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"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 gift and realizing the harder he tries, the less he gives. In this session, Niiamah catches him in the act: upgrading from "impressing people with achievement" to "impressing people with vulnerability" is still impressing. The real move is to impress yourself. And then live from the space after the mountain, where nothing is left to prove, and play is all that remains.

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.

Timestamps:

00:02 — Are you willing to go there

05:27 — Meet Matt, Today I Begin

09:23 — Goalkeeper mantra: can't hurt me

11:55 — Two Ironmen and 18 years corporate

15:32 — What would really serve you

18:01 — Gift nobody sees yet

22:56 — Soul to soul breathing exercise

25:41 — Why are you on this earth

29:02 — What you would regret

35:14 — Gift is you not what you do

43:24 — Recovering people-impressor

49:01 — Impress yourself not others

54:30 — Live from after the mountain

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Episode originally published on: 7/30/2020