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Hey rebel solopreneurs 🦸♀️🦸♂️
The one habit that separates solopreneurs who post consistently from those who don't:
They never start from a blank page.
But most people spend weeks trying to "find their niche" or "figure out what to write about" — when the answer has been sitting inside their own life the whole time.
Here's the 3-prompt system that pulls it out in 20 minutes:
⛳️ Here's the scenario
Meet David.
Seven years in HR.
He'd just gone solo as a career coaching consultant — helping mid-level managers who felt stuck land better roles or promotions.
He knew the material inside out.
He'd lived it.
He'd watched dozens of colleagues do it.
But every time he sat down to write content, he hit the same wall.
"What do I even write about?"
He'd scroll LinkedIn for 20 minutes looking for ideas.
He'd open a doc, stare at it, and close it.
He'd written maybe six posts in three months.
Three of them were tips lists he hated by the time he hit publish.
He had no idea what his content was supposed to be about.
One Sunday afternoon, David was at the golf driving range — bucket of balls at his feet, totally stuck in his head.
The man in the bay next to him was calm.
Just hitting.
Not thinking.
Like he'd done this a thousand times before.
They got talking.
Turns out the man had built and sold two online coaching businesses.
He'd done it by writing content.
Not a lot of it.
Just content that felt like he was reading his reader's diary.
David asked how he figured out what to write.
The man smiled, grabbed a golf ball, and held it up.
"Everyone's trying to find 'the perfect topic.' But the best content you'll ever write isn't made up. It's already happened to you."
He handed David a folded receipt from his golf bag.
❌ What David had:
"Tips for managers who want to grow in their career"
✅ What it became:
"I spent 3 years applying for the same senior role — and kept getting passed over.
Then I changed one thing.
Not my CV. Not my interview skills.
I changed who I was asking for feedback — and everything shifted.
Here's what I learned about why smart managers stay stuck."
Same experience. Completely different feeling.
David stared at it.
"How did you know that was in me?"
The man leaned on his club.
"I didn't. Your AI sidekick will."
Then he explained three things — slowly, like he was talking to someone who'd never thought about content before.
💡 First — your best content is already inside you. You just haven't looked back far enough.
The last 2 years of your life are full of problems you solved, lessons you learned, and changes you survived.
Every single one is a topic someone else is searching for right now.
💡 Second — stop writing for everyone. Write for the version of yourself from 2 years ago.
That person is out there.
They have the same questions you had.
They're making the same mistakes.
When you write for them, your content stops sounding like advice — and starts sounding like a conversation.
💡 Third — once you know your topics, you need a system to turn each one into multiple angles.
Any topic can be written about in at least 4 different ways.
Once you see that, you'll never run out of ideas again.
He tapped the receipt.
"Three prompts. Run them in order. You'll have a full month of ideas in 20 minutes."
Here's what each prompt does:
▶️ Prompt 1 — Uncover your 2-year goldmine: Your AI sidekick interviews you about your life, skills, and experiences over the last 2 years — and pulls out everything you've learned that's worth writing about.
▶️ Prompt 2 — Turn your life into 20 headlines: Takes your interview answers and makes 20 ready-to-use content headlines — each one written for the version of you from 2 years ago.
▶️ Prompt 3 — Build your top 3 into post angles: Takes your 3 best headlines and builds each into 4 different post angles — so you walk away with 12 ready-to-write ideas, not just titles.
David opened his AI sidekick and got to work.
🎯 Step 1: Uncover your 2-year goldmine
⏱️ 10 minutes
This prompt turns your AI sidekick into an interviewer.
It asks you 10 questions — one at a time — about your life, skills, and changes over the last 2 years.
You answer each one.
Your AI listens, pushes back, and draws out the experiences that are worth writing about.
I need help finding topics to write about.
I want you to learn about my life, career, experiences, and skills over
the last 2 years — so you can help me find things worth writing about
for my audience.
We will do this in 2 steps.
Step 1: Interview me with these 10 questions, one at a time.
Wait for my answer before moving to the next one.
Ask me if I am ready before we begin.
1. Over the last 2 years, what are 3 things you've done to grow personally?
2. Over the last 2 years, what are 3 skills you've built or improved?
3. Over the last 2 years, what are 3 things you've done for your health or wellbeing?
4. Over the last 2 years, what are 3 things you've done to improve your relationships?
5. Over the last 2 years, what are 3 things you've done to improve your finances?
6. Over the last 2 years, what are 3 experiences that changed how you see the world?
7. Over the last 2 years, what are 3 things you've done that scared you?
8. Over the last 2 years, what are 3 creative or new things you've explored?
9. Over the last 2 years, what are 3 hard challenges you faced and got through?
10. Over the last 2 years, what are 3 things you've learned about yourself?
If I'm stuck on a question, I'll say "skip" and you move on.
We must complete Step 1 before going to Step 2.
Step 2: Once I've answered all 10 questions, make a list of 20 content
headlines based on my answers.
Each headline should:
- Be written for the version of me from 2 years ago — before I knew what I know now
- Speak to one specific problem or change I mentioned
- Sound like a post someone would stop scrolling to read — not a textbook topic
Ask me if I'm ready to begin.
Here's what changed:
❌ Before: "I don't know what to write about"
✅ After: David's AI sidekick asked him 10 questions.
It pushed back on vague answers.
It drew out a story he'd almost skipped — the year he failed to get promoted twice, changed one thing, and finally got through.
By the end of the interview, he had raw material he'd never thought to write about.
Things that had happened to him.
Problems he'd actually solved.
The prompt came back with exactly what the mentor had described — stories pulled from real life, not invented topics.
David had answers he'd never thought to write down before.
But raw interview answers aren't content ideas yet.
Step 2 turns them into headlines.
🔍 Step 2: Turn your answers into 20 content headlines
⏱️ 5 minutes
This prompt takes everything from your interview and makes 20 headlines — each one aimed at the version of you from 2 years ago.
Run this inside the same conversation as Step 1.
Your AI sidekick already knows your answers.
Based on everything I shared in our interview, make a list of 20 content headlines.
My target audience: {e.g. mid-level managers who feel stuck and want to
land a better role or get promoted}
For each headline:
- Write it for the version of me from 2 years ago — before I knew what I know now
- Make it specific — use real situations, changes, or mistakes I mentioned, not vague advice
- It should make one exact person think "that's me"
Format: numbered list, one headline per line.
No explanations. Just the headlines.
Here's what changed:
❌ Before: "Tips for managers who want to grow in their career"
✅ After: "The promotion I kept missing wasn't about my performance — it was about who was watching"
"I applied for the same senior role 3 times. Here's what finally changed."
"Why being the hardest worker in the room kept me from getting ahead"
"The career advice I wish someone had given me at 32 — before I wasted another year"
"How I finally stopped waiting to be ready and just asked for what I wanted"
[David's AI sidekick filled in the remaining 15 headlines...]
David scanned the list.
Three of them made his stomach flip.
The ones that were almost too personal to post.
Those were the ones worth writing.
But a headline isn't a post.
Step 3 turns each one into a set of angles — so he knew exactly what to write, not just what to call it.
🧠 Step 3: Build your top 3 into ready-to-write post angles
⏱️ 5 minutes
This prompt takes your 3 best headlines and builds each one into 4 different post angles.
You walk away with 12 specific things to write.
Not just titles — actual directions for what each post covers.
From the 20 headlines you made, here are my top 3:
1. {paste headline 1}
2. {paste headline 2}
3. {paste headline 3}
My target audience: {e.g. mid-level managers who want to move up but feel overlooked}
For each headline, give me 4 different post angles:
- Angle 1 (Actionable): "Here's exactly how I did it — step by step"
- Angle 2 (Analytical): "Here are the numbers or patterns I noticed"
- Angle 3 (Aspirational): "Yes, you can do this too — here's proof"
- Angle 4 (Story): "Here's the exact moment things changed — and what I learned"
For each angle: write a specific one-sentence direction — what to cover, in plain English.
Not just a label. A real direction.
Format: one headline at a time, 4 angles beneath it.
Be specific — vague is useless.
Here's what changed:
❌ Before: "Tips for managers who want to grow" → 1 vague topic, no idea where to start
✅ After: Headline: "I applied for the same senior role 3 times. Here's what finally changed."
Angle 1 — Actionable: Walk through the 3 specific things you changed between attempt 2 and attempt 3 — who you asked for feedback, how you framed your impact, and the one conversation that shifted everything.
Angle 2 — Analytical: Show the pattern between the first two attempts — what they had in common, and the one variable that changed the outcome.
Angle 3 — Aspirational: Write for the person on attempt 1. Tell them what to fix now — before they spend another year in the same spot.
Angle 4 — Story: Describe the exact moment you found out you didn't get it the second time — and the decision you made that day.
[David's AI sidekick filled in the remaining angles for headlines 2 and 3...]
David looked at the list.
12 post ideas.
All from his own life.
All written for someone who was exactly where he'd been two years ago.
He picked the first one and started writing.
🏆 David's results
Before:
Six posts in three months
Blank screen every time he sat down to write
No idea what his content was supposed to be about
After:
20 headlines pulled from his own experience — not invented
12 specific post angles ready to write
First post published within 48 hours
Total time: 20 minutes. Not 3 weeks of overthinking.
His AI sidekick did the interviewing, the pattern-finding, and the angle-building.
David just answered questions — and picked the ideas that made his stomach flip.
BAM.
Three prompts. 20 minutes.
You go from staring at a blank screen to holding 12 specific post ideas — all pulled from the life you've already lived.
That's it, my fellow outliers!
Yours 'helping you build freedom, not just a business' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️