You’ve either been listening to podcasts for awhile now, like me or hearing about their popularity and perhaps, curious about them.
The definition of a podcast is a series of audio episodes, often focused on a topic or theme like golfing or entrepreneurship. You can subscribe to a show with an app on your phone (I’ll be sharing more on the different apps in a future blog post). You can listen to them whenever you like either through your headphones at the gym or while driving through your car’s speakers.
It is estimated that there were 550,000 podcasts in 2019 and estimated to be a 500 million dollar industry in 2020.
Here is “Part One” of my list of top 20 podcasts to listen to in 2020. I would love to hear in the comment section which of the first list you are inspired to subscribe and listen to.
1. The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferris is the best-selling author of books like 4-Hour Work Week and Tools of Titans, and on his show, he interviews guests from a wide range of sectors, focusing on daily routines, high performance, and other life hacks.
2. Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations
On her show, Oprah Winfrey interviews thought-leaders, best-selling authors, spiritual luminaries, and health and wellness experts. Her show is designed to guide you through life’s big questions to become the best version of yourself.
3. Impact Theory
The host of Tom Bilyeu has a knack for getting his well known, high achiever guests to share impactful lessons that can be applied by anyone to day to day life. Snippets from this podcast interviews are widely used in other self help videos.
4. Bullet Proof
The Bullet Proof podcast is all about biohacking hosted by the founder of bulletproof coffee, Dave Asprey, The broadcast distills knowledge from world-class MDs, biochemists, Olympic nutritionists, meditation experts, and Dave’s own personal self-experiments of which he has spent more than $1M to fund.
5. School of Greatness
With more than 40 million downloads and well known celebrity guests on his podcast, The School of Greatness has exploded. The Host, Lewis Howes who was a college football player had to give it up when he had a career halting injury. He then decided to segway into business and became a best-selling author of The School of Greatness and The Mask of Masculinity. His popular show revolves around the study of greatness and the personal life practices that create it.
6. Good Life Project
Hosted by author Jonathan Fields, Good Life Project offers practical advice from thought leaders who have built their success from ground zero.. This podcast empowers their listeners through deep conversations with these passion and purpose driven experts.
7. The Goop
Gwyneth Paltrow and. Elise Loehnen, co-host Goop. They chat with leading thinkers, culture changers, and industry disruptors—from doctors to creatives, CEOs to spiritual healers—about shifting old paradigms and starting new conversations. Every Tuesday and Thursday they upload new episodes.
8. Masters of Scale
Masters of Scale is a podcast hosted by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and investor at Greylock. In each episode, Reid highlights how companies grow and scale from zero to a epic big, talking about his theories with legendary leaders.
9. Tony Robbins
Tony Robbins’s podcast features ideas and strategies to help others create lasting positive changes. He has helped more than 50 million people better their lives through his podcast, books, events, and interviews with successful leaders in thought like Dave Asprey, and more.
10. Ted Radio Hour
This is the popular TedX podcast format so you can listen while on the go. The podcast features 50-minute talks from experts in various fields, who share their ideas and successes so you can improve your life.
