13 Best Optimism Podcasts

1. The Optimist Project with Yara Shahidi

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Host Yara Shahidi sits down with incredible changemakers to unlock their secrets to conquering life, love, career, and everything in between with unwavering confidence and hope. We often discuss joy and happiness, but this podcast goes deeper. Optimism is where the magic happens! Join us as we find ways to cultivate the practice of optimism in our own lives.MORE Host Yara Shahidi
Producer/Network SiriusXM Podcasts
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 20 Avg Length 49 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Sounds Good with Branden Harvey

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Sounds Good hosts hopeful conversations with optimists and world-changers about the headlines we can be hopeful about — and how you can get involved and make a difference. Every week, Good Good Good founder Branden Harvey sits down with the people driving positive change against the world's greatest problems. Each episode will leave you with a sense of hope about the good in the world — and a sense of direction on how we can all be a part of that good. Episodes are released every Monday.Dive deeper into these stories and find more good news at goodgoodgood.co and @goodgoodgoodco.MORE Host Branden Harvey
Producer/Network Good Good Good
Email ****@goodgoodgood.co
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 406Facebook 47.7KTwitter 5.6KInstagram 880.8K Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

3. A Bit of Optimism

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My career is an accident. It started when I set out to rediscover my passion and reignite a spark I'd lost — and that journey led me to the work I do now. If you know me from my books or my speaking, you know I'm fascinated by why people do what they do. What makes someone find joy and meaning in their life, or pursue something far greater than themselves? I started A Bit of Optimism to explore those ideas and expand my own perspective. This podcast is a trove of honest conversations, with people who challenge me, teach me, or simply help me see things in a different way...MORE Host Simon Sinek
Email ****@simonsinek.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Mel Robbins, Mo Gawdat +11 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 3K Avg Length 57 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. Blue Sky

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Hosted by Bill Burke, founder of The Optimism Institute, this weekly podcast will feature inspiring leaders, authors, researchers, and big thinkers who are taking on some of our world's toughest challenges with an infectious sense of optimism. Blue Sky takes its name from the meditation reminder that there's always blue sky above, sometimes you just have to get your head above the clouds to see it.MORE Host Bill Burke
Producer/Network The Optimism Institute
Email ****@theoptimisminstitute.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Mimi Nicklin, Paul Leonardi +3 more
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist

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American Optimist, hosted by Joe Lonsdale: entrepreneur, investor, and founder of four multi-billion dollar companies and other mission-driven organizations. American Optimist is an alternative to the fear, cynicism, and zero-sum thinking in mainstream media. Learn from the innovators and leaders who are solving our nation's most pressing challenges, and doing it in a way that will lift everyone up. Hope should dominate our discourse, and American Optimist will show you why. blog.joelonsdale.comMORE Host Joe Lonsdale
Email ****@substack.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Max Meyer, Carlos Carvalho +7 more
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 163 Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. Revolutionary Optimism Podcast

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To respond to the challenging times we are living through, physician, humanitarian and social justice advocate Dr. Paul Zeitz has identified 'Revolutionary Optimism' as a new cure for hopelessness, despair, and cynicism. Revolutionary Optimism is itself an infectious, contagious, self-created way of living and connecting with others on the path of love. Once you commit yourself as a Revolutionary Optimist, you can bravely unleash your personal power, #unify with others, and accelerate action for our collective repair, justice, and peace, always keeping love at the center.MORE Host Dr. Paul Zeitz
Email ****@unifymovements.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Osita Nwanevu, Susan Sturm +4 more
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 40Facebook 4.1KTwitter 2KInstagram 1.2K Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Choose Optimism

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Learn how the live an Optimistic life with Optimist International. Optimist International is an International Service club with the Mission of Bringing out the Best in Youth, Ourselves and our CommunitiesMORE Producer/Network Optimist International
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4/5Apple Reviews 13 Avg Length 24 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. The Mindset Podcast

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If YOU are looking to live a life of POSITIVITY and OPTIMISM, then this is the podcast for you! Our goal is to motivate and influence men and women that are looking to take their MINDSET to the NEXT level.MORE Hosts Gabriel Russo, Anthony Valenzuela
Producer/Network Anthony and Gabriel
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 55Facebook 94Twitter 133Instagram 2.3K Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

9. Aggressive Optimism with Jenna Edwards

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Aggressive Optimism with Jenna Edwards is a podcast about building a life you actually want, even when the path is messy, nonlinear, or nothing like you planned. - We're rebranding optimism as realistic strategy.I'm your host, Jenna Edwards, and I believe optimism is not denial or blind positivity. It is a strategy. A choice. A practice. And sometimes, a fight.Each week, I sit down with creatives, leaders, entrepreneurs, and everyday humans who have pursued their biggest, most audacious dreams...MORE Email ****@jennaedwards.com
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 12 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

10. That Optimism Man Victor Perton

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Victor Perton examines the world through an optimistic lens. He aims to help people become more infectiously optimistic, perhaps even magnetic optimists.
Producer/Network Victor Perton
Email ****@victorperton.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Angus Fletcher, Julian Mather +2 more
Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 42 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. Optimistic Life Podcast

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Welcome to the Optimistic Life Podcast this is your host Margie. So, research shows that optimist people live longer, healthier and wealthier. The purpose of this podcast is to connect and engage in soulful conversations in hopes to spread more optimism. You will laugh, we might cry, and we might panic a bit at times. For sure we will expand and connect our energies to uplift ourselves and others around the world with more optimism. Nothing will be excluded from my sociological perspective, it might get controversial at times. Stay tuned! Love and much light to us.Namaste, MargieMORE Host Margie Calderon
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 9Instagram 3.9K Avg Length 18 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

12. Obnoxious Optimism

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A short podcast on turning anything into optimism.
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13. Emotional Optimism: Living in The Silver Lining Podcast

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Emotional Optimism: Living in The Silver Lining Podcast - A collection of exploratory thoughts and conversations to help tap into emotional optimism and heart leadership. Think of this podcast as your personal prescription of leadership tips, empathetic food for thought and courageous and real conovs!MORE Host Claude Silver
Email ****@claudesilver.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 55Twitter 11.2KInstagram 13.4K Avg Length 3 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact