Calling all woman book lovers! If you love literature and diving into a story, you'll want to check out this podcast all about books by and about women. Hosts Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards discuss fiction, nonfiction, and everything in between, including how the literary world bleeds over into every other aspect of life.

If you're looking for a winning combination of comedy and real talk, look no further than this hilarious and insightful podcast, hosted by comedians and BFFs Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams. They discuss everything from romance to race, always centering their experiences as Black women in America, and bringing their delightful wit to every topic under the sun.

Being a woman affects your daily life in a hundred different ways, some obvious and some less so. In this engaging, research-based podcast, hosts Anney and Samantha discuss what it means to be a woman in today's society, looking at a range of feminist issues through the lens of how they impact everyday life.

Award-winning authors Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené, who co-wrote Slay in Your Lane: the Black Girl Bible, return with this informative and inspiring podcast. They discuss news and pop culture from a Black woman perspective, offering advice on navigating dating, relationships, family, work—and just about everything else that life might throw at you.

If you've ever felt that living a life strictly based on your principles can get messy fast, then this podcast is for you. Comedian and screenwriter Deborah Frances-White knows the feeling well, and she's here to examine and confront it. Each week, she and a guest discuss a different 21st century feminist issue, and their fears and insecurities surrounding it.

The 2020 election is over, but the lessons this period of recent history have to teach us are many. In this in-depth podcast, Rebecca Carroll explores race and identity through the lens of the most recent election. She speaks with thinkers, writers, artists, and politicians on topics including immigration, COVID, media representation, and more. Throughout, she weaves her own stories and experiences as a Black woman in America into the conversation. The result is an enriching, poignant podcast about the past and present of American politics.

Come Through with Rebecca Carroll is a podcast that explores culture, race and identity against the backdrop of the 2020 election. The series will provide listeners with 15 essential conversations they can take with them during this pivotal time. Conversations with prominent thinkers, cultural critics, writers, artists, and politicians on topics like climate change, diversity and inclusion programs, immigration and more are prompted by our host’s lifelong personal inquiry into what it means to form an identity as a black woman against the default American backdrop of mainstream whiteness and white supremacy.

Okay, Now Listen is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Scottie Beam and Sylvia Obell. They share what’s on their minds, what they're binging and what’s blowing up their timelines. Brought to you by Netflix and Strong Black Lead.

Death, Sex & Money is a podcast about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Host Anna Sale talks to celebrities you've heard of—and to regular people you haven't—about the Big Stuff: relationships, money, family, work and making it all count while we're here. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, The Experiment, The New Yorker Radio Hour and many others.

In this super-informative and useful podcast from NPR, journalists, scientists, and other experts report on everything you need to know about being a better human, from managing finance and work stress to parenthood, sustainable living, health and wellness, and more. At extremely digestible lengths (episodes range from 10 to 30 minutes max), it's easy to binge several important life lessons in a row while still enjoying the entertaining, curiosity-stoking format.

This is another fantastic podcast that comes out daily, and each episode is only five minutes long. In other words, this is the podcast to try if you've always been intimidated by 30-minute or hour-long shows. Each weekday, Wonder Media Network co-founder and journalist Jenny Kaplanoffer offers a brief, fascinating story about the groundbreaking women who have shaped our world—whether you've heard of them or not. Past episodes have featured women as diverse as Octavia Butler, Maria Mitchell, Fannie Lou Hammer, and Marsha P. Johnson, to name just a few of the hundreds of amazing women you'll learn about when you listen in.

We've all been there: someone asks How are you? and your automatic response is Fine, thanks for asking! even if you're having one of the worst days of your life. In this podcast from American Public Media, host Nora McInerny asks people how they're doing—and gets the real, unfiltered answers. Her guests include artists, writers, celebrities, and ordinary people. As Nora talks with guests about their lives, their conversations include an incredibly wide range of topics: friendship, widowhood, YouTube, beauty pageants, addiction, parenthood, and so much more.