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Week 1: you’re advising a healthcare company on M&A strategy. Week 3: it’s a fintech company’s go-to-market. Week 5: manufacturing supply chain optimization.
Each engagement requires becoming a temporary expert in an industry you may have never worked in. You have 5-7 days of prep before the first client meeting.
Your typical prep:
Total: 20+ hours of reading before you’ve spent a minute with the client. And you’re doing this for 2-3 engagements simultaneously.
Save industry articles to audiclip as you find them. Listen during:
In 3 days of passive listening, you’ve covered 30-40 articles. That’s the equivalent of 15+ hours of reading compressed into ~4 hours of listening during time you already had.
The second host applies consulting-style thinking:
This analytical overlay turns raw industry articles into pre-processed insights. You arrive at the client meeting with frameworks, not just facts.
Create a new station for each engagement. Save client-specific articles, competitor coverage, and industry analysis. The station becomes your engagement’s knowledge base — listenable, portable, and shareable with your team.
When the engagement ends, the station is your archive. When you get a similar engagement later, the old station’s episodes are still there.
Engagement in Germany? Japan? Brazil? Save local-language industry articles. Listen in English. You understand the local market dynamics without reading in a language you don’t speak fluently.
5 days to become an industry expert. 4 hours of listening gets you 80% there.