Hi there! You're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Dachy and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today's episode 125, the Lazy Genius asks for help. This episode is all about seeking help for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways.

We will mostly talk about the different kinds of therapy and different reasons why or why not you might pursue them.

We'll also just talk a little bit about how to be a good friend as someone else who needs help. It's a heavy topic but also one that I want to join in the flow of normalizing.

I've been in counseling for several years now and will share my process of that as well. I hope that by the end of this episode you'll feel encouraged in your knowledge of different ways to ask for help and might have more of a language of how to do it.

Before we get into that, I want to tell you about a way I ask for help with my work and an opportunity for you if you like the same.

I joined Hope Riders a couple of years ago and it has been an incredibly helpful tool in my work as a writer and a content creator.

Hope Riders is an online community for smart creative writers helping you get your words out of your head and into the hands of your reader, all without feeling lost, discouraged or overwhelmed.

I've been writing on the internet, often on for almost a decade and I remember the early years feeling like I had no idea what I was doing.

I didn't know how to make people care and I didn't have the tools to manage all of the self-doubt and kind of the inner grossness that sometimes made me want to just quit.

Not to mention knowing how to improve the craft of writing, how to sell something, how to become a published author.

There was so much I didn't know and then so much I didn't know that I didn't know.

If you feel that same wondering and wondering, Hope Riders is your answer.

It is such a beautiful community of writers who want to write words that matter without feeling like a robot or that they're going crazy.

I've been a member since it started and I have benefited so much. It helped me write my book proposal which turned into a book deal.

It helped me refine my writing voice, create writing rhythms, figure out how to approach Instagram.

There's just no other resource like it on the internet.

My personal favorite part is the video library of Tuesday teachers, every single Tuesday.

One of the Hope Riders co-founders, usually my beloved Emily P. Freeman, interview someone from the writing life authors, bloggers, publishers, editors, agents, marketers, book launch experts.

It's stupid actually, how rich those teachings are alone on their own. I've learned so much from them.

Hope Riders is open to members only three times a year in this week is one of those times.

You can join Hope Riders starting tomorrow Tuesday, October 1st through this Friday the 4th.

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