AskPat.com.

Hey, what's up everybody?

This is Pat Flynn, and welcome to episode 18 of Ask Pat.

And this is where I answer your online business questions every single day.

And at the top of the show here, I want to mention my own podcasting tutorial, which you can

find at podcasting tutorial.com.

Completely free, no opt-ins required, just six high-quality videos that will walk you through

step-by-step, how to start your own podcast.

And I mentioned that because it has to do with today's question and answer, but also because

a lot of people

have been asking me since discovering the show, which was just released a couple weeks ago,

well, how do you start a podcast? How did you do what you do? Well, podcastingtotorial.com will help

you out. And today's question, which is about podcasting, is from Zach. And he asks about how I

prepare my episode. so let's get

into Zach's question right now hey pat how's it's going it's Zach from Zach Johnson.com

great podcasts love what you're doing you're changing people's lives every day my question for you

is how do you prepare for every podcast that you do what's's the steps that you take beforehand? Do you write

down the questions that you're going to ask? How much time do you take to learn about the person

you're interviewing? All that good stuff. Thanks. Great question, Zach. I do two different

kinds of shows actually for my podcasts. A solo show where it's just me talking and then an interview

show where I have a guest, sometimes multiple guests come on. So let me tackle both of those

for you because I approach both types of episodes in different ways. With a solo show where it's

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