A beginner’s guide on listening to podcasts.

On a different post, I go into the details of “Why You Should Listen to Podcasts.” I will not repeat that detail, but here’s a brief summary.

Need a Reason To Listen? Inspiration, Entertainment, Personal Development, Information.

For a beginner’s guide to listening to podcasts, I emphasize that listening to podcasts will require focus. The focus required is similar to reading a book. I like podcasts for their simplicity.  It’s simply two or more people sitting around a microphone having a conversation. They use relatively simple technology. In this world of technology moving at a blistering place, I am amazed in the simplicity of podcasting.  There are very little if any barriers to entry.  Have a phone or laptop?  You can start a podcast. There is an art to listening to podcasts. You have to realize when it’s time to move on from one that you have tried that’s not working for you.

I have put together a list of podcasts I sometimes listen to in no particular order. I keep it updated as I find new ones.

• The Daily Stoic (Self-improvement, Reflection)
• ChooseFI (Personal Finance)
• The Way Out Is In (Self-improvement, Reflection)
• Mile Hi FI (Personal Finance)
• Morningstar – The Long View (Investing)
• Morningstar – Simple But Not Easy (Personal Finance)
• Earn and Invest (Early Retirement)
• 99% Invisible (Design & Architecture)
• The Stacking Benjamins Show (Personal Finance)
• All The Hacks (Personal Improvement)
• The Humans vs Retirement Podcast (Early Retirement)
• The Minimalist (Downsizing, Simplify)
• Two Sides of FI (Early Retirement)
• Bogleheads Live (Personal Finance)
• Bogleheads on Investing (Personal Finance)
• The Joe Rogan Experience (Wide of range of topics, Current Events)
• The Art of Manliness (Self-improvement)
• Feel Better, Live More (Self-improvement, Health)
• 50 Fires (Personal Finance, Self-improvement)
• The Clark Howard Podcast (Consumer Advocate)

Hopefully this will be useful as a beginner’s guide to listening to podcasts.