With limited time for listening, the podcasts you queue up reflect your priorities and interests. If you’re looking for clarity on health, financial literacy, honest conversations, and stories of reinvention, here are 10 podcasts worth considering.
UnPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Launched 2025 · For women who want current guidance on hormones, muscle, inflammation, and long-term health.
Dr. Mary Claire Haver translates menopause research into practical language. Episodes explore lean muscle preservation, metabolic shifts, myths about hormone therapy, and cardiovascular risk. Conversations often include strength training, protein intake, and medical decision-making in midlife.
The Tamsen Show
Launched 2025 · For women designing a next chapter.
Tamsen Fadal brings a journalist’s lens to reinvention. Episodes explore career pivots, dating after divorce, shifts in confidence, and redefining identity in midlife. Guests share specific turning points and the decisions that followed.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Launched 2025 · For women who enjoy conversations about creative work and long friendships.
Amy Poehler hosts relaxed interviews with actors, writers, and creatives. Discussions move through career arcs, collaboration, doubt, and the evolution of friendship over time.
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Launched 2023 · For women who value perspective from those further along.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus interviews women in their seventies and beyond about ambition, longevity, work, and aging. Guests reflect on mistakes, pivots, and sustaining creative lives over decades.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Launched 2022 · For women who want practical tools for confidence, momentum, and decision-making.
Mel Robbins focuses on behavior change, mindset shifts, boundaries, relationships, and work. Episodes often break down specific habits or patterns and offer direct strategies you can apply immediately.
Second Life
Launched 2021 · For women considering a professional pivot or new venture.
Hillary Kerr interviews founders, creatives, and executives about second careers, pivots and shifts. Episodes focus on practical decisions, risk, and building something new after early success.
We Can Do Hard Things
Launched 2021 · For women examining identity, relationships, and personal evolution.
Hosted by Glennon Doyle with Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle, this show explores partnership, ambition, cultural expectations, and emotional growth. Episodes move between interviews and candid dialogue about reinvention and boundaries.
Dare to Lead with Brené Brown
Launched 2018 · For women building careers, leading teams, or refining how they show up at work.
Brené Brown focuses on leadership, accountability, boundaries, and courageous decision-making. Episodes include researchers, executives, and creatives discussing workplace culture and clarity in high-responsibility roles.
Women in the Middle®: Loving Life After 50
Launched 2018 · For women reflecting on habits, purpose, and direction after fifty.
Suzy Rosenstein approaches midlife through coaching conversations. Episodes focus on decision-making, confidence, and deliberately designing the next phase.
HerMoney with Jean Chatzky
Launched 2016 · For women building wealth with a long-term strategy.
Jean Chatzky explores investing, retirement timing, market shifts, and earning power. Episodes often include financial planners and economists discussing tax planning and asset allocation.
The right podcast can clarify a decision, deepen your expertise, or keep you company while you build what’s next. Add your favorite podcast suggestions to the comments below.
