6thDegree: See Which Six Degrees Connect You To Any Podcast

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You Are Just Six Degrees Away From Any Podcast In The World. Now You Can See Which Six.

6thDegree maps everyone who has been on your show, then every show your guests have been on, and what shows those hosts and guests have been on. Then every route from you to the booking you want gets ranked on how likely that door is to open.

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94 people have been on your show. But can you name every show each of those guests has been on?

Eleven of them have appeared on shows you have been trying to get on. Those eleven are the warm introduction you have been looking for.

Why Has Nobody Built This Before?

In 1967 a psychologist named Stanley Milgram ran a famous study. He gave people in Nebraska and Kansas a letter for a stranger in Boston. They were not allowed to post it. The only way to move it was to hand it to somebody they knew personally, on first name terms, and hope that person was closer to the target than they were.

Fewer than 25% ever arrived. The ones that did took five or six hands to get there.

The chain was never the problem. Nobody could work out who to hand the letter to next. They were standing inside a six step chain to a stranger and had no idea which of their own contacts was step one.

Step one is always a guess, unless somebody drew the map.

Nebraska to Boston, 1967

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Most of them stopped somewhere like this. Not because the chain was too long, but because nobody knew who to hand it to next.

Podcasting is the rare case where the map can be drawn.

Every guest appearance is a public, dated record of two people in a room together. So instead of guessing who to hand the letter to, 6thDegree can compute it. And once you do, the number is not six. It is usually two.

Same show, different pitch

Cold

To: bookings@theshow.fmHi, I would love to come on the show. I run a agency and think your audience would find it valuable.
No reply

Never opened

Warm

To: bookings@theshow.fmHi, Sarah Chen suggested I get in touch. She was on my show in March and mentioned we would be a good fit.
Re: from the hostSarah is great. What weeks work for you?

Booked

Same show. One of them gets read.

How it works

6thDegree Works Outward, One Layer At A Time.

Starting from the guests you already have, and going deeper until it reaches the show you actually want.

Layer one

Everyone Who Has Been On Your Show

Your whole back catalogue, read episode by episode.

Layer two

Every Show Your Guests Have Been On

For each guest, 6thDegree looks at where else they have appeared. This is the layer nobody has, because it means looking up every guest individually. This is where your map is built.

Layer three, and outward

The Guests Of Those Shows

Then what shows those hosts have been on. The map goes deep where the trail is warm and stops where it goes cold.

Then every route to the show you want is costed.

On how warm the connection is, how recently it happened, and whether that step is realistic at your size. You get up to three routes, in order, with the reasoning for each hop. A two hop route through somebody who recorded with your target in March beats a one hop route through somebody who has not spoken to them since 2022, and the ranking knows the difference.

Example output. Three routes to one target show.

Route 1, best 2 hops / cost 2.4
You -> Sarah Chen appeared on your show5 months ago12,400 followers
Sarah Chen -> Operators Weekly guested2 months ago64,000 followerscontact found

Why this one. Both hops are recent, and Sarah has been on the target since she was on yours, so the introduction is current rather than historical. The target is a stretch at your size, which is what an introduction is for.

Route 2 1 hop / cost 3.9
You -> Operators Weekly host followed you3 years ago64,000 followersno contact info yet

Shorter, and worse. One hop, but the only thing connecting you is a follow from 2022 and nothing has happened since. Hop count on its own is a worse answer than no answer, because it sends you at people who will not reply.

Route 3 2 hops / cost 4.6
You -> Marcus Webb appeared on your show2 years ago3,100 followers
Marcus Webb -> Operators Weekly interacted14 months agono contact info yet

Real, and cold at both ends. Kept because a route you can see is worth more than one you cannot, and because the ranking is a recommendation rather than a filter.

Lower cost is better. Every hop is a dated, public appearance.

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Before you scroll past this

Let Me Guess.

There is a dream show, or a dream guest, that you have had in mind since starting your podcast. They might even be the reason you started doing this in the first place. And they feel unreachable.

They are not unreachable. You just do not have a route to an introduction.

The host's inbox, Tuesday morning 247 unread
marcus@growthlab.coPodcast guest opportunity - AI and the future of B2B09:14
hello@peakagency.ioQuick question about your show09:02
j.whitfieldWould love to come on the podcast08:47
you@yourshow.fmSarah Chen suggested I get in touch08:31
team@scaleup.partnersGuest pitch: 7 lessons from scaling to 8 figures08:20
d.okaforFollowing up on my last email07:58
press@ventureflow.comInterview request for your audience07:31
amira.kRe: Re: Podcast collaboration06:55

The problem was never your pitch. It is that yours is the only one with a name on it.

The old way

Guess, Pitch, Wait

  • Write down the shows you want, from memory
  • Find an email address, or a form, or a DM
  • Send a cold pitch to somebody who has never heard of you
  • Wait. Follow up. Assume the pitch was the problem
  • Move on to the next one, putting your dream guest or show on hold

With 6thDegree

Look, Ask, Walk In

  • Paste your show, or name your niche
  • See every person who has been on it, and where they went next
  • Read the ranked routes to the show you want, with the reasoning
  • Make one ask, to somebody who already knows who you are
  • Make the pitch with a warm introduction

Who will actually book you

Reachable now

The Founder Diaries8,400 followers
Building In Public12,100 followers
Your show9,200 followers

A stretch, with a good introduction

Operators Weekly64,000 followers

Not yet

The one in your notes app2,400,000 followers

The shows that will book you are not the ones you were thinking about. Size is only part of it: recency and a real connection matter more.

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Why you cannot do this yourself

How Do You Fix What You Cannot See?

Humans evolved to keep track of about 150 to 200 people at once, and that allowance covers everybody. Family, friends, the person who cuts your hair. So when you try to remember who you know, you do not get your network. You get the handful you spoke to most recently, plus whoever is famous enough to stick.

Then knowing where each of those people has appeared since would mean reading years of episode titles. Then doing it again for every show a guest has been on.

That is hundreds of hours of work that goes stale the moment you finish.

None of which is a failure of your memory. The list of who has been on which show does not exist as a field, in any API, or in any directory. It has to be worked out from the episodes themselves.

Which means the reason you cannot find the route is not that you are bad at making maps. It is that the map was never drawn.

One show, one back catalogue

EP 214Pricing experiments that actually moved revenue EP 213What we got wrong about enterprise sales EP 212Rebuilding the onboarding flow from scratch EP 211Hiring your first head of marketing EP 209The unglamorous work of retention EP 208Why we killed our best performing channel EP 206Fundraising in a market that stopped caring EP 205Support tickets as a product roadmap EP 203Two years of paid acquisition, honestly EP 202When to stop listening to your customers EP 200Two hundred episodes, and what changed EP 198Margins, and the myth of the software business EP 41Scaling ops to 200 people, with Sarah Chen EP 196Everything we learned shipping weekly EP 195The cost of a bad first hire EP 193Churn is a symptom, not a number EP 191Building a category nobody asked for EP 190What a good board meeting looks like EP 188Outbound is not dead, but yours might be EP 186The quiet years before it worked EP 185Cutting the roadmap in half EP 183Founder mode, and its limits EP 181How we price against a free competitor EP 180Six months of saying no EP 178The metric we should have watched EP 176Selling to people who hate being sold to EP 175A cold email teardown, live EP 173The org chart nobody wanted to draw EP 172Discounting, and what it costs you later EP 170Twelve months of customer interviews EP 168Why the second product almost never works EP 167Running a team across five time zones EP 165The week everything broke EP 163Positioning against a category leader EP 162What we would do differently at seed EP 160The referral loop that took two years EP 158Reading your own analytics honestly EP 157When the founders disagree in public EP 155Support, sales, and the line between them EP 153Everything is a distribution problem EP 152The quiet cost of shipping fast EP 150One hundred and fifty, and still here EP 148The pricing page rewrite that doubled trials EP 146Saying the quiet part about runway EP 145Three failed launches in one year EP 143What onboarding data actually told us EP 141The customer who nearly ended us EP 140Building in a category with no budget line EP 138A year of weekly customer calls EP 136The hire that changed the trajectory EP 134The month we stopped shipping features EP 132Reading a P&L you do not want to read EP 131Two co-founders, one job description EP 129What the churn interviews kept saying EP 127Going upmarket without the team for it EP 126The demo that never converted EP 124A rebrand nobody outside noticed EP 122Paying down four years of shortcuts EP 121When your best customer leaves EP 119The forecast, and what really happened EP 117Hiring slowly on purpose EP 116Everything wrong with our first pitch deck EP 114Running out of obvious ideas EP 112The support queue as an early warning EP 110One hundred and ten weeks in a row EP 108Cutting the price and living with it EP 106What we owe the first ten customers EP 104The partnership that went nowhere EP 102Two markets, and picking one late EP 100One hundred episodes of being wrong EP 98The dashboard nobody opened EP 96Growth without a growth team
1 connection / 214 episodes read

Every one of these has to be read to find the one that matters. Then you do it again for every show that guest has been on.

What happens next

The Map Takes Thirty Seconds. Here Is What Happens Next.

Today

Run The Map

Paste your show link, or name your niche. See who is in that network and where they have all been.

Five minutes later

Find The Connector

Not the biggest name. The person who moves between the most shows. That is the one who shortens everything.

This week

Make One Ask

Either you already know them, or you are one introduction away. Ask about the show they were on, not for a favour.

Next month

Do That Show

It is one step up, not five. That is why the ask lands and why the direct pitch did not.

After that

You Are One Hop Away

From the show you actually wanted, or from the guest you wanted on yours, and the person introducing you has heard of you.

One target, traced back

You are two people away. One of them has already sat in your studio.

The honest part

What Can Be Improved.

Recall Varies By Show

Guests are recovered from episode titles and show notes, so how well it does on your show depends partly on how you write your titles. We would rather tell you that here than have you find out on your first run.

The Outer Layer Builds Up

Your own roster is complete after one run. The network around those guests is not, because looking up each person's other appearances costs a real lookup. 6thDegree shows you how many remain rather than presenting a partial map as a finished one.

We only look at your show. Nothing is posted, scheduled or sent on your behalf, now or ever.

The only real question

If Not Now, When?

It is not whether there is a route to your dream show, or your dream guest. There almost always is.

It is not whether you can do the outreach, because every step is a conversation you are already capable of having with somebody who already knows who you are.

And it is not whether they would say yes, because an ask that arrives with a name on it gets read on its merits rather than deleted unopened.

The only real question is when you are going to find out what is actually in your network.

The map takes about thirty seconds and costs nothing. So the honest answer is either now or not at all, and both of those are decisions.

6thDegree will show you who you already know. What you do about them is up to you.

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FAQ

Create Your Map.

Paste your show link or name your niche. See who is in there. Decide what to do about it afterwards.

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