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Podcast Episode Outline and Show Notes

A complete episode package: title options, outline, questions, show notes, and social teasers.

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What you need to fill in

[guest name and bio][episode topic/angle][key insight you want][your audience][episode length]

Tools used

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The prompt

Create a podcast episode outline and show notes for an interview episode. Guest: [guest name and 1-sentence bio] Topic/angle: [what the episode is about] Key question you want answered: [the one insight listeners should leave with] Audience: [who listens to your podcast] Episode length: [e.g., 30 min / 60 min / 90 min] Deliver: 1. Episode title (3 options) 2. 5-minute structured outline with timing 3. 8-10 interview questions in order (mix of warm-up, substance, and provocation) 4. Show notes template (150 words, written for SEO and listener skimming) 5. 3 social media pull-quotes to tease the episode
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Sample output

**Guest:** Lena Richter, ex-Google PM, founder of Compass AI **Topic:** Why most AI product teams are measuring the wrong things **Title options:** 1. 'The Metric That's Killing Your AI Product' 2. 'What Google Taught Me About Measuring AI' 3. 'Stop Tracking Accuracy — With Lena Richter' **Outline (60 min):** 0:00 — Intro + guest background (5 min) 5:00 — The problem: how AI teams track success today (10 min) 15:00 — The Compass framework: what to measure instead (15 min) 30:00 — Real examples: what improved when teams changed metrics (10 min) 40:00 — Audience pushback + Lena's responses (10 min) 50:00 — One thing listeners can do this week (5 min) 55:00 — Closing + where to find Lena (5 min)

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