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Ravi's Thursday, two ways

8 lessons · 26 prompts

A day in the life of a Podcaster: what changes with these prompts.

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Ravi, host and producer of a small interview podcast about city life.

Ravi records on Fridays, so Thursday is the day everything else has to happen. He starts with a blank page and a list of half ideas for next season, a series about night markets. In ChatGPT he runs the Plan Episode Topics prompt and asks for ten angles, then narrows it to three he actually likes.

His guest this week is a food historian who studies street food. He uses the Research Episode Content prompt for a short brief and three questions that go past the usual ones. The brief takes ten minutes instead of an hour of tab hopping.

After the edit, he drops the transcript into Claude with the Write Show Notes & Descriptions prompt. Out come show notes, a title that sounds like him, and chapter markers he can paste into his host. Then he asks Gemini for three social posts and a newsletter blurb using the Promote Episodes On Social Media prompt, and rewrites the first line of each so they do not read like ads.

By four o'clock the episode is ready to publish. Ravi uses the hour he saved to walk to the school gate and pick up his daughter, and he still has time to sketch the trailer for the night market series.

Before

  • Thursday starts with a blank page
  • Guest research eats the whole afternoon
  • Show notes get written at midnight
  • Promotion is the part that slips

After this course

  • Three episode angles before coffee
  • Guest brief done in ten minutes
  • Show notes finished while the kettle boils
  • Posts scheduled, school run made

What you'll learn

  • Plan episode topics: Brainstorm fresh episode ideas, shape your structure, and build interview questions that go somewhere.
  • Research episode content: Pull together a topic brief, prepare a guest sheet, and explain tricky subjects in plain words for your listeners.
  • Prepare guest outreach: Write invitations, collect what you need before recording, and tailor your questions to each guest.
  • Write show notes: Turn a transcript into show notes, episode titles, descriptions and chapter markers.
  • Promote each episode: Create social posts, a newsletter blurb and YouTube details that match the episode.
  • Script audio segments: Draft intros, outros, sponsor reads and trailers in your own speaking style.
  • Grow your audience: Write listener surveys, reply to feedback, and plan small experiments to reach new ears.
  • Manage sponsorships: Pitch sponsors, build a media kit, and set rates and packages you can stand behind.

How this course works

  1. 8 lessonsOne task of your job each, from plan episode topics to monetize & manage sponsorships.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.