About Us
We help people sound like themselves
We work with businesses and individuals who want their podcast to feel considered, credible and true to who they are. From early thinking through to long-term production, we apply broadcast-quality standards and a calm, collaborative approach to everything we make.
We’re The Podcast Coach – an experienced, dedicated team who believe in the power of audio to connect, inspire and inform.
We’ve spent decades immersed in broadcast radio, television and high-quality audio production. Now we’re here to share our knowledge, skills and insights with you while making the podcasting process flexible and fun.
Our clients come to us because they want a podcast that feels relatable and sounds professional. They want the freedom of recording remotely, avoiding the stress of complicated tech or the price tag of TV-style production.
We’re proud to make audio the priority because when you start with ideas and sound, everything else follows: clarity, storytelling, connection.
We’ll still help you make great video snippets and clips but we’ll never let the camera call the shots.
So if you want to sound brilliant, reach the right listeners and enjoy the process along the way – you’ll fit right in with us.
The Podcast Coach – Your Story Amplified.
At The Podcast Coach, you work directly with us, the directors
Rory
Head of Audio
Rory has been responsible for the sound design and mixing on a range of major award-winning podcast series.
For a decade Rory worked as a Studio Director for the BBC on national radio programmes across 5 live and Radio 4. Rory takes huge pride and pleasure in crafting high quality, creative and beautifully produced audio products.
Rory has mixed several award-winning podcast series – both for the BBC and commercial independent brands – including Paradise, End Of Days, Beast Of Man, On The Ground, The Secret History of Flight 149, The Secret History of the Estonia and The Secret History of Antarctica.
In 2019 Rory left the BBC to fulfil his childhood dream of becoming a commercial helicopter pilot. After co-founding The Podcast Coach with Ben in 2021 Rory is now able to combine his passions for aviation and audio by working as a multimedia producer and as a helicopter pilot.
Combining his experience as a radio presenter with his passion for flying both helicopters and planes, Rory also runs a YouTube channel – Rory On Air – which has more than fifteen thousand subscribers.
Lizi
Executive Producer
Lizi has extensive experience as a producer and journalist having worked in network newsrooms across the BBC.
As a television producer on BBC Breakfast, Lizi worked with high profile presenters and guests. She briefed correspondents and presenters, identifying engaging stories and booking guests across a broad range of topics and produced her own original journalism. A keen eye for detail, she also worked with video editors and correspondents to ensure accuracy and quality.
After a time spent working as a newspaper journalist, she began her producing career at BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast where she honed her skills at reacting to breaking news and working to tight deadlines.
Given her knowledge of broadcast across both TV and radio, as well as working with high-profile clients and stakeholders, Lizi is well placed to find you the best guests and help you perfect your scripts, video, radio and podcast content.
Ben
Creative Content Director
Ben hosts the late show on Heart, a brand that has an audience of over 12 million listeners a week.
In 2025, Ben was handed the biggest show of his career to date with Heart, hosting the late show. You’ll regularly hear Ben presenting day time shows, covering drive co-hosting with Kelly Brook and across the Cote D’Azur on Riviera Radio too.
Ben always knew he wanted to be a radio presenter, so knocked on the door of his local radio station when he was just 16.
He hosted the Breakfast Show on Jack FM for just a year and was subsequently talent spotted by Global. He then went on to anchor the Heart Breakfast Show in Wiltshire for more than five years.
After honing his craft over 16 years he has gone on to mentor several up-and-coming presenters who have gone on to get roles at Sky Sports, ITV and Channel 5, as well as coaching podcasts such as The Back Pain Podcast, The Little Questions, Explain I.T, Feed My Curiosity and Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith.
Our Values
Our approach and values
We pride ourselves on producing content that meets the standards of the biggest broadcasters. We believe it’s really important that your podcast and supporting content reflects the same level of quality as the rest of your business. Getting things wrong can at best look amateur and uninspiring, at worst cause reputational damage. With our expert guidance and high-end production skills we’ll ensure your podcast meets the needs of your listeners and your enterprise from launch day.
Broadcast-Quality
We produce podcasts that meet the exacting standards of major broadcasters, ensuring your content commands attention and respect.
Experts End-to-End
From strategy to launch, we'll deploy our high-end production expertise to guide you through every step towards podcast excellence.
Brand Protection
Our meticulous approach safeguards your reputation by eliminating mistakes that could undermine your business credibility.
Audience Focused
We craft content that serves both your listeners' expectations and your organisation's goals from day one.
Testimonials
“Utter, utter genius chaps. You really are rather good at this producing malarkey."
"Collaborating with The Podcast Coach is a complete joy. They’re brilliant with recording and content advice and have all the intelligence and experience to produce a beautiful finished product, as well the clips to promote it – leaving us to have the fun of creating the moment ourselves."
"Quietly competent, efficient, creative and reassuring in all circumstances. I couldn't have done this without them and what a pleasure they have made it."
"I approached The Podcast Coach hoping to improve the sound quality, edit and image of my podcast. Within a very short time all aspects were much improved, and ratings started to soar! They were fantastic to work with. A solid and professional production company ready to give your podcast what it needs to become successful."
“Our podcast coaching with Ben and Rory was invaluable – a detailed appraisal of our first series, with tangible actions and tips which we will be putting into practice in our second series. Ben and Rory have buckets of experience and enthusiasm and it was great to get an external expert view on what we're doing right and the tweaks we can make to take Trapped History to the next level. Thanks to this session we're feeling very energised and positive about what the future holds – and I'm sure we'll be calling on Ben and Rory again in future.”
“Thank you for the hard work this year pulling stuff together. The release quality and direction for each and every episode has been awesome and that is thanks to you all.”
"I've loved working with The Podcast Coach over the past year. We've rebooted our podcast with their help. A big part of that was thematic in what we choose to focus on, and another big component was just the quality of production, the way in which we edit it and put it together. The Podcast Coach was really instrumental in making that happen, whether it was about helping us think through what the right themes and topics were, or whether it was about editing or just shadowing and being part of the episode recording, making sure that each episode was the best episode we could possibly do. Working with Ben and Rory really helped us up our game. I really appreciate the work they've done and if you are looking for support of this nature, I couldn't recommend anyone finer."
"If you're serious about podcasting then you need Ben, Rory and Lizi on your team."
Our Process
A process refined over decades working in both BBC and Global radio and television, we bring our expertise to your podcast. We pride ourselves on creativity, fun and high quality results.
