Podcast Episode Planner (AI Prompt)

## Episode Concept

**Title:** Systems That Scale: How Sarah Chen Built 3 Companies to 8-Figures
**Alt Titles:**
- The Boring Secrets of 8-Figure Founders (Systems Over Hustle)
- Why Your Business is Not Scaling (And How to Fix It with Sarah Chen)

**Episode Description (for platforms):**
Sarah Chen has built three companies to 8-figure revenues. Her secret? Not hustle, not luck - systems. In this episode, Sarah breaks down the exact frameworks she uses to remove herself from day-to-day operations while growing faster than ever. If you have ever felt trapped by your own business, this conversation will change how you think about scaling.

**Key Takeaways:**
1. The "Owner's Trap" - why most founders become bottlenecks
2. The 3-Part System Framework every scaling business needs
3. How to document processes without spending weeks writing SOPs
4. When to hire operators vs. build automation
5. The counterintuitive way to maintain quality while scaling

## Interview Questions

**Warm-Up (2-3 min):**
1. Sarah, for listeners who do not know you yet, give us the 60-second version of your journey.
2. What is one thing about building companies that surprised you most the third time around?

**Core Questions:**

3. You have said that "systems are the unsexy secret of fast-growing companies." What do you mean by that?

4. Most founders I talk to feel like they ARE their business. How did you escape that trap?

5. Walk us through a specific system you implemented that made the biggest difference.
   - [Follow-up: How long did it take to see results?]
   - [Follow-up: What resistance did you face from your team?]

6. You have a framework called the "Owner Extraction Method." Break that down for us.

7. Where do most founders go wrong when trying to systemize their business?
   - [Follow-up: How do you know when a process is ready to be documented vs. still evolving?]

8. Hiring operators vs. building automation - how do you decide which to do?

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## Promotional Content

**Audiogram Quotes:**

1. "The moment I realized I was the bottleneck, everything changed. My job was not to be the best at everything - it was to build systems so others could be."

2. "Most founders are addicted to being needed. Scaling requires you to become unnecessary in the best way possible."

3. "Document it like you are writing it for someone who has never met you and will never meet you. That is the test."

**Twitter/X Thread:**

1/8 Just dropped an episode with @SarahChen that completely changed how I think about scaling.

She has built THREE companies to 8-figures. Here is what she does differently:

2/8 First, she calls it the "Owner's Trap" - the tendency for founders to become the bottleneck in their own company.

Sound familiar?

3/8 Her solution? The Owner Extraction Method:

Step 1: Track where you spend time for 2 weeks
Step 2: Identify the 20% that only you can do
Step 3: Build systems for literally everything else

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