Intentionally small. Notoriously good.
Our work must strengthen and nurture connections to the natural world. That's the rule we placed on ourselves when we started our business.
It required trusting an idea rather than reacting out of fear. It was a choice we were willing to fail for. A decade plus later, we feel proud to have led and supported the storytelling campaigns for some of the biggest environmental struggles of our generation. We’ve become emotionally and creatively wealthy humans who happen to be pretty damn good at negotiating the economics of creativity.
We’ve remained small so we can maintain our focus. A handful of people just like you, who value meaningful effort and creative collaboration rather than checking boxes. Always striving to be kind and unapologetically (mostly) authentic. Grateful for the work.
We look forward to chatting.
Our Core Team
Fitz Cahall
Co-founder and Creative Director at Duct Tape Then Beer, Fitz started his career as a true dirtbag writer / naked subsistence hunter. He has an appreciation for fine (and not-that-fine) beers, behavioral economics, and helping others realize their creativity.
Overly serious photo credit: Darren Aronofsky
Becca Cahall
Co-founder and CEO of Duct Tape Then Beer, Becca is queen of clarity, master of management, and champion of story. She is an amazing systems thinker and will lay the hurt down on a skin track, the single track or simply planning a project track.
Leici Hendrix
Leici (lee-see) makes her home in the land of red rock and sin, Las Vegas. During her seven years as Development Director for the Access Fund, she honed her skills growing symbiotic relationships. Always on the sharp end, Leici is a total rock crusher and works with us to build long standing partnerships to tell value driven stories and drive growth.
Lauren DeLaunay Miller
After spending years on YOSAR, Lauren’s fully embracing writing about climbing and the environment. She even wrote a book! Lauren loves hand jams, gardening, and she likely owns the longest Nose In A Day record (23h59m). Since she’s entirely solar powered, California will be her forever home.
Ashlee Langholz
Always positive, always direct, always smiling, Ashlee is a human antenna that receives and processes seemingly disparate (and important) information that is necessary for any creative project. She manages The Dirtbag Diaries, loves moving in the mountains, feeling the rhythm of rivers, good conversations, morning dance parties, and losing cell phone reception.
Andrew Burton
Andrew is much more jovial than this head shot suggests! He is both young and accomplished. Damn him! A Pulitzer Prize Finalist. An internationally award-winning photographer. Director of Newtok. Previously worked for Getty and The New York Times. It’s no surprise that Andrew masters whatever he needs to in order to tell a compelling story.
Collaborators
Jacob Bain
The man is an island. Wait, the man lives on an island. A Vashon Island dweller, Jacob makes musical magic there and all around the world. Jacob created the theme music for The Dirtbag Diaries and edits film and audio.
Walker Cahall
An illustrator and designer, Walker loves creating images focused on climate change and the environment. He’s created most of the artwork for The Dirtbag Diaries feature episodes and was our first intern. Walker enjoys woodworking and walking his rascally pup Pearl through the streets of Portland.
Mario Quintana
Mario is a total editing and motion graphics wizard. He eats hard projects (like heavy 360 VR edits) for breakfast, and does it with a chill smile. A true storytelling editor, he makes everything he touches RAD. (RAD is also his favorite movie. Fact.)
Elizabeth Nakano
Known for dishing out sharp retorts and withering looks, Elizabeth breathes podcasting. She has produced for Renegades: Born in the USA, 99% Invisible, and the Murrow award-winning podcast Two Years, Diaries of a Divided Nation. On weekends, she’ll be piloting her paraglider or biking down a canyon trail.