"I was sitting across from people, teaching them how to live full lives, while I was the most isolated, most disconnected, most hollow I had ever been."
She was a guide who had spent years helping people find their way back to themselves, and she was extraordinary at it. Except that she just was not following her own map.
That is the pattern I keep seeing in exceptional leaders today: the most expensive blind spot a leader can have is the one they are actively helping others see.
Your thriving business is not proof that you have done the work.
It is evidence of how good you have gotten at helping others do what you are currently avoiding.
Read that again.
The clients you have transformed. The proven frameworks. The results even speak for themselves.
NEW EPISODE ALERT! I brought together three incredible leaders - Kathy O'Connell, Rebekah O'Rourke, Oliver Schirach - for a powerful roundtable discussion that will challenge how you think about your next steps.
Each of these amazing humans has created impact through podcasting and business, and they understand what it means to stand at a crossroads where most people only see your past achievements, not your future vision.
What you'll take away:
• How to navigate decision points when you're already successful but know there's more
• Ways to find support when the people around you don't understand your drive to keep growing
• Practical approaches to transforming your identity to match your next-level aspirations
This conversation isn't theory - it's real experience from people who've been where you are. Hit play and join us! Watch full episode here: https://youtu.be/zwii7DAJrOQ
Outlier's Edge w/ Niiamah Ashong
Your biggest vision. Where does it actually live on your plan right now?
Whatever you voted: what would have to be true for it to move to the top?
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Outlier's Edge w/ Niiamah Ashong
"I was sitting across from people, teaching them how to live full lives, while I was the most isolated, most disconnected, most hollow I had ever been."
She was a guide who had spent years helping people find their way back to themselves, and she was extraordinary at it.
Except that she just was not following her own map.
That is the pattern I keep seeing in exceptional leaders today: the most expensive blind spot a leader can have is the one they are actively helping others see.
Your thriving business is not proof that you have done the work.
It is evidence of how good you have gotten at helping others do what you are currently avoiding.
Read that again.
The clients you have transformed. The proven frameworks. The results even speak for themselves.
Yet, none of that is proof.
It is the most convincing way to stay stuck.
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Outlier's Edge w/ Niiamah Ashong
There is a difference between planning the jump and making it.
Most leaders at your level know this.
What they cannot see is that they have been planning for years.
Every strategy session. Every new hire. Every framework iteration.
Planning is not the jump.
At some point, planning is just another word for not going.
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Outlier's Edge w/ Niiamah Ashong
I was coaching a leader recently. Exceptional woman. She had done the deep work.
Slayed every dragon she could name.
And she was still stuck. She wanted the free fall. Adventure, uncertainty, full commitment.
Every time she got close to it, she converted the identity decision into a logistics problem.
She planned the jump instead of making it.
That is a becoming problem, not a planning problem.
The next version of you cannot fit inside the current life you have built.
That is what I keep seeing in exceptional leaders who are in this plateau. Not a strategy problem. An identity problem.
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Outlier's Edge w/ Niiamah Ashong
Three questions I use with leaders who have hit every goal they set and are still stuck.
One: What decision have you been framing as a strategy problem that is actually an identity problem?
Two: What does the 10x version of this require you to become that your current life cannot contain?
Three: What would you have to stop pretending is a plan?
You do not need another framework.
You need to answer these out loud, to someone who will not let you turn them back into tactics.
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Outlier's Edge w/ Niiamah Ashong
NEW EPISODE ALERT! I brought together three incredible leaders - Kathy O'Connell, Rebekah O'Rourke, Oliver Schirach - for a powerful roundtable discussion that will challenge how you think about your next steps.
Each of these amazing humans has created impact through podcasting and business, and they understand what it means to stand at a crossroads where most people only see your past achievements, not your future vision.
What you'll take away:
• How to navigate decision points when you're already successful but know there's more
• Ways to find support when the people around you don't understand your drive to keep growing
• Practical approaches to transforming your identity to match your next-level aspirations
This conversation isn't theory - it's real experience from people who've been where you are. Hit play and join us! Watch full episode here: https://youtu.be/zwii7DAJrOQ
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