10 Best Personal Finance Podcasts

It is amazing how popular podcasts have become over the past few years.

This is due to the fact that they are free and you can learn about so many different topics you’d normally not be able to consume so easily. A perfect kind of topic to learn about through podcasts is personal finance.

Top Financial Podcasts

Here are some of the best personal finance podcasts about money and investing.

Some of the podcasts on this list aren’t specifically focused on teaching you how to invest or budget your money but encompasses an overall theme of money.

I find that listening to a mix of shows that offer tangible advice about your money (how to’s, real takeaways) with learning about general financial topics (Planet Money, Freakonomics) is the way to go.

1. Planet Money by NPR

• Show length: ~ 20 minutes
• What you’ll learn: Fascinating stories about the economy and money

I’ve been a huge Planet Money fan since 2013. This award-winning, NPR-backed show does a superb job of teaching you something cool, quirky, or weird about money and the economy.

The show dives deep into a money topic. Even if some of the takeaways don’t deal with helping you invest or save money, it’s still really interesting.

2. The Stacking Benjamins Show

• Length: ~ 1 hour, with four topics covered every 15 minutes
• What you’ll learn: How to manage your money better

Stacking Benjamins has been around since 2012 and their mission is to make finance more fun and approachable.

Their award-winning podcast offers episodes in a magazine-style format, which means each episode is an hour long, with four different topics that are 10 to 15 minutes in length.

They usually have guests and personal finance experts on the show.

3. The Dave Ramsey Show

• Show length: ~ 45 minutes
• What you’ll learn: Tangible steps to help you get out of debt, life money lessons

Dave Ramsey is a personal finance guru and author who helped many people get out of debt by using the debt snowball method. Using this strategy to pay off debt means you’re paying the smallest debt to largest debt (in that order).

Dave shares his tips and tricks to help you manage your money better and get out of debt, through his podcasts.

If you’re not familiar with Ramsey, he has a big personality and doesn’t sugarcoat his messages. Sometimes, that’s exactly what you need to get motivated and get it done!

4. The Side Hustle Show

• Show length: ~ 45 minutes
• What you’ll learn: How to make side income, start your own business

Who doesn’t want to make extra money?

I first started listening to The Side Hustle Show when I was thinking about starting an Amazon business on the side. What were other people doing to start their own side businesses? Also, I wanted to learn more about people who made the leap from full-time employees to small business owners.

Nick Loper, the host of the show, usually features guests who have a compelling side hustle story. Most guests are authors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners.

It was helpful to listen to what other people did to earn money — what was their pivotal or aha moment? How did they build their side business to eventually become their main business?

Loper asks solid questions and frames them in a way that offers the listener tangible takeaways.

I also appreciate the show notes that highlight what was discussed after each episode.

5. How I Built This

• Show length: ~ 30 minutes
• What you’ll learn: Successful stories from iconic people behind some of the most well-known brands

This is another NPR show, How I Built This, which is about entrepreneurs who successfully made millions, and sometimes, billions.

The show interviews iconic business leaders like Sarah Blakely, the woman who created the Spanx empire.

My favorite episode was about the rise of Compaq Computers and the story of its founders. Their story was actually turned into a documentary called “Silicon Cowboys.”

6. Money Peach Podcast

• Show length: ~ 45 minutes
• What you’ll learn: Stories from successful business owners and entrepreneurs

Chris Peach is the host of a personal finance podcast called Money Peach, where he has various guests who have started their own businesses, side gigs, or just know a thing or two about money.

His show speaks to people who want to earn more money and create a budget that suits their lifestyle so they can achieve financial freedom.

7. Freakonomics

Show length: ~ 30 minutes

What you’ll learn: Two really smart guys who explore the hidden side of myths and just about anything else.

If you haven’t heard of Freakonomics, you’re in for a treat! The two hosts, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, co-authored several New York Times bestsellers together, including, “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.”

Dubner is a journalist, and Levitt is a professor of economics. The two met when Levitt wrote about Dubner for a piece in New York Magazine.

Just like their books, the Freakonomics podcast dives into the hidden side of odd life stories and events, with an economic twist to it.

Their podcast explores “the inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.”

8. Smart Passive Income Podcast

• Show length: ~ 1 hour
• What you’ll learn: How to earn extra money on the side through other people’s stories and interviews

San Diego-based blogger, author, and podcast host Pat Flynn is really awesome. He strikes me as a genuinely nice guy.

In addition to The Side Hustle Show, I listened to Smart Passive Income Podcast regularly when I was starting my own business. Smart Passive Income really helped me understand the entrepreneurial mindset and set proper expectations.

Flynn focuses on helping people earn passive income in the digital space. Many of his episodes feature guests who are knowledgeable in affiliate marketing, podcasting, and email marketing.

I also read his book, “Will It Fly?” which helps people who want to start a side business.

9. The Tim Ferriss Show

• Show length: ~ 1 hour
• What you’ll learn: Tips and tricks from world-class experts from various lifestyle and business industries

The best-selling author of “The 4-Hour Workweek,” Tim Ferriss, also has a podcast. His show doesn’t focus solely on money. Ferriss explains how to hack your life, which means he offers tips and advice on how to live your best life ever.

Since money is unavoidable in life, the conversation sometimes revolves around how to invest wisely and how to be productive with your finances. Topics also deal with favorite books, routines, exercise, and productivity hacks.

He talks to experts who are knowledgeable in investing, sports, and business, to name a few. The experts offer the tactics, tools, and routines they used to get where they are today.

10. Afford Anything Podcast

• Show length: ~ 1 hour
• What you’ll learn: How to better understand your finances and better manage your money. Many of the episodes focus on real estate.

Personal finance blogger Paula Pant inched toward financial freedom in 2012. I read her blog, Afford Anything, and subscribed to her newsletter to find out how she was able to ditch the 9-5 and increase her net worth (and passive income) through buying and flipping homes.

Pant definitely practices what she preaches. She is candid about her frugal ways and how she scrimped and saved and sacrificed to buy her first home. Pant was able to buy and flip several homes and listed them on Airbnb.

Since then, Pant teamed up with financial rockstar J.Money and started a podcast which focuses on how to achieve financial freedom.

Like many of the other podcasts on this list, they focus on the entrepreneurial side of people who have started their own businesses.

Summary

Hopefully, you feel more educated when it comes to the best personal finance podcasts and found one that interests you.

Embrace this list and start learning more about money and how you can save and invest wisely.