I was invited on a podcast with three days notice. The old me would have panicked. Instead: one evening, three parallel AI tasks. A research dossier on the host and their audience. A list of the questions they most likely ask, mined from past episodes. And a story bank — my own anecdotes, matched to the likely questions.
The interview felt like a conversation with a friend who happened to have read my notes.
The takeaway: Run the dossier, the likely questions, and your story bank as three parallel tasks — prep collapses to one evening.