Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong

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 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

"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 Karen Grant for a Throwback Live coaching session that lands the breakthrough in under ten minutes. Karen came in hunting for what makes her different from the thousands of other transformational coaches in the world. What she walked out with was the answer she already carried. This session is for any leader who keeps searching outside themselves for the language, the framework, or the proof that they are the one.What you'll take away:▸ Why talking around your distinction is the real thing keeping you stuck ▸ The difference between feeling your power and knowing it at a cellular level ▸ What changes the moment you stop trying to sound different and start being 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 Shape Your World Live 01:05 — Next Level vs Next Steps 03:37 — The Six Agreements 06:41 — Entering The Brag Zone 09:00 — Karen Brags On Herself 10:13 — Building Blueprint To Confidence 15:51 — The Real Question Underneath 17:51 — Knowing It In Your DNA 20:13 — Becoming The Coach People Choose 23:55 — I Am The DistinctionFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild CommunitySubscribe for more live coaching with leaders who are building something only they can build. Drop a comment with the one word you would use to claim your distinction. Join the community at skool.com/outlier.Episode Originally published on: 7/26/2020

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and two leaders, Claire and Amici, for this Livethrowback coaching session that refuses to stay clean. This one is about the price of playing at your next level. Not the strategy. The capacity. What it costs to actually be with the thing that breaks your heart instead of organizing your business around avoiding it. What your frustration with another leader is really telling you about the move you have not made yet. Why integration beats opposition when you want to change a system from the inside.Three takeaways:Your capacity, not your capability, is the real ceilingFrustration in the room is a mirror, not a problem to manageThe heartbreak is the fuel, not the obstacleWelcome 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 01:50 — Permission to be messy today 03:50 — Claire wants clarity on focus 05:30 — Small game versus big game 08:00 — The lid on her heart breaks 11:00 — Trees, polar bears, real tears 15:30 — Capacity is the real limit 19:30 — What if heartbreak became fuel 22:30 — Twenty percent for what matters 30:00 — Integration over opposition 35:30 — Amici names her frustration 44:30 — The mirror inside the trigger 51:00 — Working inside the industry you question 58:30 — What you envy is what you want 1:03:00 — Be You on PurposeFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild CommunitySubscribe. Leave a comment with the line that hit hardest. Join the community at skool.com/outlier.Episode originally published on: 9/1/2019

"The more I'm actively trying to be like, what's the authentic thing to do here? The less authentic it actually comes across." — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong), Angelique, and Elisa for a Live throwback session on the move most leaders miss. This session goes deep on the architecture of coming from leadership instead of climbing toward it. The hidden pattern underneath the steps you think you have to take. Why trust is the entry point, not the reward. And why the leaders building the next era of humanity stop waiting for permission to lead, connect, and be seen.Three things you'll take away:Why the gap between where you are and where you want to lead is closed by a decision, not a titleThe trust tank that keeps most leaders playing small in rooms they should ownThe friendship move that unlocks more power than most coaching containers ever 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 Shape Your World Live 01:50 — The crossroads question 04:11 — Two career tracks not one 08:00 — Stepping into power at work 12:15 — Skip the ladder go direct 17:30 — Come from leadership now 27:50 — Cross-coaching opens the room 31:20 — The power of friendship 44:10 — The overshare that built trust 54:30 — Trust as the entry point 01:05:30 — The leadership move underneath 01:13:50 — Comment out loud challengeFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild CommunitySubscribe, drop a comment with what landed for you, and join the community at skool.com/outlier.Episode Originally Published on: 8/22/2019

"Before you were flying. Now you're walking. They're trying to teach you this great thing called running — and you were flying." — NiiamahJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Kimberly, ex-professional dancer, Nike athlete, and founder of Land the Brand, for a throwback live coaching session that cuts straight to the core. Kimberly walked away from a biomedical degree, refused Nike's audition brief, and got chosen by the highest-grossing tour choreographer in history all while having zero attachment to the outcome. Now she's frustrated, working harder than ever, and producing less than she knows she's capable of. In this session, Niiamah diagnoses the real problem: she stopped flying and started running on someone else's roadmap. If you've ever felt like you're grinding harder for results that should come naturally, this episode will remind you what game you were always meant to play.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 — Niiamah reads daily CVR08:07 — Meet Kimberly Jay14:09 — Walking away from the degree19:47 — Nike audition: "I don't care"29:31 — Jamie King whispers everything changes36:01 — Kimberly names the frustration42:10 — "Why did you install that ceiling?"47:28 — The level doesn't exist yet56:57 — Running vs. flying distinction01:09:00 — Kimberly declares she will flyFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | WebsiteEpisode Originally Published on 7/28/2020

"I told my own soul to shut up and go sit in the corner and basically I denied myself, my own presence." — RobinJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Robin Eaton, former federal law enforcement officer turned shaman, spiritual teacher, and guide, for a throwback conversation that goes straight to the root. Robin spent 20 years supervising people coming out of prison, silencing her own gifts to survive a system that had no room for them. What she found on the other side: the voice you shut down to be acceptable is the same one that holds your power. This episode covers the cost of disconnection, the rage that lives just underneath the surface, and what it actually means to sing your song, whether anyone is listening or not. If you've been waiting for the right moment, the right audience, or the right version of yourself, this conversation will challenge you to stop waiting.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:00:03 — Questions beat answers every time00:27 — Why coaching keeps power yours05:31 — Robin's 20-year corrections career07:02 — Bringing spiritual gifts to everyone10:06 — Feeling like the biggest hypocrite11:52 — What prisoners actually taught her16:23 — Quitting to finally show up24:51 — Finding your real story's point35:54 — Soul speaks, mind interrupts43:14 — Sing the song anywayFollow Outlier's Edge Socials:Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community