Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong

Welcome to Fear Less February!! We’re focusing the month of February on the topic of Fear and taking continuing to take pioneering action throughout it. The month is geared towards transformation: transforming as individuals, as leaders, as teams, as communities, and as cultures. There’s an important distinction that applies for us Pianeers throughout the month, which will be explored more thoroug...

What’s on my mind? Taking action RIGHT NOW. Thanks Nicole Perkowitz for getting me on this train. Kudos to each of my clients who have made the jump to their exponential impact by choosing to bring their possibilities to life right now! Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://empjoyment.com/youtube

Being real about being real...the joy of being both real and optimistic at the same time. Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://empjoyment.com/youtube

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com HAPPY New Year and welcome to #JoyfulJanuary 2019! Nemo’s definition of Joy: the unabashed and unrestrained expression of self As the new year starts, and we’re off wishing each other a happy new year, let’s slow down to explore what it would take to really experience happiness throughout the year and joy throughout the month of January. Game...

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com The Joy of being Uncomfortable! Here are 3 questions to think through with this based on our Discover -> Embrace -> Leverage framework. **Discover** How is your current comfort-zone impacting: a) Your goals b) your vision of possibility and c) how you celebrate and value youturself for this year? (includes what you charge for your offeri...

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Let’s open a conversation: “Finding your voice vs Freeing your voice” CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURES Here’s how to play: 🤾‍♀️Comment below with your thoughts on what this distinction means to you, 🎂Comment below with a question that comes to mind when confronted with this distinction, 🏋️‍♀️Share a story that illustrates this distinction for you,...

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com #bethehope Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://empjoyment.com/youtube

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Appreciating inclusion by appreciating authenticity. Context: There’s a paradox involved between Diversity and Inclusion. There can be a COST as an individual to be AUTHENTIC in a non-inclusive environment. There’s also little/no return on an INCLUSIVE environment that doesn’t cultivate authenticity. Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more res...

Christine is an intuitive business & sales mentor for coaches, consultants, start ups and entrepreneurs. She is a featured trainer on LinkedIn Learning and creator of the "Quiet Selling" method. Christine has over 15 years sales leadership and strategy with a wide range of companies from start-ups to publicly traded companies including AOL, Yahoo! and LiveRail (acquired by Facebook). Over the cour...

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Fitting out vs fitting in vs belonging Sharing some real-time reflections after rereading my high school yearbook. tl ;dr - many of us try to combat the loneliness in not belonging by “fitting-in”. On the other side of the same coin is the opposite-but-equal approach of “fitting out”. If fitting-in involves you making choices to not stick out...

I'm thrilled to introduce Dr. Sarah Coxon to the Outliers, Pioneers, Maverick tribe. The two of us engage in a coaching conversation around hustle, flow, and the source of energy that drives both. Questions for consideration: - How were Nemo and Sarah being that allowed for the conversation to go to deeper levels as it progresses? - What is the equivalent of "bad hustle" and where in your life are...

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Please please please share one of your gifts with the world today! I get excited about how the world would be if we all were valued for our unique strengths and our differences! Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://empjoyment.com/youtube

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com What would a truly inclusive and empowered world look like to you? Please share your thoughts and I’ll share mine live. This is helpful for me as my life mission is to “bring together a truly inclusive and empowered world”. My philosophy that everything I do should model the world I want to live in. So I’d like to empower you to share your vis...

I'm happy to introduce Justin to the Outlier, Pioneer, and Maverick Community. He has a track record of reinventing himself to be able to take on new challenges, new worlds, and new experiences. And while that is incredibly uplifting, there are some hidden challenges that he has had to overcome to make what he's done possible. Join us as we explore those challenges from the past and address the hi...

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Outsiders vs Outliers Part of why our current approach to inclusion feels so exclusive to me. Thanks to Yolanda Lee for coining ”The Outlier Syndrome” and for bringing my awareness towards the initial distinctions between being an Outsider and an Outlier.

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Authenticity, inclusion, belonging, and World Peace 🌎 ✌️ ( yea I’m going all the way there ... will you join me??) Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://empjoyment.com/youtube

Some people want luck. Some people find luck. And a smaller subset still is able to create luck (even if they do so subconsciously). I'm happy to introduce you Jaspreet who is an Outlier, Pioneer, and Maverick who consistently creates opportunities where few others would think possible.  During our conversation, we call out 4 unique elements to his natural approach to create luck.  The point here...

CAPITALIZING ON THE GIFTS THAT FEAR BRINGS US Do you have a mission or vision of the way your world could look that scares you? I’ve been on vacation in Sri Lanka for the past week which has given me a chance to see my business and my impact from a higher / big picture vantage point. Between the waterfalls, hikes, tea factories, and beaches, my mind has been drifting to the sheer size of the missi...

As we start things off with the Outliers, Pioneers, and Mavericks conversations, I feel it's important to make sure I'm showing the real journey, not just the polished version that makes it all look easy and flawless. So let's start with what I don't want you to know about me... I recorded this conversation in December of 2017... and didn't publish it for another year and a half.  There are a lot...

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Additive vs argumentative Coming at you from Seoul Forest in Korea!

Listen to the full episode here https://nemoashong.com Why doesn’t “inclusion” feel very inclusive? (Part 2) All Thoughts welcomes - I’m very opinionated but I seek to be transformed everyday. Do you? #pianeerleadership Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://nemoashong.com/youtube

Listen to the full episode here https://NemoAshong.com Why doesn’t “inclusion” feel very inclusive? All Thoughts welcomes - I’m very opinionated but I seek to be transformed everyday. Do you? #pianeerleadership Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://NemoAshong.com/youtube

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com You don’t need to apologize for who you are to me.

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Gifts of being triggered: Discovering your Unique Strengths and Talents

We are “a lot”. That’s why we’ll change the world! I’m done holding back. I’m done shrinking for the masses. I am a lot and that’s one of my greatest assets. This video was a video I started making for myself as my energy around the epiphany was too much to write. Then the energy became too much to just keep to myself. This video is for you and all leaders who are tired of holding back who you are...