The podcast · Hosted by Mike Giannulis
Talk Your Book Into Existence
You already explain your best ideas to clients, colleagues, and audiences. Join Mike Giannulis, founder of Dictate, for practical 10- to 15-minute episodes on turning that spoken expertise into a published book through conversations with an AI interviewer. Each episode gives experts, coaches, and business owners one clear step to capture their ideas, shape their message, and move their book forward.
12 episodes · 10 to 15 minutes each · free
Start Here: Episode 1
Make Your Expertise Easier to Understand · 13 min
Episodes of this show are narrated by an AI-generated voice of Mike, made with his consent.
All 12 Episodes
Each episode gives you one step on your book, in order: from the first idea to sharing the finished book. Every episode page has show notes, key takeaways and the full transcript.
- 13 min
Episode 1: Make Your Expertise Easier to Understand
You explain useful ideas every day. This episode helps you identify one of those ideas and the reader it could help, so your book begins with a clear purpose rather than a blank page.
- 14 min
Episode 2: Find the Obstacle Keeping Your Book Unfinished
An unfinished book can have several causes. Identify whether your next step is making time, narrowing the topic, talking through an idea, accepting a rough draft, or setting a review deadline.
- 13 min
Episode 3: Choose a Book-Making Process That Fits You
Compare writing, coaching, ghostwriting, and an AI interview process by the work each asks of you and the review each provides.
- 14 min
Episode 4: What an AI Interviewer Can and Cannot Do
Learn how a structured conversation can turn your explanations into draft material, and why the author still needs to review the result.
- 12 min
Episode 5: Find the Method Inside Your Everyday Work
Turn a process you regularly explain into a sequence a reader can understand and try.
- 12 min
Episode 6: Choose a Book Format That Serves Your Reader
Decide what the reader should be able to understand or do, then choose a format that supports that result.
- 11 min
Episode 7: Prepare for an AI Interview That Captures Your Thinking
Make your next book interview more useful with a clear topic, specific examples, and permission to give an imperfect first answer.
- 13 min
Episode 8: Turn Recorded Ideas into a Clear Chapter Structure
Give each chapter a job so a reader can follow the argument and use what you teach.
- 12 min
Episode 9: Prepare Your Book for Readers: Cover, Proof, and Publication
Review the details between a finished draft and a book you are ready to share.
- 11 min
Episode 10: Build a Practical 90-Day Book-Sharing Plan
Choose a few repeatable ways to help the right readers discover and use your book.
- 12 min
Episode 11: Measure What Your Book Is Actually Doing
Choose measures that help you learn whether your book is reaching and helping the intended reader.
- 12 min
Episode 12: Start Your Next Book Conversation This Week
Bring the season together by choosing one specific action that fits where you are now.
Your host
Mike Giannulis
Mike is the founder of Dictate, the AI-powered book writing service that turns guided phone interviews into a published book in your own voice. The podcast follows his book, Talk Your Book Into Existence: each episode takes one idea from the book and turns it into a step you can use this week.
Ready to talk your book into existence?
Watch my free training: how your idea, your reader and guided conversations turn what you know into a finished book.
