Podcast Episode Architecture
Structures an episode around the listener's attention rather than a topic list, with the cold open, the segments and the questions that produce stories.
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Running it, start to finish
- Define the takeaway and the guest angle before writing questions.
- Record with the must-ask list visible.
- Choose the cold open from the recording, not the plan.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Plans the cold open as a post-production decision, which is the highest-leverage edit in podcasting.
- Orders segments for narrative rather than logic, keeping strong material where listeners still are.
- Writes interview questions that get past the answer a guest has already given elsewhere.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Do not ask questions in order. The structure is for you, not the guest. Following it rigidly produces an interview that sounds like a form being completed.
- Mark the must-ask questions. and check them off. Good conversations drift, and the two questions the episode needed are the ones that get lost.
- Note timestamps while recording. for the section 8 clips. Finding them afterwards costs far more than jotting a number as it happens.
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