Here at Benito HQ we all love a podcast. The array of topics available means there is something for everyone and to suit whatever mood you are in. The choice can seem overwhelming so we have picked our top picks which our team members love.

Food

Table Manners with Jessie Ware

Jessie Ware hosts a podcast with her hilarious and inspiring mum about food, family and a general conversation. Each week guests join her from Ed Sheeran to Alan Carr, no episode is ever the same. The mother-daughter banter and disagreements whilst cooking for celebs around her dinner table is definitely worth a chuckle.

Art

Talk Art

Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament talk all things art. Exploring the magic of art and the journey to why it connects us. This easy to follow podcast with exclusive interview with artist, curators and gallerists. This will make you have expertise art knowledge in no time at all next time you go to the Tate you can give the tour guides a run for their money.

Comedy and Laugh Out Loud

My Dad Wrote a Porno

This hilarious trio explore the world of James Morton’s dad. Imagine if your dad wrote a dirty book, well this is what Morton’s dad did. The podcast reads a chapter a week and it’s not worth missing. With the help of Radio 1s Alice Levine and James Cooper you learn more about this story and his dad which is more then you ever bargained for.

Sh**gged, Married, Annoyed

An honest insight to married life this comedy duo shares the funny side of marriage. Chats about life, relationships, arguments, annoyances, parenting and life. Each episode has questions from the public and a celebrity. Our favourite part of the podcast is “What’s your beef” where Chris and Rosie share their pet hates with each other, which is so relatable.

Mental Health/Wellbeing

Fearne Cotton Happy Place

Fearne Cottons Happy Place gives you an insight to Fearne’s own experience and battles with expert’s advice how to beat the blues and how to find your own happy place. Whether you are feeling lost in life or feeling the impacts from a fast-paced life there is advice offered for everyone. Fearne explores the subject by chatting to inspiring individuals with their own stories and how to look a life in a different way.

Fashion

Fashion Conscious Chatter

The podcasts open the door to conversations about our clothing. This goes into depth about the journey and stories involved with the potential impact connected to what we wear. It’s a place where you can learn more about the garment industry and how will can all contribute to make a positive change in the industry.

Sustainability

Costing the Earth

Are you obsessed with the David Attenborough documents and trying to be sustainable? Well this is the podcast for you. It features fresh ideas from the sharpest minds of how we can achieve a cleaner, greener planet. Topics of episodes vary from the environment after Brexit to insect extinction.

Love

Love Stories

Dolly Alderton is a woman every girl can associate with, especially with her experiences from her book “Everything I know about love”. In her latest podcast she talks to guests about their relationship experiences. They explore from relationships the passion, heartbreak, longing, familiarity and fondness that have formed who they are.

Beauty

Full Lives

Madeline Spencer podcast explores the relationship we have beauty and the emotions the beauty products create and reflects. Each week a guest will discuss their life through the lens of beauty. Telling their own stories of their experiences and beauty rituals to help shape who they are.

Fat Mascara

We all find it hard to keep up to date with the latest news from the beauty world. This podcast is perfect to know what’s happening with the big world of beauty with the perfect hosts Jessica Matlin and Jennifer Goldstein. Each week there is advice from the big names in the industry from Make-up artists to plastic surgeons. A heavy dose of fun goes hand in hand with this podcast with jess and Jen sharing their beauty adventures, their inside access as well as beauty fails and beauty saviours. This is the perfect fix for any beauty obsessive.

Inspirational Listens

How to Fail

Learning right from wrongs and learning from your past, this podcast teaches you things happen for a reason and how you can be a better person from them. The episode each week a new interviewee explores what failures taught them and how to succeed better.

Feminists Don’t Wear Pink

What does the word Feminist mean? Journalist and activist Scarlett Curis explores the meaning and association with interviews of inspiring women including Tanya Burr and Jameela Jamil. Raising awareness of Feminism and why it matters, open your mind by listening to this podcast. Another reason to support this podcast all royalties go to the UN initiative Girl Up to spread the message of girl power.

Oprah’s Master Class

The legend herself has her own podcast. She is offering the greatest life lessons with her best inspiring pals and public figures including Jay-Z, Ellen Degeneres and Jane Fonda are just a phew of the name bombs in the episodes. A great listen of how all these iconic figures have learnt about their life and offering an insight into their personal stories.

Women of The Hour

Did you feel empowered and a fan girl of Lena Dunham from the hit TV show Girls?

Well this podcast will make you feel like you can achieve anything. All the guests are those individuals you wish you could be friends with, and listen to their advice. Talking about feminism, gender, sexuality and no topic off from discussion.Dunhams goal of the podcast which she tweeted was to “bring you news and wisdom you can use from women living their best life” . That goal is definitely achieved in this podcast.

Girl’s in Movement

The Girls in Movement is a podcast which is on our radar.The Girls In Movement is a project which is connecting young children with founders and influencers across the world.This is to  provide a platform where young children can ask questions and help them get involved in the startup world.This is a great one to get kids or younger siblings, and yourself into podcasts and the great impacts they can have.