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“It’s a different offer rather than a watered down version of one-on-one.” – Niiamah

Join Niiamah Ashong and Diana Miret for a live coaching conversation. Diana’s challenge: launching a group for small businesses without it becoming the cheaper, watered-down version of her one-on-one work.

You’ll walk away with:

• Why your bank balance lies, and the percentages that tell the truth
• The inversion question that exposes what kills every aha
• How to design a group that beats one-on-one instead of discounting it

Timestamps:

00:00 – Welcome to Outlier’s Edge Live

01:52 – Data is not wisdom

03:18 – The bank balance lies

06:15 – Marginology: percentages over numbers

08:49 – Spending 109% on payroll

15:15 – Called to lead a group

21:38 – Design the zero-aha session

24:00 – Knowledge offline, hot seat live

26:49 – Make group beat one-on-one

29:33 – Better, not cheaper

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“Certain people, you can call them outliers. They say whatever is necessary, I’m going to do.” – Derrick Duplessy

Join Niiamah Ashong and Derrick Duplessy for a live coaching conversation. Derrick’s challenge: raising $2M in the next 12 months while playing a long game.

You’ll walk away with:

• Why your price floor is the wrong place to start your ask
• How to speed up your own moves without rushing anyone’s decision
• Why a $10K ask and a $100K ask take the same effort

Timestamps:

00:00 – Welcome to Outlier’s Edge Live

00:59 – Eight Women Past $1M

02:47 – One Artist, 50,000 Students

09:42 – Mechanics Don’t Make Outliers

15:20 – Who Must You Become?

19:55 – Wedding Versus Marriage

28:06 – Speed Your Inputs, Not Theirs

52:20 – The Subtext Behind Donor Asks

58:28 – Your Floor Isn’t Your Start

59:50 – Start With Your Top 10

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“I’m not here to tell people what to do. I’m here to influence them to see what’s possible that’s better than where they’re at.” – Christopher Salem

Join Niiamah Ashong and Christopher Salem, for a live coaching conversation. Chris’ challenge: getting leaders to treat communication as an operational skill while finding the people who can do his work at his level.

You’ll walk away with:

• Why communication is an operational skill, not a soft one
• How to lead with the way your audience processes information, not with features
• Why the gap at your level is who, not how

Timestamps:

00:00 – Welcome to Outlier’s Edge Live

03:27 – One message fails everyone

06:10 – Dominant versus analytical buyers

08:32 – Show up where they consume

12:52 – Laid off, then built media

18:53 – Here to serve, not platform

20:13 – Communication is a must skill

28:09 – Where are the results, Chris?

32:24 – Who’s missing on your team?

36:59 – Finding his successor

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“There’s only one thing to do to feel fulfilled in this life, and that’s to be of service.” – Bill Quateman

Join Niiamah Ashong and Bill Quateman for a live coaching conversation. Bill’s challenge: holding his calm while the biggest build of his life is still on its way.

You’ll walk away with:

• Why patience can keep you living in the future
• How what you focus on decides what you feel
• The question that pulls you back to the present before the big thing lands

Timestamps:

00:00 – Welcome to Outlier’s Edge Podcast

01:03 – Playing the Game of Service

03:40 – Decline Starts in Your 30s

04:38 – I Choose to Live Long

16:13 – The Hero Is in the Bullring

20:13 – Stories Absorbed Before Age Seven

24:05 – Focus Decides How You Feel

31:22 – Holding Calm Through the Wait

36:01 – The Wait Isn’t Yours

37:54 – Everything Is a Miracle

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“It’s actually not that hard to do something one time. The real outliers are the ones who are able to keep it going.” – Niiamah

Join Niiamah Ashong and Jindra Cekan for a live coaching conversation. Jindra’s challenge: getting a message she knows matters heard by the leaders ready to act on it.

You’ll walk away with:

• Why starting something is easy, and sustaining it is what makes you an outlier
• How to plan your exit on day one, not in the final month
• The one question every expert forgets to ask about their own work

Timestamps:

00:00 – Welcome to Outlier’s Edge Live

02:19 – The question nobody was asking

05:39 – Real outliers keep it going

10:41 – When communities feel forgotten

19:19 – One month out of 120

31:24 – Shifting into live coaching

33:50 – Her message isn’t landing widely

38:30 – Stop convincing, find believers

41:21 – When did you evaluate yourself?

46:54 – Do it for yourself

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“If you’re out there giving, what’s filling up your tank?” – Niiamah

Join Niiamah Ashong 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

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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“Even if everything is covered, they don’t have your personality covered.” – Rob Walch

Join Niiamah Ashong 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

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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“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 Ashong 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

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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