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Hello rebel ideapreneurs 🦸♂️🦸♀️
Renee writes a weekly newsletter for parents surviving the toddler years.
It started in the middle of her own two-year-old's meltdowns, as a note to other tired parents.
Her pitch is simple: tantrums aren't bad parenting — they're a phase you can handle.
That's what Renee's readers need — proof they're not failing at this.
⛳️ Problem:
Renee wants to add a podcast, but every time she opens it up, she freezes.
Editing, hosting, microphones — it all feels like way too much to learn at once.
So she tells herself she's "not techy enough" and closes the laptop. We've all been there.
Her struggle:
The whole thing feels like too much, so a year later the podcast is still "someday."
🔥 The recipe
➡️ Everything is figureoutable
Picture a jigsaw puzzle tipped out of the box — hundreds of pieces in a heap, no picture yet.
It looks hopeless, until you stop staring at the whole pile.
You find one piece that fits, then the next, and slowly the picture appears.
Turns out a heap of hundreds is just one piece at a time.
That's the idea Marie Forleo built a business on.
She runs B-School, an online course. Its company makes near $12 million a year and made the Inc. 5000 — a list of America's fastest-growing companies.
She also wrote Everything Is Figureoutable, a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Get this — the whole idea came from her mom and a broken radio.
She got the line from her mom, who she once found fixing a tiny radio in twenty pieces.
No manual, no training — young Marie asked how she knew how to do it. "Everything is figureoutable," she said.
Her point: most "I can't" is really "I haven't figured it out yet."
Feeling overwhelmed doesn't mean you're not capable. It's just a pile you haven't started sorting.
Place one piece at a time, and "impossible" turns into a to-do list.
🚗 So Renee tried it her way.
Back to Renee and the podcast she kept dodging.
She'd been telling herself "I can't do tech," and freezing every single time.
So she tackled it one piece at a time instead.
First she changed the words: not "I can't do tech," but "I haven't figured out recording yet."
Suddenly it was a task, not a verdict on her — just one small thing to solve.
So she picked the easiest piece: "How do I record a podcast on my phone?"
Not hosting, not editing — just that one question, which she asked her AI.
That afternoon she recorded a rough two-minute test on her phone.
It was messy — but it was real, and that was the point. One rough test proved the whole thing was doable.
The pile she'd stared at for a year was now just a short to-do list.
Just like that.
🧸 "I can't" is usually "I haven't figured it out yet." Start with one piece.
The prompt below breaks your "I can't" into a list of figureoutable steps.
You just tell it the thing that feels like too much.
🏄♀️ The prompt
Save this prompt as a Skill or add to Project in your favorite AI tool — build once, use often.
Update your input values in the prompt, or just run it as is. Your AI sidekick will use the example values and give you an output.
CONTEXT:
- (use what's available, fall back to the inline values)
- If my Voice Profile exists, write in that voice. Otherwise, write in a warm, encouraging, plain-words voice — like a friend, not a coach.
- If my ICP / Audience doc exists, target that reader. Otherwise, use the audience below.
Inputs:
The thing I keep dodging because it feels like too much (the project I've been calling impossible):
{e.g. starting a podcast — editing, hosting, and gear all feel overwhelming}
The "I can't" story I tell myself (the exact shutdown phrase I use):
{e.g. "I'm not techy enough to figure this out"}
What I'm actually scared of underneath (be honest — is it the tech, or looking dumb?):
{e.g. honestly, sounding amateur and people noticing I don't know what I'm doing}
For Outcome: {e.g. the big scary thing broken into small figureoutable steps, with the first one I do today}
Outputs:
1. The reframe — my "I can't" rewritten as "I haven't figured out ___ yet," so it's a task, not a verdict.
2. The breakdown — the whole task split into 4-6 small questions I can just ask AI, ordered easiest-first.
3. Today's tiny step — the single smallest action I can take in the next hour, plus exactly how to do it.
4. The fear note — one honest line naming what I'm really afraid of, and why doing the rough version anyway is the fix.
Then pick the one question from the breakdown I should answer first, and why it unlocks the most.
That's it, my fellow misfits!
Yours 'helping you build a smart AI sidekick so you can work less and enjoy life more' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️