Working document
The One Page Guest Prep Sheet Template
A fill in sheet you can print or keep open on a second screen, holding everything you need about a guest in the order you will actually use it during the interview.
Free resources
Resources for Booking and Preparing Guests
Working tools for the unglamorous half of an interview show: the outreach, the confirmations, the questionnaire, and the sheet you read before the microphone is live.
Everything here is free, needs no account, and was built from the same problem MicPrep addresses: an independent show that books a guest every week runs on admin nobody trained you for. The calculators put numbers on that work, the prep sheet template gives you a document to run it from, and the comparisons help you judge which category of tool your show actually needs.
If you are looking for longer reading, The Green Room covers guest booking, pre interview craft, and the economics of running a weekly independent podcast in the United States, from state consent rules and guest releases through to what an episode really costs to produce. Start with whichever of these matches the part of your week that is currently breaking.
Free tools
Calculators for Independent Interview Shows
Two quick tools that put numbers on the parts of a weekly show nobody tracks: the hours behind each booking and the outreach it takes to stay booked.
Comparisons
How MicPrep Compares
MicPrep handles the weeks between the yes and the record, so here is an honest read on the tools most independent hosts weigh against it.
Main guide
How to Write a Guest Questionnaire That Fills Your Prep Sheet
It settles what to ask a booked guest before the record, in what order, and how those answers become the prep sheet you read at the desk.
Magazine
The Green Room
Guest booking, pre interview craft, and the economics of running a weekly independent podcast in the United States.
About
Who writes all of this
The author page introduces the host behind MicPrep, the interview shows and guest bookings that shaped it, and how to reach a real person about your own prep sheet.
All of this stays open to hosts
The prep sheet template, both calculators, and every issue of The Green Room stay free with no account attached, and they will keep working whether or not you ever talk to us. If using them makes you want the questionnaire answers landing in a guest record instead of an email thread, that is what a demo covers. Fifteen minutes and one booked guest is enough.