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The Prompt That Will Level Up Your Podcast · Your Mic

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  Do not even think about recording another episode until you have sought this kind of specific feedback.
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  Welcome back to your mic. My name is Freddie Cruz, founder of Speak Podcasting.
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  And if you want to chat pods, please hit me up, Freddie, with a Y at SpeakPodcasting.com.
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  And now back to this feedback. It is a very specific feedback. Hopefully you've got some time
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  between the now and the time you've got to record your next batch of episodes because you are
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  batching your episodes, right? Okay. What I like to do for all of my podcast episodes, and I do
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  this for clients that ask me to as well, is I like to have my favorite AI chatbot, grade my transcripts.
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  I use perplexity.ai. I've got some pod pals who use chatGPT and Claude. So whatever you like to
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  use, use it. I really love perplexity because my chatbot likes to keep it real. So this is the
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  specific prompt that I like to feed into my chatbot. Copy and paste it into a document that
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  way you don't forget anything. You can have it batch grade for episodes at a time, or if you want
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  to do it weekly, if you have a weekly show, you can have it grade you by the week. However you want
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  to do it, your life, your call, your show. This is what I like to do. I like to have a batch grade
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  for at a time. So this is the prompt. Please grade the attached transcripts on a scale of A to F
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  on the following criteria. Relevance to your Mike's audience of aspiring and new podcasters,
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  preparedness, flow, rapport, that's if there's a guest, letting the guest shine again, if there's a
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  guest, value for the audience and time management. Your Mike is speak podcasting's educational arm
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  where I as the founder do solo rants, but as you'll see in the transcripts, I like to welcome
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  industry peers to the show to share their wisdom. The goal is to have people hear different POVs.
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  Different takes on some of the stuff I may have covered in previous episodes. It's about building
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  a world for hosts to thrive in. And that is the prompt. And the key is to have it grade you
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  on a scale of A to F because you can ask for its feedback based on the criteria that I just
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  share with you. But how you get specific feedback is that grade. Okay. So we're going to use an
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  episode with pop star and a storm. And you'll have to go back a couple of weeks and listen to that
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  interview. I had a lot of fun with her because she's not a podcast host. She's a creator.
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  But because she's not a podcast host and because she's a creator, she brought enormous value to
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  the table from with a different perspective. She's a pop star with like six figures worth of
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  followers across the social media platforms. So with this transcript relevance to the audience A
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  extremely relevant for aspiring and new podcasters. Anna shares clear distinctions between
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  radio and podcasting. The evolution of tools. The democratization of the medium
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  in actionable insights for sustaining a show all closely aligned with the needs of your
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  Mike's target audience. Preparedness A minus you as the host display a solid grasp of the guests
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  background and ask tailored open-ended questions that draw out substantive substantive. I can't talk
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  substantive responses. The questions reveal awareness of industry shifts and probe areas relevant
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  to new hosts like content strategy discipline and audience engagement. Flow B+. The conversation is
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  generally well structured with clear lead ins and handoffs. There is a natural back and forth
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  in an overarching thematic coherence like change in media podcasting as identity driven work. Though
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  there are slight interruptions and sections with overlapping speaking or digressions like technical
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  issues inside jokes that could be tightened for stronger pacing. You see what I mean now I won't
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  go through the entire grade and you know the explanation but I love that it did not give me an A
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  so there you have it. Ask for very specific very specific feedback and it's very easy because
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  you can do it by asking on a scale of A to F you know maybe I should try one day is asking it to
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  grade me instead of eight on a scale of A to F on a scale of 0 to 100 now I will tell you this
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  and I think this is because I have 26 years of broadcast experience and I've been doing podcasting
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  since I left radio in 2021 and I was podcasting for a couple of years in radio so what was that
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  leaving me with I don't know maybe math I'm not very good at math and but anyways I've hosted
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  well over a thousand interviews I'd like to say I've got some experience whether it's good
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  experience or bad experience I don't know that's up to you to decide but for the most part my guest
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  interviews generally range from A to A minus and there's certain criteria that will fall below A
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  like the B plus that I read you I will what I will not do is move forward with any sort of
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  solo rant or a blog post or a LinkedIn post or whatever if the grade is below a B and I have gotten
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  grades below a B I've gotten B minus and I've gotten an occasional C and I don't like average
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  I already feel like I'm average enough at a lot of things and so that's one area where that's
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  a hard line for me now if you think you find this kind of feedback useful for your show or heck
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  even for your creative writing check out the exact prompt I'm going to copy and paste it in the
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  show notes so that you can implement it for for you and if you'd like to hash out some ideas
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  and maybe maybe your chatbot gave you a grade that's lower than a B plus and you don't like it
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  let's chat ready where the why it speak podcasting.com thanks for listening