Welcome to episode 446, coaching with Jody. I should be able to handle this.

Have you ever felt overwhelmed and unable to do something like being new at a job or not new, but overwhelmed with a job or task at hand. But hesitated to ask

for help? Perhaps you were afraid they'd say no or that you'd be judged for not being able to handle it on your own.

Check out today's real coaching call to see how we use the tools of coaching to ask for help when

needed.

Welcome to Better Than Happy.

I'm Jody Moore and I'll be your coach today.

Hello everybody, I have another coaching segment to share with you on the podcast today. From time to time

we're publishing real coaching on here. I really want to try to help show you the

application of the tools that we're teaching and I want to thank the people who

raise their hands and agree to come and be coached here. They are all members of the lab and if you

want coaching and you want more of what you hear in this coaching segment, come and check out the lab because

we're doing a lot more of this in there.

This is a beautiful, wonderful woman who is struggling at her job and can't figure out why she's not willing to ask for help more or why she has a fear of it.

And I want to say that it's really easy in a situation like this when like

when we're talking to friends and the way a lot of coaches would handle a situation

like this is that we go right to what we should say, right? We give each other

possible words to say possible messages

and sometimes that does the trick but what I find is that often is a temporary fix

that might help my client in this one particular scenario but what happens the next time she's struggling with something

and feels hesitant to be vulnerable that's what we're talking about here really right it's not even hesitation to ask for help

it's a hesitation to be vulnerable and admit weakness or shortcoming and so the

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