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The Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp. 16: Getting over your fears: Harnessing the power of help to launch a game-changing businessThis 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, through to a deeply challenging time during her 40’s navigating perimenopause. All of this has led her to follow her purpose and start Womanship, a game-chan...2024-04-2158 min
Choose Your PerspectiveAshley Usiskin: The Gift of HelpThe Gift of Help: Interview with Ashley Usiskin . Today we talk with Ashley a student and teacher of Simon Sinek’s and his life long journey and goal to shower the power and gift of accepting help and helping others. Ashley’s website www.thegiftofhelp.org2024-02-2454 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp. 15: Priceless lessons about ‘Help’ from surviving skin cancer and starting up your own businessThis 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 life. How they’ve acted as a reminder of how priceless the help from his wife, family and fri...2024-01-1355 min
The Impossible NetworkAshley Usiskin: Learning To Help Ourselves By Helping Each OtherHow do we encourage more people to accept help when it’s offered, and ask for help when it's needed? That is the big question this week’s guest difference maker Ashley Usiskin is focused on answering. With a successful career that spanned branding, marketing and start-ups across 4 countries, in early 2022 Ashley was diagnosed with lymphoma and a rare auto-immune hemolytic disease that required months of debilitating chemotherapy. This led to a life-changing and transformative experience; from being self-reliant and independent he was suddenly helpless requiring the help of others. This led to his realization that accepting help i...2023-08-281h 08
The Impossible NetworkEp:234 – Ashley Usiskin: Learning To Help Ourselves By Helping Each OtherAshley Usiskin Overview How do we encourage more people to accept help when it’s offered, and ask for help when it’s needed? That is the big question this week’s guest difference maker Ashley Usiskin is focused on answering. With a successful career that spanned branding, marketing and start-ups across 4 countries, in early 2022 Ashley […]2023-08-281h 08The Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp. 14: 6 Life-enhancing take-aways from meeting Simon SinekRecently 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. Manifesting: Things don’t just happen by chance, we can make them happen. Being clear as to what yo...2023-08-2713 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp 13: Meeting Simon Sinek: An inspiring story about daring to askThis 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: Ashley UsiskinInst...2023-08-1513 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherNugget #8: The benefits to you, and those around you, of accepting help unconditionallyHere’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 and offer to help out to not only the person who...2023-07-0910 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherNugget #7: Extraordinary power of human connection simply from accepting helpIn 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:Email: ashley@thegiftofhelp.orgFacebook: Ashley UsiskinInstagram: @gift_of_accepting_help_podcastLinked: https://www.linkedin.co...2023-06-2907 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherNugget #6: The joy of being asked for helpThis clip is from conversation with Osher Günsberg.In the spirit of the joy of being asked for help, we talk about it being not the survival of the fittest, but more survival of the friendliest. And that as a species we have succeeded because we are cooperative and our brains are hardwired to reward us when we help others.You can contact me on:Email: ashley@thegiftofhelp.orgFacebook: Ashley UsiskinInstagram: @gift_of_accepting_help_podcastLinked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyusiskin/2023-05-2108 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp 12 David Smith, Paralympian's passion to help others and live a life with purposeThis conversation tells the story of how a Paralympian gold medallist’s grit and self-reliance gave way to vulnerability, self-awareness, accepting and offering help and a greater sense of purpose.David was a promising national level student athlete, but in 2010 he was diagnosed with a rare tumour in his spinal cord. He then went on to represent Great Britain at rowing and win gold at the London Olympics in 2012. However in 2106, one of the multiple spinal surgeries he had to endure that year left him paralaysed from the neck down on one side.We discuss how d...2023-05-1458 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp 11 How embracing help supported Matt to beat colon cancer during CovidI chat with Matt Black, a chartered surveyor from London, father of two and colon cancer survivor. Matt now campaigns to encourage everyone, especially head-in-the-sand middle-aged men, to regularly check themselves and be aware of the early warning signs. We talk about the frightening and lonely experience of being diagnosed and urgently operated at 2am during the early days of Covid. And then in the days after his life saving surgery, having mixed emotions about being grateful for dodging a bullet, but also the unenviable challenge of having no in person contact with his wife, and...2023-04-3048 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp 10 How Osher Günsberg has successfully overcome his battle with anxiety & addictionIn this episode, I chat with Osher Günsberg, Australian award-winning TV presenter, author, podcast host, writer, and mental health advocate. Osher talks openly about his self destructive early career years as a roadie, then radio DJ and TV host, including colourful and sometimes frightening stories of hitting rock bottom. And how it was these moments that forced him, together with support of friends and colleagues, to let go of his independence and ego to then accept and ask for help. Some of the themes we cover are:The triggers to start to accept help...2023-04-2358 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp 9 Embracing your network of help, and the power of the mindIn this episode I chat with Tim Wotton. A Cystic Fibrosis sufferer, who has been defying the odds all his life. He wasn’t expected to live past his 17th birthday, but yet at 51 he continues to embrace life as a motivational speaker, author, hockey player and family man. He explains from how from a young age, he was forced to accept and ask for help. How this has made him feel more like a survivor than a victim. And that when he went to University he appreciated that help is out there in abundance, and people offer i...2023-04-1643 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherNugget #5: Being kind to yourself increases your instinct to help yourselfThis clip is from my conversation with David Rosen.We cover off the theme of how we should be more kind to ourselves, and that this can increase our instinct to actually help ourselves, and in the end of the wonderful outcome of helping each other.Plus we discuss an example of how reaching out for help when you're feeling low, can help you and the other person be lifted. You can listen to the full episode with David here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2075728/11708501You can contact me on:Email: as...2023-04-1506 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp. 8: 35 Life-changing lessons 12 months on since my diagnosisA year ago I was admitted to hospital … and nearly said goodbye. It’s been the most extraordinary past 12 months of priceless lessons. So on Ashley 2.0’s birthday I wanted to share what I’ve learnt about life, myself and each other. Nothing would make me happier if they can help you as much as they’ve helped me. To commemorate this all, I proudly made this podcast. And complied this list:Compassionate connection.Mutually fuelled friendships.To give and receive a thinking-of-you message or callHelping others is selflessly selfish. You both end up happier...2023-04-1023 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherNugget #4: Accepting help allows people to experience pride and joyThis clip was from my conversation with Tom Bagnall, a survivor of Stage 3 melanoma cancer.Friends of Tom were invested in his recovery. By accepting help, it gave a chance for friends to rally together to support him. They did so because they care, and to get joy from witnessing and celebrate the results of their help in his recovery. It's a great example of having been on the receiving end of help, and experiencing its benefits, it helps you more instinctively offer help to others. Here's the full episode with Tom https://www...2023-03-0807 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherNugget #3: Tips for offering help, and understanding your own blockers to accepting helpThis clip was from my conversation with Tom Bagnall, a survivor of Stage 3 melanoma cancer.We talk about tips for offering help: Make them specific, tangible and constructive. And how recognising your own historical blockers, helps you see these in others to then be more empathetic and effective at offering help. And this in turn supports you to be more accepting of more help in your own life. Here's the full episode with Tom https://www.thegiftofhelp.org/2075728/11708446You can contact me on:Email: ashley@thegiftofhelp.orgFacebook: Ashley Usi...2023-03-0306 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherNugget #2: Rejecting help is selfish. Accepting help is self-care!In this clip from conversation about my health journey, we talk about the abundance of help around us, and that ironically to not accept help is selfish. But accepting it is practising self-care, and a chance to trigger a wonderful positive ripple effect of help on those around you.Here's the full episode of my conversation with Marco https://www.thegiftofhelp.org/2075728/11599749You can contact me on:Email: ashley@thegiftofhelp.orgFacebook: Ashley UsiskinInstagram: @gift_of_accepting_help_podcastLinked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyusiskin/2023-03-0308 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherNugget #1: 3 practical tips to make it easier to accept offers of help!This short episode covers 3 simple tips:1. If you have trouble accepting that offer, consider it the other way round - would you happily offer help if you were asked in the same sitation?2. Avoid assuming there is an effort, burden and time the offerer will go through to offer that gesture of help3. Start small - accept everyday gestures even like the offer of a coffee!This clip is from my conversation with a good friend Marco about my health journey, and my experience of embracing the life-changing concept of ‘the gift of hel...2023-02-2804 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp. 7 Those who help others often struggle to help themselvesThis episode is with Ursula Tomlinson, a wonderfully generous retired paediatric oncologist nurse I met recently on a personal development program. Born into a large family, and as the eldest she learned to be highly independent, self reliant and from a young age instinctively wanting to spend a lifetime helping others. Drawing on this experience she has a fascinating insight on not only offering help as a nurse but also asking for help for herself. And is honest about her own blockers towards accepting help from others.There so many gems to highlight, some include: 2022-12-301h 01The Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp. 6 How hitting rock bottom pushes us to accept helpThis episode is with Ton van Klaveren, a good Dutch friend, successful head of corporate sales, aspirational business owner and damn strong cyclist.Highly driven and active, and a self-described impatient, somewhat private and fiercely independent person.After a car crash, Ton suffered whiplash and was diagnosed with concussion. But only 8 days later did he start to feel the severe repercussions. Leaving him incapable of working, socialising and controlling his moods.Some of the fascinating topics we cover are:- His struggles to understand the effects of the injuries on his body, the de...2022-12-2350 minThe Gift of Help: For yourself & each otherEp. 5 How to be independent AND accept help at the same timeThis episode is with Daniel Kramer, a 24 year old cousin, fellow podcaster, keen sportsman and someone who’s relentlessly curious to find ways to improve himself.Born with only 40% vision in one eye and then diagnosed with ADHD, his story and approach to life is truly extraordinary. Some of the inspiring and thought-provoking topics we cover are:- Having to accept constant help at hand from a young age, and the challenge then to craft his own independence as he grew older.- At aged 14 being forced to lie flat dead still for 2...2022-12-161h 00