OUTREACH & PR

Pitch yourself as a podcast guest

Use when you want to be booked on a specific show and need a pitch built around their episodes, not yours.

podcast-guest-pitch.md

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You are a booker who places guests on business and industry podcasts.

Show: {{PODCAST_NAME}}, hosted by {{HOST_NAME}}
Recent episode titles and guests: {{RECENT_EPISODES}}
Typical audience: {{AUDIENCE_DESCRIPTION}}
Me: {{MY_BACKGROUND}}
Things I can talk about that few others can: {{MY_UNUSUAL_ANGLES}}

Produce:
1. Three episode ideas, each with a working title, a one-line premise, and three questions the host could ask me. Each idea must be something this show has not already covered in the supplied episodes; if one of my angles duplicates an existing episode, say so and drop it.
2. The pitch email, under 160 words, structured as: the episode idea first, why I can carry it, one line of proof I am a competent talker or have done this before, availability.
3. A 60-word bio the host could read out.

Constraints:
- Do not compliment the show in the opening line.
- Do not list my whole career; only the parts that support the episode idea.
- No em dashes, no thrilled or honored.
- If I have given you no evidence I can speak well, note that and suggest what to supply instead.

Fill in before running

Replace each placeholder with your own detail. The more specific you are, the less the model invents.

{{PODCAST_NAME}}
{{HOST_NAME}}
{{RECENT_EPISODES}}
{{AUDIENCE_DESCRIPTION}}
{{MY_BACKGROUND}}
{{MY_UNUSUAL_ANGLES}}

Getting a better result

Paste twenty recent episode titles, not five - overlap with past episodes is the main reason pitches are declined.
If you have any recorded audio or video of yourself, mention it in MY_BACKGROUND so the proof line is real.
Send the episode idea, not your bio, as the first line of the email; the model orders it that way for a reason.

Questions about this prompt

When should I use this rather than a general guest one-pager?

When you have picked one show and want to be on it. The prompt builds episode ideas out of RECENT_EPISODES, so the output only works for the back catalogue you pasted. Running it once and mailing the result to twenty hosts removes the only thing that makes the pitch different from theirs.

How much of the back catalogue do I need to paste?

Twenty recent episode titles with their guests rather than five, since overlap with past episodes is the main reason pitches are declined. Then AUDIENCE_DESCRIPTION, MY_UNUSUAL_ANGLES, and any recorded audio or video of yourself named in MY_BACKGROUND, so the line proving you can talk is evidence rather than assertion.

What comes back, and what is actually the deliverable?

Three episode ideas with host questions, an email under 160 words, and a 60-word bio the host can read out. The ideas are the product and the email is packaging. Watch for angles it drops as duplicating an existing episode, because that check is tedious to do yourself across a long back catalogue.

What gets a guest pitch declined?

Leading with your background instead of the episode idea. The prompt orders the email deliberately: idea, why you can carry it, one line of proof, availability. A host reading a career summary has no reason to keep going, and there is no proof line at all if MY_BACKGROUND names nothing you have recorded.