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You're listening to Podcasting Made Simple.

Let's talk about how you can use AI to prepare for your next podcast interview.

Look, AI can help you show up as a sharper, more relevant, more confident podcast guest

by doing all of the heavy lifting before you hit record, but only if you treat it like a

collaborator and not a crutch. If you're worried about the host asking you a question and your

mind going blank, even though you know the answer cold or worse, you're an old pro and you're

worried about repeating the same old stories and talk tracks you've told in the last five

interviews and your audience won't care about the podcast because they've heard absolutely everything

before. Those are moments of misconnections and it's just awkward. It's costly. It erodes trust

and it wastes the opportunity to leave a lasting impression and it makes it hard for you to promote

your own interview.

So before you do anything else, I want to talk to you about how AI can help you become

more relevant and more prepared, not by scripting you, but by preparing you.

I'm Mike Monagieu, founder of Avenue 9, host of the Human First AI Marketing Podcast,

where I started this year because I've been a podcaster for over a decade with hundreds

of episodes and millions of downloads under my belt.

But AI changed the podcasting game for me two years ago, and I had to jump in on this.

I hope you will too after hearing this because we're going to talk about how you can

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