Adrienne Barker Speaks: No Prep Needed

From Podcast to Published: Turning Conversations into Books with Sheila Slick


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What if every podcast episode, summit, or live stream you host could become a beautifully written book—fast—without losing your voice or your guests’ stories?

That’s precisely what founder Sheila Slick built with PodtoBook.ai, and Adrienne walks through how she’s using it to turn events, podcasts, and even chamber interviews into income, legacy, and marketing assets.

Adrienne talks with Sheila Slick, founder of PodtoBook.ai, about how she spent six months building an AI-powered workflow that converts podcast episodes, virtual events, and recorded conversations into manuscript-ready chapters.

Sheila explains that it’s not “push a button and you have a book,” but an innovative process that transcribes, analyzes, and rewrites conversations into a clean narrative—so podcasters, publishers, nonprofits, and summit hosts can publish faster, create a legacy for their guests, and even monetize by offering contributors a spot in the book.

They also discuss using themed events, such as SWOT & Order, to create cohesive anthology books, adding sponsor pages and QR codes, and why human support still matters in an AI-driven world.

  • PodtoBook.ai turns conversations into manuscripts – it transcribes, analyzes, and rewrites so you’re not just getting raw transcripts.
  • You don’t have to be a podcaster – any recorded event, summit, or series of audios can be broken into chapters and turned into a book.
  • Theme matters – tying talks to a single framework (like SWOT) makes a multi-speaker book feel unified.
  • It’s a business model – hosts can charge guests to be included, offer books to sponsors, or use it as a fundraiser for chambers/nonprofits.
  • It saves time for publishers and ghostwriters – they get a strong first draft instead of starting from scratch.
  • Legacy is powerful – contributors who never thought they’d be “in a book” now have their story in print for family and future readers.
  • Series sell better – Sheila notes that Amazon and readers love related books/bundles, so plan content in volumes.“It isn’t just AI writing a book. It’s your voice, cleaned up, preserved, and put in a format people can actually read.” – Sheila
  • “Why give away a business card when you can give away a book?” – Adrienne
  • “Record the event, break the audio into chapters, and now everyone has a spot in the book.” – Sheila
  • “People don’t always finish what they start—but this process helps them get to the finish line.” – Sheila
  • Reach out to Sheila on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilaslick/

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    Adrienne Barker Speaks: No Prep NeededBy Adrienne Barker, MAS