The Niche Is You

By Matthew GottesmanSociety & Culture Alternative Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement

The Niche Is You episodes

July 28Your Best Opportunities Will Come From the Work You Almost Didn't Share
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why the nervousness before sharing is usually a signal — not a warning
Why the work you almost held back is often the work that carries you
How the pieces we're most tempted to hide are usually the most human
Why the right opportunities come from the realest work — not the safest
What it means to build a practice of sharing what you almost didn't
And more…

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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
26 min
July 27If It Makes Sense to Everyone Else — It's Probably Not From God
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why real assignments from God rarely make sense to the people around you
The difference between waiting on God and waiting on certainty
Why understanding comes after obedience — not before
Why comfort never produces calling
What it means to move at the edge of something you don't fully understand yet
And more…

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→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
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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
24 min
July 24The Best Decisions Usually Feel Simpler Than Your Mind Wants Them To
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why the mind resists simple answers
How overthinking creates false complexity
Why real clarity tends to be quiet
The difference between analysis and knowing
How to trust the simpler answer when it arrives
And more…

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→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.
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→ 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
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→ 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
20 min
July 23The People Who Feel "Behind" Are Often the Ones Actually Building Something Real
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why the feeling of being "behind" is one of the most common and misinterpreted experiences of the modern era
How the timelines we've inherited are almost entirely borrowed — and often unrelated to the actual work of building something real
Why the people who are building something meaningful almost always feel behind while they're doing it
The difference between measurable progress and structural progress
How to reinterpret the feeling of being behind as evidence that something real is being built
What becomes possible when you stop measuring your life against timelines that were never yours
And more…

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→ 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
22 min
July 22The God Who Called You to This Isn't Going to Abandon You in the Middle of It
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why we default to fear that God will leave us halfway through what God started in us
The biblical pattern of calling always including the sustenance to complete it
Why the middle of the journey is where doubt shows up loudest — and how to interpret that doubt
How to recognize the provision that's been there the whole time
Why the discomfort of the middle isn't a sign God has abandoned you — it's a sign the work is real
What becomes possible when you finally trust that the God who called you is the same God carrying you
And more…

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→ 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
25 min
July 21You Don't Need to Be Discovered… You Need to Be Recognized
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why the entire idea of being "discovered" is a leftover from an era that no longer exists
The fundamental difference between being discovered and being recognized
Why discovery required someone else's permission — and why recognition requires only your own clarity
How the shift from institutions to direct trust has changed what actually produces visibility now
The specific work of becoming recognizable — and what it requires of you
What becomes possible when you stop waiting to be discovered and start becoming impossible to miss
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
23 min
July 20The Depth of a Relationship Is Determined by What Both People Are Willing to Be Honest About
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why time is essential to depth — but it isn't enough on its own
How trust and honesty work together over time to produce real intimacy
The specific ways we've been letting time do all the work that honesty was supposed to do
Why the topics both people avoid become the ceiling of the relationship
How honesty in relationships is a mutual practice — not a one-sided demand
The difference between honesty that deepens and honesty that damages
What becomes possible when both people finally stop editing themselves out of the relationship
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
26 min
July 17Discomfort Isn't the Enemy of a Meaningful Life… It's Sometimes the Price of One
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why discomfort isn't the enemy of a meaningful life — it's the actual price of one
How the fear of discomfort is quietly running the ceiling of your life
Why the culture has trained us to treat comfort as the goal — and what that costs us
The specific practice of dipping your toe into discomfort with low stakes
How to develop a healthy, working relationship with discomfort as a catalyst for growth
What becomes possible when you finally stop treating discomfort as something to escape
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
27 min
July 16The Value of Your Work Is Established Long Before Anyone Can Bring a Metric to It
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why value is created long before it can be measured — and why waiting for measurement to confirm it is a trap
How we've been trained to trust metrics more than we trust our own knowing
The specific damage that happens when you outsource the validation of your work to external numbers
Why the deepest work always exists in the gap between what's built and what can be measured
How to develop the internal knowing that recognizes value before the market does
What becomes possible when you stop needing metrics to confirm what you already know
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
22 min
July 15The Version of You That's Emerging Doesn't Need Permission From the Version That's Leaving
In this episode we’ll talk about:
Why growth doesn't just require releasing what was bad — it requires releasing what was good but no longer fits
How the version of you that's leaving quietly holds veto power over the version that's emerging
Why we mistake loyalty to our old identity for integrity — when it's actually resistance to becoming
The specific ways we ask permission from a self that has no authority to give it
What it looks like to stop negotiating with the past version of yourself
What becomes possible when you finally give the emerging version full permission to arrive
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
28 min

About The Niche Is You

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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 self.