The Niche Is You

By Matthew Gottesman

Hi, I’m Matt Gottesman (@mattgottesman on Instagram) and this is my daily podcast where I offer practical thoughts and perspectives to un-complicate life, creativity and the pursuit of your highest se... more

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How many episodes does The Niche Is You have?

The podcast currently has 855 episodes available.

The Niche Is You episodes:

July 03, 2026The Most Powerful Move You Can Make Right Now Is Slowing Down
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why slowing down has become the most counterintuitive and most powerful move you can make
How our pace of life has been quietly making everything harder than it needs to be
What slowing down actually unlocks across your work, relationships, faith, body, and decisions
Why almost every answer you're searching for is already trying to reach you
The practical work of decelerating in a culture that keeps speeding up
What changes when you finally give yourself permission to move slower
And more…

START HERE…
→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
→ https://mattgottesman.substack.com/about
NEW HERE…
→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play.
→ https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)
CONNECT WITH ME…
→ Instagram — @mattgottesman
→ TikTok — @mattgottesman
→ YouTube — @mattgottesman
RESOURCES…
→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE
→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE
→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.com
OTHER RELATED EPISODES:
Faith Isn’t Knowing the Whole Path… It’s Taking the Next Honest Step
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Spotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
...more
25min
July 02, 2026You Keep Praying for Direction While Ignoring the One God Already Gave You
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why most people aren't lacking direction — they're stalling on the direction they already received
The spiritual principle of completed obedience as the gateway to new revelation
Why God doesn't give you the next instruction until you act on the current one
How praying for clarity becomes a way to delay the obedience you already owe
What it looks like to honor the direction God already gave
What changes when you stop asking for new direction and start moving on the old one
And more…

START HERE…
→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
→ https://mattgottesman.substack.com/about
NEW HERE…
→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play.
→ https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)
CONNECT WITH ME…
→ Instagram — @mattgottesman
→ TikTok — @mattgottesman
→ YouTube — @mattgottesman
RESOURCES…
→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE
→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE
→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.com
OTHER RELATED EPISODES:
Faith Isn’t Knowing the Whole Path… It’s Taking the Next Honest Step
Apple: https://apple.co/3MB62Iu
Spotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
...more
20min
July 01, 2026As a Creator… Be Careful Being Taught How to Be Someone Else
In this episode we’ll talk about:
The dominant message most creators are being taught — and why it's quietly costing them
What I've chosen instead and what it's produced over time
The difference between God-led refinement and noise-driven reinvention
Why your audience is already on your side — and what they actually want
What it looks like to stay anchored to who you are
What gets built when you don't listen to the noise
And more…

START HERE…
→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
→ https://mattgottesman.substack.com/about
NEW HERE…
→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play.
→ https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)
CONNECT WITH ME…
→ Instagram — @mattgottesman
→ TikTok — @mattgottesman
→ YouTube — @mattgottesman
RESOURCES…
→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE
→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE
→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.com
OTHER RELATED EPISODES:
Faith Isn’t Knowing the Whole Path… It’s Taking the Next Honest Step
Apple: https://apple.co/3MB62Iu
Spotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
...more
28min
June 30, 2026You're Not Having an Identity Crisis… You're Having an Honesty Breakthrough
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why what we call an identity crisis is almost always something else entirely
How honesty feels like collapse when you've spent years performing
The difference between losing yourself and losing the version of you that was never really you
Why God uses these moments to reorient your entire life
What to do when honesty starts arriving in waves you didn't ask for
What becomes possible on the other side of the breakthrough you've been resisting
And more…

START HERE…
→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
→ https://mattgottesman.substack.com/about
NEW HERE…
→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play.
→ https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)
CONNECT WITH ME…
→ Instagram — @mattgottesman
→ TikTok — @mattgottesman
→ YouTube — @mattgottesman
RESOURCES…
→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE
→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE
→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.com
OTHER RELATED EPISODES:
Faith Isn’t Knowing the Whole Path… It’s Taking the Next Honest Step
Apple: https://apple.co/3MB62Iu
Spotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
...more
23min
June 29, 2026God's Not Absent... God Just May Be Quiet So You Can Practice Listening to a Frequency You Used to Drown Out
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why silence from God isn't absence — and how we've been misreading it our whole lives
The biblical pattern of God speaking in whispers, not noise
What you've been using to drown out the frequency you're now being asked to hear
Why God goes quiet on purpose during certain seasons
The practical work of learning to listen again
What starts to happen when you finally tune into the frequency you used to ignore
And more…

START HERE…
→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
→ https://mattgottesman.substack.com/about
NEW HERE…
→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play.
→ https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)
CONNECT WITH ME…
→ Instagram — @mattgottesman
→ TikTok — @mattgottesman
→ YouTube — @mattgottesman
RESOURCES…
→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE
→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE
→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.com
OTHER RELATED EPISODES:
Faith Isn’t Knowing the Whole Path… It’s Taking the Next Honest Step
Apple: https://apple.co/3MB62Iu
Spotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
...more
30min
June 26, 2026The Work Doesn't Need to Be Good… It Just Needs to Be Made
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why we've been lied to about how creativity actually works
How the obsession with making good work is what's preventing you from making anything
Why creative block is almost always perfectionism in disguise
Real creators aren't more talented — they're more willing to make bad work for as long as the good requires
The discipline of showing up before you know what you'll say
What happens when you commit to making instead of making well
And more…

START HERE…
→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
→ https://mattgottesman.substack.com/about
NEW HERE…
→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play.
→ https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)
CONNECT WITH ME…
→ Instagram — @mattgottesman
→ TikTok — @mattgottesman
→ YouTube — @mattgottesman
RESOURCES…
→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE
→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE
→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.com
OTHER RELATED EPISODES:
Faith Isn’t Knowing the Whole Path… It’s Taking the Next Honest Step
Apple: https://apple.co/3MB62Iu
Spotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
...more
22min
June 25, 2026If You’re Not Going To Devote All Of Yourself To It, Why Do It At All
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why Kobe Bryant's standard wasn't about being the best — it was about full devotion
How half-devotion is more expensive than full devotion ever will be
Why we half-step things that actually matter to us — and what's underneath that pattern
The areas of your life that deserve full devotion and the cost of giving them less
What full devotion actually looks like in practice
The question you have to ask yourself about every commitment in your life right now
And more…

START HERE…
→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
→ https://mattgottesman.substack.com/about
NEW HERE…
→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play.
→ https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)
CONNECT WITH ME…
→ Instagram — @mattgottesman
→ TikTok — @mattgottesman
→ YouTube — @mattgottesman
RESOURCES…
→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE
→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE
→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.com
OTHER RELATED EPISODES:
Faith Isn’t Knowing the Whole Path… It’s Taking the Next Honest Step
Apple: https://apple.co/3MB62Iu
Spotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
...more
24min
June 24, 2026There Are Two Vital Questions to Ask When Making an Important Decision
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why most people only ask one question when making decisions — and it's the wrong one
The difference between optimization decisions and positioning decisions
How our culture trained us to measure success by what we get instead of what we're aligning with
Why Jalen Brunson's $113 million decision is a masterclass in spiritual and strategic alignment
Why provision follows position — not the other way around
What this looks like applied to the decisions you're facing right now
And more…

START HERE…
→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
→ https://mattgottesman.substack.com/about
NEW HERE…
→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play.
→ https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)
CONNECT WITH ME…
→ Instagram — @mattgottesman
→ TikTok — @mattgottesman
→ YouTube — @mattgottesman
RESOURCES…
→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE
→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE
→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.com
OTHER RELATED EPISODES:
Faith Isn’t Knowing the Whole Path… It’s Taking the Next Honest Step
Apple: https://apple.co/3MB62Iu
Spotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
...more
23min
June 23, 2026Make the Thing Only You Could Make — The Audience for That Is Already Waiting
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why the most overlooked competitive advantage is the thing that makes you specifically you
How trying to make what's already been made is the slowest path to obscurity
Why your unique combination of experiences perspectives and gifts is the actual asset
How there's already an audience searching for what only you can offer
Why most creators settle for generic work because specific work feels riskier
What happens when you finally trust that what makes you different is exactly what's needed
And more…

START HERE…
→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
→ https://mattgottesman.substack.com/about
NEW HERE…
→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play.
→ https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)
CONNECT WITH ME…
→ Instagram — @mattgottesman
→ TikTok — @mattgottesman
→ YouTube — @mattgottesman
RESOURCES…
→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE
→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE
→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.com
OTHER RELATED EPISODES:
Faith Isn’t Knowing the Whole Path… It’s Taking the Next Honest Step
Apple: https://apple.co/3MB62Iu
Spotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
...more
23min
June 22, 2026You Will Know Them By Their Fruit
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why fruit is not what most people think it is
What scripture actually means when it talks about the fruit of the Spirit
How real fruit shows up in someone's daily behavior — not their public presentation
Why fruit cannot be performed... only lived
How recognizing fruit in others requires cultivating it in yourself
What your spirit knows about someone long before your mind can explain it
And more…

START HERE…
→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
→ https://mattgottesman.substack.com/about
NEW HERE…
→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play.
→ https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)
CONNECT WITH ME…
→ Instagram — @mattgottesman
→ TikTok — @mattgottesman
→ YouTube — @mattgottesman
RESOURCES…
→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE
→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE
→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.com
OTHER RELATED EPISODES:
Faith Isn’t Knowing the Whole Path… It’s Taking the Next Honest Step
Apple: https://apple.co/3MB62Iu
Spotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
...more
25min

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How many episodes does The Niche Is You have?

The podcast currently has 855 episodes available.

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