I love sewing to episodes of Project Runway playing in the background. I guess it feels like we’re all in it together, trying to crank stuff out before the next deadline. But when Project Runway reruns aren’t on, The Martha Stewart Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show are over and I can’t take anymore of Tabitha’s Salon Takeover (which always seems to be on), I turn to my collection of good old audio podcasts.

I can listen to podcasts all day long and seem only to be limited to the 4GB capacity of my old iPod Mini. My all-time faves are by far: NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me and NPR’s This American Life. The New Yorker Fiction Podcast is a close runner-up, and I’ve also really been appreciating the BusinessWeek SmartAnswers podcast. I’m told that I’ll love the TED Talks series also. I have a love/hate relationship with my MorningCoach.com podcast, but I listen to it almost every day. Mostly I appreciate it. =]

Here’s a list of all the podcasts I currently subscribe to. You can find and subscribe to all of these free podcasts on iTunes, but a lot of them are also available through their respective websites, which I’ll link to in the list below if I can find it.

• Small Business Podcasts
  • BusinessWeek Smart Answers
  • Wall Street Journal on Small Business
  • Harvard Business IdeaCast
  • StartUp Nation Radio
• News Podcasts
  • NPR: Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
  • NPR: Fresh Air
  • BusinessWeek Cover Stories
  • 60 Minutes – The Full Broadcast
• Inspirational/Motivational/Self-Improvement Podcasts
  • MorningCoach.com
  • Inspiring Words of Encouragement
  • Oprah.com’s Spirit Channel
• Life/Fiction/Storytelling Podcasts
  • NPR: This American Life
  • New Yorker: Fiction
  • The Moth Podcast
  • NPR: StoryCorps
  • TED Talks (thanks to Jenn for this one)

Today, I added One Minute Mandarin! Why not? I would have added Taiwanese but can you believe? They didn’t have it.

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