— About the network

A small studio,
seven careful shows.

Your Business is an independent podcast network founded in Brooklyn in 2019. We make seven original shows, employ eleven full-time people, and have never taken venture funding. Most of what we do is record, edit, and mix audio in a brick room near the Pulaski Bridge.

— Why we exist

Audio that respects
your kitchen.

The reason most podcasts feel the way they do — tight, branded, ad-padded, hosted by someone who is also on TV — is that they're meant to be a side feed in someone's larger media business. We are not anyone's side feed. The studio is the whole business.

We make shows for the parts of life that other media doesn't make sense for: long drives, kitchen evenings, the half-hour after a school drop-off, the eight blocks between a subway stop and your front door. The shows are slow on purpose. The hosts are the people you'd actually want in your kitchen.

Our goal is to keep being able to make these shows, to pay the people who make them well, and to never sell the studio to a company that uses the word "scale" without flinching.

— The roster

The hosts who actually live here.

Seven hosts, plus an editorial spine of three producers and a sound designer. Most have been with us since the first or second year of the network.

The Long Walk Home

Maren Vasquez

Brooklyn-based essayist. Two-time Peabody finalist. Joined 2019.

Slow Frequency

Theo Park

Sound designer. Has carried a Zoom H6 to a wedding. Joined 2020.

Hard Currency

Lina Berger

Former senior examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Joined 2021.

The Tin Kitchen

Adaeze Okafor

Cookbook author (Wood & Salt, 2023). Ran kitchens in Lagos and Brooklyn. Joined 2019.

Field Notes

Dr. Reni Costa

Marine biologist out of Woods Hole. Joined 2022.

Crosstown Local

Ezra Holloway

City reporter for sixteen years before this. Joined 2019.

House Spirits

Mae Thornton

Former hospital chaplain. Reverent without being earnest. Joined 2023.

Editor in Chief

June Castellanos

Founder. Mixes every cold open. Walks to work over the Pulaski Bridge.

— The studio

Brick walls, two booths,
and one cat.

We're at 218 Franklin Street in Greenpoint, on the second floor of an old printing building. There are two booths, a small writers' room, a kitchen with a working espresso machine, and an aging shop cat named Bert who appears in approximately every episode of Slow Frequency.

If you're a journalist, a guest, or a listener with a thing to drop off for one of the hosts, we're open most weekdays. We do not give general tours but we'll happily say hi.

2009Building built

2,400 sfStudio floor

2 boothsWhisper-quiet

1 catHis name is Bert

— What we won't do

A short list of nos.

No mattress reads.

We turn down ad reads from sleep, gambling, supplement, and crypto brands. We will read for a craft business or a public radio drive whenever asked.

No celebrity hosts.

Our hosts are working journalists, scientists, chefs, and reporters. Not someone whose agent suggested a podcast as a Q3 project.

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No AI voices.

Every word in every episode is read by a human. Transcripts are corrected by a human. The intern who corrects them is paid.

A small studio,seven careful shows.

Audio that respectsyour kitchen.