• 37 minutes 18 seconds
    Coaching a Bestselling Author Build a Caregiving Movement Across Four Countries | Debbie Compton | Ep 1038

    "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

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    19 September 2026, 10:15 am
  • 56 minutes 8 seconds
    Coaching a 21-Year Podcasting Pioneer Add 100,000 New Shows | Rob Walch | Ep 1037

    "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

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    19 September 2026, 10:00 am
  • 37 minutes 3 seconds
    Coaching a Marine Turned Priest Teach How to Begin Again in His Fifties | David Couper | Ep 1036

    "When you teach your vision, it's got to be the thing you remember when you wake up in the morning." — David Couper

    Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and David Couper. David is 88 and still working. He ran the Madison Police Department for 21 years, went to seminary in his fifties, and is fifty years into a fight he has not finished.

    This one is about leading a system you inherited and refuse to accept as it is.

    Three things you leave with:

    • Hand decision power to the people fighting you, and watch what happens to your authority
    • Trust first, or spend your whole career using force to get compliance
    • If nobody can say your vision from memory, you do not have one

    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

    01:02 - Eighty eight, still causing trouble

    02:10 - Why cops should start rich

    05:24 - The run that changed everything

    12:05 - Going political for once

    14:21 - Fifty years, one goal

    17:40 - Writing his own obituary

    20:10 - Twenty six meetings, one answer

    21:16 - Union head joins management

    25:54 - Closer to the people served

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    18 September 2026, 10:15 am
  • 39 minutes 16 seconds
    Coaching a Coffee Shop Founder Turned Wealth Strategist to Build Wealth That Survives Any Disaster | Brandon Neely | Ep 1035

    "Ninety percent of the task is making sure we're addressing the right problem." — Niiamah

    Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Brandon Neely for a live coaching conversation on what happens when a leader decides his sharpest capability is the problem. It goes after why an answer someone did not arrive at themselves gets rejected like a transplanted organ. And it goes after what to do when a client says "just tell me what to do," and you say no.

    What you'll take away:

    • Why the strength you are trying to turn down is usually the one to upgrade
    • Your clients are not beginners, they are experts in the wrong subject
    • Sell them the first step instead of refusing the fast lane

    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

    01:24 - Every system is already broken

    02:52 - Coffee, poverty, going upstream

    05:15 - Four floods, one saved business

    08:42 - You can't overflow running empty

    14:26 - The ask: stop teaching everything

    17:35 - Answers you cannot install

    25:13 - Master's degree, kindergarten audience

    32:45 - Tell me what to do

    34:32 - The process is the prescription

    Enter Brandon Neely's World:

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    18 September 2026, 10:00 am
  • 41 minutes 12 seconds
    Coaching a Travel Industry Strategist to Build a Company That Outlives Him | Scott Eddy | Ep 1034

    "Instead of asking how do we get Scott into 10 rooms at once, maybe the better question is how do we make the room Scott is already in 10 times bigger." - Scott Eddy

    Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Scott Eddy. Scott came in wanting more impact without more calendar, and without diluting the thing that made people pay attention in the first place. What surfaced was the belief underneath it, that value drops the second he is not personally in the room.

    Three things you take away:

    • Attention is not shortening. It is being earned or it is not.
    • You do not need ten versions of you. You need one room ten times bigger.
    • If your brand cannot live on a website, neither can your culture.

    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

    01:10 - Attention is earned, not shortening

    02:17 - Meta engineers what you watch

    06:11 - Giving as the growth engine

    14:41 - Impact, income, or identity

    16:29 - You can't scale soul

    19:17 - The Disney exception

    22:03 - Principles scale, personality doesn't

    29:32 - The fear of letting go

    34:36 - Make the room 10x bigger

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    17 September 2026, 10:15 am
  • 47 minutes 29 seconds
    Coaching a $1 Billion Marketer to Build a Legacy Bigger Than Any Business | Marty Fahncke | Ep 1033

    "100% of all business owners are going to exit their business sometime in some way." — Marty Fahncke

    Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Marty Fahncke. Marty has generated over a billion dollars in sales and spent a decade buying and selling businesses. He wrote the bestseller. He built the framework. The message still is not reaching the people who need it.

    This session goes at the gap between being right and being heard. Why the argument never moves anyone. Why you have to be upstream of the trigger instead of waiting for the call. And what it costs a man who teaches begin with the end in mind to never do it for himself.

    What you'll take:

    • 100% of owners exit. Almost none get past the second one.
    • Get the buy-in before you give the help.
    • A legacy you never made specific is a goal you cannot hit.

    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

    04:32 - The five Ds and a B

    06:32 - There is more than one exit

    10:58 - Most owners never exit management

    19:50 - Will you cooperate if helped

    24:32 - A bestseller that isn't landing

    25:36 - She thought it was worth millions

    29:50 - Go upstream of the trigger

    32:54 - The rooms he keeps deleting

    44:32 - Get specific or miss it

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    17 September 2026, 10:00 am
  • 26 minutes 4 seconds
    Coaching a Former Simon & Schuster Publisher on Staying Creative Past 80 | Daniel Roth | Ep 1032

    "Tell the truth. Let the chips fall, but tell the truth." - Daniel Roth

    Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Daniel Roth for a live coaching conversation.

    His challenge: he arrived with nothing to fix, only a wish to be busier doing the work he loves.

    You'll walk away with:

    • Why your credentials are the set, not the story, and what actually makes people care
    • The difference between owning your intention and chasing your result
    • What it takes to like who you've become and keep creating anyway

    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

    02:55 - No characters, no story

    07:11 - What makes us care?

    08:59 - Why interviews had no stakes

    09:49 - Who is this guy?

    11:15 - Dancing at every grandchild's wedding

    14:35 - Intention is not result

    19:46 - Nothing I want to change

    22:00 - I like who I am

    25:26 - Tell the truth

    Enter Daniel Roth's World:

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    16 September 2026, 10:15 am
  • 52 minutes 46 seconds
    Coaching a Former Yes Woman Turned Boundaries Coach to a Year of Clients in One Month | Barb Nangle | Ep 1031

    "If I'm not in a coaching conversation, I'm not creating clients." - Niiamah

    Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Barb Nangle, for a live coaching conversation.

    Her challenge: her podcast audience keeps growing, but fewer listeners are booking calls, and she wants a new client every week.

    You'll walk away with:

    • Why the strategy that feels contrived to you never gets done, no matter how good it looks on paper
    • How to find the channel already creating your clients and go deeper instead of wider
    • Why your best clients may already be gathering in groups, waiting for an invitation

    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

    03:17 - Why This Isn't a Game

    08:44 - The Hidden Cost of Boundaries

    15:26 - More Clarity, Fewer Clients

    17:29 - When Strategy Feels Contrived

    22:31 - A New Client Every Week

    29:35 - Two Shows That Doubled Listeners

    40:38 - Get Five People Together

    42:16 - Why Cap It at 10?

    50:57 - Feeling Beats Thinking

    Enter Barb Nangle's World:

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    16 September 2026, 10:00 am
  • 53 minutes 16 seconds
    Coaching a 25 Year Call Center CEO Build Teams of All Stars | Richard Blank | Ep 1030

    "If you're as good as you think you are, you shouldn't have to compromise anything to earn $1." - Richard Blank

    Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Richard Blank for a live coaching conversation. His challenge: getting a new generation on his team to break through from 78% to 93%.

    You'll walk away with:

    • Why growing your team means 10x the quality of your people and how long they stay, not 10x the headcount
    • Why giving people their dignity keeps them longer than any metric
    • The question that turns AI from a threat into time back for your team

    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

    06:31 - Great Speakers Name Their Price

    15:58 - How Do I Reach Them?

    24:33 - These Are Not Robots

    34:10 - Talent Is the Whole Game

    36:13 - The Real Threat Is AI

    41:53 - What Does AI Make Possible?

    43:26 - AI Becomes Employee of the Month

    48:47 - Come Say Goodbye

    52:23 - Someone Still Believes in Me

    Enter Richard Blank's World:

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    15 September 2026, 10:15 am
  • 52 minutes 18 seconds
    Coaching a Psychotherapist With Nearly 60 Books Sell $25,000 Retreats | Dr. Stem Sithembile Mahlatini | Ep 1029

    "The role of us as leaders is to come up with a vision that's large enough for someone else's vision to come and live into." - Niiamah

    Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Dr. Stem, Sithembile Mahlatini, for a live coaching conversation.

    Her challenge: juggling so many visions at once that none of them gets the focus to reach a million.

    You'll walk away with:

    • Why time management traps visionaries. Freed-up time just becomes more visions.
    • Why recovery work is capped at okay, and extraordinary has no ceiling.
    • How to find the one or two real visions hiding inside a hundred.

    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

    03:11 - How Bounce Back Began

    08:17 - Your Role Is Saying Yes

    10:59 - The Bounce Back Retreat Vision

    17:47 - Too Many Visions at Once

    19:01 - Time Management Won't Fix This

    22:33 - Not Going Far Enough Anymore

    32:41 - Paying $25,000 Out of Pocket

    38:09 - You Are the Ocean

    39:16 - What She Wants at 61

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    15 September 2026, 10:00 am
  • 34 minutes 35 seconds
    Coaching a Psychologist Turn Impact Into Income | Deborah Heiser | Ep 1028

    "I don't believe in purpose being one thing. I believe in it being multiple things." - Deborah Heiser

    Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Deborah Heiser for a live coaching conversation. Debbie's mentorship project had Nobel laureates and astronauts asking to mentor for free. Connection and impact are her native language. Money was the one question she hadn't named.

    This session is about the pivot that is really a return, the reward that moves world changers more than a fee, and the income impact-first leaders leave on the table.

    What you'll take away:

    • A pivot is not leaving. It is moving your hours to what never left you.
    • The person you help is not always the person who pays.
    • Sell where the problem is already on the radar.

    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

    01:41 - Purpose Is Not One Thing

    03:12 - Not a Circle, a Spiral

    10:01 - Look Left, Look Right

    11:56 - The Coaching Begins

    15:05 - Nobel Laureates Mentoring for Free

    19:26 - Money, the Missing Third

    24:35 - We Normalize Abnormal Behavior

    29:30 - The Buyer Isn't the User

    33:28 - Getting Off the Wheel

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    14 September 2026, 10:15 am
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