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.

#The Consulting Prep Problem

Your typical prep:

• Read 20-30 industry articles (10+ hours)
• Review competitor filings and annual reports (5+ hours)
• Study the client’s press coverage and earnings (3+ hours)
• Synthesize into a hypothesis (2+ hours)

Total: 20+ hours of reading before you’ve spent a minute with the client. And you’re doing this for 2-3 engagements simultaneously.

#The Accelerated Prep

Save industry articles to audiclip as you find them. Listen during:

• Morning routine (20 min)
• Gym (30 min)
• Commute to client (20 min)
• Walk between meetings (10 min)

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.

#Why the Two-Host Format Matters for Consulting

The second host applies consulting-style thinking:

• “What’s the ‘so what’ here?”
• “How does this affect the client’s competitive position?”
• “Where’s the value creation opportunity?”
• “What would McKinsey recommend here?”

This analytical overlay turns raw industry articles into pre-processed insights. You arrive at the client meeting with frameworks, not just facts.

#Per-Engagement Stations

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.

#Cross-Industry, Cross-Language

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.

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5 days to become an industry expert. 4 hours of listening gets you 80% there.

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