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The 7 Best Business & Money Podcasts in 2026

Updated June 2026 · by the Episode Club team

Business podcasts tend to blur together — interviews, hot takes, somebody selling a course. The seven here don't. A couple go deep: Acquired tells the full story of one great company per episode, and Odd Lots gets real experts to explain the strange plumbing behind markets. A couple keep it short: Planet Money turns one economic question into a half-hour story, and The Best One Yet hands you three business headlines before breakfast. The rest sit in between — founders telling Guy Raz how close they came to losing everything, Sam and Shaan trading ideas like two friends on a long drive, and the Ramsey team taking calls from people climbing out of debt. We verified every show against Apple Podcasts and confirmed each one is still publishing new episodes as of June 2026. And if keeping up with seven feeds sounds like a chore, it doesn't have to be — Episode Club can watch all of them and send you what's new in one calm weekly email.

1
Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal spend months researching one company — Costco, Nvidia, Hermès — then tell its whole story in a single three-hour episode. It sounds excessive until you try one and lose a whole road trip to it.
2
Planet Money
NPR
NPR's flagship economics show makes one question — why is concert pricing broken, who sets egg prices — into a 25-minute story with real reporting and a light touch. Twice a week, and almost every episode lands.
3
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz | Wondery
Guy Raz gets founders of brands you know — Patagonia, Liquid Death, Spanx — to walk through the early years honestly, including the near-bankruptcies. Warm without being soft; he always asks how much was luck.
4
The Side Hustle Show
Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation | YAP Media
Closest like-for-like swap: scrappy business-ideas/entrepreneurship content in the same Entrepreneurship genre, rated Clean on Apple, active (latest episode 2026-06-04), and host Nick Loper has no reputational baggage. Vetted alternatives were weaker fits: Masters of Scale is Clean and active but Reid Hoffman carries Epstein-adjacent press and heavy partisan political activity; EntreLeadership is Clean and active but would duplicate Ramsey Network, already on this list.
5
The Ramsey Show
Ramsey Network
A daily call-in show where real people ask Dave Ramsey and his co-hosts about debt, budgets, and buying houses. The advice is blunt and consistent, and the debt-free screams are genuinely moving.
6
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway interview the person who actually knows — about container shipping, the Treasury market, lithium mines. The nerdiest show here, and the one finance people quietly consider essential.
7
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
Nick Martell and Jack Crivici-Kramer serve three business stories in twenty minutes every weekday morning, each with a clear takeaway and a groan-worthy pun. The easiest way to feel caught up before your first coffee finishes.