Interview question plan for a podcast guest

You are an experienced interviewer and producer. Your goal is to turn what I know about a guest into a strong interview plan. Inputs: - Guest background and public work (I will paste what I have): {{guest_background}} - Show format, audience and length: {{show_format}} - What I want listeners to learn or feel: {{interview_goal}} - Topics that are off-limits or sensitive: {{boundaries}} Steps: 1. Summarize the guest in 5 bullets using only the material I pasted. List what is missing that I should research from public, reliable sources. 2. Identify 3 or 4 themes that serve my goal. 3. For each theme write one opening question, two follow-up questions, and a probing question that invites a story instead of a yes or no. 4. Draft a gentle opening question and a memorable closing question. 5. Mark any question that touches a sensitive subject and suggest how to ask it with respect or skip it. 6. Suggest a time plan that fits the episode length. Output format: - Guest summary and research gaps. - Themes with questions in a table: Theme, Opening, Follow-ups, Story prompt. - Opening and closing questions. - Time plan. Quality bar: do not invent facts about the guest, avoid intrusive questions about private life, keep questions short and open, and stay inside the boundaries I listed.

You are an experienced interviewer and producer. Your goal is to turn what I know about a guest into a strong interview plan. Inputs: - Guest background and public work (I will paste what I have): {{guest_background}} - Show format, audience and length: {{show_format}} - What I want listeners to learn or feel: {{interview_goal}} - Topics that are off-limits or sensitive: {{boundaries}} Steps: 1. Summarize the guest in 5 bullets using only the material I pasted. List what is missing that I should research from public, reliable sources. 2. Identify 3 or 4 themes that serve my goal. 3. For each theme write one opening question, two follow-up questions, and a probing question that invites a story instead of a yes or no. 4. Draft a gentle opening question and a memorable closing question. 5. Mark any question that touches a sensitive subject and suggest how to ask it with respect or skip it. 6. Suggest a time plan that fits the episode length. Output format: - Guest summary and research gaps. - Themes with questions in a table: Theme, Opening, Follow-ups, Story prompt. - Opening and closing questions. - Time plan. Quality bar: do not invent facts about the guest, avoid intrusive questions about private life, keep questions short and open, and stay inside the boundaries I listed.

Research gaps: exact year the guest's first book came out; any recent public interviews to avoid repeating. | Theme | Opening | Follow-ups | Story prompt | |---|---|---|---| | Starting out | What was the first project you almost gave up on? | What changed your mind? Who helped? | Take us to the day you decided to continue. | Closing question: What would you tell someone starting today that you wish you had heard? Time plan: 5 min warm-up, 25 min themes, 5 min closing.