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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
Create What You Wish You Had — Not What You Think Will Sell
In this episode, I talk about why your most valuable work comes from what’s personal — not what’s popular, how creating for your past self unlocks resonance…
- The Niche Is You
You’re Not for Every Room — But You’re Exactly Right for the Right Ones
In this episode, I talk about why not being understood is a form of protection, the danger of over-explaining yourself to the wrong people, why presence speaks…
- The Niche Is You
Your People Will Find You When You Stop Abandoning Yourself
In this episode, I talk about why self-abandonment keeps you invisible to your true community, how authenticity is the most powerful signal you can send, what…
- The Niche Is You
God Didn’t Send the Giant to Defeat You — He Sent It to Position You
In this episode, I talk about why resistance is often a sign of revelation, not punishment, the difference between spiritual warfare and spiritual preparation…
- The Niche Is You
What You’re Called to Build Won’t Compete With Who You’re Becoming
In this episode, I talk about the danger of building something that pulls you away from your identity, why your calling should multiply your peace not fragment…
- The Niche Is You
Stop Trying to Fix What Was Only Meant to Teach You
In this episode, I talk about why some things were never meant to be “fixed” — only learned from, how our need for resolution can sabotage our release, how to…
- The Niche Is You
If You Have to Chase It… It’s Not in Agreement With You
In this episode, I talk about why chasing is a sign of misalignment, not ambition, how force creates friction, but alignment creates flow, what “agreement”…
- The Niche Is You
Collaboration or Chaos? Protecting Your Energy While Building With Others
In this episode, I talk about why collaboration without clarity leads to chaos, how to discern alignment vs. surface-level chemistry, the signs of draining…
- The Niche Is You
Discipline Isn’t About Perfection… But Stewardship
In this episode, I talk about why discipline isn’t about control but it’s about care, stewardship, and presence, how hustle culture distorted our understanding…
- The Niche Is You
You Can’t Be Led and Still Be Obsessed With Control
In this episode, I talk about surrender vs self-sabotage, obedience to the intuition vs outcome-obsession, the difference between flow and forcing, the deep…
- The Niche Is You
The Work Will Work… If You Stop Abandoning It Too Soon
In this episode, I talk about being patient with the external results matching the internal effort, why we question our work and our timing of results…
- The Niche Is You
The Real Cost of Misaligned Time
In this episode, I talk about spending time on the wrong things, worrying about death but not living present, busyness ≠ alignment, deferred alignment, signs…
- The Niche Is You
If It’s Not Clean, Clear or Essential, It Needs to Go
In this episode, I talk about simplicity cutting through the noise, why simplicity forces commitment and to narrow your choices, getting rid of anything…
- The Niche Is You
What Do Your Prayers Actually Look Like
In this episode, I talk about the purpose of prayer, how we pray, why our prayers need humility and honesty, praying for outcomes versus alignment, using…
- The Niche Is You
Simplicity Isn't Playing Small... It's Playing Smart
In this episode, I talk about removing the excess to focus on what actually moves the needle, how complexity feels impressive but it’s often just noise, why…
- The Niche Is You
The Work You’re Afraid to Share Is Probably the Work That Matters Most
In this episode, I talk about why the work you’re scared the most to share is the work people need the most, the myth of “it has to be perfect,” how real work…
- The Niche Is You
Your Gift Isn’t Lost — It’s Just Waiting for You to Make Room for It Again
In this episode, I talk about finding the things we’re good at again, why distractions bury our gifts, why we abandon our gifts to for practicality, clearing…
- The Niche Is You
The Right People Don’t Just Expand Your Reach — They Expand Your Vision
In this episode, I talk about cultivating the right circles and having the right people around you, why your network isn’t just about reach but about…
- The Niche Is You
How to Escape Competition
In this episode, I talk about leaning into what feels like play to you — but looks like work to everyone else, chasing what they think they’re ‘supposed to’…
- The Niche Is You
Rest Isn’t a Reward, It’s a Requirement… What is the Real ROI of Rest
In this episode, I talk about rest not just being a reward for your work but a requirement, rest as part of the process for deepening your work and habits, not…
- The Niche Is You
Your Work Shouldn’t Just Fund Your Life… It Should Feed Your Life
In this episode, I talk about why “aligned” work will be more lucrative and profitable for you, how to identify work that feeds you not just funds you…
- The Niche Is You
How to Know What’s a Distraction Vs What’s Truly Yours
In this episode, I talk about knowing what’s a distraction versus what’s meant to be yours, why distractions don’t always look like problems but opportunities…
- The Niche Is You
If You Don’t Know Where to Begin with Simplifying Your Life, Start With These 3 Things...
In this episode, I talk about how simplicity is not just about elimination but alignment, optimizing your time by focusing ion the highest leverage activities…
- The Niche Is You
The Happiest People Combine Art, Passion, and Purpose Into One Vehicle
In this episode, I talk about how we often compartmentalize our interests instead of intertwining them, how to overlap these interests, how we’re taught to…
- The Niche Is You
Self-Work Isn’t Just Healing the Past — It’s Preparing for the Future
In this episode, I talk about healing our pasts, preparing for our future, how healing isn’t just for relief but for readiness, how self-work is often quite…
- The Niche Is You
What We All Really Want From Each Other is Honesty
In this episode, I talk about why honesty is the single most important thing that connects us, how honesty allows us to feel safe with others, creating honest…
- The Niche Is You
Some Mistakes You Can Avoid When You Learn What Others Have Already Figured Out
In this episode, I talk about learning from others to avoid common mistakes, connecting multiple ideas across disciplines, how you don’t have to struggle to be…
- The Niche Is You
The People Who You Are Your Most Authentic Self With… Those Are Your People
In this episode, I talk about being around people who see us for who we really are, embracing the evolution of ourselves and others, how to make relationships…
- The Niche Is You
Treat Your Work Like a Living Process, Not a Finished Product
In this episode, I talk about how to make more opportunities and creativity happen with your work, how your pursuit of perfection is hindering your output and…
- The Niche Is You
Where You Are Vs Where You’re Called isn’t Distance… It’s Development
In this episode, I talk about the space between where we are and where we’re heading, why time is always preparation and not punishment, how your character has…
- The Niche Is You
True Emotional Connection Is Not Built on Perfection… It’s Built on Safety & Trust
In this episode, I talk about honesty as the highest form of intimacy, why emotional safety is the foundation of real connection, being able to argue without…
- The Niche Is You
Your Assignment is Bigger Than Your Comfort — Here’s Why
In this episode, I talk about why comfort will always compete with your calling, how your real assignments will stretch you, how your assignment requires parts…
- The Niche Is You
Can You Stay Rooted Long Enough to Grow the Fruit
In this episode, I talk about knowing what to commit to, knowing when a season is over and a new one is beginning, evolving a concept or escaping it, how…
- The Niche Is You
Your Gift Isn’t Just What You Do… It’s How You Do It
In this episode, I talk about our presence speaking for itself, how our energy you carry when you create, build, or serve is just part of your offering, how…
- The Niche Is You
What You’re Obsessed With Isn’t Random
In this episode we’ll talk about: how our obsessions might be divine signals how direction often feels like curiosity before it feels like clarity, why the…
- The Niche Is You
Productivity Isn’t Fast… It’s Focused
In this episode, I talk about urgency not being the same as effectiveness, why slow work is soul work, knowing which things to give your energy and attention…
- The Niche Is You
You Don’t Need to Prove Anything When You’re In Alignment
In this episode, I talk about proving versus alignment, why proving yourself makes you performative, working through seasons where nothing looks “successful,”…
- The Niche Is You
If It’s Meant For You, You’ll Have to Mature to Carry It
In this episode, I talk about delays versus being developed, how gifts will show you what you need to learn, being the person that can carry what’s meant for…
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Creativity Requires Faith… Faith Requires That We Relinquish Control
In this episode, I talk about why we throw up roadblocks on our own path, how to listen to our intuition more, allowing what’s for us to find us from our…
- The Niche Is You
Devotion To Your Craft Matters More Than the Field Your In
In this episode, I talk about not looking to what everyone else is doing unless it’s to make it different or better, breaking free from crowd mentality…
- The Niche Is You
Everything Big Started Small
In this episode, I talk about the power of humble beginnings, how some of the biggest brands on the planet started off as a completely different business…
- The Niche Is You
Success Is Also Getting Back Up (Advice My Father Gave Me Before He Passed)
In this episode, I talk about why success isn’t the end outcome as much as it is the person you’re becoming, why resilience is an indicator of where you’re…
- The Niche Is You
How Do You Know If You’re Making Progress?
In this episode, I talk about invisible progress, how loss, doubt and slowing down are signs of evolution, trusting yourself over outside validation, being…
- The Niche Is You
Why Taste Is the New Currency
In this episode, I talk about the changing landscape of our creativity and work online, why people are gravitating towards taste and the way you think…
- The Niche Is You
What Comes Through You is Far Greater Than What Comes From Outside You
In this episode, I talk about trusting what comes through you to create, why an idea must be acted upon immediately, how your creativity is a form of alignment…
- The Niche Is You
It’s Not the Outcome You Want, But the Feeling of a Meaningful Pursuit
In this episode, I talk about where does satisfaction really come from, why it’s more about the pursuit of something meaningful that’s sustaining, not arriving…
- The Niche Is You
The Businesses That Win Most Consistently Aren't the Ones With the Biggest Budgets
In this episode, I talk about how we’ve been conditioned to believe the higher prices automatically mean better quality, why you want to always look at the…
- The Niche Is You
Why Does God Make Us Wait?
In this episode, I talk about why God makes us wait, how waiting forms our character and brings us better outcomes than we anticipated, how God’s delays are…
- The Niche Is You
What You Make Today Isn’t What You Return To Tomorrow
In this episode, I talk about how our relationship with our creations constantly evolves, how clinging to past versions of our work limits current potential…
- The Niche Is You
“Always Available” and “Deeply Valuable” Are Fundamentally Incompatible States of Being
In this episode, I talk about protecting your energy in an always-on world, how you can’t always be available to the world and deeply valuable at the same…
- The Niche Is You
Standards Aren’t About Perfection, They’re About Alignment
In this episode, I talk about how you want to be treated, understanding the true meaning of having standards, why standards are a compass not a checklist…
- The Niche Is You
Have You Taken the Time to Witness Yourself Rather Than Be In a Constant State of Defense
In this episode, I talk about where fear originates, the illusion of control, reacting versus responding to what’s happening in the current moment, dealing…
- The Niche Is You
Is It the Work or Is It Just Misaligned?
In this episode, I talk about knowing if something is right for us versus misaligned, how we tend to think we’re not meant for a certain type of work when we…
- The Niche Is You
It’s Bigger Than You Think… God Will Provide
In this episode, I talk about how our prayers are always being answered, why “no’s” are also prayers working in our favor, why our purpose is bigger than we…
- The Niche Is You
Treat Every Work Like Your First Work & You’ll Sustain the Money & the Authenticity
In this episode, I talk about treating each project like our first to sustain our creativity and money, dealing with external pressures, not giving in to…
- The Niche Is You
How Do You Know When It’s Time to Leave… the Job, the Career, the Relationship or the Location?
In this episode, I talk about why we keep waiting for absolute clarity before making major transitions, fear activation & avoidance, the myth of certainty…
- The Niche Is You
Are You Living Someone Else’s Story?
In this episode, I talk about understanding the origins our our “borrowed” stories about ourselves, questioning what would I do if nobody told me what I should…
- The Niche Is You
Champions Obsess Over Fundamentals, Not Trophies (Shane Parrish
In this episode, I talk about focusing on fundamentals instead of trophies, how external validation creates a dependency that puts your fulfillment in other…
- The Niche Is You
Your Circle Should Be An Instantaneous Upgrade to the Standard of Quality That Your Pursuing
In this episode, I talk about why having the right circle influences your work and creative output, the power of curated collective intelligence, 3…
- The Niche Is You
Your Limited Resources Aren't a Barrier, They're Your Competitive Advantage
In this episode, I talk about limited resources actually being a competitive advantage, how constraints enhance creative problem solving, why too many choices…