Cimcie Nichols

Everything is energy.

I work at the intersection of beverage, sound, and live experience – CPG consultant, certified sound practitioner, experience producer, and founder of Hatchet Granny.

Twenty years building brands from concept to shelf – including my own. Just as comfortable behind a microphone, in a sound bath, or on a stage. Raised in Steely Dan lore, I’ve always believed the best experiences are equal parts precision, emotion, and a little bit of magic.

Cimcie Nichols
CPG Consultant Certified Sound Practitioner SAG-AFTRA Performer Founder, Hatchet Granny Roger Nichols Archive Steward Globe Sound Institute 186-hr Certified Reiki I & II Herbalist

Four worlds.
One frequency.

01 / Beverage Consulting

Brand from identity.
Product from vision.

For founders, artists, and culture-driven brands building beverages that need to feel as strong as they taste.

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02 / Sound Therapy

Sound as restoration,
ritual, and repair.

Sound baths, vibroacoustic therapy, tuning forks, and custom sonic experiences rooted in science, story, and emotional truth.

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03 / Experiences

I build worlds.
You walk into them.

Immersive events, activations, and experiential production. Pop-up elixir bars, existential hauntings, themed bashes, and sensory worlds built to be felt.

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04 / Roger Nichols Archive

Music history.
Studio culture. Legacy.

A living archive preserving and expanding the work, photographs, recordings, stories, and influence of 8-time Grammy-winning engineer Roger Nichols.

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I’ve never had a
straight-line career.
Good.

The interesting ones don’t.

I started in CPG two decades ago — vitamins, wellness, beauty, beverage — selling, sampling, launching, and learning what actually moves product in the real world. Along the way: USC, SAG-AFTRA, Reiki, herbalism, sound therapy, experimental theatre, horror, nightlife.

None of it was random. It all taught me the same thing: people remember how you make them feel.

After losing my father, Roger Nichols, I went deeper into sound — 186 hours of certification, a first-of-its-kind sound bath at NAMM, and Hatchet Granny. Now I help brands, artists, and cultural projects build things people actually feel.

Hatchet Granny Soda

The receipts.

CPG

20+ Years CPG Sales & MarketingVitamin, wellness, beauty, and beverage brands — from field sales and product education to retail launches, merchandising, sampling, demos, and consumer engagement.

Founder

Founder, Hatchet GrannyA gothic botanical zero-proof beverage brand with retail placement, distribution, pop-up elixir bars, event activations, affiliate strategy, and a growing identity-driven world.

Sound

First Sound Bath at NAMMProduced and performed what may have been the first sound bath at NAMM, bringing sound therapy, psychoacoustics, and nervous system restoration into one of the world’s largest music industry gatherings.

Certified

186-Hour Sound Therapy CertificationCertified through Globe Sound Institute in sound healing, vibrational practice, frequency-based modalities, and somatic sound work.

Energy

Reiki I & II CertifiedEnergy work, nervous system support, ritual, and intuitive practice.

Botanical

Herbal Academy TrainingBotanical education with a focus on plant medicine, functional ingredients, and formulation.

Performer

SAG-AFTRA MemberPerformer, host, actor, and storyteller with experience in film, television, theatre, live events, and immersive performance.

Archive

Roger Nichols Archive StewardDaughter of 8-time Grammy-winning engineer Roger Nichols, preserving and expanding a major archive connected to Steely Dan, Aja, Gaucho, studio culture, recording history, and the golden age of analog music-making — including the discovery and delivery of “The Second Arrangement,” the legendary lost Steely Dan track. Featured in The Guardian.

GRAMMY Museum

Co-Moderator, “Reelin’ in the Early Years of Steely Dan”Co-moderated the sold-out GRAMMY Museum program (June 2026) exploring Steely Dan’s foundational years through Roger’s never-before-seen photographs — alongside Expanding Dan’s Jake Malooley, with panelists Denny Dias, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, Dean Parks, Royce Jones, Steve Barri, and Bruce Robb.

Lineage

Music Family LineageRaised in a family shaped by music, performance, production, and storytelling — with a singer-songwriter mother, a Grammy-winning engineer father, and a sister producing at the highest levels of media and science storytelling.

Hatchet
Granny

Hatchet Granny is a gothic botanical beverage brand for beautiful disasters.

Built from grief, sobriety, plant medicine, humor, and a refusal to let non-alcoholic culture become beige, Hatchet Granny creates drinks and experiences with actual personality.

The brand began as an elixir bar concept and grew into a product line, pop-up experience, retail brand, and identity-driven world — with retail accounts, distribution, events, and a loyal community of people who want more than a “replacement” drink.

Hatchet Granny is not about subtraction.

It’s about addition: more ritual, more flavor, more pleasure, more life.

Hatchet Granny
Roger Nichols Family

Roger Nichols
Archive

The Roger Nichols Archive is more than a photo collection.

It is a living cultural project preserving the work, images, stories, recordings, and technical legacy of one of modern music’s most important recording engineers.

The archive includes hundreds of photographs, personal materials, historic studio documentation, and rare artifacts connected to Steely Dan, John Denver, and the golden age of record-making.

The project has already expanded into a published book, museum exhibition work, documentary development, GRAMMY Museum programming, and licensed appearances in music documentaries.

In June 2026, the GRAMMY Museum hosted the sold-out Reelin’ in the Early Years of Steely Dan — an evening of Roger’s never-before-seen photographs, music, and conversation that I co-moderated alongside Jake Malooley of Expanding Dan. Event details · Limited edition prints from the program are for sale here.

The archive’s most public moment came when “The Second Arrangement” — a beautifully restored recording of the legendary lost Steely Dan track — was discovered and delivered. Featured in The Guardian.

This is not nostalgia. This is the preservation of sound history.

Intention is the thing.
Everything else is infrastructure.

Let’s build
something real.

Whether you’re creating a beverage brand, booking a sound experience, exploring the Roger Nichols Archive, or trying to turn a wild idea into something tangible — I’d love to hear from you.

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