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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
Build Work That Still Feels Like You Five Years From Now
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why building for relevance can slowly disconnect you from the work you actually want to make How to distinguish between…
- The Niche Is You
You Can't Build an Authentic Life While Performing for Approval
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why so many unknowingly build lives around approval instead of authenticity How performance slowly disconnects you from who…
- The Niche Is You
Your Calling Isn’t a Destination… It’s a Relationship You Keep Growing Into
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why your calling is something you continually grow into—not something you eventually reach. Why the deepest fulfillment comes…
- The Niche Is You
Stop Building a Career & Life People Understand
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why we've been conditioned to build lives that make sense to other people The difference between pursuing a career and…
- The Niche Is You
Your Boundaries Aren't Hurting People — They're Revealing Who Was Benefiting From You Having None
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why setting boundaries so often gets confused with hurting people — when what's really happening is that boundaries are…
- The Niche Is You
Anyone Can Stand Beside You — The Person For You Will Protect Your Assignment
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why chemistry, connection, and attraction matter… but why they were never designed to be the primary filter for who you build…
- The Niche Is You
What It Actually Looks Like to Surrender Your Plans to God
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why most of what we call "surrender" isn't actually surrender… it's negotiation dressed up in spiritual language, and how…
- The Niche Is You
Your Best Opportunities Will Come From the Work You Almost Didn't Share
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the nervousness before sharing is usually a signal — not a warning Why the work you almost held back is often the work…
- The Niche Is You
If It Makes Sense to Everyone Else — It's Probably Not From God
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why real assignments from God rarely make sense to the people around you The difference between waiting on God and waiting on…
- The Niche Is You
The Best Decisions Usually Feel Simpler Than Your Mind Wants Them To
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the mind resists simple answers How overthinking creates false complexity Why real clarity tends to be quiet The…
- The Niche Is You
The People Who Feel "Behind" Are Often the Ones Actually Building Something Real
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the feeling of being "behind" is one of the most common and misinterpreted experiences of the modern era How the…
- The Niche Is You
The God Who Called You to This Isn't Going to Abandon You in the Middle of It
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why we default to fear that God will leave us halfway through what God started in us The biblical pattern of calling always…
- The Niche Is You
You Don't Need to Be Discovered… You Need to Be Recognized
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the entire idea of being "discovered" is a leftover from an era that no longer exists The fundamental difference between…
- The Niche Is You
The Depth of a Relationship Is Determined by What Both People Are Willing to Be Honest About
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why time is essential to depth — but it isn't enough on its own How trust and honesty work together over time to produce real…
- The Niche Is You
Discomfort Isn't the Enemy of a Meaningful Life… It's Sometimes the Price of One
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why discomfort isn't the enemy of a meaningful life — it's the actual price of one How the fear of discomfort is quietly…
- The Niche Is You
The Value of Your Work Is Established Long Before Anyone Can Bring a Metric to It
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why value is created long before it can be measured — and why waiting for measurement to confirm it is a trap How we've been…
- The Niche Is You
The Version of You That's Emerging Doesn't Need Permission From the Version That's Leaving
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why growth doesn't just require releasing what was bad — it requires releasing what was good but no longer fits How the…
- The Niche Is You
What You Were Told About Your Worth Is Still Shaping What You Let Yourself Build
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why belief is the invisible architecture of every life How the beliefs we inherited early — especially from people we loved…
- The Niche Is You
What If Your Business Was Just a Vehicle to Enjoy Your Life?
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the endless revenue chase is a fallacy that keeps you from ever arriving How we accidentally made business the…
- The Niche Is You
The Gap That Nobody Talks About… the Space Between Inner Transformation and Outer Reality
In this episode we’ll talk about: The gap that nobody talks about — the space between inner transformation and outer reality Why doubt shows up so intensely in…
- The Niche Is You
The Real Flex Isn't Getting What Everyone Else Wants… It's Not Wanting It in the First Place
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why wanting what everyone else wants automatically puts you in chase mode — and what that's costing you The difference…
- The Niche Is You
Why Does Grief Reveal Some of Our Deepest Connection to God?
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why grief has a way of doing what almost nothing else in life can do to our spiritual sensitivity How loss slows down our…
- The Niche Is You
The Goal Isn't More Energy — It's Fewer Things Stealing It
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why most people are chasing the wrong solution to feeling depleted The hidden energy leaks that quietly run your nervous…
- The Niche Is You
The Right Person Won't Make You Smaller — They'll Make You More of Who You Already Are
In this episode we’ll talk about: The quiet test that reveals whether love is expanding you or shrinking you Why so many of us learned to shrink in love before…
- The Niche Is You
The Most Powerful Move You Can Make Right Now Is Slowing Down
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why slowing down has become the most counterintuitive and most powerful move you can make How our pace of life has been…
- The Niche Is You
You Keep Praying for Direction While Ignoring the One God Already Gave You
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why most people aren't lacking direction — they're stalling on the direction they already received The spiritual principle of…
- The Niche Is You
As a Creator… Be Careful Being Taught How to Be Someone Else
In this episode we’ll talk about: The dominant message most creators are being taught — and why it's quietly costing them What I've chosen instead and what…
- The Niche Is You
You're Not Having an Identity Crisis… You're Having an Honesty Breakthrough
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why what we call an identity crisis is almost always something else entirely How honesty feels like collapse when you've…
- The Niche Is You
God's Not Absent... God Just May Be Quiet So You Can Practice Listening to a Frequency You Used to Drown Out
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why silence from God isn't absence — and how we've been misreading it our whole lives The biblical pattern of God speaking in…
- The Niche Is You
The Work Doesn't Need to Be Good… It Just Needs to Be Made
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why we've been lied to about how creativity actually works How the obsession with making good work is what's preventing you…
- The Niche Is You
If You’re Not Going To Devote All Of Yourself To It, Why Do It At All
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why Kobe Bryant's standard wasn't about being the best — it was about full devotion How half-devotion is more expensive than…
- The Niche Is You
There Are Two Vital Questions to Ask When Making an Important Decision
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why most people only ask one question when making decisions — and it's the wrong one The difference between optimization…
- The Niche Is You
Make the Thing Only You Could Make — The Audience for That Is Already Waiting
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the most overlooked competitive advantage is the thing that makes you specifically you How trying to make what's already…
- The Niche Is You
You Will Know Them By Their Fruit
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why fruit is not what most people think it is What scripture actually means when it talks about the fruit of the Spirit How…
- The Niche Is You
Money Was Never the Enemy of the Work… or What Some Call Art
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why we sort our talents into two piles — and how that sorting system is breaking The lie that real artists shouldn't care…
- The Niche Is You
When the Thing That Always Worked Stops Working — That's God Talking
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why God will sometimes dry up the source that's been carrying you How to recognize divine redirection when it shows up as…
- The Niche Is You
How Do You Answer the Question… “What Do You Do?”
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the question "what do you do" has always felt too small for certain people How society's need to label you is about their…
- The Niche Is You
Many Don't Have an Intuition Problem… It Might Be a Courage-to-Obey-It Problem
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why most people hear their intuition clearly but choose not to follow it How the gap between knowing and doing is almost…
- The Niche Is You
Most of What We Call Doubt Is Actually a Refusal to Release the Version of the Plan We Wrote First
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why most doubt isn't actually doubt in God — it's attachment to your own version of how things should go How we mislabel…
- The Niche Is You
Alignment Doesn't Feel Aligned at First — It Feels Like Loss
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the beginning of alignment almost always feels like something is falling apart How loss and alignment share the same…
- The Niche Is You
Most Good Communication Is Actually Two People Being Safe Enough to Be Wrong Out Loud
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why what we call good communication is less about technique and more about safety How most communication breakdowns aren't…
- The Niche Is You
The Decision That Scares You the Most Is Often the One Your Future Self Has Already Made
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the decisions that carry the most fear are usually the most aligned How your future self has already resolved what your…
- The Niche Is You
The Relationship You're Praying for Is Also Praying for You
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the waiting season in love isn't just about your preparation — it's about theirs too How God is simultaneously preparing…
- The Niche Is You
Prayers Aren’t Magic Tricks… They’re Invitations
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why prayers are invitations into becoming not shortcuts to receiving How activation is where the real work begins — not where…
- The Niche Is You
Your Peace Is More Valuable Than Your Immediate Response
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the urgency to respond immediately is almost never as urgent as it feels How protecting your peace in the moment produces…
- The Niche Is You
The Best Relationships Don't Start When Two People Find Each Other... They Start When Two People Find God and Then Recognize Each Other on the Path
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the strongest relationships are rooted in shared devotion not just shared attraction How finding God first changes who…
- The Niche Is You
The People Who Shift Culture Usually Start By Ignoring What Everyone Else Is Chasing
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the people who change culture never did it by following what was already established How ignoring what everyone else is…
- The Niche Is You
When You Do What You’re Designed For… Success is the Default
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why success isn't something you chase — it's something that happens naturally when you're operating in your design How most…
- The Niche Is You
The World Will Celebrate Your Ambition... God Will Honor Your Assignment
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why ambition and assignment look similar from the outside but feel completely different on the inside How to discern which…
- The Niche Is You
God Isn’t Asking Us to Give Up Our Dream… God is Asking Us to Let Go of Control
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why most people confuse surrender with giving up when they're not even close to the same thing How control disguises itself…
- The Niche Is You
You Don't Need to Prove Your Worth… You Need to Live in It
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why most people are stuck proving their value instead of living from it How the need for external validation keeps you…
- The Niche Is You
We Were Never Supposed to Win Their Game... We Were Sent to Usher in a New One
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why some of you were never meant to succeed inside the current system How the frustration of not fitting in is actually…
- The Niche Is You
Not Everything That's Available Is Meant for You
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why availability isn't the same as assignment How open doors can be just as dangerous as closed ones when discernment is…
- The Niche Is You
Your Greatest Fear and Your Greatest Calling Are Almost Always Standing in the Same Room
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why fear and calling tend to live in the same place How the thing you're most afraid of is often the clearest indicator of…
- The Niche Is You
What If You're Not Falling Behind… You're Just Falling Into Place
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why falling behind and falling into place feel exactly the same from the inside How disorientation is often the first sign of…
- The Niche Is You
You're Allowed to Change Your Mind About the Life You Said You Wanted
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why changing your mind about what you want isn't inconsistency — it's growth How goals set by a previous version of you can…
- The Niche Is You
The Prayer You're Afraid to Pray Is Probably the One That Unlocks Everything
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why we edit our prayers the same way we edit ourselves How the thing you won't say to God is often the thing holding…
- The Niche Is You
What You're Unwilling to Feel Is Quietly Running Your Life
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the emotions you avoid don't disappear — they drive How unfelt pain shows up as patterns in your relationships your work…
- The Niche Is You
Your Best Work Will Come From the Season You Wanted to Skip
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the season you're most desperate to get through is the one producing your most important work How lived experience in the…
- The Niche Is You
What If the Best Thing About You Is the Thing You Keep Apologizing For?
In this episode we’ll talk about: Why the thing you keep toning down might be the most valuable thing about you How we learn to apologize for parts of…