MyShowrunner: A Personalized GPT for Podcast Preproduction

If you’ve ever hosted a podcast, you know the real struggle is hidden behind the scenes: the hours spent prepping for each episode. From researching guests to crafting tailored questions, producing an engaging podcast takes serious time. But what if I told you that your podcast prep could shrink from hours to mere minutes? Yep—AI just made it happen.

Introducing “My Showrunner”: The AI Assistant Every Podcaster Needs

Together with Susan Diaz, I’ve launched something I’m genuinely excited about: My Showrunner, a custom GPT designed specifically for podcast creators. It automates the tedious prep tasks that bog us down and frees up your time for what’s important—actually hosting an incredible show.

How “My Showrunner” Works (And Why You’ll Love It)

Think of My Showrunner as your AI producer who takes care of the groundwork for guest interviews. Here’s what it can handle:

• Analyzing your guest’s LinkedIn profile
• Suggesting relevant and engaging episode topics
• Generating compelling episode titles and outlines
• Crafting personalized interview questions
• Writing a polished email to send your guest

In short, what once took 1-2 hours now takes less than 5 minutes.

Why Custom GPTs Are Game-Changers

Custom GPTs aren’t just a flashy new AI tool; they’re genuinely transformative. Instead of repeatedly instructing AI from scratch, you pre-program it once, and it proactively guides you through the entire workflow.

My Showrunner isn’t generic—it’s personalized to your show’s unique tone, premise, and host personality. It’s like having a producer who truly understands your vision, minus the salary negotiation.

Build Your Own AI Producer—It’s Easier Than You Think

Creating your own custom GPT might sound intimidating, but I promise it’s as easy as copy-and-pasting into a few fields. Susan and I have even prepared a step-by-step guide for you:

• Head to myshowrunner.com and sign up (it’s free).
• Follow our simple guide to set up your personalized GPT.
• Start saving hours each episode.

What’s Next for “My Showrunner”?

AI in podcasting is evolving quickly, and we’re committed to updating “My Showrunner” regularly. Here’s what’s on our radar:

• Automated episode thumbnails
• A custom GPT for refining your show’s core premise
• Enhanced guest follow-up workflows to build stronger business relationships

By subscribing now, you’ll automatically receive these updates, along with extra bonuses from Susan and me, like my GPT for naming podcasts (which I’ve used successfully dozens of times).

Podcasting Just Got More Fun (and Way Easier)

Honestly, podcasting shouldn’t be a chore. It should be a streamlined, creative, and enjoyable experience. “My Showrunner” is here to make that vision a reality, letting you focus on the good stuff: powerful conversations, storytelling, and relationship-building.

Ready to try it? Head over to myshowrunner.com and start automating today. Your future self—and your future listeners—will thank you.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can AI help podcast production?

AI can help with prep, transcripts, show notes, summaries, clips, blog posts, newsletters, social posts, and follow-up workflows.

What should stay human in an AI podcast workflow?

The host should own the point of view, guest relationship, questions, strategy, editorial judgment, and final approval.

Can AI repurpose podcast content?

Yes. AI is especially useful for turning one episode into multiple assets for YouTube, blogs, LinkedIn, email, and short-form social channels.

How do you keep AI podcast content authentic?

Start with original recordings and real expertise, then use AI to adapt and distribute the source material instead of inventing the core message.

Who benefits from AI podcast workflows?

Consultants, creators, founders, coaches, agencies, and small teams benefit because AI helps them publish more consistently without a large production staff.

In this episode of AI Microskills, host Dan Sanchez is joined by Susan Diaz for an exciting update. They delve into the creation of MyShowrunner, a groundbreaking tool designed to automate and streamline podcast preproduction. The tool uses custom GPT to analyze guest profiles, generate interview questions, and even draft emails for guests. Not only does this save hours of manual work, but it also promises to revolutionize the podcasting process. Together, Dan and Susan explore the potential for further automation in podcasting, emphasizing the value of AI in enhancing the quality and accessibility of content creation. Join them as they provide an inside look at the development and future prospects of this innovative podcasting tool.

Timestamps:

00:00 Dan, thanks for the high-energy podcast automation.

05:27 Use Susan's guide for custom GPT. Access at myshowrunner.com.

08:36 Podcast production changing with new tools and features.

11:57 Lowering barrier to entry, improving podcast quality.

13:48 Grateful for quick, awesome work. Thank you.

welcome back to AI microskills I'm here with Susan Diaz for around 2:00 because we got so excited about some of the things she dropped in her last episode it's literally the last episode on this podcast before Christmas break that I got busy I started executing on her advice and actually built some stuff and then we started collaborating on building an automating a lot of like the pre-production for a podcast with what we call or what calls a custom GT and I'm excited to tell you about it and I had to have her back on the show in order to like I don't know launch a release this this cool thing that we made for everybody listening to the show so Susan welcome back and can you tell us a little bit about

add to my showrunner thanks Dan thanks for having me back this is the high energy come up with an idea and then have it launched and like under two weeks where one of those two weeks was a holiday so my showrunner this has been stuff that I think we in the podcast will have sort of wistfully hoped could be automated for a really long time right you're like oh I wish somebody could take this off my plate or I wish we could be easier and well now it is and what this particular piece is aiming to do is reduce the time that you're spending on preparing for interviews in a guest style interview

the latter which is what makes me really exciting conversation so you would feed it in an input in terms of a LinkedIn profile ask for it to assess who this person is and what some topics might be and then it goes through layers including giving you titles giving you questions giving you Hooks and angles and yeah it's pretty mind-blowing even for someone who does podcasting for a living this is my mind blowing I remember you telling me about it and the the steps you were taking man

I remember thinking about it I'm like oh my gosh that's genius and at the time I already been playing around with custom making custom gpt's and I'm like oh my gosh you haven't made this into a custom GPT yet so like that next day I went and made it and then fiddled with it to get it right because you can't just your first pass through building a custom GPT is almost always wrong so you have to go in and then customize it and try it and try it and try it and burn through the amount of free attempts you get with gpd's in the day that's when I discovered there's a limit to how many times you can prompt GPT when you're testing out these things you run into those limits more often so I burned through those tested it and I think perfected and Susan got in there and gave some more feedback to get it back to what

is cutting down 1 to 2 hours worth of work into 5 to 2 to 5 minutes it's so amazing how much time we spend doing manual things like okay let's read this person's profile okay let's do a Google search for them we're all said they spoken what have they written look at their company website read about it from some opinions chat TV can do that all for you all of us can actually understand your show you know as you give it a little bit about your show your premise who the host is and identify what's the overlap between what your show talks about and what this person is good at what what this person's expertise is on it can do that analysis and do it well provide angles for your show write the title was right the oldest the show notes for your not the show notes the episode outline intro

step by step but now that we've built a custom GPT it essentially prompts you and it has you walk through the process as if it's a show producer producing your show and I just can't wait to start saving time with that I wish I would have had this like 300 episodes ago in my career but it's good that it's here now we have it now and I think it's really talked about it a few times which is that you're getting the machine to lead you and that I think is pretty key it's like it's not you having to tell the machine over and over again what to do instead you go in there and it starts to to lay out

yes and that's like system 101 right as soon as you build a system and you delegated to someone else to run you're killing it and that's that's there's different ways of approaching these custom gpt's but that's the way I've liked to build them is make it so it's proactive rather than you having to be proactive and thinking through the next step it's just asking you hey now that we have this would you like to do this or that hey give me this piece of information next hey now let's do this next hey does this look okay yes great let's do this next it's probably telling you what to do so if you like to save decision-making for higher level decisions this this is something you need to check we built there's actually two versions of it we first built it as a custom GPT

in order to access that you do need to be paying for GPT plus which is that $20 a month version of chat GPT hopefully you're already paying for it if you're listening to a show like AI microskills you're already into that but if not then you can still use Susan's prompt guide that I went and put into a LinkedIn post I'll be linking it to the website where you can access both of these things my showrunner calm or you can opt into getting it and it will actually walk you through step by step how to use the prompts if you're on the free version of PT or how to build your own custom GPT we could have bundled it and made it made this custom GT just available by Lincoln and you could start working with it but instead I tried to we tried to build it

play that you can build it yourself load it with your shows information that way it's a tool that's proprietary to you so go to my showrunner calm sign up for it it's free and it will walk you through its really it seems intimidating to be like Oh I'm going to build my own custom GPT it's really just copying and pasting in a few fields and then customizing it with your name and like a few sentences about your show upload a few documents you're good to go you published that sucker and now you have a tool that is built specifically for you and your show to save save you time for every episode you have going forward yeah for sure I don't see just do to illustrate how simple it is I need to tell you that I was the type of person that would be confused about how to use a remote control

and since the last two or three years my my perspective on Tech has changed a lot cuz it's so plug and play and this is no no different honestly as you're saying there it's copy stuff and put it into another space and it's got the same field even so you literally have to treat it like a Word document so no intimidation there I think it's easy to create and I think the first time that you see it output the things it's going to help you understand like how much time you're saying and I think from the perspective of institutional knowledge as well a podcast is a is a key piece of brand in infrastructure it's piece that often lives in the heads of the producers and the hosts and if someone

teen hosts change in in different forms for podcasts I can tell you it's a lot of work for the people to sort of like catch up and get it going and something like this is going to massively institutionalize that knowledge for you and like build the value of your podcast brand as it goes so go over to my showrunner calm sign up yes you do have to give give up an email but I promise we'll make it worth your while Not only would just the my show runner and how you're going to build out and save a ton of time with this but Susan and I are both following up with some emails with bonuses like I have another custom GT that I made for naming podcast and you can name lots of other things but it's really good at naming podcast that I've used same framework I've used the name dozens of podcasts for first

when I was working there and Susan has her own things that she's going to be giving away as bonuses to people signing up so this is a true collaboration we're working together on this and then what I'm really excited about is the stuff we're going to be updating this with in the future because we're both doing podcasts we're both to get into ai ai changing quickly podcasting is evolving shoot like you what you can do with a podcast now with one person used to take a whole production team two weeks in order to do an episode and turn it into all the other texts and stuff and editing and all that so things are changing and we're going to be keeping my show runner.com up-to-date with cool new tools and some things that I'm looking forward to is building a custom GPD to help you build like episode thumbnails

and if you're already subscribed to it then you'll just get email updates with new updates that are behind kind of like the email gated wall there Susan what are you looking forward to as far as updating this thing as we go along I think there's lots more that we can do in the in the pre-production and the recording parts that we may be aren't fully exploring I think a lot of people know now that in the post production you can do so I'm excited to see that I'm most excited to see how we can sort of automate some of it so like you know we take that theme of things coming to you a bit further right like so maybe all you do is provide

this thing with the name and then it sends out as you and I were talking about emails to you and to the guest explaining to it explain to people what's coming next maybe it sets up like fun reminders maybe it does like the follow-up we've talked about this in the last episode as well after you've interviewed the guests I mean in my world podcast guests are business relationships right they actually turned into business over the years and so how do you stay in touch with these folks without coming off as like commission breath and that kind of thing so that's what I'm looking for to like really leveraging these podcasts conversations as like the Trojan Horse of like business relationships absolutely there's I wish I would have learned podcasting earlier

I'm glad I learned it even just a few years ago because it's changed the game for me as far as my my career my ability to do marketing and honestly it just made everything so much more fun because I don't know and the more you can build relationships and make friends honestly the more more easy it is to to sell things but sell it in a way that's I don't know right sell it in a way that makes everybody feel good because you're actually helping people because you're helping your friends now and said to just trying to push strangers into buying things I think there's a lot of I think there's a lot of possibility here with AI and podcasting specifically I'm a firm believer that a podcast can be a polar for a whole media brand you can use podcasting

about everything all your Clips all your all your texts all the kinds of content you want can come from a podcast because honestly good podcast good podcasting is just journalism getting in front of experts that know what they're talking about who have the stories and the experience and the expertise to be able to answer your who what when where how why right that's the route of all podcasting and it's just good journalism good storytelling good education happening in a way that's now accessible for everybody so with tools like AI in my showrunner it's just making it easier and easier for better stories to be told more stories to be told untold stories to finally get the air they deserve yeah really lowering that barrier to entry and

improving the quality of podcasting if I might rent on that for a second because sometimes I go listen to some of the top podcasts out there or purposely top podcasts out there and like 17 minutes in we're still listening to what this person did in in like University and I'm like that is a waste of executive time if your audience is Executives right and so really starting to like Drop right into the middle of the thing and making a promise in your title and delivering it within the first 5 minutes of podcasting those are not things that you can do just off the top of your hat even if you're like a brilliant Communicator right you need to prepare and this is something I think that is going to make light work of that absolutely so if you haven't checked it out already go to my showrunner cam

sign up for this thing get it play with it even if you're not big into podcasting you're just learning this is cuz you're in the AI go check it out and see what it does you will you will learn so much about how to build a custom gpg just by stealing this one week created and putting it in and playing with it you'll see how we created it you'll see it duplicate it use your build your own processes into it learn how we made it by playing with it and then go build your own I keep talking to marketers and subject matter experts over and over again they have all this knowledge and expertise hidden inside them you could be automating so much of it in fact that's probably what I'll be doing with this podcast moving forward is helping turn people's expertise and to GPS but we'll see we'll see if that's that's where it goes so

and thank you so much for joining me for a second time back-to-back I think it's the first time I've been 300 plus episodes that I've ever had somebody twice in a row that wasn't like a co-host or something like that so well done I'm so excited about this collaboration on this thanks for partnering with me on it love it thank you Dan thank you for like like I said matching the energy and getting this out there so quickly it's it's awesome can't wait to see people thank us later send this to a friend if it's not for you because it is truly mind blowing