I am super late to the podcast craze, but I am now on-board and hooked! I love listening to podcast during walks, long drives, and especially during my flights home to Georgia. I firmly believe that to be innovative we must first expose ourselves to new people and ideas. Podcasts are a great way to learn from people you would not usually meet and learn about complex subjects from experts.
Here is how to listen and a list of my favorite shows.
How to listen
Your iPhone has a pre-installed podcast app that allows you to listen and download podcasts which is super convenient for airplane mode. You can also listen to podcast using spotify, Pandora, and soundCloud.
Here are my favorite podcasts
To meet fascinating people: The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein gives you a chance to get inside the heads of the newsmakers and power players in politics and media. These are extended conversations with policymakers, writers, technologists, and business leaders about what they believe in and why.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12345238/trevor-noah-ezra-klein
To hear cool stories: This American Life
Most of the stories are journalism, with an occasional comedy routine or essay.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/591/get-your-moneys-worth
To learn about yours 20s: Millennial
Documents what people never teach you – how to maneuver your 20s. Host and producer Megan Tan will document what it’s like to be a present-day millennial in real time.
http://www.millennialpodcast.org/season-ii-blog/29-you-cant-go-home-again
To learn about how the world works: Planet Money
highlights high rollers, brainy economists and financial experts http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/26/499490275/episode-387-the-no-brainer-economic-platform
To relax: Pop Culture Happy Hour
A roundup of their favorite movies, songs, TV shows, and writing of the year.
To keep in touch with my community: Latino USA
Explores and gives a critical voice to the diversity of the American experience.
http://latinousa.org/episode/tech-industrys-leaky-pipeline/
Para escuchar en Español: Radio Ambulante
Latin American stories from anywhere Spanish is spoken, including the United States
** This was a great find! I am not exposed to Spanish in my day to day life in New Hapshite. Most of the media I listen to is in English. Radio Ambulante host stories straight from Latin America.
If you check out these podcasts, let me know what you think. If you have suggestions, please share!
P.S. I have added “Podcast Host” to my career bucket list next to “TED Talk Speaker” #whatAGirlWants
STEPH LAND 
I’m going to try Radio Ambulante! I just finished all 80 something episodes of Sword and Scale, a true crime podcast–it’s heavy and sometimes hard to listen to but really fascinating.
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