As the COO of a podcasting tech company, I listen to a lot of podcasts. I stream spoken audio at least two to three hours a day, and because I’ve trained myself to listen to everything on 2x speed, I can jam through quite a few shows during that time. Of course, many of the podcasts on my list are the comfort podcasts I’ve listened to for years. But, more and more, my favorite thing to do is listen to up-and-coming shows and be among the first to find the next big thing.

Some of my favorite shows are created by women. Despite the undeniable success of many female podcast creators (anyone hear of Serial? Crime Junkie?), they're still less likely to be featured in written publications than men. So here, I’ve gathered my top 10 podcasts by up-and-coming women creators for 2019 so far. This is not your same repeated list of the shows in Apple’s Top 20 categories. Many of these are just now gaining traction, so you’ll be among the first to discover them too.

