Productivity Podcasts

If you’ve been searching for some new Podcasts to listen to then you are in luck as there are already many dedicated specifically to productivity and self improvement. I’ve listened to at least an episode of each, but if I couldn’t quickly summarize the Podcast myself the write ups here are from the sources themselves. Let me know which Podcasts you listen to that aren’t included here!

Life Lessons & Strategies

Learn from experts in their respective fields how they have managed to be successful, and then formulate plans and frameworks you can implement in your own life. I’m a big believer of we learn by doing, and these podcasts provide actionable insights we can experiment with in our own lives.

Oprahs Super Soul Conversations Podcast

Oprah's Masterclass

Hear the greatest life lessons of some of the most respected and renowned actors, musicians, public figures and athletes. Handpicked by Oprah, these luminaries reveal their lives with candor and insight — in their own words.

The Tim Ferriss Show

The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim deconstructs world class performers to identify trends, strategies, and techniques they use in their lives and how we can apply these tactics in our lives.

Simplify Blinkist Podcast

Simplify

Simplify is a podcast for anyone who’s taken a close look at their habits, their happiness, their relationships, or their health and thought, “There’s got to be a better way to do this.”

The Productivity Podcast with Paul Minors

The Productivity Podcast

Paul teaches people about productivity, business and self-improvement. I'm completely obsessed with productivity, automation, optimizing my time and income so I can live on my terms.

Tony Robbins Podcast

Tony Robbins Podcast

How do you want to change your life? Are you looking to take your business to the next level, develop stronger relationships, improve your finances or better your physical health? The Tony Robbins podcast gives you access to Tony’s proven strategies for success so you can accomplish your goals, too.

Optimal Living Daily Podcast

Optimal Living Daily

I read you the best content on personal development, minimalism, productivity, and more, with author permission. Think of Optimal Living Daily as an audio blog or blogcast where the best blogs are narrated for you for free.

Work Smarter

We all want to be more productive in our day to day, and something that’s hard to consistently improve is our working habits. But increasing our ability to work smarter is how we can grown immensely: focus on highest leverage activities, delegate noncritical tasks, and not get distracted by the daily barrage of one off tasks that come our way. Here are podcasts that are focused on examining techniques and strategies that you can incorporate into your daily work routine.

Ted WorkLife with Adam Grant Podcast

WorkLife with Adam Grant

You spend a quarter of your life at work, so shouldn’t you enjoy it? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant takes you inside some of the world’s most unusual workplaces to discover the keys to better work.

How I Built This with Guy Raz Podcast

How I Built This

Learning from others is one of the best ways we can incorporate new habits into our work routines. Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.

Beyond the To-Do List

Beyond The To-Do List

Learn how to choose the right projects, tasks, and goals in work and life. Go Beyond the To-Do List! This show will help you do that with conversations with the people behind the productivity.

Something You Should Know Podcast

Something You Should Know

Sometimes all it takes is one little fact or one little piece of wisdom to change your life forever. That's the purpose and the hope of "Something You Should Know." In each episode, host Mike Carruthers interviews top experts in their field to find these distilled insights.

Life Skills That Matter

Feel stuck? Find purpose by creating your own work. Stephen Warley interviews people like you who figured out how to work for themselves and how they did it. He teaches practical life skills like self-awareness, curiosity and energy management.

Extreme Productivity with Kevin Kruse

Would you like to 10x your productivity while adding at least one extra hour of free time to your day? Listen to Kevin Kruse, a New York Times bestselling author and Inc 500 serial entrepreneur as he shares time management tips, tools and actionable insights.

Personal Growth

We all want to be more productive in our day to day, and something that’s hard to consistently improve is our working habits. But increasing our ability to work smarter is how we can grown immensely: focus on highest leverage activities, delegate noncritical tasks, and not get distracted by the daily barrage of one off tasks that come our way. Here are podcasts that are focused on examining techniques and strategies that you can incorporate into your daily work routine.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. She’s known for her ability to distill and convey complex ideas with humor and clarity, in a way that’s accessible to a wide audience. On her podcastshe discusses good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth.

The School of Greatness Lewis Howes Podcast

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes is a NYT bestselling author, Lifestyle Entrepreneur, former pro athlete and world record holder in football. The goal of the School of Greatness is to share inspiring stories from the most brilliant business minds, world class athletes and influential celebrities on the planet to help you find out what makes great people great.

Pick The Brain Podcast

Pick the Brain

Pick the Brain Podcast is the show where they figuratively pick the brains of the brightest minds in productivity, health, and self improvement. Teachings include examples to retrain our brains to experience and expect the best from ourselves and the best from life.

The Science of Success

The Science of Success

The Science of Success is about the search for evidence based personal growth. 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.

The GaryVee Audio Experience Podcast

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Lewis Howes is a NYT bestselling author, Lifestyle Entrepreneur, former pro athlete and world record holder in football. The goal of the School of Greatness is to share inspiring stories from the most brilliant business minds, world class athletes and influential celebrities on the planet to help you find out what makes great people great.

Daily Boost Podcast

The Daily Boost

The Daily Boost is for people who aspire to live a better life and find themselves confused, frustrated and not knowing what steps to take. We help you find clarity, create your plan, and get motivated.

General Knowledge & Things You Should Know

Part of being a productive person, is knowing what you don’t know. Knowing that there’s alternative contrarian thoughts out there that might know a better way of doing something. These podcasts are aimed at broadening your knowledge outside of self growth and business development.

Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History Podcast

Revisionist History

Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time.

Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations

Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations

Awaken, discover and connect to the deeper meaning of the world around you with SuperSoul. Hear Oprah’s personal selection of her interviews with thought-leaders, best-selling authors, spiritual luminaries, as well as health and wellness experts

Stuff You Should Know Podcast

Stuff You Should Know

If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

Freakonomics Radio Podcast

Freakonomics Radio

Discover the hidden side of everything with Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the Freakonomics books. Each week, Freakonomics Radio tells you things you always thought you knew (but didn’t) and things you never thought you wanted to know (but do) — from the economics of sleep to how to become great at just about anything. Dubner speaks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, intellectuals and entrepreneurs, and various other underachievers.

Hidden Brain Podcast NPR

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world – and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices, and the triggers that direct the course of our relationships. Our audience takes uncommon pleasure in the world of ideas. Why do mild-mannered people turn into fearsome mama and papa bears? Does the way you park your car say something vital about you? Can unconscious biases keep people from finding interesting jobs?

Big Think Think Again Podcast

Think Again - A Big Think Podcast

They surprise some of the world's brightest minds with ideas they're not at all prepared to discuss. You've got 10 minutes with Einstein. What do you talk about? Black holes? Time travel? Why not gambling? The Art of War? Contemporary parenting? Some of the best conversations happen when we're pushed outside of our comfort zones. So each week on Think Again, we surprise smart people you've probably heard of with hand-picked gems from Big Think's interview archives on every imaginable subject.