It can be hard to find a good podcast that sucks you in, entertains you, or teaches you something new. Often, the best way to find one is by word of mouth.
So, we asked some of your favorite crafty podcasters what they listen to. They recommended craft-related shows (about fiber arts, paper craft, sewing, and more) and non-crafty ones (diving deep into paranormal activity, etymology, and cybersecurity, to name a few). Queue one up in your favorite listening app and find a new favorite!
Christi Johnson
With Love, Danielle, by Danielle LaPorte
A one-woman show about self-realization from Danielle LaPorte, a member of Oprah’s Super Soul 100 and creator of The Desire Map. How do you create a spirituality that’s more rock n’ roll than oppressive, turn your anxiety into power, and live more deeply but lighten up? Danielle keeps it practical while riffing on the divine—from compassion and self-help fatigue to sex, joy, and serving the world.
Tina VanDenberg
Love to Sew
Join us for a friendly chat about modern sewing! Do you like to make your own clothes or want to learn how? Hosts Helen and Caroline engage with the global sewing community and encourage listeners to create their dream wardrobe by sewing their own clothes! Guest interviews explore the online sewing world and running a small business in the slow fashion industry. Listen to your favorite sewing pattern designers and inspiring makers who truly understand your obsession with sewing.
Plenty, by Kate Northrup
Expand your capacity to receive an overflow of abundance on every possible level with top thought leaders, luminaries, and adventurers from around the globe. Imbued with fresh topics and renewed vitality, this is your new safe and encouraging space for personal growth, financial wisdom, energy management and nurturing relationships.
Abundant Ever After, by Cathy Heller
Life is too short to be building someone else’s dream. On Abundant Ever After, top ranking podcast host, business and spiritual coach, and bestselling author Cathy Heller gives you the tools to change your frequency, allow in new possibilities, and become the director of your life.
Helen Wilkinson and Caroline Somos
Seamwork Radio, by Sarai Mitnik and Haley Glenn
Sewing your own clothing can change your perspective in surprising ways. Each week, we explore how the practice of sewing can help you to slow down, get to know your body, discover who you are, and connect to the people around you. What you make is important.
(Several other stitching podcasters also love Seamwork!)
Sarai Mitnik and Haley Glenn
One Song, by Diallo Riddle and Blake “LUXXXURY” Robin
On each episode of One Song, friends Diallo Riddle (Emmy-nominated star and creator of HBO Max’s Southside and IFC’s Sherman’s Showcase) and Blake “LUXXXURY” Robin (music producer & TikTok creator) will hilariously break down ONE SONG from the pop music canon you know—or need to know—but have never heard quite like this.
Sarai listens to…
Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, by Conan O’Brien
After 25 years at the Late Night desk, Conan realized that the only people at his holiday party are the men and women who work for him. Over the years and despite thousands of interviews, Conan has never made a real and lasting friendship with any of his celebrity guests. So, he started a podcast to do just that. Deeper, unboundedly playful, and free from FCC regulations, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend is a weekly opportunity for Conan to hang out with the people he enjoys most and perhaps find some real friendship along the way.
Lauren Tilden
Lauren Tilden, owner of Good Sheila (a paper goods shop) and Station 7 (a home and design shop in Seattle), hosts Making Good, “the podcast for small business owners who want to make a big impact… We cover topics like marketing, business philanthropy, finding community, doing purpose-driven work, mindset—and everything in between.”
She listens to…
Simple Pin Podcast, by Kate Ahl
The Simple Pin Podcast delivers weekly Pinterest marketing tips, updates, and stories of how business owners are finding success on the platform. Every Wednesday a new show airs to showcase how this powerful platform is helping millions of small business owners achieve their goals of sales and lead gen.
Brand Your Passion, by Hollie Arnett
If you’re ready to get more eyes on your work, more dollars in your pocket, and more creativity in your life, then you’re in the right place. Welcome! This is how we’re gonna do it. Brand Your Passion is the show that helps you utilize branding and marketing to turn the thing you love most into something that people know and love you for.
Product Boss Podcast, by Jacqueline Snyder
A business podcast for product entrepreneurs. A creative balance of life and business to help you live your dream life. As a woman entrepreneur and product expert, Jacqueline Snyder delivers a workshop-style strategy hour of social media marketing strategies and marketing made easy and simple.
Maria Theoharous
Check Your Thread, by Zoe Edwards
Welcome to Check Your Thread, a podcast about sewing more sustainably. Each week we enjoy nerding out about sewing, whilst picking up ideas and useful tips for how to reduce our impact on the environment. My aim is always to approach topics with a sense of curiosity and fun, and hope to leave our listeners feeling inspired by the end of each episode.
Smashing Security, by Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault
A helpful and hilarious take on the week’s tech SNAFUs. Computer security industry veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault chat with guests about cybercrime, hacking, and online privacy. It’s not your typical cybersecurity podcast…
(Maria calls it “an absolute scream to listen to” and “funny, engaging, and informative.”)
Tiffany Lowder and Tracie Claiborne
Killers, Cults and Queens, by Cheryl and Nikki Druce
Cheryl and Nikki Druce are on a whistle stop tour of the weirdest corners of the universe. They’ll be stopping by to learn about the craziest true crime cases in history, spooky paranormal activies, truly bonkers internet mythology, very convincing cults, and much much more. So don’t be a killer or join a cult… just be a Queen.
S-Town, by Brian Reed
S-Town is a podcast hosted by Brian Reed from Serial Productions, a New York Times company. The story follows a man named John who despises his Alabama town and decides to do something about it. He asks Brian to investigate the son of a wealthy family who’s allegedly been bragging that he got away with murder. But when someone else ends up dead, the search for the truth leads to a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure, and an unearthing of the mysteries of one man’s life.
Tracie listens to…
Scrapbook Your Way, by Jennifer Wilson
In a world where a camera is always within reach and creative options are abundant, “Your Way” is the memory-keeping approach that fills you up and fits your life right now. This free, scrapbooking-focused show celebrates the breadth of ways to be a memory keeper today. Scrapbook Your Way is hosted by Jennifer Wilson, owner of Simple Scrapper and author of The New Rules of Scrapbooking
The Next Right Thing, by Emily P. Freeman
For the second-guessers, the chronically hesitant, or anyone who suffers from decision fatigue, best-selling author and host Emily P. Freeman helps create a little space for your soul to breathe so you can discern your next right thing in love. Because out of the thousands of decisions you make every day, chances are a few of them threaten to keep you up at night. If you’re in a season of transition, waiting, general fogginess or if you’ve ever searched “how to make a decision” on the internet, listen in.
Helen Hiebert
About Art, by Heidi Zuckerman
Heidi Zuckerman is a globally recognized leader in contemporary art and the first woman to build two art museums. About Art has Heidi in courageous authentic conversations with people she finds interesting to talk about their lives, values, and always about why art matters! Join Heidi, an inspiring story teller, on the journey to connect to art and make lives better!
The Moth
On Tuesdays and Fridays The Moth’s podcast feed presents episodes of the Peabody-Award Winning Moth Radio Hour and original episodes of The Moth Podcast. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating.
Ear Hustle, by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods
Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison. Hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods co-created the show that launched in 2017 while Earlonne was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, where Nigel was volunteer teaching photography. Since Earlonne’s release in 2018, the show has expanded to include stories from prisons across the state, including the California Institution for Women, as well as stories about getting out of prison and starting over, post-incarceration.
Brenda Dayne
Making enthusiast Brenda Dayne is the host of Cast On, a podcast (also recommended by Anne Merrow, below) that focuses on “finding inspiration in the ordinary, using it to kick start the process of making stuff, and finding ways to carve out the creative time and space that allows you to work your ass off on the projects that matter most to you. Like knitting a sweater. Or saving the world.”
She listens to…
The Long Thread, by Anne Merrow
The artists and artisans of the fiber world come to you in the Long Thread Podcast. Each episode features interviews with your favorite spinners, weavers, needleworkers, and fiber artists from across the globe. Get the inspiration, practical advice, and personal stories of experts as we follow the long thread.
(Brenda adds, “It’s nice to hear people geeking out about the esoterics of things that I care about, like breed specifics and micron count!”)
You’re Wrong About…, by Sarah Marshall
Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that’s been miscast in the public imagination.
(Brenda adds, “It’s usually even weirder, wilder, and more surprising than you could have imagined.”)
Anne Merrow
Craft Lit, by Heather Ordover
Craft Lit is annotated audiobooks for busy people. Love the classics or wish you did? This weekly annotated audiobook podcast presents curated classic literature in a serialized format. The host, Heather Ordover, “teaches to the joke” by filling in any relevant tidbits before listening to the next chapter of the book. The podcast has been in continuous weekly production since 2006.
(Anne writes, “Jane Eyre was life-changing, and I would never have gotten into Frankenstein and Dracula without her.”)
Brandy Maslowski
The Marie Forleo Podcast, by Marie Forleo
Named by Oprah as a thought leader for the next generation and one of Inc.’s 500 fastest growing companies, Marie Forleo’s goal is to help you become the person you most want to be. In this show, Marie and her guests share actionable strategies for greater happiness, success, motivation, creativity, productivity, love, health, contribution, and fulfillment—often with a lot of laughs.
(Brandy says, “She speaks directly to the G.O.A.T.’s in the worlds of business, personal excellence and life in general.”)
SmartLess, by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett
[A] podcast that connects and unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared experiences through thoughtful dialogue and organic hilarity. A nice surprise: in each episode of SmartLess, one of the hosts reveals his mystery guest to the other two. What ensues is a genuinely improvised and authentic conversation filled with laughter and newfound knowledge to feed the SmartLess mind.
(Brandy adds, “So funny!”)
Gary L. Parr
Needle art enthusiast Gary L. Parr hosts Fiber Talk, “a podcast for hobbyists who play in the fiber-arts world,” where he “interviews a wide range of leading personalities in the needle arts world, while talking about the latest trends in fibers, designs, and techniques.”
Gary listens to…
The Adventure Stache, by Payson McElveen
Professional mountain biker Payson McElveen sits down with some of the biggest names in sports and adventure to get a look at what sets them apart. With no script, the casual conversations are as diverse as the guests, with topics ranging from harrowing tales of survival, to debates on current events, to everyday tips and tricks and everything in between.
New Heights Podcast with Jason and Travis Kelce
Football’s funniest family duo team up next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about their games and share unique perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. Plus, entertaining stories from a combined 21 years in the league, off-field interests, and engaging conversations with special guests.
Co-host Cindy Baldwin listens to…
Haptic & Hue, by Jo Andrews
Haptic & Hue’s Tales of Textiles explores the way in which cloth speaks to us and the impact it has on our lives. It looks at how fabric traditions have grown up and the innovations that underpin its creation. It thinks about the skills that go into constructing it and what it means to the people who use it. It looks at the different light textiles cast on the story of humanity.
(Co-host Beth Ellicott also recommends Haptic & Hue!)
Lost Women of Science, by Katie Hafner, Amy Scharf, and Carol Sutton Lewis
Lost Women of Science, by Katie Hafner, Amy Scharf, and Carol Sutton Lewis
For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin whose story has been told, hundreds of female scientists remain unknown to the public at large. In this series, we illuminate the lives and work of a diverse array of groundbreaking scientists, who, because of time, place, and gender, have gone largely unrecognized. Each season, we focus on a different scientist, putting her narrative into context, explaining not just the science but also the social and historical conditions in which she lived and worked.
Alicia de los Reyes
contributor
Alicia de los Reyes is a freelance writer who loves to make things. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire and her work has appeared in the Billfold, the Archipelago, Sojourners Magazine, and others. See more of her work at aliciadelosreyes.com.