Lemonada Media, the podcast community that makes life suck much less, introduced new additions to its manufacturing crew, led by co-founder and Chief Artistic Officer Stephanie Wittles Wachs. On the heels of securing $8M in funding, Lemonada has shortly been in a position to increase its in-house manufacturing crew to maintain up with its present slate of 21 unique podcasts, which reaches tens of millions of listeners per 30 days and can develop to over 30 unique podcasts in 2022.
In 2021, Lemonada tripled its income, added 10 new reveals, designed and trademarked an audio actuality collection (BEING Studios), and co-created unique reveals like Written Off with Jay Ellis’ Black Bar Mitzvah and Consider Her with publishing home Speigel & Grau, which launched on the high of the podcast charts.
Becoming a member of the corporate is Steve Nelson, as Vice President of Content material & Manufacturing overseeing Lemonada’s always-on slate. Most lately, Steve served because the Head of Discuss at Faith of Sports activities and previous to that, Senior Director of Programming at NPR and Director of On-Demand Programming at APM.
Steve’s crew shall be bolstered by two extra new hires: Rachel Neel, most lately NPR’s Supervising Senior Producer, in an new position at Lemonada as Senior Director of New Content material, main the event, pre-production, and launch of Lemonada’s quickly rising portfolio of originals on its always-on slate; in addition to MPR Lead Producer Kyle Shiely, who ran each Morning Version and All Issues Thought of, and can now function Senior Producer of In The Bubble with Andy Slavitt, Lemonada’s well-liked and calming collection that can shift to 3 occasions per week as of Could.
Steve will work alongside Jackie Danziger (Vice President of Content material & Manufacturing for Lemonada’s narrative slate) and Kasey Barrett (head of BEING Studios) and their rising groups.
Wittles Wachs says, “We’re thrilled to welcome these exceptionally proficient leaders to our rising manufacturing crew who assist Lemonada proceed to scale our unique weekly podcast programming and increase our mission to make life suck much less.”
Jessica Cordova Kramer, Lemonada’s co-founder and CEO added, “And that goes for our work tradition as nicely. Along with having a talented and various crew, we’re dedicated to prioritizing the well-being of our workers with advantages like 7 weeks paid day off yearly, together with 2.5 weeks of company-wide time to forestall burnout and foster creativity; parental go away that’s inclusive of all genders, foster and adoption; full advantages and inventory choices for all full-time, everlasting workers so far; in addition to flex hours and flex location with co-working alternatives.
