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The Niche Is You
Hi, I’m Matt Gottesman (@mattgottesman on Instagram) and this is my daily podcast where I offer practical thoughts and perspectives to un-complicate life, creativity and the pursuit of your highest self. Instead of choosing one niche for the podcast, I decided that the niche is you… a simple, straight forward show about the power of not boxing yourself into any one category, title or niche, but embracing all of your gifts, having a better relationship with yourself and trusting your path…
Episodes
- The Niche Is You
If Everyone Understands What You’re Doing, You’re Late (VV)
In this episode, I talk about why being early may be misunderstood but it’s a massive advantage to what you want to do, the difference between an early market…
- The Niche Is You
The Process, Not the Product, Should Be Your Focus
In this episode, I talk about why the process will bring you the most confidence, why the money is in your process for your business or products and services…
- The Niche Is You
Sometimes Our Answers Come From the Least Likely of Places
In this episode, I talk about being open to receive answers and opportunities from the least likely of places, observing what your friends do differently than…
- The Niche Is You
Sometimes the Opportunity Isn’t the Money But the Ability to Turn It Down If It’s Not In Alignment With Your Values
In this episode, I talk about doing work and making decisions that align with your values, how business can be spiritual, why your integrity needs to be more…
- The Niche Is You
Sometimes the Most Rejected Ideas Are Waiting For the Person With the Most Potential… You
In this episode, I talk about work that’s meant for you but not for others, why your vision may not be understood at first, the patience to see your vision…
- The Niche Is You
Can You Master the First Two Minutes of Anything
In this episode, I talk about mastering habits by showing up the first two minutes, how to create simple rituals that stick, practicing anything for 2 minutes…
- The Niche Is You
In Choosing Your Own Path… What Would Happen If You Were Just You?
In this episode, I talk about what would happen if you were just you, choosing your own path and how that may look to others, following your curiosities and…
- The Niche Is You
Your First Idea Doesn't Have to Be the Winning One... But It Will Definitely Lead to It
In this episode, I talk about how to execute your ideas faster, compounding your creativity until you find something that takes off, everything is learnable if…
- The Niche Is You
6 Things Creative Leaders Do To Differentiate Themselves From Everyone Else
In this episode, I talk about putting your face and voice out there so your work can speak for itself, finding your mission, creating more confidence for your…
- The Niche Is You
Are You Already Living Your Purpose & You Don’t Realize It
In this episode, I talk about rethinking how you view your purpose, identifying all the parts of your purpose, not searching outside yourself or any specific…
- The Niche Is You
Don’t Rush Your Most Important Work… Allow Your Life To Unfold Because Of It
In this episode, I talk about not rushing your work, why we’ve become so busy but unproductive, why leisure is so important to producing our best work, how key…
- The Niche Is You
If You Want the Anxiety of Things Not Working Out to Go Away... Then Change Often
In this episode, I talk about adapting to change faster than we usually do, why change brings us abundance, how consistency brings new opportunities daily, how…
- The Niche Is You
If You Don’t Change Your Habits, You’ll Be Left Chasing the Same Outcomes
In this episode, I talk about why you struggle changing unwanted outcomes, the difference between systems and goals, why goals are temporary but systems create…
- The Niche Is You
What Can You Change Minimally That Would Help You Gain Maximally
In this episode, I talk about looking at all the unobvious and overlooked areas that you can improve on, why 1% daily is more substantial than you’re counting…
- The Niche Is You
Don’t Be Afraid to Be the Exception… Life is About Being an Anomaly, Not Fitting In
In this episode, I talk about not being afraid to be more than one thing, building a portfolio of careers, doing multiple things but not all at once, observing…
- The Niche Is You
How to Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky) - An Excerpt by Naval
In this episode, I talk about how we create our own luck, why the Internet gives us all the leverage we need, how we don’t need permission to create, why…
- The Niche Is You
A Person Who Masters the Pause, Masters Their Emotions
In this episode, I talk about why mastering a pause in conversations will allow you to regulate your emotions, why we need clear thinking in every…
- The Niche Is You
It Only Feels Hard Because It’s Unfamiliar
In this episode, I talk about why unfamiliarity creates resistance, breaking the boundaries of learning something new, not being overwhelmed by all the options…
- The Niche Is You
The Most Nimble, Flexible & Transparent Are Winning in Business… Not What You Were Taught in School
In this episode, I talk about the 1-4 person business, why traditional business is losing to the individual and modern business world, why planning is…
- The Niche Is You
Obsession Bridges the Gap of Enjoying What You’re Doing Without What It Can Get You
In this episode, I talk about why getting into something can’t be about the allure of what you get in return, why “obsession” is about the game and not the…
- The Niche Is You
The Most Generous Thing You Can Do With Your Gifts & Talents is Share Them With the World
In this episode, I talk about sharing your work daily, caring more about your process than the actual product, sharing who or what inspires you, why people…
- The Niche Is You
Your Commitment to the Idea Needs to Far Outweigh the Validation For Doing It
In this episode, I talk about commitment to your idea versus the validation from others, the difference between devotion to your work versus validation for…
- The Niche Is You
The World Craves Your Authenticity Not Your Perfection
In this episode, I talk about why people don’t want perfection, why business is changing, how your “why” communicates to the world your mission, how your work…
- The Niche Is You
Can You Draw the Red Line that Separates What You Are Willing to Do From What You Aren’t
In this episode, I talk about creating more boundaries, knowing what your ethics and values are so you know not to cross them, protecting your creative…
- The Niche Is You
Don’t Do it For the Applause… Do it For the Freedom
In this episode, I talk about not doing things for the applause but the freedom, how it can take years before the applause but the freedom can get you there…
- The Niche Is You
If There’s Anything You Know You Should Do, Do It Faster
In this episode, I talk about your ability to trust your gut faster, closing the gap between intuition and execution, wanting others to figure things out more…
- The Niche Is You
If You Solve Time, You Will Solve Money. If You Solve Money, You Won’t Necessarily Solve Time
In this episode, I talk about the difference between time and money, why freedom is what people really want, how to create more time and freedom which attracts…
- The Niche Is You
How Do You Improve Outcomes… Improve Your Critical Thinking
In this episode, I talk about critical thinking, creating better more predictable outcomes for your life, improving your communication, adapting to…
- The Niche Is You
When We Subtract, Our Creativity & Abundance Grows
In this episode, I talk about how subtraction helps expand our creativity and abundance, knowing what to subtract, simplifying our work, creating more impact…
- The Niche Is You
The People You Admire Today Were Fighting the Same Things You Are But 10 Years Ago
In this episode, I talk about how to stick to your vision, what the people you admire went through just as you are experiencing, enduring criticism and how to…
- The Niche Is You
How to Rid Yourself of the Competition & Comparison Trap... For Good
In this episode, I talk about how to avoid the comparison and competition trap, why moving away from cultural expectations will help you define your own…
- The Niche Is You
Can You Commit to Something? That’s Where You Will Find What You’re Made Of
In this episode, I talk about commitment, having more follow through, becoming reliable (to self and others), creating more predictable outcomes, expanding…
- The Niche Is You
Patience is a Verb… It’s What We Do In the Waiting
In this episode, I talk about aligning with future you, knowing what deserves your attention right now, supporting future you with specific activities today…
- The Niche Is You
The Goal is Our Contribution, Not Our Perfection
In this episode, I talk about paying more attention to your contribution than the perfection of your work, developing your unique perspective on your work…
- The Niche Is You
It Doesn’t Matter How Fast You Learned It… It Matters How Valuable It Is To Others
In this episode, I talk about knowing your value, understanding value versus time and money, why value is more important than time, knowing what’s a great…
- The Niche Is You
Can You Go Through the Rejection and Still Continue to Do the Work
In this episode, I talk about loving your vision more than rejection, why rejection is a redirection that is better timing for you, releasing the expectations…
- The Niche Is You
The More Talent You Cultivate, the Less You Need Others to Validate It
In this episode, I talk about how confidence is built from your talent not others, trusting your own voice and path, authenticity is a verb, not needing…
- The Niche Is You
What You Solve For Yourself Is How You Serve the World
In this episode, I talk about how solving our own problems, challenges or curiosities is how we serve the world, training for our passions like we’re training…
- The Niche Is You
Is Your Pain Pushing You or Your Vision Pulling You
In this episode, I talk about pain being your motivator versus your vision, why clarity is what we’re looking for to shift, suffering versus surrendering and…
- The Niche Is You
Are You Exercising Your Ability to Choose Differently?
In this episode, I talk about observing your choices, how to actively make a different choice, knowing there’s an alternative option, determining if it’s your…
- The Niche Is You
To Go Far, You Have to Figure What To Leave Out
In this episode, I talk about learning to simplify your processes, adding constraints to be more creative, using the resources you’ve got from where you’re at…
- The Niche Is You
Sometimes Clarity is Knowing What Doesn’t Work to Find What Does
In this episode, I talk about letting go of pressure and expectations while you figure everything out, skill stacking eventually leads to your purpose, dealing…
- The Niche Is You
The Fastest Way to Speed Up Your Destiny is to Ask
In this episode, I talk about speeding up our destiny, why curiosity is our “in,” how we don’t have to be clear on what to do but we should be clear on what we…
- The Niche Is You
Our Job is to Make the Ideas We Talk About After 8pm Become a Reality When We Wake Up In the Morning
In this episode, I talk about how to close the gap between being creative and executing our ideas, Virgil Abloh’s (founder of Off-White & Creative Director at…
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Practice Isn’t Just Doing Something Over & Over Again, It’s Also Receiving Abundance Over & Over Again
In this episode, I talk about why more practice brings abundance in other areas of your life, how recovery and adaptation is just as important as doing the…
- The Niche Is You
Your Alignment is Closer Than You Think… You Just May Be Looking in the Wrong Places
In this episode, I talk about what brings you alignment, questions to immediately call in your alignment, observing your environments, documenting…
- The Niche Is You
When You Don’t Feel Like Showing Up, Disrupt Your Current Patterns
In this episode, I talk about disrupting your current patterns and behaviors, recognizing when you’re burnt out so you can immediately shift priorities, the…
- The Niche Is You
If You Steal From One Author It’s Plagiarism; If You Steal From Many It’s Research
In this episode, I talk about why we learn from observing others in our field, why its important to take different approaches from different inspiration and…
- The Niche Is You
The Best Things Can Happen Completely By Accident
In this episode, I talk about why the best things happen completely by accident or unexpectedly, increasing your chances for your work to take off, why the…
- The Niche Is You
It Doesn’t Have to All Make Sense Today… Cause It Will Tomorrow
In this episode, I talk about things not having to make sense today, having different focuses for different interests and linking them together later, dealing…
- The Niche Is You
How Do You Find the People Who Light You Up
In this episode, I talk about finding people who light you up, identifying high frequency people, why the right people can invigorate you and the wrong ones…
- The Niche Is You
5 Things That Changed My Life 5 Years Ago
In this episode, I talk about 5 massive changes that will change your life as well… 1.) showing up even when you’re not that person yet, 2.) it’s not about…
- The Niche Is You
If You Want to Get Better… Seek Out the Talent
In this episode, I talk about finding networks and communities of talented people, why you have to always be seeking out more talented individuals, why people…
- The Niche Is You
Can You Close the Gap Between Intuition & Execution?
In this episode, I talk about closing the gap between having an idea and executing, how to deal with our excuses, the top reasons we stall in executing our…
- The Niche Is You
The World You’re Looking For Is the One You Need to Create
In this episode, I talk about creating the world around you that you want to live in, why traveling and moving to other cities creates more movement in your…
- The Niche Is You
Don’t Wait Till You Know Who You Are to Get Started. (- Austin Kleon)
In this episode, I talk about not waiting till you know who you are to start, why copying others allows you to learn techniques & frameworks, how imitation is…
- The Niche Is You
Your Best Work is Always Worth Revisiting
In this episode, I talk about why your best work needs revisiting, how to promote your work over and over again, what your best work reveals about your new…
- The Niche Is You
If You Want Your Work to Be Known... Share It With the World
In this episode, I talk about how no one is really paying attention in the beginning and that works to your advantage, how you develop an audience for your…
- The Niche Is You
The Work That’s Most Resistant Is the Work That’s the Most Healing & Prosperous
In this episode, I talk about how doing hard work actually grows your brain and quality of life, how our struggles are signals for where are biggest healings…
- The Niche Is You
The Most Honest Thing You Can Do Is Find Out Who You Really Are
In this episode, I talk about why thinking gets in the way of your doing, how the intellect can be dangerous to your creativity, not rationalizing yourself to…