Best CFO podcasts in 2026

Akshay Datt

Founder of Unnati and host of Founder Thesis, a long-form interview podcast with company founders. Over 400 episodes since 2020.

The best CFO podcasts in 2026 are CFO Thought Leader, Run the Numbers, CFO Weekly, GrowCFO Show, The Diary of a CFO, CFO 4.0, Count Me In and Inside the Strategy Room. A CFO podcast is a show for finance leaders, from the controller who wants the top job to the CFO who reports to a board.

About half the CFO podcasts on published lists are made by companies that sell to finance teams, and those stop more often. More than a quarter of the shows those lists recommend have published nothing in three months.

Best CFO podcasts in 2026

The best CFO podcasts in 2026 are these eight, each the strongest live show for one part of the finance job.

CFO Thought Leader is the one to start with. Jack Sweeney has published since 2014 and now goes out about twice a week, past episode 1,200. Most guests are sitting CFOs talking through one decision, such as how SolarWinds’ CFO rethought its economics or how Anaplan’s balances growth against profit.

Start with the problem on your desk this quarter. A controller preparing for a first CFO interview and a CFO replacing an ERP need different shows.

Best podcasts for CFOs at venture-backed companies

The best podcasts for CFOs at venture-backed companies are Run the Numbers, The Growth-Minded CFO, Speaking C-Suite and The CFO Track. All four interview finance leaders at companies still raising money.

Run the Numbers publishes about twice a week. CJ Gustafson, a former tech CFO who writes Mostly Metrics, mixes CFO interviews with filing breakdowns such as Anthropic’s S-1, and it is the busiest show in the category after CFO Thought Leader. For SaaS metrics specifically, the best SaaS podcasts cover the narrower shows.

The other three each have a twist. The Growth-Minded CFO pairs a fractional CFO, Lauren Pearl, with Upflow’s CEO, Alex Louisy, about once a month. Speaking C-Suite puts a CFO in the room with another executive, lately a software vendor’s leader alongside a customer’s head of finance. The CFO Track started in November 2025 and has published weekly for most of 2026, with Tom Hunter interviewing Australian CFOs at companies such as Buildkite and Eftsure.

Best podcasts for aspiring CFOs

The best podcasts for aspiring CFOs are The Diary of a CFO, From Go to CFO, Ask A CFO and The Finance Seat. Each one is built around the route to the job.

Wassia Kamon publishes every other Thursday and is candid about her own job, including an episode on the difference between getting the CFO role and keeping it, two years in. From Go to CFO runs in seasons, every two weeks, with CFOs explaining the route they took to the chair. Ask A CFO goes out about once a month and is the most international of the four, with recent guests running finance at Daimler Truck Financial Services and Valeo Japan.

Two of the four are made by finance recruiters, [axr] in Australia and Headstar in the UK. The guest list is the career they are recruiting for.

Best accounting podcasts for finance leaders

The best accounting podcasts for finance leaders are PwC’s accounting podcast, Count Me In, the FM magazine podcast and Sounds Accurate. The first is about standards; the other three are about running the function.

PwC’s show is weekly and narrow: PCAOB oversight, what FASB is working on next, revenue recognition for AI software. It is the quickest way to hear a standard change explained before it lands on your close. Count Me In, from the Institute of Management Accountants, publishes more than once a week with host Adam Larson, recently on AI adoption and internal controls for small businesses.

The FM magazine podcast, from AICPA & CIMA, is the shortest of the four at about seventeen minutes, every two weeks. BlackLine’s Sounds Accurate is monthly and mostly about AI in finance operations.

Best strategy podcasts for CFOs

The best strategy podcasts for CFOs are Inside the Strategy Room, Strategy Meets Finance and CFO Bookshelf. Each treats the CFO as the person who decides where the capital goes.

Inside the Strategy Room is weekly, with McKinsey partners and corporate executives on M&A, transformation and what outside capital does to a company. Strategy Meets Finance is a fifteen-minute weekly lesson aimed at owners, built on cash-flow levers and the gap between profit and money. CFO Bookshelf interviews the authors of business books for an hour, though it has slowed to about one episode a month.

Which companies make CFO podcasts?

About half the CFO podcasts on published lists are made by companies that sell to finance teams: planning and receivables software, spend cards, audit and consulting firms, and finance recruiters. The live ones mostly publish about once a month.

The live company shows publish about monthly, against about every two weeks for the shows run by individuals and associations. They also stop more. A third of the company shows have gone quiet, against fewer than a quarter of the rest, and the ones that stopped ran for about two years.

The exceptions last for years. CFO Weekly has gone out about every week since 2021, and EY’s Better Finance has published every year since 2017. For a company weighing a CFO show of its own, company podcasts stop when the budget is not renewed, the one person who ran the show moves on, or nobody agreed what working meant.

Which CFO podcasts have stopped?

Twelve CFO podcasts named on published lists have released nothing in more than 90 days, the common definition of a dormant show. All twelve still appear on at least one of those lists.

The CFO Show, hosted by Vena’s own CFO, Melissa Howatson, published weekly at its peak in 2024 and has released nothing since 10 June. AFP Conversations put out more than 260 episodes and stopped in November 2024 on an ordinary interview. Brex in the Black has been silent for six years and sits on a list updated this month.

How to choose a CFO podcast

Choose a CFO podcast by the decision in front of you, then give one show three full episodes before judging it.

Learning how other CFOs got the job and kept it: CFO Thought Leader, then The Diary of a CFO. Finance at a company still raising: Run the Numbers. A standard about to change your close: PwC’s accounting podcast. Bringing AI into the team: GrowCFO Show. A capital allocation call: Inside the Strategy Room. Fifteen minutes on a commute: Strategy Meets Finance or the FM magazine podcast.

Then read the date of the latest episode. On the published lists, that one check removes more than a quarter of the names.

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