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 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 is a gift; since you give the chance for the help giver to experience joy, pride and the feel-good factor of supporting someone they care about.  Ashley is now on a mission to change our perceptions of asking for help; transforming help rejectors to help receivers. In doing so he aims to enable people to realize that accepting help has a life-changing impact not only on their own livelihood but also on those who offer them help.   He is now working to offer practical tools to change mindsets and motivate us all to ‘Help yourself by helping each other’.   TImecodes 00:00 Intro 02:10 Who is Ashley?   03:30 What made Ashley who he is? 07:10 Developing independence 08:30 His early creative ambitions  10:50 The value of Grey and BBH 13:35 What is Ashley working to achieve? 17:43 Recognizing the power of accepting help 18:55 His barriers to asking for help 21:16 Ashley’s mission to share his learnings 26:40 The Gift of help Podcast 29:10 Some tools explained 32:29 How serendipity led him to Simon Sinek   40:25 What ChatGPT says about barriers to asking for help 44:15 The evidence Ashley is witnessing 46:45 The impact on society in our meta crisis 50:00 The Japanese TV show  52:00 The changing corporate culture 53:10 Ashley’s ambition  55:27 The help Ashley is asking for? 57:58 Remaining resolute and resilient 59:57 Ashley’s gift or talent 01:02:46 The actions we can all take to create a help exchange Social Links  Ashley’s Email  Gift of Help Podcast  Linkedin  Instagram    Show Links  Bridge app Caroline Arditti Camerados Simon Sinek  Nir Eyal  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.