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From Episode 4: You Are Not Starting From Zero

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You're a Rock Star.
Let's Prove It.

The expertise inventory that helps you see everything you already have — before you build a single thing.

Works on its own as a guided workbook — or paste the AI prompt at the bottom into ChatGPT or Claude and let it interview you.

How to use this guide: Work through each life area below and answer the prompts — in writing, voice memo, or by pasting the AI prompt at the bottom into ChatGPT or Claude. Don't filter for whether something sounds impressive. Just list it. You will surprise yourself.

Before We Start

You've been building expertise your whole life.
You just haven't been counting it.

When Tamsen decided not to go to medical school — after graduating as class valedictorian, finishing college in three years with honors, and studying abroad in the UK on scholarship — she thought she wasn't capable of doing anything else. She had all of that behind her and still felt like zero.

She wasn't zero. She was just looking at the wrong inventory.

“The gap is not that you have nothing. The gap is that nobody has helped you see what you have.”

This guide is that help. Work through every section — even the ones that feel irrelevant. The things you've figured out about managing a household, surviving a sports season, navigating a workplace — all of it counts. All of it is your inventory.

Part One

Your Life Areas — The Full Inventory

Go through each area. Don't skip any. The ones that feel smallest often hold the most.

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Hockey & Sport

The world you've been navigating — probably longer than you realize

Answer what applies. Skip what doesn't. Add your own.

  • → What do I know about booking tournament travel that took me time to figure out?
  • → What have I learned about gear — when to buy, when to wait, how to resell — that other families don't know?
  • → What do I understand about team fees and budgets that most parents don't?
  • → What do I know about how to talk to coaches that I wish I'd known earlier?
  • → How do I keep my kid mentally in the game when the season gets hard?
  • → What have I figured out about managing siblings at games and tournaments?
  • → What do I know about tracking hockey expenses that actually works?
  • → What have I learned about tryout season — the process, the emotions, the prep?
  • → What do I know about the escalation from beginner to competitive that I could have told myself three years ago?

Your answers — write, type, or voice memo

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Career & Professional Life

What you've built, learned, and figured out at work

Your job — past and present — is a skill library. What's in it?

  • → What does my job actually require me to do well — that I've gotten genuinely good at?
  • → What have I figured out in my field that took years to learn?
  • → What do newer people ask me for help with?
  • → What systems or approaches have I developed that others on my team haven't?
  • → What do I know about navigating a workplace — politics, communication, management?
  • → What licenses, certifications, or training do I have that I'm not currently using?
  • → What did I used to do professionally that I'm no longer doing — and could I do it differently now?

Your answers

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Home & Family Management

The operation you're already running at an elite level

This is MOM territory. The Master Organizing Manager in action.

  • → What systems do I run at home that would make other families' lives easier?
  • → How do I manage scheduling across multiple kids, activities, and work — and what makes it work?
  • → What have I figured out about meal planning or food prep in a busy family?
  • → What do I know about household finances — budgeting, tracking, optimizing?
  • → How do I handle the mental load of running a household — what's my system, even if it's informal?
  • → What home management skill am I most proud of — that people always notice or ask about?

Your answers

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Parenting & Kids

What you've learned raising humans through sports, school, and everything else

Parenting a competitive athlete requires a specific skill set. Name yours.

  • → How do I support my kid through performance pressure without making it worse?
  • → What have I figured out about helping my kid manage disappointment — bad games, cuts, setbacks?
  • → What do I know about the development arc of a young athlete that newer parents don't yet understand?
  • → How do I balance being a hockey parent with being a parent to my other kids?
  • → What parenting approach have I developed that I wish I'd had written down from the start?
  • → What do I know about navigating the school-sport balance — grades, time, social life?

Your answers

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Money & Financial Know-How

What you've learned about managing money — formally or through hard experience

Financial knowledge comes in more forms than a finance degree. What's yours?

  • → What do I understand about credit cards, points, and rewards that most people don't optimize?
  • → What have I learned about tracking expenses that actually works for a busy family?
  • → What do I know about buying, reselling, or finding deals in any category?
  • → Have I navigated a significant financial challenge — and figured out how to get through it?
  • → What do I understand about negotiating — prices, salaries, contracts, agreements?
  • → What have I figured out about funding a big recurring expense without it consuming everything?

Your answers

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Community, Teams & Relationships

What you know about working with people and getting things done together

The things you do for your team and community — that nobody pays you for yet.

  • → What team or volunteer role have I held that required real skill — not just showing up?
  • → What do I know about communicating with a large group of people?
  • → What have I figured out about building relationships with local businesses or organizations?
  • → What do I know about fundraising, sponsorships, or partnerships that actually work?
  • → What have I organized or coordinated that required real leadership, even if nobody called it that?

Your answers

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The Stuff You Don't Count As Skills — But Absolutely Are

This is where the gold hides. Don't skip this section.

Answer every prompt. This section surprises people the most.

  • → What do people ask me for help with — casually, in texts, in passing — that I never thought of as a skill?
  • → What could I talk about for an hour without preparing, without notes, without stopping?
  • → What have I survived or gotten through that other people say they don't know how I did it?
  • → What am I the go-to person for — in my family, friend group, team, or neighborhood?
  • → If I had to teach a class on anything in my life, what would it be?
  • → What is the thing I figured out this year — that I wish someone had told me?

Your answers

The Three Core Questions

From Episode 4 — complete these after working through the inventory above

Question One

What do you know how to do that took you time and experience to learn?

Don't filter for whether it seems impressive. Just list it. Everything — hockey, career, family, life.

Your answer

Question Two

What problems have you solved that other families around you are still struggling with?

This is your “I Figured This Out” list. What do people ask you for help with? What do you know that you wish someone had told you earlier?

Your answer

Question Three

What do you do — for your team, your family, your community — that you've never been paid for, but that clearly has value?

The expertise you give away for free. The knowledge that walks out the door every season. Name it here.

Your answer

Prefer to use AI?

Copy This Prompt.

Paste this directly into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI tool. It will interview you through your inventory one question at a time — no prep needed. Just talk or type and let it pull the answers out of you.

Copy & Paste PromptWorks in ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI tool
I want you to help me build a personal expertise inventory. Your job is to interview me — one question at a time — and help me identify all the skills, knowledge, and hard-won experience I have across every area of my life.

I tend to underestimate what I know, so please push back if I give short answers. Ask follow-up questions. Help me see things I might be dismissing as "not a big deal" that are actually valuable.

Cover these areas one at a time:
1. Hockey and youth sports — what I've figured out about managing a hockey family
2. Career and professional life — what I've learned in my work
3. Home and family management — the systems I use to run my household
4. Parenting — specifically parenting a competitive athlete
5. Money and financial know-how — budgeting, tracking, earning, optimizing
6. Community, teams, and relationships — working with groups, building partnerships
7. Hidden skills — things I do that others find valuable but I don't count as skills

After all areas, summarize into:
- A "Rock Star Inventory" of my top skills
- My "I Figured This Out" list
- Three ideas for how I could turn this expertise into income

Start with Hockey and youth sports. One question at a time. Let's go.

💡 Tip: Copy everything between the box lines above, paste it, and just start talking. The AI does the rest.

You are not starting from zero.
You never were.

Take this inventory to the Hockey Mama Money Club community. Share what surprised you. Ask what to do with it. We're figuring it out together.

Fund the game. Do it together. Enjoy all of it.