{"podcast":{"title":"Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong","slug":"outlier-s-edge-podcast-with-niiamah-ashong-699880","podcast_index_feed_id":699880,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/outliersedge/","website_url":"https://niiamahashong.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/74c022c5-ed46-4421-b206-75f0d357b98a/outliers-edge-podcast-cover-3000x3000.png","author":"Niiamah Ashong","episode_count":962,"summary":"Outlier's Edge Podcast is a live coaching podcast where we come together in conversation to work through the challenges and apply the gifts of being a unique tribe of high-performing, high-impact entrepreneurs, changemakers, and leaders who choose to play a bigger game of impact, influence, and income than we've ever play before. What's an Outlier? An Outlier is a high-performing, high-impact leader who often is: One of the Only: Thrive in systems/environments that were not designed to have someone like them succeed, One of the First: Thrive doing things no one else has ever done or dares to even try One of a Kind: Thrive on their unconventional and independent terms regardless of what others around them are doing THIS IS A PODCAST FOR PEOPLE WHO: - aren't afraid of \"playing small\", but are scared of \"thinking medium\". - Are exploring new frontiers in society or their field - Are at the top of their field or business against typical odds and expectations from others like them, - Are taking an independent and unconventional approach outside of the status-quo - know that their mindsets, limiting beliefs, and other internal struggles are actually shared with other leaders who stand f…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-08T22:21:10.777347+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/outlier-s-edge-podcast-with-niiamah-ashong-699880"},"episode":{"title":"You Can't Win If You Need Certainty Before You Start | April Cunningham | Ep 964","slug":"you-can-t-win-if-you-need-certainty-before-you-start-april-cunningham-ep-964","published_at":"2026-05-19T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/outlier-s-edge-podcast-with-niiamah-ashong-699880/you-can-t-win-if-you-need-certainty-before-you-start-april-cunningham-ep-964","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/outlier-s-edge-podcast-with-niiamah-ashong-699880","url":"https://niiamahashong.com","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1d6172d8-7cce-4e4e-9bdc-be615ae593ce.mp3","summary":"\"I trust myself and I don't trust myself; complicitly. These two are partners in crime keeping you exactly where you are.\" – Niiamah Ashong Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and April Cunningham for a live coaching conversation that goes somewhere neither of them planned. April came in talking about dating. What surfaced was a paradox she had never named: she wants adventure, free fall, and full uncertainty in love and that desire is exactly what makes her shut down. Niiamah coaches her through the trap in real time, shares his own version of the same paradox, and leaves her with a question more powerful than any answer. This is what it looks like when a leader stops performing and starts telling the truth. 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. --Check out the video episode on YouTube !-- Timestamps: 00:00 Welcome and play begins 00:53 Gravitas vs heaviness explained 05:38 April's two playing fields 08:57 Admitting love already happened 13:37 It isn't fear — it's resistance 18:28 \"I don't want to play\" 22:20 What love actually looks like 28:45 The paradox named clearly 38:50 Niiamah shares his own paradox 42:00 Walking out of the trap Follow Outlier's Edge Socials: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community","meta_description":"\"I trust myself and I don't trust myself; complicitly. These two are partners in crime keeping you exactly where you are.\" – Niiamah Ashong Join Niiamah (…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2865,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/outlier-s-edge-podcast-with-niiamah-ashong-699880/episodes/you-can-t-win-if-you-need-certainty-before-you-start-april-cunningham-ep-964/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/outlier-s-edge-podcast-with-niiamah-ashong-699880/you-can-t-win-if-you-need-certainty-before-you-start-april-cunningham-ep-964.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}