Is there a conversation more important than how to allocate time and capital? Every Capital Allocators podcast features pointed interviews with financial movers and shakers who have something to say about the process of capital allocation. Host Ted Seides is a CFA with a gentle but thorough questioning style. The website has useful time stamps for each podcast.

Average length: 45–55 minutes

Frequency: Every Monday

Where to start: Episode 60 – Interview with Anthony Scaramucci, who served President Trump as communications director for 11 days before being fired. A controversial figure who has earned the right to be controversial.

Host Patrick O’Shaughnessy shines a long-form light on why it’s so difficult to beat the market. Each episode reveals the host’s training in philosophy and psychology. This podcast is perfect for listeners who think beating the market is basically impossible. While that may be true, each podcast features guests who, from time to time, have done exactly that. Perfect for plane trips or long car rides.

Average length: 55–65 minutes

Frequency: Every Tuesday

Where to start: Episode 95 – Invest Like the Best. A conversation with a well-positioned anonymous interviewee about value investing, weird overreactions and mispricing.

If you’re interested in putting your finger on the pulse of financial issues confronting millennials, The College Investor podcast offers brief insights into the hopes and fears—with an emphasis on the fears—of younger investors. There’s a lot of good information on fintech, cryptocurrencies, debt, side hustles and other subjects that concern more than just millennials. Want to speak the lingo of millennials? This podcast is a good entry point.

Average length: 10–12 minutes

Frequency: Twice a week

Where to Start: Episode 45 – Why Lending Club Is My Favorite CD Alternative

FI stands for financial independence. Channeling a young vibe, hosts Jonathan Mendonsa and Brad Barrett have conversations with both experts and regular folks who talk about their steps to financial independence. The podcast reveals tips and secrets for reducing debt, making good investments and otherwise making one’s life better. The format is unique: an interview is released every Monday. The following Friday, a review episode presents what the hosts learned from the earlier episode. The podcast community offers feedback and comments as valuable as the guest content.

Average length: One hour

Frequency: Twice a week

Where to start: Episode 69 – Making Sense of Cents, an interview with blogger Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, who discusses a digital nomad lifestyle funded by a blogging affiliate marketing income of $100,000 per month.

Host Jill Schlesinger, one of the most familiar commentators on personal financial matters, extends her high-profile brand with a podcast that answers reader questions and tackles a myriad of issues relating to investing and investment advice. Schlesinger is a practiced host whose podcast leaves a wake of thoughtful advice and information.

Average length: 20–30 minutes

Frequency: Daily

Where to Start: Pension? Lump Sum or Annuity? (June 16, 2018). Candid discussion regarding a 50-year-old’s questions about taking a pension as a lump sum or annuity. (Spoiler alert: After some very revealing consideration of the caller’s assets, her advice is to take the annuity.)

There is so much good content presented in blogs. Trouble is, the nuggets are concealed within tons of dross. This short, daily podcast is unique in that it basically reads the best blogs about personal finance. The Optimal Finance Daily finds the best blog content and presents it to you as a podcast. It’s a real service for those who want to sample the best of the finance blog universe.

Average length: 10 minutes

Frequency: Daily

Where to start: Episode 634 – Forget Your Debt. Just Forget About It. Really. A reading of a blog by Paula Pant, founder of the AffordAnything blog. The podcast considers a new way to manage the D word.

Choiceology, an original podcast from Charles Schwab, explores the lessons of behavioral economics. Host Dan Heath, the co-author of Made to Stick and other business books, reveals the hidden psychological traps and biases that compromise our ability to make rational decisions that can lead to expensive mistakes. It also offers practical tips to recognize these mental traps and how to minimize their impact. Each podcast features tales of irrational decision-making, from historical blunders to the kinds of everyday errors that confront every advisor.

Average length: 28 minutes

Frequency: Once a month

Where to start: A Number in Mind reflects on how confirmation bias distorts our perceptions and leads to terrible error. It starts with the story of the origins of the term “devil’s advocate” and what benefits such a process delivers to any decision process.

Masters of Scale host Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, has the Rolodex to get the best business minds to share the secrets of their success. Guests include Reed Hastings (Netflix), Tim Ferriss (Lifestyle guru), Barry Diller (IAC/Expedia), Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook), Brian Chesky (Airbnb), Catrina Fake (Flickr) and Peter Thiel (PayPal). Each episode focuses on one critical aspect of creating a successful business. Hoffman commits to a 50-50 gender balance for guests.

Average length: 32 minutes

Frequency: 3–4 times per month

Where to start: How to Kill Your Own Bad Ideas (July 25, 2018), an interview with Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga and others, on the importance of being relentless about pursuing a big opportunity as well as ruthless about killing your own bad ideas along the way.

If you use Siri or smart speakers, such as Alexa, and wonder if they’re as benign as they seem, you will like Sandra, which is not exactly a podcast, but a seven-episode audio drama. As robo advisors and other forms of artificial intelligence rise, there is plenty of room for conflict. The audio drama picks up on this angst by following a young woman named Helen who begins a new job at a mysterious company called Orbital Teledynamics (think Google), whose central product is a smart speaker-like device featuring the voice of Kristen Wiig. The device and the company that developed it has some nasty surprises in store for Helen. Who says education can’t be entertaining?

Average length: 18 minutes

Frequency: Seven episodes available

Where to start: Episode One – Hope Is a Mistake, in which we’re introduced to the smart speaker Sandra, our protagonist Helen and the corporate culture of Orbital Teledynamics.

Here’s an offbeat podcast that deals with the three things that people consider most important yet are least able to talk about, a fact that complicates the life of every advisor. If edgy content appeals to you, host Anna Sale delivers it in spades. The episodes look at everything hidden below the surface: the difference between what we say we want and what we actually do, why it’s so hard to save, the appeal of shoplifting, and what we do when we think no one is watching. It’s a podcast about the shadows we cast. Most episodes address money, even if it’s subtle, and its influence—usually negative—on every aspect of our lives.

Average length: 10–20 minutes

Frequency: Weekly

Where to start: A Bitcoin Mogul Goes Broke (Nov. 1, 2017), a candid interview with Charlie Shrem, a bitcoin entrepreneur who went to prison after being caught up in the Silk Road conspiracy.