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A show your team can actually sustain.

Most business podcasts die at episode nine. Not for lack of ideas — because nobody scoped the work of making one. We take the whole production off your desk — audio, video, or both — so the only thing your people bring is the conversation.

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What's included

Everything between the idea and the published episode.

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Format and strategy

Who the show is for, what it's actually competing with for their attention, and the episode shape that holds up over a season rather than a launch.

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Booking and prep

Guest outreach, scheduling, and a prep document that means your host walks in ready instead of improvising.

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Recording

In our studio, at your office, or fully remote with distributed guests. Audio and multi-camera video captured together, so a video show never costs you a second production day.

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Edit and post

Structural editing, not just noise removal. Audio mix and video post handled together, and we cut for pacing — the difference between an episode people finish and one they abandon.

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Show notes and artwork

Episode titles, descriptions, chapter markers, and cover art built to survive a podcast app's tiny thumbnail.

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Distribution and growth

Publishing to every platform, audio and video, plus the vertical cut-downs your marketing team will ask for on day one — and the campaign work that gets it in front of people.

Internal shows

Not every show is for the public. We build password-protected feeds for employees, franchisees, and members — same production standard, no public RSS, and a different discipline, because an internal audience has to keep showing up whether or not they like you.

Penn State Health · The Hershey Company · ~75,000 employees
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Proof

Shows that didn't stop at episode nine.

Exabeam · B2B SaaS

The New CISO

Chief Security Strategist Steve Moore interviewing CISOs about leading security teams. We’ve produced it since episode one — 148 episodes later, we still cut every one.

Apr 2019Producing since episode one
148Episodes and counting
4.9Apple rating · 47 reviews
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COVID Q&A · Penn State Health

An internal show built at speed during the pandemic to keep a 15,000-person health-system workforce informed, on a 24–48 hour delivery window.

Internal — not public

Talking Snack & The Pod · Hershey

Two branded internal podcasts that reached a 60,000-person global workforce across diverse markets.

Internal — not public

The Skin Report · Dr. Simran Sethi

Audio and video, cutting through beauty-industry noise with clinical expertise and a focus on melanated skin. 50+ episodes and 300% audience growth.

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Life on Pause

A patient-led series in audio and video for Penn State Health Children's Hospital and Four Diamonds, in continuous production since 2022.

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After you publish

A show nobody finds isn’t a show.

Production is half of it. The other half is the work that puts episodes in front of the people they were made for — which we run as part of a retainer, or on its own for shows we didn’t produce.

Launch and positioning

Artwork, category placement, episode titling, and the first-weeks push that decides whether a show gets discovered at all.

Clips and derivative assets

Vertical cut-downs, quote cards, transcripts, and newsletter copy — one recording working across every channel you publish on.

Audience growth

Cross-promotion, guest amplification, and paid where it earns its place. On The Growth Gear this took downloads to 560% past target.

Reporting

What performed, what didn’t, and where next quarter’s effort should go. Numbers you can take to a board, not a vanity dashboard.

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Ways in

You don't have to start big.

Most partnerships start with one session. Pick the entry point that matches where you are.

From $500 / half day

Studio session

Book a recording session with John in a professional room. Synced files delivered within a day or two, ready to edit. Shorter sessions available for a quick single recording.

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$1,500 / session

Content incubator

One recording session, produced and edited into a month’s worth of content. No ongoing commitment — enough to see finished work with your name on it.

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Retainer

Production partner

An ongoing program — a show, a series, a documentary slate — handled end to end: strategy, production, distribution, and the content marketing that grows an audience around it.

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Let's talk

Tell us what you're trying to say.

Thirty minutes, no deck. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right shop for it — and sometimes whether a podcast is the right format at all. We've written about when it isn't.