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Hey rebel solopreneurs 🦸♀️🦸♂️
Most solopreneurs post content for months before realising something is off.
The words are fine. The ideas are solid.
But every post sounds the same.
Same structure. Same tone. Same flat delivery.
Here's the thing — a distinct voice is the only thing that makes someone stop and think: "I know who wrote this."
Without it, content gets ignored no matter how good the ideas are.
Writing in one voice every day turns into a rut. Readers start skimming it. Half-recognising it. Moving on.
There's a way to break out in 10 minutes.
You provide:
One sentence or short paragraph from something you've already written
What you get:
First — your writing rewritten through 4 different lenses: tone, author voice, goal, and audience
Then — a side-by-side view of how the same idea sounds completely different in each style
Finally — a clear recommendation for which voice fits your style best, and why
These are writing samples, not finished posts. Post the ones that feel right and see which style gets more responses. The best reactions tell you which direction to take next.
⛳️ Here's the scenario
Emma ran a one-person HR consulting practice. She helped small business founders keep their best people from leaving. She attracted clients through LinkedIn posts and word of mouth.
She posted consistently — three times a week, no breaks. But her engagement had flatlined six months ago. Same 40 likes. Same 8 comments. Same people every time.
She was in an airport lounge, rereading her last 10 posts back to back. They all sounded identical.
The woman next to her glanced over.
"You look like someone who's been writing the same sentence for six months," she said.
Emma laughed. "That's exactly what's happening."
Turned out she'd spent 15 years teaching content strategy at two top US business schools. (Emma may have spilled some of her coffee at that point.)
She looked at Emma's screen and rewrote her opening line on the back of a boarding pass.
❌ What Emma had written: "Losing your best employee isn't just an inconvenience — it's a business risk."
✅ What it became: "You didn't lose a good employee.
You lost six months of onboarding, a year of trust-building, and the institutional memory that walked out the door with them.
And you probably saw it coming."
Same idea. Completely different punch.
"Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole built a whole system around this," she said.
"The idea is simple — you already have the right instincts.
You just need to see your words through other lenses to find what's missing."
"Borrow a tone — formal, sarcastic, optimistic, lighthearted.
Each one unlocks a different emotional register."
"Borrow an author's voice.
The urgency of Gary Vaynerchuk.
The vulnerability of Brené Brown.
The stripped-back clarity of Hemingway.
None of them are you — but the best bits of each can become you."
"Borrow a goal — rewrite for emphasis, humor, or persuasion.
Then rewrite for a different reader — a skeptic, a beginner, someone burned before."
She slid the boarding pass across.
"One prompt. Four lenses at once. You'll have a dozen new directions to try before your gate opens."
Emma opened her AI sidekick and got to work.
🎯 Step 1: Run the 4-lens voice remix
⏱️ 10 minutes
This prompt takes one sentence or short paragraph and rewrites it through 4 different lenses — all at once.
Here's what it produces:
❌ Before: "Losing your best employee isn't just an inconvenience — it's a business risk."
✅ After:
LENS 1 — TONE VARIATIONS
Formal: "Employee attrition at the senior level represents a measurable threat to operational continuity."
Sarcastic: "Congrats — your best person just left. Bet that performance review you skipped was worth it."
Optimistic: "Every departure is a signal. The ones who leave early are pointing you straight at the fix."
Lighthearted: "Plot twist: your star player just handed in their notice. Time to find out what you've been missing."
LENS 2 — AUTHOR VOICES
Gary Vaynerchuk: "Stop pretending turnover is normal. It's not. It's you ignoring a problem that was screaming at you for months."
Brené Brown: "There's a story behind every resignation letter. And it usually starts long before anyone said a word."
Hemingway: "Good people leave. Usually quietly. Usually after they stopped expecting anything to change."
LENS 3 — GOAL REWRITES
More emphatic: "This isn't a staffing issue. It's a warning. And the next one will cost you twice as much."
More humorous: "You know what's expensive? Hiring. You know what's more expensive? Hiring the same role twice because you fixed nothing."
LENS 4 — AUDIENCE REWRITES
For a skeptic: "If you think replacing one employee is just a paperwork problem, here's what the actual cost looks like."
For someone burned before: "You've been through this. You know exactly how the next six months go if nothing changes."
RECOMMENDATION: The Gary Vaynerchuk rewrite works best for your LinkedIn audience. It's direct, slightly confrontational, and assumes the reader already knows they've been avoiding something. That tone builds authority without lecturing. Try leading with that style on your next post and compare the comment rate to your baseline.
Here's the prompt that did that:
You are my personal writing remixer.
I am going to give you one sentence or short paragraph.
Rewrite it through 4 different lenses — all in one response.
My writing sample: {e.g. Losing your best employee isn't just an
inconvenience — it's a business risk.}
My audience: {e.g. small business founders with 5-20 employees}
My usual writing tone: {e.g. direct and informative, but tends to
be a bit dry}
LENS 1 — TONE VARIATIONS
Rewrite my sample in 4 different tones:
- More formal
- More sarcastic
- More optimistic
- More lighthearted
LENS 2 — AUTHOR VOICES
Rewrite my sample in the style of 3 of these authors — pick the 3
most relevant to my audience and writing goals:
Gary Vaynerchuk, Maya Angelou, Brené Brown, Ernest Hemingway,
Winston Churchill, James Clear, David Sedaris
LENS 3 — GOAL REWRITES
Rewrite my sample 2 ways:
- More emphatic (stronger emotional punch)
- More humorous (still credible, not silly)
LENS 4 — AUDIENCE REWRITES
Rewrite my sample 2 ways:
- For a skeptic who doesn't believe this is a real problem yet
- For someone who has already been burned by this exact problem
Output each lens as its own clearly labeled section with bullet points.
Finally — look at all the rewrites above and pick the single version
that fits my audience and writing goals best.
Tell me which one you picked and explain in 2-3 sentences why it will
work best for them.
Emma read through the output twice.
The Hemingway version stopped her cold. She'd never written anything that spare before — and she couldn't stop rereading it.
The recommendation pointed somewhere different. But now she had 12 directions she could feel, not just think about.
That was the shift she'd been missing for six months.
🏆 Emma's results
Before:
Six months of flat engagement — same 40 likes, same 8 comments, same people every time
Every post sounding like the previous one
No idea what was missing — the ideas were solid but nothing was working
After:
12 new writing directions from one 10-minute session
Posted the Gary Vaynerchuk-style rewrite the next day — double her usual comment rate
Used the Hemingway version for her lead magnet intro and rewrote it in one draft
Total time: 10 minutes. Not six more months.
Her AI sidekick generated the full remix — Emma picked two versions that felt right and posted the stronger one. BAM.
One sentence in. Twelve directions out.
Pick the one that sounds like the writer you're trying to become. Post it. See what happens.
That's it, my fellow outliers!
Yours 'turning your expertise into income 10x faster' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️