“This discomfort is not a bad thing, it just is.” — Niiamah
Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Shirley Billigmeier for a live Outlier’s Edge conversation about what your impulses are actually telling you. Most leaders treat discomfort as a state to end. Shirley makes the case that it’s a message with content in it, and that the reason you never hear it is that your fix works too well. She’s been on this since the early 70s, roughly two decades before medicine named the gut brain, after a PhD program refused to let her cross lanes, and she went out alone anyway.
Three things you’ll take away:
– The urge to act is the flashing light. The information is underneath it.
– Encouragement does nothing under pressure. Inventory what’s actually true instead.
– The signal you think you lost is unlistened to, not gone.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Welcome to Outlier’s Edge
00:58 – The chatter she couldn’t shut off
02:58 – Refused a PhD, went alone
05:10 – Building one person at a time
08:06 – The hardest part named
09:59 – Niiamah asks for her discomfort
10:54 – She reframes it as message
12:03 – The student texts instead
13:15 – Truth-based, not affirmations
17:58 – He answers four instantly
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