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"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.

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.

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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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