Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong

Niiamah Ashong
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Outlier's Edge Podcast is a live coaching podcast where we come together in conversation to work through the challenges and apply the gifts of being a unique tribe of high-performing, high-impact entrepreneurs, changemakers, and leaders who choose to play a bigger game of impact, influence, and income than we've ever play before. What's an Outlier? An Outlier is a high-performing, high-impact leader who often is: One of the Only: Thrive in systems/environments that were not designed to have someone like them succeed, One of the First: Thrive doing things no one else has ever done or dares to even try One of a Kind: Thrive on their unconventional and independent terms regardless of what others around them are doing THIS IS A PODCAST FOR PEOPLE WHO: - aren't afraid of "playing small", but are scared of "thinking medium". - Are exploring new frontiers in society or their field - Are at the top of their field or business against typical odds and expectations from others like them, - Are taking an independent and unconventional approach outside of the status-quo - know that their mindsets, limiting beliefs, and other internal struggles are actually shared with other leaders who stand for a new vision of the future and change the world for those they lead HOW EACH PODCAST CONVERSATION IS GOING DOWN *Part 1- Your Journey* Features the unique stories of a different trailblazing leader as we explore the *inner* journey they went on as they were creating the outer results we all got to see. *Part 2 - Your Edge* Since this group of people are already out on the edge, traditional information doesn’t always serve them. They need new insights and perspectives, and the best way I know how to do that is through coaching. Each guest will have the option to play on their edge and get coaching around a challenge or a possibility they are working towards. I'm playing on my edge here as well. I have typically reserved coaching for my high-performing, high-impact clients as closed door sessions. It keeps my clients safe, and it keeps me safe. *But safe doesn't change the world.* Join us as we choose to be both safe AND brave by showcasing the impact coaching has to help us achieve belonging, possibility, and inclusion. Time to play at a higher level! *** Bonus since you made it this far *** Here's a special gift to support you for 14 days in navigating what lies beyond YOUR edge as a high-impact, high-performing leader https://outliersedge.com/oeguestpass

  1. 4d ago

    Find the Mission Story That Moves People | Brittni Cosgrove, Bryn Drescher | Ep 984

    "The person who beats the drum of authenticity the most is probably the one that's still discovering who their authentic self is." – Brynn Drescher Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong), Brittni Cosgrove and Bryn Drescher for a live coaching session about the gap between being a great coach and the world knowing it. Two leaders bring the same buried problem: their best work happens in private. The container they've been using is too small for the impact they're built for. What the session covers: - The mission that lands versus the one that doesn't. - The accidental brand you've been building without noticing. - Why privacy costs more than public. - The pragmatic mind that kills your voice on camera. 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 03:30 — Brittni wants her voice unleashed 06:00 — Energy versus mission alignment 14:10 — Little girl breaks her open 17:30 — Brynn coaches Brittni back 22:30 — Why her voice goes flat 25:50 — The accidental brand discovery 32:00 — Privacy costs more than public 37:00 — Stop broadcasting start coaching 44:00 — Coaching is not a hat Follow Outlier's Edge Socials: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website

    49 min

  2. Jun 5

    The Next Level Game: How to Stop Climbing the Wrong Ladder | Ep 981

    "You may not be any of the individual ingredients, but you're the pot. If there was no pot, they're just separate ingredients. You can't make a stew, you can't make a gumbo, you can't make anything from it without the pot." Join Niiamah Ashong and guest Palmer as Niiamah introduces the Next Level Game — the difference between getting better at where you are and stepping into where you're meant to be. What unfolds is a man discovering his creative gift isn't writing or directing, it's bringing the pieces together. What Palmer walks away with - A reframe from creator to convener - Fear as compass, not warning - Permission to lead without credentials - The 500x leverage of lifting others - A first action: sign up for the writing class - A practice: contribute in any way, three times - A vote of confidence in his own voice - The pot metaphor as his identity anchor 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. Timestamps: 00:00 — Too Much May and self-claiming 03:23 — The Next Level Game 07:33 — Conventional success, achieved 11:00 — Fear of instability 17:21 — Never ending truth 19:31 — Dead Poets Society reveals it 27:14 — Honoring the heart 31:11 — Jump in, contribute anyway 48:50 — The pot, not the ingredients 57:54 — 500x versus 2.5x 1:11:14 — Sign up for the writing class Follow Outlier's Edge Socials: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website Episode Originally Published on 8/20/2019

    1h 19m

  3. Jun 3

    Your Impossible Goal Starts With Identity | Diane Cunningham Ellis, Pauline Victoria, Nate Guadagni

    "It's not about the impossible goal. It's about the impossible becoming, like who am I going to become and allow myself to become, to step into it fully. Because I don't need permission from anybody else other than myself." — Pauline Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) with guests, Diane Cunningham Ellis, Pauline Victoria and Nate Guadagni for the return of live group coaching on Shape Your World Live. Three outliers. Three real edges. One hour of transformation in real time. In this episode we go deep on impossible goals, seasonal change in business and life, invisible impact, the identity work that never ends, and what it actually takes to stop hiding from your potential. No scripts. No highlight reels. Just leaders showing up and going there. 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 Playing safe kills growth 02:30 Why Diane showed up 05:40 Pauline's impossible vision 08:00 Nate wants bigger impact 12:00 Impossible goal reframe 18:00 Diane's real answer revealed 22:00 Seasons of change explain 26:00 Nate's invisible impact problem 36:00 Pauline's identity upheaval 47:00 Closing insights from all three Follow Outlier's Edge Socials: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website

    52 min

  4. May 30

    A Masterclass in Receiving Appreciation | Stacy Louise Christopher | Ep 975

    "It's almost like there's a mirror in front of me, and the mirror was cracked or dirty or smudged. And then you just came in and you're like, hey Niiamah, you do know you're looking at a dirty mirror, right? Let me just clean that off." Join Niiamah Ashong and guest Stacy Louise Christopher in this throwback conversation as she walks him through ten acknowledgments live on camera, naming every dodge as it happens. Most exceptional leaders are catastrophic at receiving acknowledgment; they deflect, minimize, joke past it. This is 48 minutes of Niiamah being walked through it slowly, naming every dodge as it happens. By the end of it he walksaway with: - A cleaner mirror - Permission to own his actual lever - Proof that his way is working - A felt experience of being seen, not saved - A blueprint for receiving as fuel, not threat - A return to center - The Dolly Parton line as a north star 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. Timestamps: 00:00 — The setup and the stakes 02:51 — Why receiving is practice 05:50 — First acknowledgment, first deflection 08:01 — She knows I'm disarming 11:55 — The imposter spike hits 12:51 — Being seen being seen 15:56 — Courageous vulnerability as model 19:04 — Soul food, not small 30:49 — Body lighting up, pulsing 38:45 — The dirty mirror moment Follow Outlier's Edge Socials: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website Episode Originally published on: 8/18/2019

    48 min

  5. May 29

    You Got Everything You Wanted Now What | Vicky Vaswani | Ep 974

    "Success is going to sleep every single night with my heart, mind, body, and soul at peace with one another." — Vicky Vaswani Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Vicky Vaswani for a throwback conversation about what happens when you get everything right and still feel flat. Vicky tracks his life across five areas every month, has a personal definition of success built around heart, mind, body, and soul at peace, and is working toward living to 100. He is extraordinary at achieving what he sets out to achieve. And the question this episode quietly asks: when you've engineered every outcome, where have you left room for the things that genuinely surprise you? Featuring the story of a woman who executed everything perfectly and said, "I feel pretty good," and why that broke Niiamah's heart. 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. Timestamps: 00:00 — Vicky Vaswani introduced 04:20 — Goal to live to 100 07:00 — The Better Than Normal movement 10:30 — Cousin Hitesh: 24 hours to live at birth 14:00 — Five life areas monthly review 17:10 — Success: heart mind body soul at peace 20:30 — I want it all no compromise 26:25 — Too much on the plate right now 34:45 — The neutral philosophy explained 38:00 — Hawaii and the flat feeling 44:00 — Alive but feeling dead inside 47:30 — Where is the space for surprise 52:00 — The synchronicity invitation Follow Outlier's Edge Socials: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website Episode originally published on: 8/16/2019

    57 min

  6. May 28

    You Won't Feel Enough Until You Begin | Ep 973

    "It's so much easier, and people actually want to help people who don't know things." — Justin Jobity Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Justin Jobity, for a throwback live coaching conversation about what it takes to start over in a completely new field with zero qualifications. Justin spent a decade in education technology, building someone else's startup from two guys with an idea into a sold company. When the exit came, so did the question he had been avoiding: what do I actually want? In this session, Justin and Niiamah unpack how convenient jobs create quicksand, why being the dumbest person in the room is a superpower, and why the mask you hide behind might be the most honest version of yourself. 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 Timestamps: 00:00 — Reinventing a 25-year identity 03:29 — Meet Justin Jobity 06:54 — Moved to Singapore at 23 with nothing 10:08 — Quicksand of convenient careers 16:25 — Dumbest person in the room 21:35 — Fake it gets you in then drop it 25:42 — Became president with zero credentials 31:00 — Bought the Germany ticket anyway 37:18 — Feeling enough to create 41:05 — Three things done not left undone 43:37 — The avatar the mask the authentic self 51:25 — One story one song just start 58:21 — Get your house in order firstYou said: Justin keeps waiting to feel like enough before he'll let himself create. Follow Outlier's Edge Socials: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website Episode originally published on: 6/5/2019

    59 min

  7. May 27

    Every Time You Were Just YOU, It Worked | Ep 972

    "I'm not good at helping people reduce who they are in order to be accepted by the majority. I'm great at taking someone from outsider to outlier." — Niiamah Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Jaspreet Dua for a throwback live coaching conversation that reframes how outliers find their next opportunity. JD has built his entire career through chance encounters: walking into a Bose recruitment fair in a golf t-shirt, polo matches, a random tweet. He calls it luck. Niiamah calls it something else entirely. In this session, JD asks how to sell himself better to the conventional market. Niiamah's answer will reset how you think about your career: you have never sold yourself, every time you didn't something extraordinary happened, and trying to get better at the wrong game will only make things worse. If you're the most interesting person in the room, you're in the wrong 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. Timestamps: 00:00 — Wrong room wrong league 03:17 — Podcast coaching format explained 07:32 — Meet JD Jaspreet Dua 10:08 — Mom's cancer changes everything 14:31 — Bose job in a golf shirt 19:55 — Every job from chance encounters 23:40 — Being interested not interesting 28:31 — The 5% versus the 95% 37:00 — What would make the biggest impact 48:30 — Stop selling be the buyer 01:14:00 — How else can they meet you 01:34:30 — Never stop reinventing yourself Follow Outlier's Edge Socials: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website Episode originally published on: 6/4/2019

    1h 39m

  8. May 26

    What Drives You When There's No One to Prove Wrong | Ep 971

    "The hard thing is not making it happen. The hard thing is making the decision." — Dom Moss Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Dom, for a throwback live coaching session recorded during the early days of COVID-19 in New York City. Dom has moved from France to London to Barcelona to Manila to Bali to Hong Kong to New York, gotten a green card from scratch, and made every impossible thing happen. But the book she is writing, the one everyone around her believes in, is not moving. In this session, Niiamah finds out why: the medium is not the book. She is. And the message she needs to hear is not "shine." It is "you shine." Not a command. A fact. 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. Timestamps: 00:02 — Leading through COVID uncertainty 08:28 — Meet Dom Moss, coach in NYC 11:21 — From France to New York: impossible 15:08 — The why not the how 19:36 — Be selfish in this conversation 24:12 — The book she cannot push forward 26:33 — Shine versus you shine distinction 30:02 — Unsettled when it's not self-imposed 35:18 — When it's bigger than you 43:54 — The only challenge left is me 48:03 — You are the medium not the book 51:40 — Rebel versus maverick distinction 54:22 — What drives you without the challenge Follow Outlier's Edge Socials: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website Episode Originally published on: 8/6/2020

    55 min
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Outlier's Edge Podcast is a live coaching podcast where we come together in conversation to work through the challenges and apply the gifts of being a unique tribe of high-performing, high-impact entrepreneurs, changemakers, and leaders who choose to play a bigger game of impact, influence, and income than we've ever play before. What's an Outlier? An Outlier is a high-performing, high-impact leader who often is: One of the Only: Thrive in systems/environments that were not designed to have someone like them succeed, One of the First: Thrive doing things no one else has ever done or dares to even try One of a Kind: Thrive on their unconventional and independent terms regardless of what others around them are doing THIS IS A PODCAST FOR PEOPLE WHO: - aren't afraid of "playing small", but are scared of "thinking medium". - Are exploring new frontiers in society or their field - Are at the top of their field or business against typical odds and expectations from others like them, - Are taking an independent and unconventional approach outside of the status-quo - know that their mindsets, limiting beliefs, and other internal struggles are actually shared with other leaders who stand for a new vision of the future and change the world for those they lead HOW EACH PODCAST CONVERSATION IS GOING DOWN *Part 1- Your Journey* Features the unique stories of a different trailblazing leader as we explore the *inner* journey they went on as they were creating the outer results we all got to see. *Part 2 - Your Edge* Since this group of people are already out on the edge, traditional information doesn’t always serve them. They need new insights and perspectives, and the best way I know how to do that is through coaching. Each guest will have the option to play on their edge and get coaching around a challenge or a possibility they are working towards. I'm playing on my edge here as well. I have typically reserved coaching for my high-performing, high-impact clients as closed door sessions. It keeps my clients safe, and it keeps me safe. *But safe doesn't change the world.* Join us as we choose to be both safe AND brave by showcasing the impact coaching has to help us achieve belonging, possibility, and inclusion. Time to play at a higher level! *** Bonus since you made it this far *** Here's a special gift to support you for 14 days in navigating what lies beyond YOUR edge as a high-impact, high-performing leader https://outliersedge.com/oeguestpass

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