15 Best Investing Podcasts That'll Help You With Your Finances

There are more than 48 million episodes of podcasts out there, and a study last year found that more than a quarter of Americans are podcast listeners. Whether you're already a podcast aficionado or have yet to give them a try, know that you might significantly improve your investing results if you spend time listening to certain high-quality podcasts.

Here's a look at 15 podcasts worth giving a listen to. See how many of them you like.

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The Stacking Benjamins Show is an award-winning podcast with hundreds of episodes and a mission to help its listeners learn more about investing and personal finance through discussions with various experts. Each episode is roughly an hour, containing a handful of separate segments. Some recent topics include "How to Calculate Financial Independence," "Lessons From Some of the Biggest Investing Mistakes of All Time," "Life Insurance Starter Kit," "Bring Yourself to Succeed at Your Next Negotiation," and "What Does Inflation Mean to Me?"

The Investing for Beginners Podcast is also excellent for new investors, though seasoned ones can benefit from it, too. In its own words, it "offers premium investment guidance for beginners to decode industry jargon, silence crippling confusion, and help you overcome emotions -- by looking at the numbers." Recent episodes have addressed what the term "fiduciary" means (it's an important concept to know), how to manage emotions in a volatile market, P/E ratios, business models, dollar-cost averaging, investing close to retirement, and much more.

Chit Chat Money offers two episodes per week -- one with a guest and one without -- and frequently offers deep dives into stocks of interest. Recent deep dives and "not so deep dives" covered Cloudflare, Brookfield Asset Management, Snowflake, and Trex. The podcast invites you to "Uncover potential new investments and learn about financial markets."

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The Invest Like the Best podcast features Patrick O'Shaughnessy, CEO of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, chatting with notable investors, company founders, and CEOs, aiming to help his listeners be better at investing their dollars -- and their time. Here's a description of a recent episode featuring guest Eric Mandelblatt, founder and CIO of Soroban Capital: "We cover how the global push towards decarbonization could have massive impacts on the industrial economy, the supply and demand forces at work in commodities production, and why energy and materials represent such a small share of the market today."

Paul Merriman's Sound Investing podcast offers a wide range of topics, and you'll find a lot on investing for retirement in particular. Some topics covered include "How to Build a Great Long-Term Portfolio," "How to Have More Than Enough in Retirement," and "Flexible Distributions: A Great Luxury in Retirement."

5 Stocks Under $49
Presented by Motley Fool Stock Advisor
We hear it over and over from investors, “I wish I had bought Amazon or Netflix when they were first recommended by The Motley Fool. I’d be sitting on a gold mine!" It's true, but we think these 5 other stocks are screaming buys. And you can buy them now for less than $49 a share! Click here to learn how you can grab a copy of “5 Growth Stocks Under $49” for FREE for a limited time only.

The award-winning So Money with Farnoosh Torabi podcast offers not only investing guidance but also insights from guests about how to live your life better. She answers listener questions on Fridays, and guests on her show have included technology journalist Kara Swisher, ABC News correspondent Rebecca Jarvis, and author Paco de Leon.

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We at The Motley Fool offer some well-regarded podcasts, too, such as Rule Breaker Investing, which features Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner discussing one of his great loves -- innovative and disruptive companies that have huge growth potential. He's also a fun guy to listen to, fond of sports, board games, philanthropy, and much more. Recent episodes have reviewed his "5-stock samplers" and a "Market Cap Game Show," where "We discuss not one but two sleep apnea companies, worldwide sports franchises, and a Swiss company you may never have heard of!"

Note that we have another podcast, too -- Motley Fool Money -- discussing recent business news topics and featuring lots of industry experts, authors, and Motley Fool stock analysts.

Money for the Rest of Us is a podcast with more than 15 million downloads, describing itself like this: "For over seven years, the Money for the Rest of Us podcast has been helping listeners get a big picture understanding of how money, the economy, and financial markets work through stories, analogies, and easy-to-understand examples." Recent episodes bear titles such as "Is It Time to Invest In Big Tech or Medium Tech Stocks?" and "What Investment Style Fits Your Personality?"

Masters in Business is a podcast from Bloomberg featuring financial thinker and writer Barry Ritholtz. He gets a lot of big names to join him on the show, and there are many deep dives into timely and important business topics. There are around 400 episodes, and some particularly well-regarded ones feature conversations with index fund pioneer John Bogle, behavioral economics expert Daniel Kahneman, finance professor Aswath Damodaran, and best-selling financial writer Michael Lewis. It would be hard not to learn a lot from such folks.

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The We Study Billionaires podcast's title tells you all about it: Hosts Stig Brodersen and Trey Lockerbie do a lot of talking about billionaires -- such as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates -- delving into their investing methods and offering insights that can improve your own investing. There have been more than 80 million downloads of episodes -- here's a description of a recent one: "Stig Brodersen talks with legend value investor Mohnish Pabrai. In the interview, Mohnish Pabrai shares his thoughts on Alibaba, Tencent, a personal letter from Warren Buffett, and much more!"

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We hear it over and over from investors, “I wish I had bought Amazon or Netflix when they were first recommended by The Motley Fool. I’d be sitting on a gold mine!" It's true, but we think these 5 other stocks are screaming buys. And you can buy them now for less than $49 a share! Click here to learn how you can grab a copy of “5 Growth Stocks Under $49” for FREE for a limited time only.

The Pivot podcast features Recode’s Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway covering major stories in the news that touch on technology, business, and/or politics. There are more than 300 episodes, and recent ones cover Elon Musk's bid for Twitter, the crypto crash, how businesses might plan for a world post Roe v. Wade, and unionization.

The BiggerPockets podcast features hosts David Greene and Rob Abasolo talking real estate. They interview real estate investors, delving into successes, failures, and lessons learned. Recent episode titles include "Why The 'Right Way' to Buy Rentals Is Wrong," "How to Start, Scale, and Succeed in Apartment Investing," "What the Media Isn't Telling You About a 'Housing Crash,'" and "Should You Pay Off Debt or Invest in Real Estate?"

The Meb Faber Show podcast features, yes, Meb Faber, who's the co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management and author of multiple books. The podcast describes itself as, "Featuring some of the top investment professionals in the world as his guests, Meb will help you interpret global equity, bond, and commodity markets just like the pros." There are more than 400 episodes of this podcast, with recent ones addressing Coinbase Global (with the former interim CFO of the company), the importance of innovation, the "tractor wars" of the past, and popular delusions.

The Full Ratchet is a podcast hosted by Nick Moran tackling the world of venture capital. Moran interviews lots of experts, delving into "how they find, evaluate and select the next generation of great technology startups." There are more than 580 episodes covering great successes, as well as "post-mortems" on businesses that failed. Recent episodes feature guests discussing the most unusual pitch they've heard, lessons learned about start-up investing, building unicorns, and why some investment opportunities were rejected.

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Cathie Wood has been a market darling in recent years, thanks to terrific performances by her ARK Invest company's funds -- though, of course, their returns have dropped sharply in recent months, along with much of the rest of the market. The folks at ARK have a compelling podcast, FYI -- For Your Innovation, covering innovation (of course). There are more than 130 episodes, with recent ones on "Transforming Medicine," "Renewing Home Energy," "Enhancing Human Connection in the Metaverse," "Ultra-Long-Range Genomic Information," and "Financing Space."

5 Stocks Under $49
Presented by Motley Fool Stock Advisor
We hear it over and over from investors, “I wish I had bought Amazon or Netflix when they were first recommended by The Motley Fool. I’d be sitting on a gold mine!" It's true, but we think these 5 other stocks are screaming buys. And you can buy them now for less than $49 a share! Click here to learn how you can grab a copy of “5 Growth Stocks Under $49” for FREE for a limited time only.

These 15 podcasts are just a few of the many outstanding audio programs out there that can make you a better investor and a better thinker about business. A little searching online will yield many more candidates for your podcast-listening lineup.

Selena Maranjian has positions in Cloudflare, Inc., Coinbase Global, Inc., and Snowflake Inc. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Brookfield Asset Management, Cloudflare, Inc., Coinbase Global, Inc., Snowflake Inc., Tencent Holdings, Trex, and Twitter. The Motley Fool recommends Brookfield Asset Management Inc. CL.A LV. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.