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From Zero to Launch: AI Edition · Your Mic

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  Welcome back to Your Mic.
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  My name is Freddy Cruz, founder of Speak Podcasting,
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  and I'm going to get really tactical with you today.
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  This episode is for somebody who has not
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  yet launched their podcast, and they have zero idea, no idea whatsoever about how to get from
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  zero to one.
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  And it starts with AI.
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  Oh yes, I'm going to go there.
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  AI purists will not approve
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  of this episode, but that's okay.
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  We don't need their opinion anyway.
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  What I want you to do is,
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  and pause after I give you this first step, okay?
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  You are going to, if you not have already,
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  download perplexity.ai to your smartphone, maybe even download it to your desktop,
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  get the app.
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  Use Comet as your web browser.
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  It's going to make your life so much more easier,
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  especially if you are a creative, if you're an entrepreneur, a business owner, if you're in any
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  sort of creative role within your day job.
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  Very intuitive, very user-friendly, but back to
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  launching your podcast and perplexity.ai.
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  What you're going to do is upload every single file
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  that has to do with what your podcast is about.
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  So we're going to use Your Mic, which is my podcast,
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  for new and aspiring podcast hosts.
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  So what I did to build my perplexity.ai space,
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  an individual thread dedicated to speak podcasting
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  and its educational arm, the podcast called Your Mic,
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  which you're listening to right now.
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  thank you for doing so.
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  Now, what you're going to do is upload every single file.
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  So what I did was
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  I uploaded every single piece of writing.
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  I've got LinkedIn blog posts that are archived into my
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  pages program on my Mac.
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  I've got books.
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  So I've taken all my fiction writing, which
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  not really related to the day-to-day operations of Speak Podcasting.
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  However,
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  it is my tone of writing, my quote-unquote writer's voice.
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  So every single thing having
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  to do with your career and what you want your podcast to be is what you're going to do.
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  You're going to upload to that perplexity space the way I did.
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  And then what you're going to do
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  is you are going to give this prompt.
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  Based on the attached files, please create
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  a show description, and a 12-episode roadmap for my podcast about whatever your podcast is about.
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  For me, it's about podcasting for new and aspiring podcast hosts.
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  And it's just that easy.
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  Now, we went over this in a previous episode, but it really just bears repeating.
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  you get a few episodes down the line you're wondering how exactly am I performing and so
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  what I want you to do is this I want you to download your transcripts I use Cast Magic for
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  speak podcasting clients you can use riverside.fm or whatever program you like to use download those
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  transcripts from your first episodes you're going to label them accordingly and then you are going
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  to ask perplexity.ai.
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  And I say perplexity, they don't pay me to say this.
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  I just really love the
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  program.
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  But you're going to ask your perplexity chatbot to grade your podcast on a scale of A to
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  F. And you're going to ask it to grade on the following parameters, value provided, time
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  management, brevity, in other words, getting to the point soon enough in your episode and not
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  bloviating about nothing for the first five minutes.
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  If it's an interview format,
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  letting the guests shine and not doing too much talking.
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  And then overall performance.
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  You type that in the chatbot, upload your transcripts, and then boom, you get your grade.
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  Now, what I don't like doing is having a grade below B+.
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  And yes, that's right.
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  your perplexity chatbot will not be a sycophant.
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  And I think that especially if you ask it to grade
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  on a scale of A to F, it'll be honest with you.
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  And listen, I've been doing interviews and shows
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  since 1995, very long time before podcasting was ever a thing when I was on the radio.
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  Okay, so I've got decades of this.
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  I've conducted more than a thousand interviews.
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  So I've got a little bit of experience, if you know what I mean, and I'm sure you do.
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  And even then, I have gotten grades on transcripts of C.
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  So it's not just something that is going to placate your ego.
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  And I think the key is just asking it to grade you on a scale of A to F as if it were a teacher.
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  And so those are some ways for you to not just start your show with a clear, concise plan, okay?
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  But you can also have it grade your early performance.
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  That way you are getting in and you're failing fast and failing often and then reiterating and then reiterating and then making better episodes.
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  and then just repeating the process, repeating that process.
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  But it all starts with asking your perplexity.ai chatbot to create that roadmap
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  and then asking it to grade your early episodes.
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  That way, you can stay in the game.
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  And if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me,
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  freddywithay at speakpodcasting.com.
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  If you got any value from this episode, please feel free to share with your colleagues, your friends who are thinking about starting a show of their own.
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  Thank you for listening.