What's up guys? Welcome back to build. And today I want to talk about a skill that most people

never think about. And that skill is asking for help. This is super top of mind for me because

I had multiple conversations in the last, I want to say like two weeks with my team and with

portfolio CEOs about how

asking for help is a skill. And I will tell you guys, the reason I know this is a skill is because

it used to be something that I freaking sucked at. When I was first starting my business,

what I realized is that I was really bad at asking for help. In fact, like so much to the degree

that I know that when I didn't know how to do something or when I felt like I was novice and I wanted to seek out more information or when I really

just had too much on my plate and I didn't have anyone to help me.

Instead of asking for help, instead of seeking out resources, I literally would just feel

terrible.

Like I got really good at feeling terrible.

I'll tell you that.

But I would feel awful. Like, I used to feel

so much anxiety because I was, it was like multiple things compounding, right? It was the fear of

being judged for the fact that I didn't know something. It was the fear of asking for help and

being rejected. It was the fear of the interpretation of my asking for help by the people that

I would be asking. And it was the fear of almost like

people pleasing. Like I was so used to asking for stuff or for doing stuff for other people. It was

really about at asking for stuff for myself. What I really, really, really quickly realized when I

started building my first business is that that is not useful at all. In fact, you can't build a team

unless you know how to ask for help,

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