The Story Agency — Podcasts, Documentaries & Audiobooks · A DO THE DAMN THING® Company
a do the damn thing® company

We don't teach story. We produce it.

Podcasts, documentaries, and audiobooks — built end to end. You bring the story and show up to record. We handle everything else.

Podcast Production Documentary Film Audiobooks — our specialty
what we make ~

Three Formats.
One Standard.

Most people with something worth saying never get it produced — because production is a full-time job they already don't have time for. We take the whole thing off your plate.

weekly · evergreen · owned

Podcasts

A show you actually keep. We build the format, run the sessions, cut the episodes, and publish on schedule — so your feed doesn't die in month three.

  • Show concept, format, and season planning
  • Studio and remote recording
  • Full edit, mix, and master
  • Show notes, artwork, and distribution
  • Clips and social cutdowns for every episode
one story · long form · archival

Documentaries

For the story that's bigger than an episode. Founder films, brand origin stories, community and legacy work — shot, cut, scored, and delivered ready to screen.

  • Story development and interview direction
  • On-location and studio filming
  • Archival research and integration
  • Edit, color, sound design, and score
  • Festival, screening, and streaming cuts
your book · your voice · forever

Audiobooks specialty

The thing we're known for. Most authors record a book once and get it wrong once. We direct you through it like a producer — because a book read badly is a book nobody finishes.

  • Manuscript prep and read-aloud pass
  • Directed narration — we sit in with you
  • Editing, mastering, and retail-spec QC
  • Delivery to Audible, Spotify, and Apple
  • Launch audio, samples, and promo assets
the specialty ~

Your Book Deserves Your Voice.

Nobody can read your story the way you lived it. But reading your own book is a performance, and most authors have never been directed through one. That's the gap we close.

You come in with your manuscript. We've already marked it up for breath, pacing, and emphasis. You read, we direct, we catch it in the room instead of finding it three weeks later in the edit. Then we take the files and hand you back a finished, retail-ready audiobook.

“A book read badly is a book nobody finishes. Direction is the difference.”

The Story Agency · production standard
what's included
Prep
Manuscript marked for pacing, pronunciation, and emphasis before you ever open the mic.
Direction
A producer in the room for every session. We stop you, reset you, and get the take.
Studio
Treated recording space in Phoenix. Remote sessions available with a shipped kit.
Post
Edit, noise floor cleanup, mastering to ACX and retail spec, chapter-level QC.
Delivery
Files and metadata submitted to Audible, Spotify, and Apple Books. You keep the masters.
Launch
Sample clips, audiograms, and a trailer cut for your rollout.
Also
Narrator casting if you'd rather not read it yourself — we'll cast and direct that too.
how it runs ~

Four Phases.
You Show Up For One.

Timelines shift by scope — a podcast season, a feature doc, and a 60,000-word audiobook don't move at the same speed. The shape is always the same.

Phase 01

Story

We find the actual story — the spine, the arc, the thing worth saying. Then we build the plan around it.

Phase 02

Record

Studio days. Directed, not just captured. This is the part you're in the room for.

Phase 03

Build

Edit, mix, master, color, score. You approve at checkpoints instead of chasing us for updates.

Phase 04

Publish

Delivered where it lives — Audible, Apple, Spotify, screening, or your feed — with the assets to launch it.

the work ~

We Build It
Because We Run It.

The Story Agency came out of a decade of producing our own shows, our own events, and our own books first. We're not an agency that learned this on client money.

client · podcast production

Full show build and weekly production — format, recording, editing, and publishing handled end to end so the host only has to show up and talk.

Ty Cohen
client · podcast production

Story development and season production for a founder-led show, built to convert listeners into the business behind it.

Candace D'Agnolo
client · story + live production

Story direction and live event production — the room, the run of show, and the content captured out of it.

Jerrica Dodd
in-house · audio + events

Build The Damn Thing — the book, the audiobook, the podcast, and the flagship live event. Produced in-house, start to finish.

DO THE DAMN THING®
before you book ~

Let's Be Honest
About Fit.

This is for you if

  • You have a book, a body of work, or a story you've already lived
  • You want it produced properly once, not cheaply three times
  • You'd rather hand off production than learn it
  • You'll actually show up for the recording days
  • You want to own your masters and your feed

This isn't for you if

  • You're looking for the cheapest option on the internet
  • You want us to write the story for you from scratch
  • You need it finished next week
  • You're not sure you want to be the one telling it
  • You want a course on how to do it yourself — that's Night School
start here ~

Tell Us What You're Making.

One call. We'll tell you what it takes, what it costs, and how long it runs — and if we're not the right shop for it, we'll say that too.

Book A Production Call

Phoenix, Arizona · Studio & remote sessions · We answer every inquiry