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We help ambitious organizations and talented people make great audio.
We are a boutique production house and consulting company, built intentionally on an intimate scale. In all of our work we form creative alliances, collaborating as trusted partners to make very singular projects. We give expert advice. We produce projects that people talk about. Our projects help listeners see the world in a different way. Our work sparks conversations we all need to be having.
We have worked across a number of audio genres from true crime narratives to live comedy to event music recording, from trivia shows to interview programs to guided meditations. All our work has one thing in common: a relentless dedication to detail.
We have built a consistent track record in audio and podcasting matched by few. We make shows that people talk about. Shows that redefine the audio space by telling stories in new and unusual ways. Shows that routinely top the charts, make the yearly “best of” lists, win awards, and that, together, have generated hundreds of millions of downloads.
Our Work
Where Should We Begin?
with Esther Perel
Listen as anonymous couples in search of insight bare the raw, intimate, and profound details of their story. From infidelity, to sexlessness, to loss, it’s a space for people to be heard and understood.
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Almost There
with Dwayne Betts
From Emerson Collective, poet and lawyer Dwayne Betts talks to architects, doctors, writers, voyagers, organizers, and artists about their approach to making meaningful social change.
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Season 2 out now
Immaterial
The materials used in making art are as thought-provoking and illuminating as the objects themselves. Each episode looks at a single material, exploring the qualities and meanings that are often overlooked.
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Drive
with Jim Farley
Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, invites guests into the studio to discuss how they reached the top of their fields, including Sydney Sweeney, Jimmy Kimmel, Dax Shepard, and Tom Brady.
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Weekly
Good Inside
with Dr. Becky
Clinical psychologist and mom of three, Dr. Becky Kennedy takes on tough parenting questions and delivers actionable guidance. Her breakthrough approach has enabled thousands of people to get more comfortable in discomfort, make repairs after mistakes, and always see the good inside.
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Bubble Trouble
Economist and author Will Page and independent analyst Richard Kramer lay out inconvenient truths about how financial markets really work.
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Values
We are a company built around a shared set of values and beliefs about the work we do.
We venture into uncharted territory with a sense of purpose and a love of doing things no one has done before.
We are disciplined.
We are deliberate about what we choose to do and how we choose to do it.
We make surprising choices.
Our dedication to distinction leads us in unexpected creative directions.
We are adventurous.
We provoke curiosity and empathy.
Clients & Partners
Spotify
Vox
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
TED
Stanford Graduate School of Business
NY Times
LA Times
CNN
ESPN
Creative & Production Services
What we do
Define “what you sound like” in audio that matches your brand’s characteristics, standards, aesthetics, and values.
Guide you through establishing a plan for your presence in audio.
Select the right projects, right partners, and right opportunities to achieve success.
Identify new opportunities for growth, building audiences, and generating revenue.
Define the “next level” for your work--how to make it bigger and bolder, fast.
Establish new opportunities for your shows, teams, and talent in the digital space.
Audit and evaluate current podcasts and audio shows.
Workshops & mentoring
Fashion bespoke training and mentoring for creative leaders and teams working to achieve specific and measurable outcomes.
Team
Eric Nuzum
Co-founder
Eric Nuzum is one of the audio industry’s top experts in podcasting, radio, and spoken word entertainment. Eric led NPR’s initial efforts in podcasting in 2005 and remained that effort’s creative and strategic force for a decade, in which time NPR grew to be the world’s largest distributor of podcasts. Eric developed many of NPR’s most successful podcasts, and continued that record of success during his tenure as Audible’s leader for short-form content and podcasting. Eric is currently writing a book on audio and podcasting creation, titled Make Noise, set for publication by Workman Publishing in December, 2019.
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Jesse Baker
Co-founder
Jesse Baker is an award-winning journalist and producer who most recently led a large team of creative makers as Audible’s vice president of original content. At Audible, she produced and developed a number of the company’s most successful original series, including West Cork and three seasons of Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin? Jesse started her career in public radio as a producer on major NPR news magazines including All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. She later created the popular NPR weekly trivia program Ask Me Another. Jesse also produced The Culture Gabfest while at Slate and worked for ESPN producing The Sporting Life with Jeremy Schaap.
Paul Schneider
Sound Designer
Paul Schneider is a sound designer, producer, and composer who previously worked for Audible Originals and also at WNYC for over a decade. Since 2016, he has had the pleasure of helping Eric and Jesse develop and launch original content. His work includes original music, production, and editorial support for shows such as Esther Perel’s "Where Should We Begin?" and "How’s Work?", "West Cork", "State of Denial", and "The New Yorker Radio Hour".
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Sabrina Farhi
Producer
Sabrina Farhi most recently produced Meditative Story, a hybrid podcast that combines immersive storytelling with mindfulness meditation practices. She also helped produce a wellness podcast, Hello Sleep and the history podcast Presidents are People Too for Audible. Sabrina cut her teeth in audio production by voicing, editing, and producing the weekly broadcast and digital underwriting credits at NPR as their announcer from 2013-2015. Earlier in her career, she was an aspiring actress working on small stage productions, independent films, and behind the mic as a voiceover actress.
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Kristin Mueller
Sound Designer
Kristin came to audio production after buying her first 4-track cassette recorder as a teenager. Since then she has worked as a freelance sound engineer, sound designer, mixing engineer, broadcast engineer and sometimes radio producer for various public radio, non-profit and audio production companies such as NPR, WNYC, WQXR, WFMU, Unicef, Planned Parenthood and Audible.com. In addition, she is a multi-instrumentalist whose compositional work was part of the soundtrack for the Sundance Award winning film “What Alice Found.”
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Julia Natt
Associate Producer
Julia Natt was born and raised in sunny Los Angeles where she spent every morning and afternoon listening to KPCC and KCRW. She found her way to the world of audio production first through the publishing world, before making her way to a boutique production company where she helped develop fact-based narratives for podcasts, film and TV. She double majored in American studies and data analysis and enjoys working on stories that use both sides of her brain.
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Contributors
Ariana Martinez
Sound Designer
Ariana Martinez is a multimedia artist, radio documentarian, and sound designer. Ariana has created radio feature stories for BBC 4’s Short Cuts and BBC 3’s The Essay. They were the sound designer and engineer for Say You’re Sorry (Bucket of Eels for Audible Originals) and Brain on Nature, which was named one of the “Best Podcasts of 2019” by the Financial Times. Ariana has also contributed their skills to Transcripts (a podcast for the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project) and Netflix’s Prism: Tales of Your City. Ariana’s work has appeared at HearSay Festival, LUCIA Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, and The Barbican Cultural Centre’s Soundhouse.
Destry Maria Sibley
Producer
Destry Maria Sibley has made podcasts for WNYC, Panoply, Columbia University, the Pop Culture Collaborative, and others. As a Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storyteller, she spent a year in Mexico producing a historical mini-series about child refugees, the global spread of fascism, and her grandmother. In her spare time, she’s working on a doctorate in American literature, but her greatest aspiration is to breed Great Dane show dogs — or at the very least to make a podcast about them.
Eva Wolchover
Senior Producer
Eva Wolchover wasn’t always a podcast producer. She once wrote for a major Boston tabloid, where she was forced to write sports stories. Like many before her, she got into podcasting by way of public radio, starting at Car Talk and then spending six years as a producer on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! She once broke NPR when she booked Kim Kardashian as a guest. Most recently she worked at Audible, where she helped develop and produce shows like Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin? Her greatest achievement is that her dog was in The Onion five years ago.
Jamie
Destry Maria Sibley has made podcasts for WNYC, Panoply, Columbia University, the Pop Culture Collaborative, and others. As a Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storyteller, she spent a year in Mexico producing a historical mini-series about child refugees, the global spread of fascism, and her grandmother. In her spare time, she’s working on a doctorate in American literature, but her greatest aspiration is to breed Great Dane show dogs — or at the very least to make a podcast about them.
Salman
Destry Maria Sibley has made podcasts for WNYC, Panoply, Columbia University, the Pop Culture Collaborative, and others. As a Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storyteller, she spent a year in Mexico producing a historical mini-series about child refugees, the global spread of fascism, and her grandmother. In her spare time, she’s working on a doctorate in American literature, but her greatest aspiration is to breed Great Dane show dogs — or at the very least to make a podcast about them.
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