HELP: How to Ask for the Help You Need (Best Of)

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

1. Why sharing your messy middle with someone is a gift and connection builder, not a burden. 2. The reasons why we don’t ask for the help we desperately need. 3. “Vague favs” and why are they a hard No for Amanda. 4. Abby, Glennon, and Amanda each share something they need help with right now. 5. The science behind Help as one of the most effective relationship-enhancing tools, and the best ways to finally ask for it. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello world.
0:12.8	Hi, hello world.
0:14.7	Today on We Can Do Hard Things, we are talking about help.
0:21.8	Help.
0:22.7	Help.
0:23.7	Sister.
0:25.4	Help me,
0:25.8	help.
0:26.4	Help me,
0:26.7	help.
0:27.6	Help me,
0:27.9	Ron.
0:28.8	Help.
0:29.7	I need somebody.
0:32.2	Help.
0:34.2	Allison's going to cut all of this.
0:36.7	I hope she doesn't because I'm trying to launch my career.
0:40.7	Tell us about Alice this week.
0:43.8	Okay.
0:44.3	So this thing happened this week that I was telling Glenn about yesterday because I,
0:48.1	it was an insight into myself that my daughter provided.
0:52.7	They do that, don't they?
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