Case Study: Speak Your Book

How a Ghostwriter Cut 60 Hours of Work Down to 10—and Made Books Happen That Otherwise Wouldn’t Exist

Using Carbon Voice to scale storytelling, authorship, and human connection

Background

Simi Burn, PharmD, is a pharmacist turned ghostwriter who helps professionals turn their voice into powerful written content. She works with aspiring authors, entrepreneurs, and storytellers to capture their message and transform it into essays, memoirs, and full-length books. Her approach blends human empathy with workflow precision—meeting people where they are and helping them find their written voice.

Learn more about Simi: LinkedIn, Speak Your Book

Challenge

Before Carbon Voice, Simi faced frustrating constraints:

• Inefficient tools: Most transcription or note-taking platforms weren’t built for content creation. They generated long, disorganized transcripts with no structure—just "a ball of tangled yarn.”

• Time sink: Ghostwriting a book traditionally required 12+ hours of meetings, plus transcript sorting, editing, and organizing.

• Barrier to authorship: Many of her clients, including Rosa Hart, wouldn’t even attempt writing a book due to time, energy, or perfection paralysis.

"We weren’t competing with other tools—we were competing with doing nothing at all."

Solution: Carbon Voice 

Carbon Voice unlocked a completely new workflow:

• Voice-first creation: Simi’s clients recorded audio anytime—in 2-minute bursts or 20-minute monologues—whenever inspiration struck.

• Smart organization: Instead of chaotic transcripts, each voice note was auto-tagged and categorized. This let Simi sort by theme, structure by chapter, and retrieve insights instantly.

• Pre-recorded interviews: Simi even canned her own interview questions and reused them across clients—saving time while staying fully present.

"It felt like there were three or four of me working at once."

Results

📉 Cut book project time from 60 hours to ~10 hours

📚 Helped multiple clients (and her own parents!) start memoirs

🗣️ Turned Rosa Hart’s 4 hours of audio into a complete book

🚶‍♀️ Wrote a full book in a weekend—while on a walk

🧠 Used Carbon Voice for journaling, content ideation, and even meditation

“A book is long-form content. You can’t rush genius in a weekly Zoom call. But Carbon Voice let it unfold naturally, even while folding laundry or walking.”

Reflection: “Other tools were built for meetings. Carbon Voice is built for creating. I use it to ghostwrite books, journal, plan strategy, even record meditations in my own voice..”

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