The fashion podcast The Cutting Room Floor has entered a multiyear partnership with Patreon.
The popular podcast, hosted and executive produced by the designer Recho Omondi, is in the top 1% of Patreon’s podcasts. The deal marks the podcast’s transformation into an independent media company. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“We share a vision of investing in the next generation of creative voices, and this partnership is about building that future together,” said Betsy McCormick, Patreon’s VP of creator success, in a statement.
Patreon has signed on to support the show in a three-year commitment through joint marketing and aiding Omondi’s production and team infrastructure.
From podcast to independent media company
Omondi launched The Cutting Room Floor across streaming platforms in 2018 and joined Patreon exclusively in 2021.
Episodes feature her interviewing fashion industry professionals, designers, models, stylists, journalists, and others, discussing fashion’s position in contemporary culture and going behind the scenes of the fashion world.
Guests have included Law Roach, JT, Yasiin Bey, Steve Madden, Cynthia Erivo, and Karla Welch.
“Our ethos has always been to make fashion and culture content that is intelligent, educational and entertaining, and our audience responded to that—alongside programming that offers real utility, with conversations they can return to,” Omondi said in a statement.
Plans under the deal include bringing new content to viewers that will go beyond the show’s long-form interviews, such as introducing events that allow people to connect with Omondi off-screen and collaborations with other key creators on Patreon.
’55K-Gate‘
Through the partnership, Omondi has the opportunity to grow her team and operations; several new positions will be available soon.
When it came to hiring last year, Omondi ran into controversy. In August 2025, she posted a job listing offering $55,000 annually pretax for a full-time position.
She received backlash on social media for what some viewed as a low wage for an employee living in New York City who would be fulfilling multiple roles while working from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily.
Some defended Omondi, explaining that her offering resembled that of other entry-level positions in the fashion industry and wasn’t unheard of.
Omondi went live on TikTok, pushing back against critics and revealing that she was paid $30,000 out of school.
While she recognized that she was not offering a glamorous wage, she noted that she was looking for “the kind of person who wants to come to New York and hustle in the early years of their career.”
This response met continued resistance, ushered along by online disapproval for a podcast episode with Gwyneth Paltrow that was viewed as out of touch.
Omondi later apologized via a voice note to her Patreon paid subscribers. In her message, she said she was freezing the hiring process for the position and would revisit it more carefully in the future.
In the show’s partnership with Patreon, the platform will focus on building infrastructure and supporting staff expansion.
Positions to join The Cutting Room Floor team will be posted in the coming months. Salaries can’t currently be shared, a spokesperson said.
Partnerships like the one between The Cutting Room Floor and Patreon are becoming more common as podcast-hosting platforms look to secure exclusive deals with their most popular shows.
In April, Amazon secured exclusive rights to The Oprah Podcast, signing a multiyear deal with Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Entertainment. More recently, in a joint exclusive partnership, Spotify and Netflix acquired video rights to Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast in a deal reportedly worth about $100 million.