain inspiration from others. In this post, we have compiled a list of the best podcasts in the productivity, motivation, and personal development category. These podcasts cover topics like forming new habits, financial success, and a whole lot more.
1. The Science of Success
The best Evidence-Based Growth Podcast on the Internet hosted by Matt Bodnar. It’s about exploring ways to improve your decision-making, understand your mind and how psychology rules the world around you, and learn from experts and thought leaders about ways we can become better versions of ourselves. Guests on The Science of Success range from neuropsychologists and entrepreneurs to FBI hostage negotiators and mindfulness gurus.
2. Beyond the To-Do List
If you’re often finding yourself frustrated by your to-do list, your obligations, and all the hats you wear in your career and at home, listen as Host Erik Fisher talks with real people who implement practical productivity strategies in their professional and personal lives. In each episode, he delves into why we are not meeting our goals at work or in life and how we can implement productivity strategies to get unstuck and move forward. You’ll be refreshed and inspired after hearing how others fail and succeed at daily productivity and be uplifted by these stories of inspiration!
3. The Hardcore Self Help
This podcast hosted by Dr. Robert Duff is dedicated to answering your questions about mental health, anxiety, depression, relationships, sex, perfectionism, PTSD, eating disorders, life WITHOUT psychobabble BS, and countless other topics without making listeners decode all the psychobabble and medical jargon to understand what he’s talking about. He goes live each Thursday where he takes mental health questions from the audience and interviews interesting guests.
4. The Habit Coach
If you are tired of relying on your fickle motivation to get things done, if you are tired of starting because you fail to see things through, The Habit Coach podcast is for you! Ashdin Doctor, the habit coach, takes you through the creation of simple easy to do habits. Host covers topics like nutrition, fitness, de-stressing, health, sleep, relationships, and productivity and goes live every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Each episode is less than five minutes, packed with fun facts and easy-to-do habits.
5. What It Takes
We all know people who have overcome major adversities. Regardless of their environment, these people didn’t let the obstacles stop them from achieving their goals because they were flexible to change and always accepted growth as a result of taking risks! What most of these people have in common is a desire to tackle life changes with an open mind. The podcast “What It Takes” offers real-life examples from some pretty successful visionaries and leaders in the arts, science, technology, public service, and more! These engaging personal stories offer insight into how you can be just as driven as they are by taking control over your future through dedication and determination.
6. Happier with Gretchen Rubin
The author of “The Happiness Project” and co-host of the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin brings more insight on how to live a happier life along with her younger sister Elizabeth Craft. Listen as they tackle everything from good habits to managing disappointment by learning about the power of friendly gestures, how to trigger happy memories, and more. Each episode is an insightful look into how we can build ourselves up over time through simple habits and everyday tasks that can eventually form a picture-perfect representation of our beloved selves.
7. Food Heaven
Join BFF’s and registered dietitian nutritionists Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones as they talk to food experts about the sustainability of healthy eating habits. These episodes dive into topics like body acceptance, intuitive eating, and HAES (health at every size). If you’re interested in sustainable lifestyles and body positivity, tune in every Wednesday to learn from the experts!
8. The Stacking Benjamins
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday hosts Joe Saul-Sehy & OG meet at the card table and bring you guests, trivia, your letters about saving, investing, and risk management, and much more. You’ll like this podcast if: you enjoy chatty, laid-back money talk at a relaxed pace with lots of humor attached. You won’t like this show if: you’re looking for hard-core, genius money-nuggets presented at a fast pace.
9. Being Boss
While geared toward freelancers and entrepreneurs, the Being Boss podcast is a great listen for anyone looking to gain knowledge about the mindset, habits, and routines that are either helping you or preventing you from reaching success in your professional life. Co-hosts Emily Thompson and Kathleen Shannon take on professional topics like setting boundaries, marketing, productivity, self-limiting beliefs, and goal setting.
10. Clutter Free Academy
Imagine how much time you would have if you had a decluttering expert available to you 24/7. With a whole lotta Hope, Humor, and How-To’s Kathi Lipp and Erin MacPherson are bringing you the most intriguing authors, hottest topics, and on point-advice to get you through your day. You’ll laugh and learn while being given tips and advice throughout each podcast episode to help start or continue your clutter-free journey.
It is important to keep in mind why you want to make a New Year’s Resolution in the first place, as well as what you’re hoping to achieve. Is your resolution to make yourself healthier? To save more money? To be more eco-friendly? Make sure you’re making a New Year’s Resolution that’s built upon meaningful values and founded from personal experience.
Whether your New Year resolves to start a new hobby, learn another language, or do more volunteer work, don’t worry too much about failing! Overall, the main goal of New Year’s Resolutions is to be kind to yourself. Just remember there are no right or wrong answers when it comes to making your own choices, so choose whichever path YOU want to follow this year.
