Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong
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...
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Coaching a Series B CEO Fix His Co-Founder Problem | Len May | Ep 1008
<p>"If we're in a foxhole together, you have my right side. I never ever ever have to worry about my right side." — Len</p><p>Join 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 pr...
Coaching a Top 100 Broker Stop Doing $50 an Hour Work | Greg Viti | Ep 1007
<p>"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." — Niiamah</p><p>Join 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 ti...
Coaching a Poet Fund a $100K a Week Show | J Mase III | Ep 1006
<p>"Ask for what you want, not what you think you can get." - Niiamah</p><p>Join 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.</p><p>What you take away:</p><p>- Why the size of your ask gets...
Coaching a Caregiver Expert Rebuild After Losing Every Client | Elaine Sanchez | Ep 1005
<p>"You have the one thing that AI will never have. You're actually human." - Niiamah</p><p>Join 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.</p><p>What you'll take away:</p><p>- Three customers is the same as zero. Name the one who pays.</p><p>- The care that stops at your customer never reaches the person writing the check.</p><p>- Fun is...
Coaching a Four-Figure Speaker Build a $50K Offer | David Reich | Ep 1004
<p>"I think you're playing for the middle of the road right now, and you're getting middle of the road results." - Niiamah</p><p>Join 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.</p><p>What you take away:</p><p>- Every conversation you enter as the seller is a request. The reversal...
Coaching a Debut Author Go Public After 30 Years | Michelle Masters | Ep 1003
<p>"Honor every instance of you, rather than just the instance that's living right now." — Niiamah</p><p>Join 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.</p><p>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 se...
Coaching a 26 Year Speaker Start Something New | Mike Robbins | Ep 1002
<p>"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 Robbins</p><p>Join 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 no...
Coaching a Coach Who has Worked With 450 Clients Who Wants No More | John Nieuwenburg | Ep 1001
<p>"None of us were born in business, we're born to live." - John Nieuwenburg</p><p>Join 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.</p><p>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...
Coaching a Teacher of 50 Years Take Her Method Past One Person at a Time | Shirley Billigmeier | Ep 1000
<p>"This discomfort is not a bad thing, it just is." — Niiamah</p><p>Join 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 ou...
Coaching a Composter of 24 Years Launch a World First Laughter Program | Cathy Nesbitt | Ep 999
<p>"Once we share it, it loses its power." Cathy Nesbitt</p><p>Join 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.</p><p>What you get:</p><p>▸ Why the obstacle a leader names out loud is almost never the real one</p><p>▸ What it costs to put the true answer on the form instead of t...
