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 enter The hidden cost of selling expertise by performing impermeability What changes the m...

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and two exceptional leaders, Stacey and Kai, for a throwback live coaching session that goes straight at the judgment running underneath the next level. This episode unpacks what actually keeps leaders stuck at the door of their next chapter. Not the strategy. The judgment. The pleasing. The self-abandonment that masquerades as humility, service, and "being a good per...

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 onl...

"You living your life is the solution." — Niiamah Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Holly for a throwback live coaching session that takes apart the most common trap exceptional leaders fall into: building a life plan that requires someone else's permission to activate. This session goes deep on: The borrowed timeline. What happens when your next move is locked behind another person's yes. The car...

"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." — Theron Join 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...

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and April Cunningham for a throwback live coaching session about what happens when the compass you have been using to find your edge stops pointing anywhere new. April left an 18-year tech career, built two businesses, went live online, and started dating again after divorce. She came in asking: what's left to conquer? What surfaced was bigger than the next mountain....

"The person who beats the drum of authenticity the most is probably the one that's still discovering who their authentic self is." – Brynn Drescher Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong), Brittni Cosgrove and Bryn Drescher for a live coaching session about the gap between being a great coach and the world knowing it. Two leaders bring the same buried problem: their best work happens in private. The contain...

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Zach Klein [HANDLE NEEDED] [LINK NEEDED] for a live coaching session on Shape Your World Live. Zach came in messy. Mid-transition, no polished package, no clear next move. What surfaced underneath was bigger than the career question. It was the pattern most high-achieving leaders carry but never name: worth fused to doing. This session goes into the winter season...

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,...

"You may not be any of the individual ingredients, but you're the pot. If there was no pot, they're just separate ingredients. You can't make a stew, you can't make a gumbo, you can't make anything from it without the pot." Join Niiamah Ashong and guest Palmer as Niiamah introduces the Next Level Game — the difference between getting better at where you are and stepping into where you're meant to...

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 t...

"It's not about the impossible goal. It's about the impossible becoming, like who am I going to become and allow myself to become, to step into it fully. Because I don't need permission from anybody else other than myself." — Pauline Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) with guests, Diane Cunningham Ellis, Pauline Victoria and Nate Guadagni for the return of live group coaching on Shape Your World Live....

"The more I'm actively trying to be like, what's the authentic thing to do here? The less authentic it actually comes across." — Niiamah Join 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 y...

"Jump in. Just contribute in any way and every way and just put yourself there because you will contribute." - Palmer Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Palmer for a live throwback coaching session that breaks open one of the traps high-achievers fall into: trying to be the wrong kind of creator. Palmer has built conventional success in sales. He achieves. He delivers. And he's carried a creative p...

"It's almost like there's a mirror in front of me, and the mirror was cracked or dirty or smudged. And then you just came in and you're like, hey Niiamah, you do know you're looking at a dirty mirror, right? Let me just clean that off." Join Niiamah Ashong and guest Stacy Louise Christopher in this throwback conversation as she walks him through ten acknowledgments live on camera, naming every dod...

"Success is going to sleep every single night with my heart, mind, body, and soul at peace with one another." — Vicky Vaswani Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Vicky Vaswani for a throwback conversation about what happens when you get everything right and still feel flat. Vicky tracks his life across five areas every month, has a personal definition of success built around heart, mind, body, and s...

"It's so much easier, and people actually want to help people who don't know things." — Justin Jobity Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Justin Jobity, for a throwback live coaching conversation about what it takes to start over in a completely new field with zero qualifications. Justin spent a decade in education technology, building someone else's startup from two guys with an idea into a sold co...

"I'm not good at helping people reduce who they are in order to be accepted by the majority. I'm great at taking someone from outsider to outlier." — Niiamah Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Jaspreet Dua for a throwback live coaching conversation that reframes how outliers find their next opportunity. JD has built his entire career through chance encounters: walking into a Bose recruitment fair i...

"The hard thing is not making it happen. The hard thing is making the decision." — Dom Moss Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Dom, for a throwback live coaching session recorded during the early days of COVID-19 in New York City. Dom has moved from France to London to Barcelona to Manila to Bali to Hong Kong to New York, gotten a green card from scratch, and made every impossible thing happen. But...

"I was meant to burn my candle out so that other people could have what they needed." — Tony Martinetti Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Tony for a throwback live coaching session that goes to the root of why high achievers burn out. Tony spent 20 years building a successful career in biotech while quietly suffering inside, eventually hitting the bottom and climbing out. Now he coaches tech leade...

"The gift that your people are looking for is you." — Niiamah Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Matt for a live throwback soul-to-soul coaching session that goes to unexpected places. Matt's mantra as a goalkeeper was "you can't hurt me." He built an armor of mental endurance that carried him through Ironman races, executive life, divorce, and grief. Now he's a coach trying to give the world his g...

"If you want to hold on to your pride and ego, it ain't worth a damn. Go out and get what you want." — Theran Washington Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Theran "King T." Washington — entrepreneur, former Salsa Aerobics pioneer, and self-described Mind Scrambler — for a throwback live coaching session that goes deep fast. Theron built a salsa empire across 15 LA fitness clubs (with Sugar Ray Leon...

"Before you were flying. Now you're walking. They're trying to teach you this great thing called running — and you were flying." — Niiamah Join 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,...

"I'm tired of hiding. If I can become an expert in being messy, I think we're all going to benefit from that." — Niiamah Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Susana Denia a leadership coach who traded financial markets in London for coaching executives in Madrid, and discovered her biggest breakthrough came not from a coach or a therapist, but from a 2-minute children's video about sadness. In this l...

"I told my own soul to shut up and go sit in the corner and basically I denied myself, my own presence." — Robin Join 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 surviv...