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The Gift of Help: For yourself & each other

Ashley Usiskin

How do we encourage more of us to accept help when it’s offered, and ask for help when they need it?

As I deal with the challenge of living with a lymphoma and chemotherapy, I’ve encountered some life-changing lessons about the gift of help. The transformative realisation that accepting help is a gift since you give the chance for the help giver to experience joy, pride and/or the feel good factor of supporting someone they care about.

So I’m now on a mission to transform us all from a world of help rejectors to help receivers. So we can all revel in the Gift of Help.

This first season features conversations with people who share their inspiring health journey stories of how they’ve overcome cancer, concussion, ankle reconstructions, blindness. We discuss their raw and honest experience of asking for and accepting help and how this has changed and supported them. And then importantly we reveal some ways that they find useful to get over mental blocks to accept and ask for help.

Episodes
Ep. 16: Getting over your fears: Harnessing the power of help to launch a game-changing businessApril 21, 2024
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Ep. 15: Priceless lessons about ‘Help’ from surviving skin cancer and starting up your own businessJanuary 13, 2024
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Ep. 14: 6 Life-enhancing take-aways from meeting Simon SinekAugust 27, 2023
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Ep 13: Meeting Simon Sinek: An inspiring story about daring to askAugust 15, 2023
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Nugget #8: The benefits to you, and those around you, of accepting help unconditionallyJuly 09, 2023
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Nugget #7: Extraordinary power of human connection simply from accepting helpJune 29, 2023
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Nugget #6: The joy of being asked for help May 21, 2023
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Ep 12 David Smith, Paralympian's passion to help others and live a life with purposeMay 14, 2023
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Ep 11 How embracing help supported Matt to beat colon cancer during CovidApril 30, 2023
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Ep 10 How Osher Günsberg has successfully overcome his battle with anxiety & addictionApril 23, 2023
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Ep 9 Embracing your network of help, and the power of the mind April 16, 2023
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Nugget #5: Being kind to yourself increases your instinct to help yourselfApril 15, 2023
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Ep. 8: 35 Life-changing lessons 12 months on since my diagnosisApril 10, 2023
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Nugget #4: Accepting help allows people to experience pride and joy March 08, 2023
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Nugget #3: Tips for offering help, and understanding your own blockers to accepting helpMarch 03, 2023
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Nugget #2: Rejecting help is selfish. Accepting help is self-care!March 03, 2023
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Nugget #1: 3 practical tips to make it easier to accept offers of help!February 28, 2023
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Ep. 7 Those who help others often struggle to help themselvesDecember 30, 2022
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Ep. 6 How hitting rock bottom pushes us to accept help December 23, 2022
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Ep. 5 How to be independent AND accept help at the same timeDecember 16, 2022
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Ep. 4 Become a champion help receiverDecember 07, 2022
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Ep. 3 Being kind and vulnerable enough to accept helpNovember 26, 2022
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Ep. 2 Embracing your own "Team Help"November 20, 2022
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The Gift of Help: TrailerNovember 17, 2022
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Ep. 1 How a cancer diagnosis & becoming a help receiver changed my lifeOctober 29, 2022
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