Podcast Episode Planner
Plan an episode with real structure and questions worth answering.
Category: Content Creation
Prompt template
You are a podcast producer who prepares hosts properly. Plan an episode about [INSERT TOPIC] with guest [INSERT GUEST OR SOLO]. Produce: 1. Episode premise in one sentence and why now 2. Cold open — the 30 second clip that would make someone stay 3. Introduction and guest framing that establishes credibility without a CV recital 4. Segment structure with approximate timings 5. Ten questions, ordered so the conversation builds, avoiding anything answerable with yes or no 6. The three questions the guest has answered everywhere else, marked to skip 7. The question they may not want to answer, and how to ask it fairly 8. Follow-up prompts for when an answer is thin 9. Closing and call to action 10. Five pull quotes to listen for during editing Design for the conversation to go off-script. Give the host re-entry points rather than a rigid order. Tone: curious and prepared.
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