Currently I am studying for the N2 and my weakest ability is listening. I do know a lot of words but I’m only able to read them. That’s why I’m looking for good podcasts that actually use more intermediate words, but at the same are not too fast and overwhelming.
I did use podcasts such as Nihongo con teppei, yuyu no podcast or japanese with Noriko, but I feel like they are all using quite easy words and therefore don’t really help.
Does anyone have a good recommendation ?
4989 American Life
It’s full speed Japanese for Japanese people but still somehow feels like a bridging podcast to native content. She speaks super clearly and doesn’t slur her words or mumble much. Also, she is just an angel and puts out a complete, human-written transcript of each episode on her website explicitly for the segment of her listeners that listen for Japanese practice. If your reading is better than your listening, I think this would make it a good choice.
A couple of food related podcasts, which I occasionally listen to:
味な副音声 ～voice of food～
今日のおいしい
This might not be helpful for N2 study but badonkadonk is so good. It’s a manzai style duo of a Japanese girl and a half American guy and they joke a lot about the differences in culture on a lot of topics. It’s quite fast and casual with a some kansai dialect so I usually watch it in video form with JP subs.
I find “the konnichwa podcast” useful and fun. There are three presenters, native English, native Japanese and bilingual. The conversation switches between English and Japanese, so when I get lost, it is possible to reset. It’s mostly just everyday conversation.
They stopped making the podcast a year ago, but there’s four? years content available…
I can recommend the following if learners podcasts are becoming too easy for you:
Also a big +1 to 4989 American Life (might be a bit easier than the ones above, so it’s a great bridge).
However 味な副音声 ～voice of food～ just wasn’t for me. It’s kinda cute, but it’s the one Japanese podcast I deleted so far. Long intervals of what boils down to “美味しい！” interspersed with intricate poetic descriptions of random food items that you can’t get over here… the difficulty just fluctuates too much for me 
Subjective but to me https://www.youtube.com/@the_bitesize_japanese_podcast is probably the best out there.
Consistent in terms of doing podcasts for 2 years now. Various topics, each time with interesting vocabulary, but with consistent structure. She’s putting words in different context for the 10 min which means you can sometimes even learn new vocabulary be immersion. She’s not talking to you like she would to a baby, it feels just natural, fresh, interesting while being easy enough. And human encoded subtitles.
That’s what I listen to for 80% of my time. The 20% are spread across YUYU Podcast which is super fun but super fast, and " Daily Japanese with Naoko" which is super nice but super scholar/slow