"I healed myself by not trying to heal myself." - Baba Sam

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Baba Sam Shelley for a live coaching conversation. Baba Sam's challenge: growing his school and his message while a pile of admin keeps pulling him out of his best work.

You'll walk away with:

• Why you are not your thoughts, and what that separation opens up
• Why the thing dragging you down may need deleting, not doing better
• How removing yourself from a task can be the better service

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

01:22 - Healing Isn't My Job

04:16 - You Are Not Your Thoughts

07:29 - The Aha Isn't Thinking

11:58 - Listen For Transformation

16:47 - Deleting the To-Do List

29:58 - Business Is Beyond Me?

32:48 - Why Do Anything Like Anyone?

35:55 - Let Them Hit Record

38:51 - Wipe the Backlog Clean

Enter Baba Sam Shelley's World:

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"The only constant is change." - Mark Weithorn

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Mark Weithorn for a live coaching conversation. Mark's challenge: growing a bootstrapped company nationally and what the slow seasons do to a leader's head.

You'll walk away with:

• Why the minute you think you've made it is the minute you get hit
• What a slow month is actually telling you, and what it isn't
• Why exploring beats busy, in business and out of 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

01:45 - The Only Constant Is Change

02:38 - Rebuilding Everything From Scratch

04:03 - Walking Out of His Booth

05:32 - Technology Advances, People Don't

10:39 - Growing Nationally on Cash Flow

15:19 - When the Phone Stops Ringing

18:10 - Tell Me About the Lull

20:41 - What's Better Than Busy?

25:04 - The Office Is on Fire

Enter Mark Weithorn's World:

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"Most people are under the assumption that successful people don't need anything, and that is the farthest thing from the truth." - Kevin T. Robertson

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Kevin T. Robertson for a live coaching conversation. Kevin's challenge: giving everything to his clients and family, with no brotherhood of his own.

You'll walk away with:

• Why the brand that built your success can become the place you hide
• How to catch the moment you leave a breakthrough and go back to performing
• Why being the most interesting person in the room means you are 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.

--Check out the video episode on YouTube!--

Timestamps:

00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live

12:57 - Talking to Kevin, Not KTR

15:09 - A Person, Not an Executive

23:43 - Where's His Brotherhood?

26:50 - Superman Under the Suit

31:10 - Most Interesting Person, Wrong Room

37:10 - Sabbatical Is Not Seven Days

42:10 - Catching KTR Mid-Breakthrough

43:32 - How Long Can You Stay?

47:14 - Finally Not Feeling Lonely

Enter Kevin T. Robertson World:

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"It's a different offer rather than a watered down version of one-on-one." - Niiamah

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Diana Miret for a live coaching conversation. Diana's challenge: launching a group for small businesses without it becoming the cheaper, watered-down version of her one-on-one work.

You'll walk away with:

• Why your bank balance lies, and the percentages that tell the truth
• The inversion question that exposes what kills every aha
• How to design a group that beats one-on-one instead of discounting 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

01:52 - Data is not wisdom

03:18 - The bank balance lies

06:15 - Marginology: percentages over numbers

08:49 - Spending 109% on payroll

15:15 - Called to lead a group

21:38 - Design the zero-aha session

24:00 - Knowledge offline, hot seat live

26:49 - Make group beat one-on-one

29:33 - Better, not cheaper

Enter Diana Miret's World:

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"Certain people, you can call them outliers. They say whatever is necessary, I'm going to do." - Derrick Duplessy

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Derrick Duplessy for a live coaching conversation. Derrick's challenge: raising $2M in the next 12 months while playing a long game.

You'll walk away with:

• Why your price floor is the wrong place to start your ask
• How to speed up your own moves without rushing anyone's decision
• Why a $10K ask and a $100K ask take the same effort

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

00:59 - Eight Women Past $1M

02:47 - One Artist, 50,000 Students

09:42 - Mechanics Don't Make Outliers

15:20 - Who Must You Become?

19:55 - Wedding Versus Marriage

28:06 - Speed Your Inputs, Not Theirs

52:20 - The Subtext Behind Donor Asks

58:28 - Your Floor Isn't Your Start

59:50 - Start With Your Top 10

Enter Derrick Duplessy's World:

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"I'm not here to tell people what to do. I'm here to influence them to see what's possible that's better than where they're at." - Christopher Salem

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Christopher Salem, for a live coaching conversation. Chris' challenge: getting leaders to treat communication as an operational skill while finding the people who can do his work at his level.

You'll walk away with:

• Why communication is an operational skill, not a soft one
• How to lead with the way your audience processes information, not with features
• Why the gap at your level is who, not how

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

03:27 - One message fails everyone

06:10 - Dominant versus analytical buyers

08:32 - Show up where they consume

12:52 - Laid off, then built media

18:53 - Here to serve, not platform

20:13 - Communication is a must skill

28:09 - Where are the results, Chris?

32:24 - Who's missing on your team?

36:59 - Finding his successor

Enter Christopher Salem's World:

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"There's only one thing to do to feel fulfilled in this life, and that's to be of service." - Bill Quateman

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Bill Quateman for a live coaching conversation. Bill's challenge: holding his calm while the biggest build of his life is still on its way.

You'll walk away with:

• Why patience can keep you living in the future
• How what you focus on decides what you feel
• The question that pulls you back to the present before the big thing lands

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 Podcast

01:03 - Playing the Game of Service

03:40 - Decline Starts in Your 30s

04:38 - I Choose to Live Long

16:13 - The Hero Is in the Bullring

20:13 - Stories Absorbed Before Age Seven

24:05 - Focus Decides How You Feel

31:22 - Holding Calm Through the Wait

36:01 - The Wait Isn't Yours

37:54 - Everything Is a Miracle

Enter Bill Quateman's World:

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"It's actually not that hard to do something one time. The real outliers are the ones who are able to keep it going." - Niiamah

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Jindra Cekan for a live coaching conversation. Jindra's challenge: getting a message she knows matters heard by the leaders ready to act on it.

You'll walk away with:

• Why starting something is easy, and sustaining it is what makes you an outlier
• How to plan your exit on day one, not in the final month
• The one question every expert forgets to ask about their own work

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

02:19 - The question nobody was asking

05:39 - Real outliers keep it going

10:41 - When communities feel forgotten

19:19 - One month out of 120

31:24 - Shifting into live coaching

33:50 - Her message isn't landing widely

38:30 - Stop convincing, find believers

41:21 - When did you evaluate yourself?

46:54 - Do it for yourself

Enter Jindra Cekan's World:

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"If you're out there giving, what's filling up your tank?" - Niiamah

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Debbie Compton for a live coaching conversation. Debbie's challenge: rebuilding her online programs after her course host shut down overnight and deciding where to build next.

You'll walk away with:

• Why choosing your platform should take the smallest slice of your brainpower
• How "I serve people who are struggling, so..." quietly caps what good work earns
• Why losing what you built never costs you what you know

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

00:48 - Three parents, three dementias

03:24 - Caregivers who never self-identify

06:04 - Coloring books bridge generations

11:52 - "I blew it worse"

16:31 - Shifting into live coaching

18:51 - Her course platform vanished

23:03 - The income ceiling named

27:18 - What would 10x take?

35:27 - What fills her tank

Enter Debbie Compton's World:

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"Even if everything is covered, they don't have your personality covered." - Rob Walch

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Rob Walch for a live coaching conversation.

Rob's challenge: growing podcasting by 100,000 more active shows.

You'll walk away with:

• Why an unedited episode beats no episode at all
• How to use a podcast to open relationships instead of cold pitching
• The two points where most podcasters quit, and how to get past them

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

00:54 - Podcasting before anyone knew

07:12 - Quitting six figures for podcasting

15:13 - Invite them, don't pitch them

16:50 - The 5% infomercial rule

20:45 - Your personality isn't covered yet

27:10 - Rob's 100,000 podcast goal

42:29 - Where podcasters actually quit

49:22 - The zero editing workflow

55:15 - Unedited beats no podcast

Enter Rob's World:

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