Award-winning production team forms new worked-owned podcast studio: Good Egg Audio

Senior producers Carl Nellis and Nicki Stein, engineer Nick Dooley, and associate producer Gemma Castelli-Foley have launched a new podcast production cooperative under the name Good Egg Audio.

Over the past ten years, members of the Good Egg team have tallied a long list of major podcast successes, making contributions to some of the best-loved shows across a number of categories. Productions from Good Egg members have hit #1 in the Apple Podcast charts many times and bagged multiple Signal Awards and Webby honors—shows like SNAFU with Ed Helms from FilmNation Entertainment, Pacific Electric Picture Company, & iHeartPodcasts; Pack One Bag from Live Action Projects & Lemonada Media; and The Reason We’re All Still Here with Jeffrey Lewis, from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury.

In past work across healthcare, journalism, entertainment, education and more, the Good Egg team has sharpened a full toolset for managing complex, multi-party media projects in both audio and video across podcast formats: from longform narrative series to always-on weekly formats to full network slates. Past collaborators have remarked on the warm presence, deep listening, innovative problem solving, and endless creative drive that Good Egg producers bring to media production. The team shifts effortlessly between directing A-list talent, producing live events, digging into reported tape to find the most impactful story, and bringing podcast concepts into print—hitting the New York Times Bestseller list in the process.

The focus of the new cooperative studio is to produce compelling, heartfelt, and human stories that live up to the best potential of audio—for teaching, learning, and shaping society and culture. Through collaborations with solo creators, major media networks, academic and healthcare institutions, nonprofits, global brands, and independent studios, Good Egg has amassed decades of experience producing thrilling audio stories.

At launch, the team at Good Egg Audio is proud to continue working with SNAFU Media (the partnership between FilmNation Entertainment and Pacific Electric Picture Company) through creative support and post-production for SNAFU with Ed Helms, and to collaborate with the team behind the award-winning podcast Public Health Is Dead, among other brand partnerships and creative projects.

“We were inspired to launch as a cooperative following others who have found success with this structure, ” says Carl Nellis, Good Egg’s Senior Producer and Head of Community. “We follow in the footsteps of fellow travellers (and shining lights) like Max Fun, Defector and Mumble Media. Operating as a cooperative gives us the chance to fit a business structure to our established workflows and our values. Over the years I’ve come to respect Nicki Stein’s finely tuned sense of what it takes to tell a good story in sound. Gemma Castelli-Foley’s skills across producing, script writing, talent booking, networking, vocal performance, and business operations make her a core piece of everything we do. Nick Dooley mixes audio with an artist’s ear, solves technical challenges from a thousand miles away, and runs tech for live events like he’s produced a hundred concerts in his sleep. (I think maybe he has.) We’re a creative engine and I’m excited to roar into a new gear. Sorry that last analogy isn’t an egg joke.”

“I am extremely proud to share what we’ve been cooking up these past many months,” says Senior Producer and Head of Story, Nicki Stein. “I am grateful that my incredible colleagues, Gemma, Nick, and Carl, decided to go all in with me on building a cooperative business that values creativity, humanity, and equity. We need to find more sustainable ways to make creative work that aligns with our values as makers and human beings. What’s become clear since we started Good Egg is that we’re so much stronger when we lean on one another.”

Alyssa Martino, SVP of Podcasts at FilmNation Entertainment, says, “The Good Egg folks are smart, organized, and highly dedicated to quality—and it shows in every second of tape.”

“Heck yeah!” says Jayme Catsouphes, Worker-Owner at Mumble Media. “Mumble is so excited to have more audio cooperative friends! From what we’ve seen, they might actually be the goodest of eggs.”

“I’m so excited about all the work that Good Egg is going to do,” says Sam Dingman, Reporter and Host at KJZZ Phoenix and creator of the Family Ghosts podcast.

“I wouldn’t give my younger self any advice other than: listen to this team. Do what they say!” David Modigliani, creator and host of Pack One Bag.

“ Hire this team, let them cook, and they will make magic,” says journalist, host, and producer Elise Hu.

Good Egg Audio looks forward to supporting more creators, teams, and storytellers whose serious public mission deserves a voice and a following in the podcast landscape. Good Egg’s service offerings include creative development, project management, research, reporting, talent identification and casting, scripting and storyediting, audio and video recording and production, performance direction, audio engineering, technical support, audio and video equipment management and kit shipping, manuscript development and ghostwriting, podcast publishing, and teambuilding for media production. Truly, Good Egg Audio is cooking with a full carton.

To connect with Good Egg Audio, reach us at: hello@goodegg.audio.