25 episodes
The Gift of Help: For yourself & each other Ashley Usiskin
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- Health & Fitness
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.
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Ep. 16: Getting over your fears: Harnessing the power of help to launch a game-changing business
This episode is with Nicolette Lazarus, a self-described midlife woman, solo female founder with a 100% record of getting through bad days. Her life has been quite a journey - growing up in an immigrant family in the early 70s, having her attitude to help inadvertently imprinted by an incident with her younger smarter brother, battling to have a successful career in advertising, a post-divorce transformational solo adventure through Australia’s outback, thr...
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Ep. 15: Priceless lessons about ‘Help’ from surviving skin cancer and starting up your own business
This episode is with Greg Allon, father of 3, Chief Operating Officer at a TV Production company, enthusiastic runner, blog writer and aspirational author15 years ago he was diagnosed with malignant melanoma whilst his youngest of three kids was 9 months old. And then a couple of years later, he started a spinning studios business with his sister and brother-in-law.We discuss his insights on help from these life-changing experiences and how they have fundamentally changed his outlook on...
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Ep. 14: 6 Life-enhancing take-aways from meeting Simon Sinek
Recently I had the remarkable experience of meeting Simon Sinek, the renowned author, inspirational speaker and podcast host. It represented a wonderful reminder of you how when we dare to ask for help amazing things can happen. In this episode I share how the experience has underlined and highlighted so many life enhancing themes I'm increasingly now living my life by, ones that will hopefully help and inspire you on your journey to live the life you want.1. Manifestin...
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Ep 13: Meeting Simon Sinek: An inspiring story about daring to ask
This episode tells the inspiring personal story of the life-changing benefits of practising what I’m preaching. To be aware of and have the motivation to overcome your blockers and asking for help. And for this to massively serve me when I recently met Simon Sinek, and how this has led to a massive step forward on my journey to increase the impact of my Gift of Help project.I hope this inspires you as much as it has me.You can contact me on:Email: ashley@thegiftofhelp.orgFacebook...
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Nugget #8: The benefits to you, and those around you, of accepting help unconditionally
Here’s a few nuggets and insights from the clip of my conversation with Matt Black a colon cancer survivor and now charismatic campaigner.Accepting help with unconditional gratitude, can trigger not only an unexpected mood and energy boost for yourself, but also for the help giver and the wonderful ripple effect onto those around them. And how this in general breeds a sense of love and gratitude, support and friendship.Plus also we talk about the power of a thinking of you reach out an...
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Nugget #7: Extraordinary power of human connection simply from accepting help
In this short clip from my conversation with David Smith, the gold-winning Paralympian, we talk about the joy and priceless value of human connection from simply asking, offering and accepting help even with strangers. Plus how his attitude of being curious, compassionate and courageous underpins all of this. You can listen to the full episode and David's extraordinarily inspirational story and life philosophy here:https://www.thegiftofhelp.org/2075728/12726621You can contact me on...