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Hello rebel ideapreneurs 🦸♂️🦸♀️
Renee writes a weekly newsletter for parents surviving the toddler years.
She started it in the trenches of her own two-year-old's meltdowns.
She believes tantrums aren't bad parenting — they're a phase you can handle.
Her readers feel it too — exhausted, second-guessing every move.
⛳️ Problem:
Renee wants to add a podcast but freezes at everything she doesn't know.
Editing, hosting, microphones — it all looks like a wall she can't climb.
So she tells herself she's "not techy enough" and never starts.
A year in, the podcast is still a someday she keeps pushing back.
Her struggle: how to start when the whole thing feels over her head.
🔥 The recipe
➡️ Everything is figureoutable
Marie Forleo is the author of Everything Is Figureoutable.
She argues 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 down.
Forleo's argument: treat every block as solvable.
Then take the smallest next step toward solving it.
Forleo got the line from her mother.
One day she found her mom fixing a tiny radio shaped like an orange.
It lay in twenty pieces on the kitchen table — no manual, no training.
Young Marie asked how she knew how to do it.
"Everything is figureoutable," her mom said — then put it back together.
🚗 The steps
🗣️ Step 1 — Swap "I can't" for "I haven't figured it out yet."
Catch the shutdown phrase and change the words.
The new phrase keeps 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 googleable question.
Don't solve the whole podcast. Solve one small piece.
Name the single thing you could look up today.
Renee picks one question.
"How do I record a podcast on my phone?"
Not hosting, not editing — just that.
👣 Step 3 — Take the tiny next step today.
Answer the one question and do the one thing.
Momentum beats overwhelm every time.
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, googleable questions, 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.
One "I can't" turned into "not yet."
One wall broken into small questions.
One tiny step taken before the day ends.
That's it, my fellow mavericks!
Yours 'helping you turn your obsession into income 10x faster with your AI sidekick' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️