Coaching an Opera Director Booked Through 2028 Launch Her First Film | Kelsie Furst | Ep 993

From Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong Niiamah Ashong

"What if you're already ready." — Niiamah

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Kelsie Furst, executive and artistic director of Loveland Opera Theater.

Kelsey never set out to run an opera company. She came up through the chorus, auditioned pregnant, said yes every time she was asked, and rose. Now she wants to make something nobody will ask her for. This conversation is about the gap between the leader everyone recruits and the artist waiting for permission to start her own work.

What you'll take away:

- Why the question of "enough experience" is the wrong question for a leader who has never qualified in advance

- How the constraints you carry from your old game quietly rewrite the rules of your new one

- The difference between a project that drains you and one that pays you back

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 the Outlier's Edge Podcast

00:33 - From Nutcracker to opera director

04:59 - Asked to lead the company

17:37 - What life changing would require

21:31 - You already know the answer

22:32 - The movie opera she wants

26:22 - Her fear of vanity

31:22 - Too nervous to start

32:39 - Experience is the wrong question

43:45 - Energy is not limited