A podcast production company
& network

 

Zibby Audio is a podcast production company and network launched by podcaster, author and publisher Zibby Owens. Featuring original, intimate shows by authors and artists designed to enrich, inspire, and improve listeners’ lives — all smart and with a sense of humor — Zibby Audio productions will entertain and educate, making them worth listeners’ limited time.

 tHE PODCASTS

Zibby Audio provides guidance, logo design and branding, sound editing and production services to several new shows each year with a shared revenue split from ad sales. We are not currently accepting new show pitches.

Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books with Zibby Owens

Zibby’s original hit literary podcast and on the Apple Arts charts since it launched in 2018, Moms Don’t Have Time To Read Books has been downloaded millions of times and has won dozens of industry awards, including the Webby Award and Lovie Award.

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SexTok with Tracey and Kelsey

Launched in 2021, SexTok (previously “with Zibby and Tracey,” now '“with Tracey and Kelsey”) is regularly on the top Apple charts in Sexuality. The winner of many awards, it has even spurred a viral TikTok craze. SexTok is co-hosted by international sex expert and author of 17 books, British denizen Tracey Cox, and former standup comic Kelsey Chittick. Submit your anonymous questions for us to answer here.

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Ask a Librarian with Julie Chavez

Julie Chavez, a school librarian, is the author of the upcoming memoir The Anxiety Library about how she overcame depression and anxiety once she finally stopped putting everyone else first but herself. Her podcast, Ask a Librarian, will feature librarians, library-loving authors, and other library-adjacent icons in conversation with Julie.

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Quit Your Day Job with Alisha Fernandez Miranda

A CEO and mother of twins, Alisha Fernandez Miranda decided at age 40 to embark on a series of internships so she could finally stop wondering about the careers that might have been. Her show, Quit Your Day Job, will include conversations with notables who have shifted gears in their work-life — mid-life.

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Moms Don't Have Time to Grieve with Kelsey Chittick

When it comes to grief, individual loss is unique, yet so much of grief is universal. How do we lean into the pain, and then let it go? How do we reconnect with our loved ones and find them in new ways? What does death and losing someone ultimately teach us about life? Join Kelsey Chittick — writer, comedian, and widow of NFL Super Bowl Champion, Nate Hobgood-Chittick — as she explores grief and its gifts.

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Characters on the Couch with Adam Stern and Jordana Horn

Join Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Adam Stern and journalist/pop-culture enthusiast Jordana Horn as they discuss the interior lives of YOUR favorite fictional TV icons. From the classics to binge-worthy shows that everyone’s talking about right now, get ready to dive into the pathologies that earned these characters a spot in the cultural zeitgeist.

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Moms Don't Have Time to Move and Shake

Zibby Owens, the host of award-winning literary podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, brings you a conversational talk show, woman-to-woman, designed to help you feel better in your body.

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Confessions of a Working Actor

Real talk about acting, celebrities, movie sets, and TV vets. It’s positive, it’s funny, its stories you’ve never heard before. David Alan Basche and Christopher Rydell discuss being working actors, highlight positive experiences with other actors, directors, and even (gasp!) producers. David and Chris interview different guests each week to gain their perspective, insight, advice, and best stories about the industry.

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MEET THE HOSTS

Podcast host Zibby Owens

Zibby Owens

  • Zibby Owens is an author, podcaster, publisher, CEO, and mother of four. Zibby founded Zibby Owens Media, a privately-held media company designed to help busy people live their best lives by connecting to books and each other. One division is Moms Don’t Have Time To, the home for Zibby’s podcasts, publications, and communities. The other is Zibby Books, a publishing home for fiction and memoir which she co-founded with Leigh Newman. Her award-winning podcast, Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, has been downloaded millions of times.

Tracey Cox hosts the SexTok podcast

Tracey Cox

  • Tracey Cox is one of the world’s foremost writers on sex and relationships and has been writing, researching and talking about sex for thirty years. She’s the author of 17 books and has toured the world as an international sex, body language and relationship expert. Tracey has an academic background in psychology and her own range of products with Lovehoney. She has a step-daughter who has ceased to be embarrassed by anything she does.

Podcast host and author Julie Chavez

Julie Chavez

  • Julie is a curious elementary librarian and a graduate of the University of Colorado with a degree in Spanish Language & Literature. She has written for Moms Don’t Have Time to Write, and Real Women Write: Living on COVID Time. Her forthcoming memoir, THE ANXIETY LIBRARY, will be published by Zibby Books in 2023. She currently lives in California with her husband and two tall teenage sons.

Podcast host Alisha Fernandez Miranda

Alisha Fernandez Miranda

  • Alisha is a Miami-born, Scotland-based writer, entrepreneur and ex-CEO. Her memoir detailing her year of internships at the dream jobs of her childhood will be released by Zibby Books in 2023. She’s the author of the upcoming cookbook 50 Years: Kinloch Lodge and her other writing has been featured in publications including Romper, The Good Trade and Insider. Alisha is mom to a set of rambunctious 10-year-old twins, a lover of travel, coffee and Gilmore Girls and a graduate of Harvard University and the London School of Economics.

 
Kelsey Chittick

Kelsey Chittick

  • Kelsey Chittick is a writer, comedian and inspirational speaker. Over the past 14 years, she has performed stand-up comedy all over Los Angeles and speaks at events around the country. She is the author of the best selling book “Second Half - Surviving Loss and Finding Magic in the Missing”, a story of turning her husband’s sudden death into an affirmation of life as well as the power of love and the pursuit of peace and gratitude.

    She is the co-creator of KeepON, an inspiring and humorous podcast that explores how our greatest obstacles turn out to be our greatest gifts.

    Growing up in Florida, Kelsey was an accomplished student and athlete—an NCAA Championship individual qualifier and captain of the UNC women’s swimming team. She was married to Super Bowl champion Nate Hobgood-Chittick.

 
Adam Stern

Adam Stern

  • Adam Stern, MD is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a writer with pieces appearing in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The American Journal of Psychiatry among many other outlets. His book, Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training, was released in 2021 and was featured in People. He enjoys spending time with his family and bingeing shows with fascinating, complex characters.

 
Jordana Horn

Jordana Horn

  • Jordana Horn is a freelance journalist whose pieces have appeared in various outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine. She’s also worked as a lawyer in New York and London, and was the New York bureau chief of The Jerusalem Post. She was the host and head writer of the podcast Call Your Mother. She is the mother of six kids aged 6-18, and has been called a “parenting expert” by both NBC’s Today Show and Fox and Friends, if not her own children. She is thrilled to live in the golden era of television.

 

David Allen Basche

  • David spent 5 seasons playing the lead role of the hilariously neurotic Dr. Stuart Gardner on "The Exes.” You’ve also seen him in “Lipstick Jungle," “The Starter Wife," “NCIS: New Orleans," “Elementary,” "Person of Interest," “Blue Bloods,” “Chicago PD,” “Blindspot,” “Blacklist,” “Bluff City Law” and many, many more.

    He’s also a classically trained theatre actor, and counts among his many plays “Snakebit” with Naked Angels, and the two-hander NYC hit “Visiting Mr. Green,” which he performed for almost two years with legendary actor Eli Wallach.

    You can now see David in the feature film “EGG” (Gravitas Ventures distribution, on iTunes and Amazon and more) a comedy he produced and stars in with Christina Hendricks and Anna Camp and also his wife, actress Alysia Reiner. Despite this, they somehow stayed married.

    As a Director, David has apprenticed acclaimed TV directors on shows like "Grace & Frankie,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Instinct,” "Scream Queens" and "Scorpion.” He directed (and wrote!) wildly varying content for TV Land while starring on their hit sitcom "The Exes," including “The Exes Freaky Friday Halloween Episode,” the rap video “On My Sitcom,” and the interview series “Guest Stars in Golf Carts Getting Nothing.”

    He was 2nd Unit Director on the film “Egg” starring Christina Hendricks and Anna Camp (2018 Tribeca Film Festival Spotlight Film), as well as serving as one of the film’s main producers. He was also a hands-on Producer of the Wall Street thriller feature film "EQUITY” with Anna Gunn, Carrie Preston and James Purefoy, which was bought by Sony Pictures Classics at Sundance.

 

POWERED BY ACAST

Acast will distribute Zibby Audio podcasts widely across the open podcast eco-system, allowing audiences to listen to the series on all platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, and everywhere else podcasts can be found. Acast will also manage monetization of the podcasts, giving brands access to Zibby Audio’s audience through ads, sponsorships, and sophisticated brand integrations.

The fact that Zibby’s programming has resonated with so many people shows just how important the podcast medium is for literary discussion and storytelling. Through Zcast, Zibby has found a way to bring a loudspeaker to the neighborhood book club. We love having Zibby as a partner and can’t wait to bring the network to podcast audiences everywhere.”

Sara Sopher, Associate Partner Manager at Acast.

CONTACT US

General contact: info@zibbyowens.com

(Note: we are not currently accepting new show pitches.)