Class prep prompt

What makes
you hot

Find your focus. Choose your project. Put this week’s class to work.

How to use it

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    Copy the prompt.

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    Paste it into a new chat with your AI: ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.

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    Answer the questions. It's a long interview, so take your time.

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    Bring what you find to Wednesday's class.

WHAT MAKES YOU HOT

Find your focus. Choose your project. Put this week’s class to work.

I’m participating in HOT GIRLS DONT WORK. Help me choose a business or project worth focusing on, then connect it to what we are learning right now so I can earn, automate repetitive work, and build a simpler, more systemized way of running it.

Act as a thoughtful interviewer, niche and opportunity analyst, and practical project guide.

This is a longer interview. Take it step by step and do not rush to conclusions. Ask a few questions at a time, wait for my answers, and use follow-up questions when something important is unclear.

Use ONLY my answers and materials supplied in this conversation to understand me. Do not use memory from previous chats. You may use live research to understand the course and market, clearly distinguishing that research from what you know about me.

My project could be a new idea, an existing business, an offer, or a meaningful improvement to something I already do. Do not assume starting something new is the best answer.

STEP 0 — FIND WHERE WE ARE IN CLASS

Before interviewing me, check the current schedule at: https://www.hotgirlsdontwork.com/

Use today’s date and the course’s Eastern time zone. Unless I specify another class, orient me to the next scheduled class, including today’s class if applicable.

Identify:

  • The class date.
  • The weekly topic.
  • The current phase.
  • The published learning outcome, if available.

Use dated schedule entries rather than assuming a homepage banner is current. Do not calculate future classes from an old schedule without confirming them. Do not treat calendar months as course phases.

If you cannot browse, the schedule is outdated, or the phase is unclear, ask me to paste the current schedule or tell you the class date, topic, phase, and any assignment Courtney has given us. You do not need access to my accounts or previous conversations.

A current instructor assignment I provide should guide the exercise. Flag any conflict with the website briefly rather than silently choosing.

Begin with a short orientation:

“We’re preparing for [date]: [topic] during [phase]. This week’s focus is [verified outcome or instructor-provided assignment]. We’ll find a project that fits you, then choose the part of it that makes sense to work on now.”

The course repeats Context, Agents, Brain, and Back Office through Shed, Align, Energize, Earn, and Compound. Verify the current position each time this prompt is used.

Use the intersection of the topic and phase to guide the work. For example, during Agents × Shed, help me identify one useful repetitive job to automate after considering what I could stop doing or simplify first.

That is an example, not a permanent setting. Do not assume every future participant is in Agents or Shed.

Keep two connected questions in view throughout:

  1. What business or project deserves my focus?
  2. What is the most useful thing to work on within it for this class?

STEP 1 — INTERVIEW ME

Ask me 8–12 main questions, 2–3 at a time. Wait for my answers before continuing. Use brief follow-ups to get concrete examples rather than accepting vague labels.

Cover:

  • My real skills, including the ones I take for granted and what people ask me for help with.
  • What I could happily spend hours doing—and whether I would enjoy doing it for someone else.
  • My work and life experience: what I want to keep using and what I want to leave behind.
  • My current business, projects, offers, or ideas, including what has earned money, attracted interest, or stalled.
  • People, communities, knowledge, materials, or resources I already have access to.
  • The repetitive work, bottlenecks, or disorganization taking up my time.
  • How much time and energy I realistically have each week.
  • My budget for tools and my comfort with technology.
  • How comfortable I am with content, selling, clients, and being publicly visible.
  • What I want to accomplish during the remainder of my participation in the course and over the next two years, including income and what I want my working life to feel like.
  • Anything I explicitly do NOT want my direction to be based on. Treat this as a hard constraint.

Include questions that connect to the current class. For Agents × Shed, for example:

  • What do I keep doing manually?
  • Which of those tasks actually needs to happen?
  • What would I most like off my plate?
  • What would a good result look like, and how would I check it?

Work these into the interview without replacing the broader questions about my skills, interests, and goals.

If I already have a project I want to keep, explore opportunities within it. Do not repeatedly steer me toward a new business.

Before moving on, reflect back:

  1. My strongest skills and advantages, supported by examples.
  2. What I enjoy and want more of.
  3. My existing opportunities and bottlenecks.
  4. My limits and exclusion list.
  5. Any tensions between my goals and preferences.

Ask whether you have understood me correctly. Wait for my response.

STEP 2 — GENERATE FIVE SPECIFIC OPPORTUNITIES

Based only on my answers about myself, generate five specific niche, business, or project directions.

If I am committed to an existing business, these can be five focused opportunities within it. If my constraints genuinely support fewer than five, explain why rather than padding the list.

For each, give:

  • The direction: A one-line description of exactly what I would offer, build, or improve.
  • Who it serves and how money is made: Identify the buyer or beneficiary and the path to revenue. Distinguish direct income from saving time or supporting existing revenue.
  • Why it fits me: Cite specific skills, interests, experience, or resources from my answers.
  • The everyday work: What I would actually spend my time doing, including the less enjoyable parts.
  • What AI could do: Concrete tasks it could speed up, with what would still require my judgment.
  • The simplest system: A repeatable process that could make the work easier to run.
  • The cheapest two-week test: How I could test demand or usefulness before committing significant time or money. Say what evidence would count as promising.
  • The biggest risk or catch: Include practical limitations and unanswered questions.
  • Difficulty and income potential: Give honest ratings and explain them. State the assumptions; do not invent earnings projections or confuse theoretical potential with likely results.
  • This week’s connection: Explain the specific part I could work on in the current topic and phase, and why it helps the larger project.

Separate personal fit from evidence of demand. A direction can suit me and still need proof that people will pay.

Ask me to choose my top two for closer investigation. Wait for my answer.

STEP 3 — RESEARCH MY TOP TWO

If live web research is available, investigate:

  • Existing competitors or comparable offers.
  • Demand signals, especially evidence of buying rather than attention alone.
  • Typical pricing, with specific examples.
  • Relevant platform rules and practical barriers.
  • What already exists and where an underserved need might remain.
  • Whether there is a credible, specific way for me to enter the market.

Link sources and distinguish facts from your interpretation. Advertised prices are asking prices, not proof of sales.

For an internal improvement project, also examine whether an existing tool or simpler process already solves the problem. Do not recommend building something unnecessarily.

If live research is unavailable, say so and mark every market claim as unverified. Give me a short list of checks I can perform myself. Do not invent competitors, demand, prices, or tool capabilities.

STEP 4 — RECOMMEND MY FOCUS

Rank the directions for ME specifically, using:

  • My strengths and interests.
  • My desired working life.
  • My time and budget.
  • My access to potential customers or useful resources.
  • The market evidence and remaining uncertainty.
  • How the course can help me make practical progress.

Explain the ranking. Recommend one primary direction and one backup.

Do not let a convenient class exercise outweigh a poor business fit. Find a useful application of the current lesson within the strongest direction.

If the evidence is insufficient, recommend the best first experiment and explain what it would help us learn.

Ask me to confirm or adjust the primary direction before making the final plan. The backup is an alternative, not a second project to start simultaneously.

STEP 5 — TURN MY FOCUS INTO THIS WEEK’S WORK

Once I choose, give me:

WHAT MAKES ME HOT A specific summary of the strengths, experience, taste, or judgment I bring. Ground it in my answers.

MY PROJECT “For the remainder of my time in HOT GIRLS DONT WORK, I’m focusing on ___ for ___ so that ___.”

WHERE WE ARE NOW The class date, topic, phase, and assignment we are using.

MY MOVE THIS WEEK One concrete thing to create, test, or improve that connects my project to the current lesson.

For Agents × Shed, this should identify one useful automation. Explain:

  • What work I will stop or simplify first.
  • The one remaining job to automate.
  • What starts the job.
  • The information and instructions it needs.
  • The output it should produce.
  • What I will review.
  • How I will test whether it worked.

For another topic or phase, adapt the output to that lesson instead of forcing an automation.

HOW THIS HELPS ME EARN, AUTOMATE, AND SYSTEMIZE Explain the connection to each area honestly. They do not all need equal attention this week. Name the immediate benefit and the longer-term possibility.

MY FINISH LINE One visible, achievable result for this week. Distinguish choosing or designing something from building, testing, and running it successfully.

MY COURSE PATH Outline how I can develop the same project through the remaining verified classes or phases. Keep this week detailed and later steps brief. Label suggested applications as suggestions, not official assignments. Do not invent a course end date or impose a 90-day plan.

MY FIRST THREE ACTIONS Specific actions I can begin today within my time and budget.

MY ONE NUMBER The most useful measure of progress right now, how to track it, and why it matters.

WHAT I NEED FROM CLASS The questions, feedback, demonstration, or troubleshooting that would help me move forward.

MY NOT-NOW LIST The ideas, features, and tasks I can set aside to protect my focus.

MY DECISION RULE What evidence would tell me to continue, adjust, or try the backup.

End with a short project brief I can copy into a future conversation: my project, strengths, constraints, chosen class application, decisions, and next step. Include an instruction to recheck the live class schedule when I reuse it. Do not assume the AI will remember me.

RULES

  • Use simple, warm, direct language. No business jargon, hype, or motivational filler.
  • Do not rush the interview or substitute generic encouragement for analysis.
  • Never recommend anything on my exclusion list, even if I am skilled at it.
  • Being good at something does not mean I want to do it for money.
  • If my answers point somewhere narrow and specific, get narrower.
  • If something is unrealistic for my time or budget, say so plainly.
  • Do not assume I need to become a creator, build a personal brand, or turn my private life into content.
  • Connect recommendations to both my larger project and the current class topic and phase.
  • Do not require earlier classes or completed homework to make progress now.
  • In Shed, consider removing or simplifying work before automating it.
  • Recommend tools because they solve a defined problem, not because they exist.
  • Keep systems simple enough for me to maintain.
  • Start automations with reviewable outputs and a human check. Planning an automation does not authorize you to access accounts or act on my behalf.
  • Do not default to logos, websites, courses, or more tools before testing the underlying idea.
  • Never invent course content, market evidence, or successful results.
  • Help me choose one meaningful project and one useful move for this week.

Start by checking where we are in class, then ask your first 2–3 interview questions.