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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.
A bad day became a tiny note to other tired parents.
The newsletter grew from there.
Her pitch is simple: tantrums aren't bad parenting.
They're a phase you can handle.
And her readers? They want exactly that — 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. Ouch.
A year later, the podcast is still a someday she keeps pushing back.
Her problem: how to start when the whole thing feels over her head.
🔥 The recipe
➡️ Everything is figureoutable
Picture a wall of bricks. Tall, solid, scary from a distance.
But walk up close, and it's just one brick stacked on another.
Pull one out, then the next — and the wall comes down, piece by piece.
That's the idea Marie Forleo built a whole business on.
She runs B-School, an online course that's made her millions.
She also wrote Everything Is Figureoutable, a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Her take: most "I can't" is really "I haven't figured it out yet."
The wall isn't your ability.
It's a problem you haven't broken into bricks.
And get this — she got the line from her mom.
One day young Marie found her fixing a tiny radio shaped like an orange.
It lay in twenty pieces on the table — no manual, no training.
Marie asked how she knew how to do it.
"Everything is figureoutable," her mom said — and put it back together.
🚗 The steps
🗣️ Step 1 — Swap "I can't" for "I haven't figured it out yet."
Think of a locked door versus a door you don't have the key for.
One is the end of the road.
The other just needs a key you haven't found.
Catch the shutdown phrase, change the words, and keep the door open.
Renee hears herself say "I can't do tech."
She changes it: "I haven't figured out recording yet."
Suddenly it's a task, not a verdict.
🔍 Step 2 — Shrink the wall to one question you can just ask AI.
You don't eat a whole pizza in one bite.
You take a slice.
A scary project works the same way — pick one small slice you can solve today.
Name the single thing you could just ask AI right now.
Renee picks one slice.
"How do I record a podcast on my phone?"
Not hosting, not editing — just that.
👣 Step 3 — Take the tiny next step today.
A rough first try beats a perfect plan that never starts.
Toddlers don't read a manual before walking — they just wobble forward and fall.
Answer the one question, do the one thing, and let it be messy.
Renee records a two-minute test on her phone that afternoon.
It's rough.
It also exists.
The wall is now a short to-do list.
The prompt below breaks your "I can't" into a list of figureoutable steps.
You just tell it the thing that feels over your head.
🧸 "I can't" → "not yet" = the wall becomes a to-do list.
🏄♀️ 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 as is, your AI sidekick will use the example values and will give 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 over my head (the project I've been calling impossible):
{e.g. starting a podcast — editing, hosting, and gear all feel like too much}
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 big wall split into 4-6 small questions you 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.
It starts with one "I can't" that's held you back for a year.
Then comes the swap — "I haven't figured it out yet" — and the wall turns into bricks.
And the thing you kept dodging? It's a short to-do list now.
That's it, my fellow mavericks!
Yours 'helping you turn your obsession into income 10x faster with your AI sidekick' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️