Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong

"Tell the truth. Let the chips fall, but tell the truth." - Daniel RothJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Daniel Roth for a live coaching conversation.His challenge: he arrived with nothing to fix, only a wish to be busier doing the work he loves.You'll walk away with:Why your credentials are the set, not the story, and what actually makes people careThe difference between owning your intention and chasing your resultWhat it takes to like who you've become and keep creating anywayWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live02:55 - No characters, no story07:11 - What makes us care?08:59 - Why interviews had no stakes09:49 - Who is this guy?11:15 - Dancing at every grandchild's wedding14:35 - Intention is not result19:46 - Nothing I want to change22:00 - I like who I am25:26 - Tell the truthEnter Daniel Roth's World:WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"If I'm not in a coaching conversation, I'm not creating clients." - NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Barb Nangle, for a live coaching conversation.Her challenge: her podcast audience keeps growing, but fewer listeners are booking calls, and she wants a new client every week.You'll walk away with:Why the strategy that feels contrived to you never gets done, no matter how good it looks on paperHow to find the channel already creating your clients and go deeper instead of widerWhy your best clients may already be gathering in groups, waiting for an invitationWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live03:17 - Why This Isn't a Game08:44 - The Hidden Cost of Boundaries15:26 - More Clarity, Fewer Clients17:29 - When Strategy Feels Contrived22:31 - A New Client Every Week29:35 - Two Shows That Doubled Listeners40:38 - Get Five People Together42:16 - Why Cap It at 10?50:57 - Feeling Beats ThinkingEnter Barb Nangle's World:LinkedIn | WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"If you're as good as you think you are, you shouldn't have to compromise anything to earn $1." - Richard BlankJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Richard Blank for a live coaching conversation. His challenge: getting a new generation on his team to break through from 78% to 93%.You'll walk away with:Why growing your team means 10x the quality of your people and how long they stay, not 10x the headcountWhy giving people their dignity keeps them longer than any metricThe question that turns AI from a threat into time back for your teamWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live06:31 - Great Speakers Name Their Price15:58 - How Do I Reach Them?24:33 - These Are Not Robots34:10 - Talent Is the Whole Game36:13 - The Real Threat Is AI41:53 - What Does AI Make Possible?43:26 - AI Becomes Employee of the Month48:47 - Come Say Goodbye52:23 - Someone Still Believes in MeEnter Richard Blank's World:Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTubeContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"The role of us as leaders is to come up with a vision that's large enough for someone else's vision to come and live into." - NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Dr. Stem, Sithembile Mahlatini, for a live coaching conversation.Her challenge: juggling so many visions at once that none of them gets the focus to reach a million.You'll walk away with:Why time management traps visionaries. Freed-up time just becomes more visions.Why recovery work is capped at okay, and extraordinary has no ceiling.How to find the one or two real visions hiding inside a hundred.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 03:11 - How Bounce Back Began 08:17 - Your Role Is Saying Yes 10:59 - The Bounce Back Retreat Vision 17:47 - Too Many Visions at Once 19:01 - Time Management Won't Fix This 22:33 - Not Going Far Enough Anymore 32:41 - Paying $25,000 Out of Pocket 38:09 - You Are the Ocean 39:16 - What She Wants at 61Enter Dr. Stem Sithembile Mahlatini's World: Facebook | Instagram | X | YouTube | WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"I don't believe in purpose being one thing. I believe in it being multiple things." - Deborah HeiserJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Deborah Heiser for a live coaching conversation. Debbie's mentorship project had Nobel laureates and astronauts asking to mentor for free. Connection and impact are her native language. Money was the one question she hadn't named.This session is about the pivot that is really a return, the reward that moves world changers more than a fee, and the income impact-first leaders leave on the table.What you'll take away:A pivot is not leaving. It is moving your hours to what never left you.The person you help is not always the person who pays.Sell where the problem is already on the radar.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live01:41 - Purpose Is Not One Thing03:12 - Not a Circle, a Spiral10:01 - Look Left, Look Right11:56 - The Coaching Begins15:05 - Nobel Laureates Mentoring for Free19:26 - Money, the Missing Third24:35 - We Normalize Abnormal Behavior29:30 - The Buyer Isn't the User33:28 - Getting Off the WheelEnter Deborah Heiser's World: Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | LinkedIn | YouTube | Website Continue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"What people really need is a safe space to unfold who they really are." — Willow GreenJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Willow Green, a death doula and two-time author who has spent two decades studying human behaviour and the aging process. Willow came in certain she could not explain her own work. She explained it perfectly, then heard it back for the first time.The conversation opens up consent as the foundation of any real risk, immersion over observation, and what it costs a leader to hold space for everyone and never be held.Three things to take with you:Your message is not unclear. It has never been received.Only someone who can say no has a yes worth anything.You cannot guide anyone through a door you have only read about.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 01:18 - Living in 150 homes 05:46 - Her message for one outlier 14:08 - Why no makes yes real 18:14 - "There are no words" 20:07 - She explains it perfectly 25:21 - Heard for the first time 26:05 - Offered the exit early 36:40 - The waitlist she wants 48:46 - Immerse or stay a spectatorEnter Willow Green's World: Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Build the prototype here, document those pieces so that it becomes replicable. That's the whole point." — SheyenneJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Sheyenne Kreamer for a live coaching conversation. Sheyenne has built a three-entity system spanning career transition, heart-centered business, and multi-generational healing villages. She came into this session asking how to find five team leaders. She left with something far more useful.This one is about the gap between the size of a vision and the size of the next move. And about what happens when a leader realizes the thing she has been asking for already happened yesterday.What you'll take away:The ask you bring is rarely the ask you needOne working location beats ten possible onesThree funded people recruit the next six for youWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 01:06 - Twenty-five years, three companies 07:24 - Laid off, then teaching consultants 15:13 - "I've been called super connector" 19:22 - The ask: five team leaders 20:13 - Careful not to play low 24:23 - Why you get puzzle pieces 28:17 - Five was wrong, nine roles 33:40 - "I got one. Yesterday." 39:41 - You already built the gardenEnter Sheyenne Kreamer's World: Facebook | Instagram | X | LinkedIn | YouTube | Website Continue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"I've got to elevate myself so I'm in the mix of high level entrepreneurs." Robert SzmigielJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Robert Szmigiel for a live coaching conversation. Robert has run roughly 1,000 interviews across four continents and been interviewed about five times. This one is about what happens when the man who builds the room stops noticing he is standing in it.What this session gets into: the difference between expanding and elevating, the bright spot you already proved and then parked, and why the network you built by accident is the one you keep going out to find.Three things you leave with:More markets can be volume, not a next levelThe single move that changed his trajectory, unused for ten yearsWhat a thousand relationships are worth when nobody has askedWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 01:02 - Giving entrepreneurs a global voice 05:44 - The VC's wish list question 08:13 - One city becomes four continents 15:04 - Editing alone until 3am 21:49 - What next level actually means 25:55 - One big name lifts everyone 27:18 - Is your wish list current 37:05 - The room you already built 38:15 - Waiting for the invitationEnter Robert Szmigiel's World: WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"It's not about who you talk to. It's about what they're talking about." - Henrik De GyorJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Henrik de Gyor, author of nine books and host of nine podcast series, with a tenth of each in production.This one goes at leverage. Henrik built a career on curiosity, solved client problems so completely that they never needed him again, and capped himself at three clients at a time. The conversation opens on identity and too many hats. It does not end there.What you take away:Boredom is a signal about the work, not a flaw in youSolving problems permanently can quietly cap your own incomeSome ceilings are the vehicle, not the effortWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 08:28 - He automated himself out 20:56 - Too many hats 30:07 - If you hired yourself 33:24 - Three clients, twelve a year 34:29 - The fear underneath 40:50 - Not life changing yet 46:56 - Being who is needed 48:26 - A lexicon of labels 51:53 - Stop optimizing the carEnter Henry's World: WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"What's the point of a safety net if I have to still play it safe?" - NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Noah Kaufman a 23-year emergency physician who walked out of the hospital system and opened KaufCare, an advanced urgent care in Denver with published prices and no insurance.This one sits on availability. What it costs a leader to be reachable by everyone. Why a man built entirely around care hears no as the withdrawal of it. And what is actually running when you say yes to every request that comes at you.Three things to take with you:Saying yes to everyone is reputation management, not opportunity managementThe real filter: how does this help me serve the people I already committed toYou do not need someone else's better idea. You need to trust the one you already haveWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 01:03 - Twenty three years, then out 04:18 - One hundred hour weeks, loved 09:20 - My clinic is my masterpiece 16:40 - Audience out, coaching starts here 21:43 - He's too busy for me 29:33 - What if no is care 30:11 - Hates ignoring, hates being ignored 35:53 - The filter he builds himself 46:18 - Stop looking under every rockEnter Noah Kaufman's World: Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | X | LinkedIn | YouTube | Website Continue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"There's no Google map to tell you how to get to your vision." — Albert ZbilyJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Albert Zbily for a live coaching session that goes at the question underneath the growth question. Albert has 700 teams, 30,000 players, and eight World Cups behind him, and he is still asking whether the next thing is possible. Niiamah refuses the question and starts from yes instead.What you'll take away:Binary questions cost you energy and return an answer you already haveThe founder who cannot be replaced is the ceiling, not the engineLetting go of control is a nervous system problem, not a hiring problemWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 05:39 - I've failed 13 times 10:22 - No Google map to vision 13:42 - What do you not see 24:36 - Serving you, not platforming you 28:00 - I want to create legacy 34:51 - I'm afraid it would fail 39:27 - Letting go is nervous system 42:12 - I don't see me 46:22 - Stop asking can I questionsEnter Albert Zbily's World: Facebook | Instagram | X | LinkedIn | YouTubeContinue into Outlier's Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"There's hidden costs to the business, and there's also hidden benefits to going through hard times." - Angela SkurtuJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Angela Skurtu; sex therapist, author, speaker, and host of the award-winning Open Bedroom Door Show.Angela has run her business for fourteen years. She came into this room wanting steadier income. What surfaced instead was a ceiling she had never tested, and the rooms that kept confirming the ceiling was real.Three things you leave with:Self-blame and market-blame are the same exit. Both leave you nothing to doTwelve experiments inside the same price band is one experiment run twelve timesYou crash when you stretch. That is regulation, not failureWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 04:20 - Bedroom to boardroom, same system 15:43 - Four clients pause, two grand 20:47 - Her most expensive offer, named 22:09 - What if competitors helped her 25:08 - She pushes back hard 28:22 - The winners you never heard 34:30 - Where is the $5,000 experiment 35:50 - Who are those people, where 42:20 - You crash when you stretchEnter Angela Skurtu's World: Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | X | LinkedIn | YouTube | WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Every single person has so much dimension in us that's not realized. Somehow, we've been convinced not to." - Matthew MazzottaJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Matthew Mazzotta. Matthew turns what a community already has into what it never thought it could have. A condemned house that unfolds into a 100-seat theater. Dog waste burning as park light. A flamingo hanging inside an airport.This one goes at the gap between the work and the story of the work. What it costs a leader to let one output be merely adequate. Why the obvious fix is usually the wrong stone to pull. What has to be true for your work to travel without you in the room.Three things to take:Curiosity is the entry fee. No spectacle, no audience.The ingredients already exist around you. Only the story is missing.Your best day at one skill is someone else's thirty percent.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 02:35 - The house that unfolds 10:45 - Dog waste on Colbert 13:36 - Curiosity makes people drop everything 23:37 - The river and the stone 28:50 - Age fifteen, door shut 33:02 - The dream never packaged 37:00 - Stone Soup 40:42 - The movie he abandoned 42:22 - The wrong stone to pullEnter Matthew Mazzotta's World:WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

Coaching an Olympic Silver Medalist to Build a Movement That Makes Her Family Stronger"I've actually been limiting myself. I need to give myself permission to be the real deal." — Jaime KomerJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Jaime Komer, an Olympic silver medalist who came wondering what to launch next. That question gets refused in the first ten minutes of coaching, and what replaces it is the thing she has been quietly running for years without ever calling it her work.This one goes into what elite performers set down to compete, why the wrong container word keeps a vision small, and what happens when a leader stops asking permission.Three things you'll take:🔥 A launch is not a business. Build the container.🔥 If the word feels wrong, the vision is capped.🔥 Don't build it so your family survives it.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 01:55 - Olympic silver, then what 06:48 - The part athletes set down 19:32 - I haven't launched in years 21:42 - Build it so family strengthens 27:59 - It feels too small 28:44 - Campfire with a K 39:06 - Not an institute, a halau 42:57 - A trunk with roots 47:02 - You are the real dealEnter Jaime Komer's World:LinkedIn | WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"You only really feel imposter syndrome when you're going after something that matters." - NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Jason Duncan for a live coaching session on the gap between the brand you built and the identity you actually live. Jason went from unemployed schoolteacher to a million-dollar company in eight years. He advises companies through their exits. He came into this room with nothing to work on. Then he asked to put a pin in identity.What you will take away:Imposter syndrome is an altitude reading, not a defect to removeBeing seen the way they see you is still their ceilingManaging your own story carries a cost nobody pricesWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 03:17 - From unemployed teacher to millionaire 09:59 - The question he couldn't answer 16:01 - Nothing left to work on 19:12 - Put a pin in identity 23:00 - Both sides of imposter syndrome 26:57 - He wouldn't even notice 32:30 - A brand, not an identity 35:26 - Why Nemo became Niiamah 52:02 - Regardless of what they seeEnter Jason Duncan's World: Facebook | Instagram | X | LinkedIn | YouTube | Website Continue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Resilience is not something you're born with. It's something you build." — Dr. Jeannelle PerkinsJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Dr. Jeannelle Perkins for a live coaching session on freedom, funding, and the price of playing by someone else's rules. A therapist of 25 years who built and sold three companies is now funded for the first time. The money arrived. The speed disappeared. This session goes after why.What you'll take away:Resilience is built in the good seasons, not only forged in the hard onesCapital can quietly cost you more freedom than it buys youA hundred teams can build your product. None of them carry your alphaWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 02:00 - Resilience is built, not born 06:15 - Brushing your teeth is resilience 16:48 - The identity she's protecting 19:43 - Three exits moved at lightspeed 21:36 - The freedom she traded away 28:56 - "It's so small" 32:08 - "I think I frightened them" 44:58 - Nobody else has your alpha 46:21 - Sitting with the word freedomEnter Dr. Jeannelle Perkins' World:Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Instead of looking for a client, maybe that's one thing I should be hunting down. A partner."Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Ramon Ray for a live coaching session about the number you pick and why you picked it. Ramon has spent thirty years in media, from two dollars and a bagel to five figures a stage. He came in wanting a two to three million dollar agency. The number was never about the market.This one goes at the ceiling every leader sets without noticing: their current picture of freedom.What you will take away:Your growth stops exactly where your definition of freedom stopsIf more revenue costs you your life, the structure is wrong, not the ambitionHire for the work you want to escape and you rebuild the trapWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live01:43 - Two dollars and a bagel04:43 - Everything mushy gets solved first10:50 - One door, many tentacles12:32 - His outsight: leverage, leverage, leverage17:54 - The million dollar ask19:19 - Three dimensions of leverage21:25 - What a bigger business costs26:46 - What if money buys freedom29:01 - Hunting a partner, not clientsEnter Ramon Ray's World:Facebook | Instagram | X | LinkedIn | WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"You will find the opportunity when you can focus your energy on what you can control." — Meridith Elliott PowellJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Meridith Elliott Powell for a live coaching conversation about what happens when your message outgrows your calendar.Meridith has spent 11 years researching why some people thrive in uncertainty while most struggle. She arrived with one question: how do you reach more people when reaching people still requires you.Three things leaders will take:Clarity is rarely the bottleneck. Meridith described her 2029 in ninety seconds, then admitted none of it exists yet.Push energy asks how do I get them. Pull energy asks where the demand already lives.The mechanism you need is usually the one you already stand on.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome YouTubeier's Edge Live01:40 - Uncertainty always leads to opportunity06:02 - When business becomes a calling09:32 - Only so much of me11:05 - Fantasy Future Now begins15:00 - Grind to flywheel18:47 - None of it exists yet22:06 - Push energy versus pull energy23:06 - The easy lift from stage28:58 - The solo warrior namedEnter Meridith Elliott Powell's World:Facebook | Instagram | X | LinkedIn | YouTube | WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"100% of all business owners are going to exit their business sometime in some way." — Marty FahnckeJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Marty Fahncke. Marty has generated over a billion dollars in sales and spent a decade buying and selling businesses. He wrote the bestseller. He built the framework. The message still is not reaching the people who need it.This session goes at the gap between being right and being heard. Why the argument never moves anyone. Why you have to be upstream of the trigger instead of waiting for the call. And what it costs a man who teaches begin with the end in mind to never do it for himself.What you'll take:- 100% of owners exit. Almost none get past the second one.- Get the buy-in before you give the help.- A legacy you never made specific is a goal you cannot hit.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live04:32 - The five Ds and a B06:32 - There is more than one exit10:58 - Most owners never exit management19:50 - Will you cooperate if helped24:32 - A bestseller that isn't landing25:36 - She thought it was worth millions29:50 - Go upstream of the trigger32:54 - The rooms he keeps deleting44:32 - Get specific or miss itEnter Marty Fahncke's World:Website | LinkedIn | Facebook | YouTubeContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Instead of asking how do we get Scott into 10 rooms at once, maybe the better question is how do we make the room Scott is already in 10 times bigger." - Scott EddyJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Scott Eddy the hospitality brand strategist who has never pitched a client in his life. Scott came in wanting more impact without more calendar, and without diluting the thing that made people pay attention in the first place. What surfaced was the belief underneath it, that value drops the second he is not personally in the room.Three things you take away:Attention is not shortening. It is being earned or it is not.You do not need ten versions of you. You need one room ten times bigger.If your brand cannot live on a website, neither can your culture.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live01:10 - Attention is earned, not shortening02:17 - Meta engineers what you watch06:11 - Giving as the growth engine14:41 - Impact, income, or identity16:29 - You can't scale soul19:17 - The Disney exception22:03 - Principles scale, personality doesn't29:32 - The fear of letting go34:36 - Make the room 10x biggerEnter Scott Eddy's World:Facebook | Instagram | X | Linkedin | WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Ninety percent of the task is making sure we're addressing the right problem." — Niiamah Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Brandon Neely for a live coaching conversation on what happens when a leader decides his sharpest capability is the problem. It goes after why an answer someone did not arrive at themselves gets rejected like a transplanted organ. And it goes after what to do when a client says "just tell me what to do," and you say no.What you'll take away:- Why the strength you are trying to turn down is usually the one to upgrade- Your clients are not beginners; they are experts in the wrong subject- Sell them the first step instead of refusing the fast laneWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live 01:24 - Every system is already broken 02:52 - Coffee, poverty, going upstream 05:15 - Four floods, one saved business 08:42 - You can't overflow running empty 14:26 - The ask: stop teaching everything 17:35 - Answers you cannot install 25:13 - Master's degree, kindergarten audience 32:45 - Tell me what to do 34:32 - The process is the prescriptionEnter Brandon Neely's World:WebsiteContinue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"I have all these people I know, and I've never asked for help ever from anybody." - John K. CoyleJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and John K. Coyle for a live coaching session. John is a five-time TEDx speaker, a former world-ranked speed skater, and the author of Design for Strengths. He has never lost a room in ten years. He has also never asked anyone for anything. This session goes at the gap between being excellent and being known. It looks at what happens when the athlete's operating system, head down and work harder, hits the ceiling of a business that runs on other people. And it takes apart the difference between a small ask that stalls and a large ask that moves.Three things leaders take away:The bigger ask is the easier ask. Small requests feel like begging. Large ones feel like a gift.Fixing your weaknesses is how you go backward. John has the record to prove it.You cannot read your own label from inside the jar. Expertise does not exempt you.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live00:46 - Twelfth to thirty-fourth in two years02:33 - Your strength has a weakness attached04:28 - Small moments reset your trajectory07:03 - The accidental exponential life08:13 - Risk is the memory driver11:52 - Twenty-five gigs to a hundred13:36 - Ten years without a follow-up14:01 - Eighty percent saw him live15:48 - You do not need helpEnter into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"We cannot solve high-level problems from the low level and hope it trickles its way up." — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Andrew Frazier. Andrew wants to do for small business growth what the credit score did for banks. He has the framework. He has seventeen years and a thousand business owners behind it. He is still pitching one advisor at a time. This session goes after the gap between the size of the ambition and the size of the entry point.What you will take away:Clarity is rarely the bottleneck. Courage is. You already know the path you are avoiding.You cannot solve a high-level problem from the low level and hope it trickles up. Match the entry point to the outcome.Every plan built entirely around you has a ceiling shaped like you. How do I becomes how do we.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live02:00 - The credit score for small business05:05 - What would make this life-changing06:07 - Not clearer. More courageous11:50 - This is not the edge16:08 - Nobody in an emergency needs to understand22:38 - Don't go after the giants25:17 - What governs the institutions39:39 - What level are you prepared to lead43:58 - Does it need to be youEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"The act of invitation is changing the world." - NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Ed Brenninger. Ed has built a forty-year career on introducing people to people. Approaching three hundred unscripted conversations with local leaders nobody has heard of. He wants one percent of the world taking personal initiative in their own communities. He has never once asked any of them to host him. This one goes at the ask, the product underneath the format, and what has to change in the design when the number you picked is bigger than your calendar.Waiting to be invited is a decision, not a strategy.You are not selling the format. You are selling people being seen.If it only works when you are in the room, it is a schedule, not a movement.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live01:00 - Three hundred strangers, no celebrities03:07 - One percent of the world13:33 - What would make this life-changing16:23 - You are not selling conversation20:06 - This vision is too small24:14 - You are not asking people25:27 - Niiamah introduces Ed out loud32:06 - Invite yourself to the first44:50 - Do not become the bottleneckEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Leads just plunged, and you know, without a parachute, and I can't find a way to get lift again." - Jae GruenkeJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Jae Gruenke. Jae has spent 24 years teaching runners to stop fighting their bodies. First-timers to Olympians. Then search changed, and the leads stopped. This session is not about leads. It is about what happens when a master loses the felt sense of her own business, keeps translating herself down to be understood, and starts making every decision from a defensive crouch.Three things you leave with:- You cannot steer a business you can no longer feel. Get the sense back before you pick the tactic.- The method you sell is the method you are refusing to use on yourself.- Being found is not a gift. It is a move you have not made yet.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live05:39 - What would make this life-changing06:56 - Your business as your body09:28 - The cliff in November 202411:01 - Not really is not zero20:08 - Gates of the Greats30:46 - AI erased what mattered most32:58 - A gift outside her control37:52 - Learning to speak runner51:33 - Out of the crosshairsEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"You no longer have to play their game." — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and John Livesay, the keynote speaker they call the Pitch Whisperer and author of The Sale Is in the Tale. John came in wanting to double his keynotes. What surfaced was the position underneath the number. A leader who says yes to almost everything because he does not believe the next one is coming. This session goes after the gap between the game you brought and the game actually available to you.Three things you leave with:• The goal you name out loud is usually one level too low• The genius people pay you for is the one you never turn on yourself• Imposter syndrome is an altitude reading, not a defectWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Podcast01:17 - The self-esteem roller coaster07:05 - Invisible, interesting, irresistible13:25 - He wants to double keynotes14:39 - Bureaus, referrals, and the block22:14 - Answering the question too low23:45 - Fifty requests, not twenty-four29:56 - Never let himself think that34:46 - The imposter voice shows up41:20 - The quest is onEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"If he's not getting anything out of this, it is work only." — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Marc Champagne, author of Personal Socrates and host of Behind the Human. Marc has put his work in front of ninety million people. He does not count a single one of them.This session goes after the gap between reach and return. What happens when a leader builds something enormous and receives nothing back from it. Why the mind ends up choosing the direction instead of executing it. And what the unscalable move looks like when the scalable one is quietly draining you.What leaders take from this:- Reach is not return. Millions touched, zero gathered.- Refusing to count what you built means every goal restarts at zero.- The move that does not make sense on paper is usually the one that pays.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live02:29 - Where Mental Fitness Came From09:31 - The 250 Million Goal11:22 - The 90 Million He Discounts13:40 - What Do You Lose17:15 - Give Your Mind a Rest18:13 - Heart Fitness Enters the Room25:25 - The Mind Runs Everything29:53 - How Often Do You Gather39:57 - Artist Inside a Business SystemEnter Marc Champgne's World:Konect Continue into Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"If we're in a foxhole together, you have my right side. I never ever ever have to worry about my right side." — LenJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Len May for a live coaching session. Len built a company to find root cause. Genetics, biomarkers, real prevention instead of another pill. Then he spent years treating a symptom inside his own leadership team. This session covers what happens when equity fails to produce ownership. What a partner actually is, as opposed to a person you like. And why the same conversation, repeated for years, is never a communication problem.Three things leaders take from this one:- Equity does not buy ownership behavior. If you keep re-incentivizing, the incentive was never the issue.- If you have to check your right side, you do not have a partner.- The conversation you keep having is the diagnosis.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live03:38 - What Len Is Building19:47 - Naming His Own Root Cause24:12 - How Can I Help36:43 - The Question Nobody Asked37:47 - Partner Or Employee43:20 - The Foxhole Test51:44 - Treating A Partner Like Staff54:10 - Push Versus Pull58:05 - Raise The BarEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"It's not that you're perfect 100% of the time. It's that when you step out of integrity with yourself, and you're aware of it, you go in and you clean it up." — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Greg Viti for a live coaching conversation. Greg can create demand anywhere. He walks into a hardware store and leaves with business. He has a seventy-unit building in play, and family money is circling a high-rise. He is also still writing his own contracts. This session goes after the reason the cheap work never leaves a leader's desk. It is not time. It is not the absence of good people. It is comfort.What you will take from it:Why you keep the work you are best at, and why that is the exact work that has to goThe difference between operations and administration, and why naming the role wrong installs your own ceilingYour constraint is not opportunity. It is how much can move through you.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live00:51 - The business is already waiting02:05 - Hard to help through gloom03:36 - The friend who coached him young06:27 - Building a team now09:30 - Feedback is a gift17:47 - Letting go of control21:07 - Fifty dollar an hour work21:47 - Handing the paperwork to Susan23:15 - Operations is not administrationEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Ask for what you want, not what you think you can get." - NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and J Mase III. J Mase is a poet, filmmaker, and immersive world designer building a ten-year project. The music is written. The workshop is staged. The money is not there. This session gets into what happens when a leader keeps applying for funding instead of asking for it, and what it costs to size your vision to what someone else can already picture.What you take away:- Why the size of your ask gets decided before you open your mouth- How to build the world before the money arrives- What one project big enough to hold all of you does that five good ones never willWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live02:48 - What A Cultural Worker Is12:08 - What Would Make This Life-Changing18:00 - One Project, Ten Years26:15 - A Hundred Thousand A Week29:30 - A World Of Mundane Lives32:39 - Model The Future Now33:30 - The MacKenzie Scott Ask35:15 - Have You Actually Asked52:34 - Build The Audience FirstEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"You have the one thing that AI will never have. You're actually human." - NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Elaine for a live coaching session. Elaine has spent decades helping caregivers carry what most people never see. Then the funding disappeared and the business went with it. This session is about what happens next.What you'll take away:- Three customers is the same as zero. Name the one who pays.- The care that stops at your customer never reaches the person writing the check.- Fun is not a reward for later. It is the signal telling you where your leverage already is.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live04:40 - What would change everything today05:00 - "I want to be human"12:34 - The business that disappeared overnight19:04 - Three customers, no named buyer32:55 - Where the care goes cold43:13 - "I'm stuck"49:36 - Rebuilding in COVID was fun59:50 - Like digging post holes1:06:11 - The doors already openEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"I think you're playing for the middle of the road right now, and you're getting middle of the road results." - NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and David Reich for a live coaching session on the gap between being good in the room and getting into the room. David has performed magic since he was twelve, taught at Harvard and MIT, and has a TED talk. He still cannot bring himself to ask for a real fee.What you take away:- Every conversation you enter as the seller is a request. The reversal is one sentence long.- Hedging your bets is how you guarantee the middle of the road, in pricing and everywhere else.- Confidence you only feel after the sale is confidence that never gets you hired.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live00:43 - The magician who went corporate06:23 - Candid, authentic, and vulnerable11:10 - Why haven't I heard of you15:23 - Spray, pray, and carpet bomb18:11 - Take me to twelve years old22:47 - Every room he walks into26:15 - Selling from the wrong seat32:34 - You are in the seller position36:18 - Playing for the middle of the roadEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Honor every instance of you, rather than just the instance that's living right now." — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Michelle Masters, author of Wired for Money (wiredformoney.com) and the teacher behind wiredformagic.com. This one goes at the wiring underneath money, worth, and identity. Beliefs do not live in the conscious mind, which is why conscious effort never reaches them. Michelle has been changing them at the root since 1994.Then the conversation turns on her. What happens to a leader who has stayed quiet for thirty years right as the work demands she be seen.Three things you leave with:- Affirmations stack on top of the old loop. They never replace it.- You are not a project. Box ticked. The only live question is what you want.- The parts you leave outside the room are what make the work lonely.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live10:46 - Finding the work at 3216:37 - You will change the world20:51 - Old wiring in the basement28:02 - Box ticked already, what now34:28 - The name that called her42:38 - Vastness versus the boutique identity46:00 - Quiet a lot and lonely49:30 - Who wrote earth's rules53:29 - What is this Michelle forEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"I've been so obsessed with outcomes and achievements and performance that it gets in the way of actually really listening to what's wanting to emerge." — Mike RobbinsJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Mike Robbins for a live coaching session. Mike has spent 26 years at the top of his field. Five books. Stages at Google, Wells Fargo, Microsoft. Drafted by the Yankees out of high school and by the Royals out of Stanford. Something else has been trying to come out of him for two years. He has been clearing space for it since last fall and has planted nothing. This session goes after why.What you get:- Why getting good at something quietly removes your permission to begin anything else- The reason "new" is the word keeping you at zero, and what replaces it- How to tell which season you are actually in, so you stop doing spring work in winterWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live02:06 - Something new wants to emerge05:20 - Drafted twice then the injury08:33 - The website names his past12:23 - Starting at the beginning again17:40 - Banned from doing anything new18:21 - What your younger self says25:40 - Market share does not matter35:12 - Clearing space and planting nothing41:23 - The two outsights landEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"None of us were born in business, we're born to live." - John NieuwenburgJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and John Nieuwenburg. John is seventy-two. He keeps twenty-five to thirty clients, works three and a half days a week, and turns the rest away. He tripled the business after 2018 and then chose to stop.This session sits on the order of operations most leaders run backwards. Decide the life. Work out what would have to be true about the business for that life to exist. Build only that. It also names what stops leaders from doing it, and it is not the plan.Three things you take with you:- Visions are not authored. They arrive, and curiosity is what keeps you in the room when one does.- The owner is the ceiling. All business coaching is personal coaching in disguise.- Most leaders quit at six months because the root canal is fixed and a toothache is survivable.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live04:42 - Seventy two and turning clients away06:27 - What that answer actually costs11:40 - The purpose of a business13:32 - Why he is happy15:15 - A backyard in Phoenix19:40 - Insatiable curiosity as the trait23:28 - Eldest of eight, always a teacher32:12 - The business needs a better owner35:07 - Root canal, then toothacheEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"This discomfort is not a bad thing, it just is." — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Shirley Billigmeier for a live Outlier's Edge conversation about what your impulses are actually telling you. Most leaders treat discomfort as a state to end. Shirley makes the case that it's a message with content in it, and that the reason you never hear it is that your fix works too well. She's been on this since the early 70s, roughly two decades before medicine named the gut brain, after a PhD program refused to let her cross lanes, and she went out alone anyway.Three things you'll take away:- The urge to act is the flashing light. The information is underneath it.- Encouragement does nothing under pressure. Inventory what's actually true instead.- The signal you think you lost is unlistened to, not gone.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on Youtube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge00:58 - The chatter she couldn't shut off02:58 - Refused a PhD, went alone05:10 - Building one person at a time08:06 - The hardest part named09:59 - Niiamah asks for her discomfort10:54 - She reframes it as message12:03 - The student texts instead13:15 - Truth-based, not affirmations17:58 - He answers four instantlyEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Once we share it, it loses its power." Cathy NesbittJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Cathy Nesbitt for a live coaching conversation. Cathy has built a global movement and confirmed with the founder of Laughter Yoga that nobody on earth is doing the thing she believes she was made for. She still has not started it. Six years. This session goes after why.What you get:▸ Why the obstacle a leader names out loud is almost never the real one▸ What it costs to put the true answer on the form instead of the acceptable one▸ How confirmed proof of a wide open space can sit untouched for yearsWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Shape Your World Live03:20 - The vision from the forest06:00 - Be moved or lead nothing07:50 - What she wants to build08:54 - Laughter is not comedy12:06 - Serving bigger is a dodge16:17 - The cell phone excuse18:45 - Left it off the form29:13 - Where the guilt is running52:25 - What she takes awayEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"It's not about doing 10 times more, it's just like receiving 10 times more." — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Wayne Veldsman for a live coaching conversation about the cost of being the hardest worker in the room. Wayne builds legacy for a living. He runs marketing for nonprofits and coaches the leaders inside them. A client recently told him he works harder than anyone she knows. He took it as a compliment for about two days. This session sits inside what that praise actually measures, what over-delivery costs when nothing captures it, and what a goal has to look like before effort stops working as a strategy.Three things you leave with:- Effort is not evidence. Being the hardest worker proves nothing moved.- 10x and 10% are the same question asked from opposite ends.- Doing more for free is a business model, not generosity.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge01:53 - Legacy is what happens today06:42 - Mental, physical, financial daily check11:28 - The coaching starts here18:34 - His limiting belief about money23:15 - "You work harder than anybody"28:50 - Seems like you do nothing29:02 - Ten times or ten percent32:14 - Receiving more, not doing more45:50 - Hard work cannot be enoughEnter Outlier’s Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"I really don't want everybody, I want the right people." — Terri LevineJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Dr. Terri Levine. Terri has a community of ten thousand people. She fills her rooms fifteen at a time, by phone. This one is about what happens when a leader stops marketing and starts choosing. Curation over reach. Saying out loud what you are great at. Building the business around life instead of the other way around.Three things you leave with:- Why a bigger list makes a room harder to fill, not easier- What it actually costs to claim you are the best at something- How to design a room by what you leave out of itWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge01:59 - The retreat she is building03:13 - Why her, why now04:35 - Claiming what she does best06:17 - Going back to yourself08:39 - Building it completely differently11:08 - She stopped over filling retreats15:41 - How she actually enrolls people18:05 - Thirty clients in thirty days24:17 - Life design before business designEnter Outlier's Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Can we get it done without us having to be there?" — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Stephanie Garibaldi for a live coaching conversation where she came in asking how to get storytelling into every public high school in the country. The conversation never gets there. That is the point.What it covers. The gap between the size of your mission and the size of the machine carrying it. Why the work you are best at ends up last in line.Three things you leave with:▪ The ambition is not the problem. The capacity is.▪ If you cannot say what you do, nobody can take it off you.▪ Ten percent of the effort forces answers that more effort never finds.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge00:41 - Terrified sixteen year old04:26 - The word that meant pregnant12:18 - Storytelling in every high school17:37 - The backstage pass begins19:48 - She asks for an idea24:11 - If I go down31:14 - Ten percent of the effort35:41 - Train the trainers37:40 - Write down everything you doEnter Outlier's Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"I know what your website says. I know what your bio says. But who do you say you are, and do I believe you?" — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and R. Karl Hebenstreit for a live coaching session on what happens when a leader has built the body of work but has not yet claimed it out loud.Karl came in wanting bigger stages. What surfaced was ownership. Four books, a TEDx talk, twenty years inside global organizations, and the sentence still sitting underneath all of it was "I'm not experienced enough."This one goes at the gap between what you have already built and what you are willing to say is yours.Inside:- Being called the thing is not the same as owning it- More reach will not fix a message you have not claimed- The leverage is with the leaders already awake, not the ones you are trying to convinceWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on Youtube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge01:00 - Karl names himself on air02:52 - The reintroduction he didn't expect10:47 - The division that doubled yearly18:57 - Now we find the edge25:15 - Why isn't this here already25:36 - I'm not experienced enough26:42 - Movement leader to movement leader34:47 - You're already in the surgery39:07 - Go find the already awakeFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"Model the future now." NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Dr. Anthony Fleg for a live coaching conversation about what it costs to stay behind your own work.Anthony practices medicine backwards from the entire system. Where medicine asks what is wrong with you, he asks what is right. He built a nonprofit that ran for twenty years and kept his name off all of it. Then he names the thing he has never said out loud to anyone.What you get:- Why every deficit is a strength in disguise, and what that changes in a room- The difference between a thin goal and a thick goal, and why the thick one is worth failing at- What it actually costs to keep your name off your own workWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on Youtube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast00:33 - From Nutcracker to opera director04:59 - Asked to lead the company17:37 - What life changing would require21:31 - You already know the answer22:32 - The movie opera she wants26:22 - Her fear of vanity31:22 - Too nervous to start32:39 - Experience is the wrong question43:45 - Energy is not limitedFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

"What if you're already ready." — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Kelsie Furst, executive and artistic director of Loveland Opera Theater.Kelsey never set out to run an opera company. She came up through the chorus, auditioned pregnant, said yes every time she was asked, and rose. Now she wants to make something nobody will ask her for. This conversation is about the gap between the leader everyone recruits and the artist waiting for permission to start her own work.What you'll take away:- Why the question of "enough experience" is the wrong question for a leader who has never qualified in advance- How the constraints you carry from your old game quietly rewrite the rules of your new one- The difference between a project that drains you and one that pays you backWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on Youtube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast00:33 - From Nutcracker to opera director04:59 - Asked to lead the company17:37 - What life changing would require21:31 - You already know the answer22:32 - The movie opera she wants26:22 - Her fear of vanity31:22 - Too nervous to start32:39 - Experience is the wrong question43:45 - Energy is not limitedFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

“The question is not just how do you raise more money. It’s how do you make the mission bigger than you?” — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Meg Lowman for a live coaching conversation where they explore what happens when a mission becomes bigger than the person who started it.This session explores rainforest conservation, the challenge of saving forests faster, and why funding alone may not solve the problem. Meg and Niiamah explore succession, systematizing outreach, building partnerships, and creating experiences that bring influential people into the treetops and into the mission.You’ll take away:- Why a powerful mission can become too dependent on one person- How immersive experiences can turn awareness into action- Why scaling impact requires more than raising more moneyWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on Youtube!--Timestamps:00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge00:43 - Half the species live above03:18 - Only the bottom six feet11:14 - $150,000 became $30 million17:02 - Ten forests is not enough28:26 - There is no arbornaut school32:10 - She calls it luck35:31 - Random is just probability37:59 - Nobody tells it like me43:23 - Seeing is believingFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Steven for a throwback live coaching session that pulls apart one of the quietest traps exceptional leaders fall into: keeping clients at arm's length to protect a professional persona.This conversation moves through:Why striving keeps you outside the room you're trying to enterThe hidden cost of selling expertise by performing impermeabilityWhat changes the moment your clients become family, not transactionsWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world.--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--00:00 — Welcome to Shape Your World Live02:48 — Six Agreements Before We Begin11:53 — Three Years From Now Vision15:20 — Friends Are My Family18:33 — Service Over Striving20:04 — No Separation Pure Connection22:38 — Business As Wrestling Match26:01 — Where Family Lives In Body28:30 — The Arm's Length Trap30:00 — Love Removes All FearSubscribe for more live coaching with leaders shaping the next era of humanity. Drop a comment with the moment that landed for you. Join the community at skool.com/outlier.Enter Outlier's Edge World:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild CommunityEpisode originally published on: 9/15/2019

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and two exceptional leaders, Stacey and Kai, for a throwback live coaching session that goes straight at the judgment running underneath the next level. This episode unpacks what actually keeps leaders stuck at the door of their next chapter. Not the strategy. The judgment. The pleasing. The self-abandonment that masquerades as humility, service, and "being a good person."What you will take away:Why self-judgment is the real ceiling on your next level, not skill or strategyHow perfectionism is a form of self-abandonment dressed up as protectionThe reframe that ends the pleasing loop: there is no testWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 — Welcome to Shape Your World Live 02:50 — Stacey enters the next level game 05:30 — The vision she has not spoken 10:20 — Who am I to think this 14:00 — Stepping naked into the light 20:00 — Kai on the hot seat 23:30 — The wound under the pleasing 27:00 — Same pattern new difficulty level 29:30 — The gifts hiding in the wound 36:20 — Abandonment dressed as perfectionism 42:00 — The coaching call she walked out of 46:30 — How leaders carry their own safety 57:30 — There is no test 59:00 — Dance instead of performIf this lands, subscribe, drop a comment with the line that hit you hardest, and join the community of leaders building movements around their difference at skool.com/outlier.Follow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild CommunityEpisode Originally Published on: 9/8/2019

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Alexis Arden for a throwback live coaching session that exposes a pattern most leaders never name out loud. Alexis has a global movement she can see in full detail. She also cannot imagine starting it. Underneath that contradiction lives a vow she made as a child, never to let career come before family. Watching A-list clients pay that exact price for a decade only welded the rule deeper. Now her own vision is the thing the rule is firing against.This conversation unpacks why the vision itself is the problem, not her courage.What you'll take away:Why the cost you fear most is usually a rule written by a younger version of youHow to spot the life preserver you have already outgrownWhy a vision that asks you to abandon your top value is not the vision yetWelcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 — Welcome to Shape Your World Live 02:30 — What this is all for 06:50 — Alexis enters the room 08:35 — The decade behind her 11:00 — Why she does this work 14:00 — Naming Alexis as outlier 17:30 — A world changing conversation 19:18 — The vision feels impossible 24:30 — What's underneath the fear 27:00 — The worthiness question 29:50 — The mother guilt cost 36:00 — What has to die 39:50 — The life preserver story 44:00 — The childhood vow 47:30 — The vision isn't big enough 50:10 — One practice to sit withFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild CommunitySubscribe. Drop a comment with the vow you are ready to retire. Come build with us at skool.com/outlier.Episode originally posted on: 7/7/2020

"You living your life is the solution." — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Holly for a throwback live coaching session that takes apart the most common trap exceptional leaders fall into: building a life plan that requires someone else's permission to activate.This session goes deep on:The borrowed timeline. What happens when your next move is locked behind another person's yes.The career placeholder. Why the version of your work you describe in public is often a cover for the one you haven't given yourself permission to name.The premium hidden inside your limits. How scarcity of time, energy, and access becomes the reason you charge more, not the reason you charge less.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps: 00:00 — Welcome to Shape Your World Live 01:48 — The six agreements for next level 08:32 — What scares Holly the most 10:42 — When your plan needs someone's permission 19:14 — Playing without the plan 20:55 — The assumption running the whole thing 24:23 — Flipping the income assumption 29:09 — Why limitation makes you premium 34:38 — Do you actually want this 49:55 — The niche hiding in your routine 58:05 — Live your life and invite people inFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild CommunitySubscribe. Drop a comment with what landed. Join the leaders shaping the next era of humanity at skool.com/outlier.Episode Originally Published on: 9/22/2019

"If you want to hold on to your pride and ego, it ain't worth a damn. Go out and get what you want. I don't care. You beg. I don't care." — TheronJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Theron Washington for a Throwback live coaching session that goes somewhere most coaching conversations never go. Theron came in, calling himself a Mind Scrambler. He left with his own mind scrambled.This session moves through the architecture of an underdog's life: bankruptcy, welfare, the sheriff at the door, $12 to his name, and the day everything shifted. Underneath the story is a deeper pattern about how leaders use fear, doubt, and opposition as fuel and what happens when that engine stops working.What you'll take away:Why "be more you" is freedom and "be you" is a trapThe difference between fighting against your past and fighting for your futureHow to upgrade your doubts so they pull you forward instead of holding you backIf you are a leader who knows you carry something different, this is your room.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 — Welcome to Shape Your World Live 02:55 — Be Point One Percent More You 04:48 — Even Your Joy Is Intimidating 08:23 — Becoming King T 17:00 — Accidental Entrepreneur At Twenty Two 24:13 — The Sheriff At The Door 31:10 — Twelve Dollars And A Choice 36:30 — Open Energy Versus Closed 43:33 — Inventing Salsa Aerobics 58:38 — Fight For Better DoubtsFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild CommunitySubscribe. Drop a comment with what landed. Join the community at skool.com/outlier.Episode originally published on: 5/2/2020

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and April Cunningham for a throwback live coaching session about what happens when the compass you have been using to find your edge stops pointing anywhere new. April left an 18-year tech career, built two businesses, went live online, and started dating again after divorce. She came in asking: what's left to conquer?What surfaced was bigger than the next mountain.In this session:Why fear stops being a useful compass once you have mastered itThe hidden cost of protecting other people from your messWhere the next edge actually lives when the visible ones are goneIf you are a leader who has already done the scary, visible things and you are wondering what is next, this one is for you.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a difference in the world. --Check out the video episode on YouTube!--Timestamps:00:00 — Welcome to Shape Your World Live 02:03 — April's outer journey unpacked 06:21 — What would make this conversation matter 09:30 — Fear no longer points north 11:02 — The celebration April skipped 15:55 — A Florence afternoon she never honored 22:18 — Honesty becomes the new compass 26:25 — The savior complex gets named 30:55 — Why messy women trigger her 38:40 — The edge is not in businessFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild CommunitySubscribe. Drop a comment with what your old compass was. Join the community at skool.com/outlier.Episode Originally Published on: 3/22/2020