🎧 PART 2 — SUPPORT | The Wrong Words Podcast
Support — is it carrying someone from beneath, an assist, or the thing that quietly kills growth? Oliver and Levon continue unpacking support: its origins, when it becomes enabling, and how language lets us hide what we really mean. In this short episode they press into when support helps, when it harms, and how to ask for what you actually need.
🧠In this episode we explore:
Origins of support: carry up from beneath, sustain, assist.
The difference between support, help, and enablement.
How asking for support can be surrender, partnership, or a request for encouragement.
📚 We unpack:
Galatians 6:2 and the handoff idea of carrying burdens.
When support becomes death to personal growth and when it empowers.
Practical language: say what you need, who does what, and for how long.
💥 Key moments include:
The sports assist versus team support analogy.
The enablement warning: sustaining someone vs helping them grow.
The call to name the ask so agreements are clear.
🛠You’ll walk away with:
Simple language to replace the umbrella word support.
A quick checklist to decide if the ask is help, partnership, or offload.
A prompt to turn vague asks into clear agreements.
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📊 POLL QUESTION:
When someone asks for support you think:
A) Help
B) Carry
C) Surrender
D) Encourage
