5 Inspiring Personal Finance Podcasts You Need to Hear
Podcasts can be a great way to mix up your routine and learn a lot of new information, especially when it comes to personal finance. If listening to a personal finance podcast reminds you of just another droning professor in the lecture hall, you’ll be pleasantly surprised. We’ve listened to many podcasts about money and distilled our list to the best in the pack.
With engaging guests that don’t talk just charts and formulas, the concepts in these best podcasts are easily digestible and you can bring them anywhere with you — the car, running on the treadmill — and get insight into expert information for free.
1. Nancy
The critically acclaimed podcast, Nancy, features co-hosts Tobin and Kathy. These best friends discuss life, how we define ourselves and our personal journey. Listen along to the episode, Queer Money Matters, where the co-hosts explain how to navigate being queer in a cis-het centric world.
The cost of being queer can add up quickly along with being cast into the societal pay gap. However, the hosts brainstorm ways like crowdfunding or finding supportive families as creative solutions to the added expenses queers face. Queer Money Fear$ is the first episode in a six-episode series that explores family, discrimination, insurance coverage and retirement issues unique to being queer.
2. Glamour
At long last, a podcast centering around the struggles of women in finance. Glamour editor-in-chief, Samantha Barry, through iHeartRadio, presents a 16-episode podcast which drops once a week every Tuesday. It runs the gamut of often taboo conversations about investment, getting out of debt, and prenups to how much you should be tipping your stylist at the hair salon.
It has inspiring, real-life, unscripted stories about women crawling out of extreme debt. Plus, it gets real about how much women earn and spend. It features engaging female guests and is rooted in the financial world — there’s something for everyone.
3. Stacking Benjamins
Having a real and honest conversation about financial literacy is difficult, but needed, as literacy rates drop across the country. Stacking Benjamins is led by Joe Saul Sehy and “The Other Guy”, Josh Bannerman, also referred to as “The OG.” Together, they interview a multitude of recurring guests.
The award-winning podcast gives listeners tools in a supportive environment to help them make healthy, financial decisions. The duo attempts to make finance more approachable, fun and easy with the goal of getting listeners to think more seriously about finances. Examples of topics to expect include: learning to have it all, giving when you don't think you can, and how to kickstart 2020 with a debt cleanse.
Episodes run in a magazine-style that features 15-minute segments and appear every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in a season of eight weeks.
4. HerMoney
Jean Chatzky is the financial editor of NBC’s “Today” show and the best selling author of 11 books, not to mention also an award-winning columnist with two decades of financial experience. She brings this strong background with her to the podcast HerMoney.
Chatzky realized that women are different when it comes to money and now wants to cut the manly jargon from personal finance talk and empower women to use money not just for investments but to make positive change.
Many of the episodes talk about how to earn what you’re worth in 2020, selling a home and completing renovations, and how to be more productive.
5. Martinis and Your Money
Get your wine, cheese, and martinis out for the podcast Martinis and Your Money. Started in 2014 by The Financial Gym’s very own CEO and founder, Shannon McLay, it drops episodes weekly every Friday morning. Shannon prefers to make the tough topic of finance more approachable by getting down with a different dry martini every podcast as she discusses money with a panel of guests or one-on-one conversations.
The episodes touch on topics, like student loan repayment stories, getting financially healthy and celebrating financial freedom. In every episode, she asks for listener requests and topics — which could get you featured on the podcast. If you like to hear inspiring stories, Shannon’s mantra is, “Living a Better Life One Cocktail at a Time” so fix a stiff drink, sit down and get inspired.