Ashley Usiskin: Learning To Help Ourselves By Helping Each Other

<p>How do we encourage more people to accept help when it’s offered, and ask for help when it's needed?&nbsp;That is the big question this week’s guest difference maker Ashley Usiskin is focused on answering.&nbsp;</p><p>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.&nbsp;</p><p>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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>He is now working to offer practical tools to change mindsets and motivate us all to&nbsp;‘Help yourself by helping each other’.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>TImecodes</strong></p><p>00:00 Intro</p><p>02:10 Who is Ashley?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>03:30 What made Ashley who he is?</p><p>07:10 Developing independence</p><p>08:30 His early creative ambitions&nbsp;</p><p>10:50 The value of Grey and BBH</p><p>13:35 What is Ashley working to achieve?</p><p>17:43 Recognizing the power of accepting help</p><p>18:55 His barriers to asking for help</p><p>21:16 Ashley’s mission to share his learnings</p><p>26:40 The Gift of help Podcast</p><p>29:10 Some tools explained</p><p>32:29 How serendipity led him to Simon Sinek&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>40:25 What ChatGPT says about barriers to asking for help</p><p>44:15 The evidence Ashley is witnessing</p><p>46:45 The impact on society in our meta crisis</p><p>50:00 The Japanese TV show&nbsp;</p><p>5