A List of Podcasts for Creatives
A list of 30 creative podcasts that are guaranteed to keep you feeling creatively hydrated.
This list of podcasts includes creative industry professionals from artists, to designers, to filmmakers —proving that people from all walks of life can weave creativity into their everyday.
Creativity Rebels is a podcast hosted by founders of a tattoo parlor. This inspiring podcast features interviews with creative people who have rebelled against traditional 9-5 jobs to build a creative career.
Through pep and strategy, Creative Pep Talk is a podcast that aims to help you build a balanced and thriving creative practice. Come for the pep and stay for the wacky stories and artist interviews.
The Never Not Creative podcast creates a community for creatives to come together and discuss issues and challenges faced in creative careers.
Bounce the Block is all about getting over whatever's blocking you creatively. Each week, host, and photographer Emma Croman, invites a different creative guest to tell their story and discuss how they've dealt with creative blocks in the past.
From the creators of "Welcome to Night Vale," the Start with This podcast aims to put your creative writing ideas into motion. Each episode focuses on a topic like world-building or opening lines. The podcast always ends with an assignment from the hosts.
Since 2015, the Being Freelance podcast has interviewed 250+ freelancers on their personal stories. This podcast gives a realistic, encouraging, and funny look into the professional lives of freelancers.
Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love, spends each episode of Magic Lessons coaching a creative who has gotten stuck somehow. Created as a tie-in for Gilbert's creative help book, Big Magic, this podcast dispenses wise and helpful advice based on Gilbert's own experience.
Hosted by Henry Todd, The Accidental Creative provides advice to those whose careers demand creativity.
9. Overshare: Honest Conversations with Creatives
Overshare is a podcast that brings on creatives to talk about tough topics that people don't talk about enough.
10. Song Exploder
Musicians take apart one of their songs and, piece by piece, explain what went into making the song on Song Exploder.
11. How To Fail
Host, Elizabeth Day, talks to a guest about a time they failed and what it taught them on How To Fail.
12. Imaginary Worlds
Imaginary Worlds is a science fiction and fantasy podcast that interviews filmmakers, comic book writers, game designers, and novelists about what goes into making fictional worlds.
13. Sampler
In a world of so many podcasts, Sampler helps make life easier by providing listeners with the best moments from a diverse array of podcasts in Sampler.
Are you a fan of myths, legends, and folklore? Myths and Legends explores the history of popular tales with surprising origins.
15. ArtCurious
Written, produced, and hosted by a contemporary art curator, ArtsCurious strives to "explore the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely wonderful in Art History."
16. Design Better
Design Better is a design podcast that provides insights from renowned creative leaders, helping teams elevate their work and create incredible products.
17. Badass Creatives
Hosted by Mallory Whitfield, a New Orleans-based digital marketing and SEO specialist, artist, public speaker, and author, Badass Creatives aims to provide marketing and business advice to creatives and business owners.
18. Face to Face
Face to Face is a podcast by the world's most popular and influential architecture and design magazine, Dezeen. It offers interviews with the biggest names in architecture and design.
19. On Design
On Design Host Justyna Green has conversations with graphic designers, artists, creative directors, and entrepreneurs. They discuss inspirations and worldviews.
Meet the Creatives is a podcast that seeks to bridge the gap between entry-level creatives and industry-best creative professionals. The show has featured guests from Google, Twitter, Disney, Nike, and Adobe.
Death, Sex & Money is a podcast that has host, Anna Sale, talk to guests about the big questions that are often avoided in polite conversation.
22. Digital Noir
Digital Noir dives into the world of digital design and introduces you to the people working in it through interviews with community members.
23. UnStyled
Hosted by Global Editor-in-Chief & Co-founder of Refinery29, Christene Barberich, UnStyled explores stories of life, work, and love through the lens of what we wear.
24. 99% Invisible
The premise for 99% Invisible, a podcast about design, is that bad design sticks out while good design goes unnoticed. The podcast aims to explore the unseen and overlooked elements of design and architecture.
Beyond the Studio speaks to artists honestly and practically, exploring how they make a living, manage their time, plan their finances, and approach their lives creatively.
26. The Allusionist
The Allusionist is a podcast for those who have a fascination with language. The Allusionist explores how words and phrases impact our everyday lives.
If you're an artist wondering how you can sell your work and get ahead, this is the podcast for you. Art Marketing Podcast seeks to share market tips, tricks, and strategies to help artists establish a steadier income stream.
28. Creative Processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Host Joseph Gordon Levitt and guests take listener questions and discuss how creative people do on Creative Processing.
29. A Beautiful Mess
Two sisters, famous for their DIY blog, tackle podcasting in A Beautiful Mess. They discuss a wide range of topics from crafts to recipes and business to life.
Stuff You Should Know is a podcast that takes listeners through wide-ranging conversations and topics that you likely don't know anything about but will by the end of the episode. They cover everything from champagne, to sloths, to chaos theory.