Coaching a CNN-Featured Artist to Make His Work Travel Without Him | Matthew Mazzotta | Ep 1020

From Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong Niiamah Ashong

"Every single person has so much dimension in us that's not realized. Somehow, we've been convinced not to." - Matthew Mazzotta

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Matthew Mazzotta. Matthew turns what a community already has into what it never thought it could have. A condemned house that unfolds into a 100-seat theater. Dog waste burning as park light. A flamingo hanging inside an airport.

This one goes at the gap between the work and the story of the work. What it costs a leader to let one output be merely adequate. Why the obvious fix is usually the wrong stone to pull. What has to be true for your work to travel without you in the room.

Three things to take:

Curiosity is the entry fee. No spectacle, no audience.
The ingredients already exist around you. Only the story is missing.
Your best day at one skill is someone else's thirty percent.

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.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Welcome to Outlier's Edge Live

02:35 - The house that unfolds

10:45 - Dog waste on Colbert

13:36 - Curiosity makes people drop everything

23:37 - The river and the stone

28:50 - Age fifteen, door shut

33:02 - The dream never packaged

37:00 - Stone Soup

40:42 - The movie he abandoned

42:22 - The wrong stone to pull