{"id":624,"date":"2016-02-29T08:15:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moneyboss.com\/?p=624"},"modified":"2024-04-16T13:49:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:49:30","slug":"best-podcasts-about-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/best-podcasts-about-money\/","title":{"rendered":"The best podcasts, audiobooks, and digital courses about personal finance and financial independence"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last week at the Financial Independence forum on Reddit, a user asked for podcast and audiobook recommendations<\/a> related to personal finance, financial independence, and self-improvement. Livealegacy wrote:<\/p>\n I have about two hours a day that I spend driving and I’m looking to invest this time in myself…I’m looking for everyone’s favorite investing\/PF podcast or audiobooks. Might as well get smarter every day so if you have others you recommend outside of FI, this is about investing in myself so please share.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As an audio junkie myself — I like to listen while I exercise or, sometimes, as I’m falling asleep — I thought it would be useful to catalog all of this info in one place. There’s a lot here. Let’s get started!<\/p>\n I’m a recent convert to podcasts and still struggle with how best to listen. I want to be able to access them the same way I access my shows and songs on iTunes, but that doesn’t seem possible. All the apps want to push new episodes to me. I want to fetch new episodes myself, but track my favorites so that I can tell which episodes I have (and have not) heard. All so confusing!<\/p>\n As I’ve mentioned before, Radical Personal Finance from Joshua Sheats was the show that got me hooked on this format. Sheats explores PF topics in detail and has a strong focus on financial independence. I like his approach.<\/p>\n Based on the comments at Reddit, I think these podcasts might be of interest to you money bosses:<\/p>\n And, of course, there are the big-name shows like Marketplace<\/a>, Planet Money<\/a>, and Freakonomics<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lastly, you might want to check out Adulting<\/a> from Harlan Landes and Miranda Marquit. This show isn’t specifically about money, but the hosts are both personal finance writers (and Landes is financially independent). As a result, there’s lots<\/em> of discussion about how to handle money responsibly.<\/p>\n On related note, you can find a list of podcasts on which I’ve been a guest on the press page<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The responses at Reddit were heavy on podcasts and light on audiobooks. Honestly, most personal finance books don’t translate well to audio (which is probably why there weren’t many recommendations on Reddit). There’s just too many numbers and charts and graphs and footnotes. Sometimes the format works, but not often.<\/p>\n Personal finance books that do work as audio include The Richest Man in Babylon<\/em><\/a>, The Millionaire Next Door<\/em><\/a>, and Secrets of the Millionaire Mind<\/em><\/a>. If you’re a Robert Kiyosaki fan, his books are available on audio too. I think much of his advice is dangerous though, so I’m not linking to his stuff.<\/p>\n One great way to learn about how to be (or become) wealthy is to explore biographies of folks who have already achieved financial success. In December, for instance, I read the Warren Buffett bio The Snowball<\/em><\/a> and picked up all sorts of nuggets about how my favorite billionaire approaches life. I’m currently listenting to Titan<\/em><\/a>, a biography of John D. Rockefeller, and I’m curious about The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Den of Thieves<\/em><\/a> by James B. Stewart is based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper series about the insider-trading scandals that hit Wall Street during the 1980s. As you hear the stories of Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine, you’ll be shocked (and outraged) at how much money stock brokers bleed from small investors — even when they’re not<\/em> breaking the law. More than anything, this is the book that converted me to index funds.<\/p>\n Long-time readers know that I love Tom Butler-Bowdon’s “50 Classics” series. These books provide capsule summaries of well-known works on a particular subject. So, 50 Psychology Classics<\/em> provides an overview of 50 different books about psychology, with author info and historical context. (I plan to use Butler-Bowdon’s model for an eventual Money Boss summary of essential books about money and financial independence.) This series works surprisingly well on audio.<\/p>\n Relevant titles for Money Boss readers include:<\/p>\n Malcolm Gladwell’s work often contains useful info for financially savvy readers. He has four major books.<\/p>\n While it’s tough to find good PF books on audio, it’s easy to find recordings of books on other related topics. Here are a handful of my favorite self-help books on audio:<\/p>\n I’d love to discover more audiobooks about financial independence (or personal finance, in general), so if you know of one I should check out, let me know.<\/p>\n Although I do listen to the occasional self-help or PF audiobook, mostly I listen for pleasure. My favorite audiobook of all time is probably True Grit<\/em><\/a>, written by Charles Portis and read by Donna Tartt. This might be the funniest book I’ve ever read (although the humor is very, very dry); it’s much better than the two movie adaptations. I also love Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell<\/em><\/a> (kind of like Jane Austen crossed with Harry Potter), which I’ve listened to dozens of times. Finally, I’m a big fan of the Aubrey-Maturin series of naval novels<\/a> written by Patrick O’Brian and read by the fantastic Patrick Tull.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Podcasts and audiobooks aren’t the only way to learn about money by audio. Over the past few years, I’ve come to love “classes” produced by a company called The Great Courses<\/a>. In the olden days, the company provided college classes on audiotape \u2014 ancient history, music theory, classic literature, and that kind of thing. In recent years, they’ve moved to digital content and have expanded their courses to include subjects like photography, cooking, and (yay!) personal finance.<\/p>\n Most of the courses I own aren’t about money — they’re about music theory and cultural geography, believe it or not — but I’ve listened to (and liked) the following:<\/p>\n The big problem with The Great Courses is their pricing model. Courses have a regular price of several hundred dollars. But a couple of times per year, each course goes “on sale” at a vastly reduced rate. For instance, The Entrepreneur’s Toolkit<\/a> is normally priced at $150, but right now you can buy it for $45.<\/p>\n This is dumb. I don’t get it.<\/p>\n I have two courses sitting on my “wish list” right now waiting for the price to drop before I can buy them: Behavioral Economics<\/a> ($130) and Critical Skills for Business Success<\/a> ($350). Why not let me buy them at the lower rate now? I mean, does anyone ever pay the artificially inflated price?<\/p>\n This complaint aside, The Great Courses are an excellent way to get pro-level info in audio format.<\/p>\n Now it’s your turn!<\/strong> I’m sure there are lots of worthwhile listens I’ve left off this list. What are your<\/em> favorite money-related podcasts, audiobooks, and courses?<\/strong> And if you’ve heard any of those I’ve shared here, what do you think? Are they good? Bad? Ugly?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/span>Podcasts<\/span><\/h2>\n
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