Podcasts have been the rage since it has made a comeback in early 2010.

In 2016 alone, the percentage of active podcast listeners rose by 21%.
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For the right reason too. Podcasts can be incredibly informative and entertaining, and you can listen to it while you're on-the-go, or doing something else. The perfect source of content for any busy person.

At Rype, we're avid podcast listeners because of the flexibility it gives us. The right podcast episode from the right guest can fundamentally shift the decisions you make in your personal and professional life.

But with so many shows popping up every week, it's hard to vet through the noise. Today, we'll be sharing with you the 12 top podcasts to improve 12 areas in your life today.
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12 Top Podcasts to Improve 12 Areas In Your Life

Personal Development

1. The Tony Robbins Podcast

Improve your: Mental Programming

Tony Robbins has mastered the science of mental conditioning, human psychology, and overall well-being. In his podcast, he brings the top experts in the field of business, psychology, and more to show you how to program your mind.

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2. The School of Greatness with Lewis Howes

What You'll Learn: Authenticity & Purpose

New York Times Bestselling Author and former pro athlete, Lewis Howes, shows us what authenticity really means. What's different about the podcast is not just the quality of guests that Lewis brings on, but how he reveals vulnerability when he interacts with them.

3. Happier with Gretchen Rubin

What You'll Learn: Experiments around finding more happiness in your life

Are you trying to find ways to be happier? Look no further, because Gretchen has taken her wildly successful book, The Happiness Project, and turned it into a weekly show to share her insights with you on finding happiness.

4. The Tim Ferriss Show

Improve your: Experimenting skills and learning faster

The Tim Ferriss Show centers around deconstructing success of the best. While the guests of the show can be quite diverse, from pro athletes, a one-handed piano man, to technology futurists, there's a recurring pattern that all the top performers have. If you're an avid believer that "you're the average of the five people you surround yourself with," this is the podcast to listen to.

Business

5. Planet Money by NPR

What You'll Learn: Economics, Politics, Money

Short, well-crafted, humanizing. As one of the most popular podcast shows in Business, Planet Money covers historical to modern topics that few rarely talk about, such as the future of work, the economics of water, and the rigged setup of poker.

6. Mixergy with Andrew Warner

What You'll Learn: How to start and grow your own business

If you've ever thought about starting your own business, or a business owner already, Mixergy brings in some of the top founders to dig deep into how they started and grew their successful businesses.When we say dig deep, we mean sharing how much businesses are making, exactly how they started the business, and no B.S advice on modeling their success.

7. Profit. Power. Pursuit.

What You'll Learn: How to create a career around your passion

Want to create a full-time career around what you love doing? This podcast by the people at CreativeLIVE is worth checking out. They share the stories and insights from the top authors, bloggers, photographers, business owners, and just about any creative pursuit you can imagine that you can directly apply in your life.

Education

8. Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell

What You'll Learn: Deconstructing success of historical figures

After selling millions of copies of his books, Malcolm Gladwell is disrupting the scene with his podcast, Revisionist History. Each week, the show goes back to history to reinterpret something from the past that's been overlooked or misunderstood. Whether that's an event, a person, or an idea. Imagine Outliers, but in audio form and every single week.

9. Freakonomics Radio

What You'll Learn: How to hack your life, and become the most interesting person in the room

Freakonomics Radio is an accumulation of fascinating stories and facts that you've probably never heard of yet. The show is about solving the riddles of everyday life, from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. The host Stephen J. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs.

10. Waking Up With Sam Harris

What You'll Learn: Human mind, society, and current events

Sam Harris brings a fresh and logical perspective to some of the most controversial and important topics in society, including religion, the human mind, space exploration, and more.

Health & Fitness

11. Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey

What You'll Learn: How to hack your brain and body

Dave Asprey has been on a fifteen year long journey to upgrade the human mind using any type of technology available. The podcast distills the knowledge of world-class MDs, biochemists, Olympic nutritionists, meditation experts, and more than $250,000 spent on personal self-experiments.

12. Barbell Shrugged

What You'll Learn: Health, Fitness, and Training

Smart, informative, and well-crafted. Barbell Shrugged is presented by a group of eclectic individuals who all come from various different backgrounds to help you live healthier and train harder.

What are your favorite podcasts?

What did you think about our 12 top podcasts? Are there any that we missed? We'd love to hear it below!