Why is asking for help so difficult when you're the person everyone else depends on?

Leaders and entrepreneurs can become accustomed to carrying the responsibility, making the decisions, and solving the problems. Eventually, doing everything yourself can feel normal.

In this episode of Together We Are Stronger: Leadership Straight, No Chasers, Scott Brandt and George “Big G” Dovolis explore why asking for help isn't a sign that you're incapable. It can be a necessary part of growing as a leader.

George shares his own experiences with exhaustion, taking mental breaks, and learning to trust other people with his business. He explains how difficult it was to release control—and what happened when he finally gave someone else the opportunity to take the reins.

Scott takes the conversation into the mindset behind asking for help. If you're trying to reach a level you've never reached before, your own experiences can only take you so far. Mentors, trusted team members, and the right people around you can expose you to perspectives you wouldn't discover on your own. Pasted text

They also explore the fear behind stepping away from a business, the importance of trusting your team, how pride can limit growth, and why leaders need people they can lean on.

As George points out, refusing to release control doesn't only affect you. It can prevent the people around you from having the opportunity to grow into leadership themselves. Pasted text

Sometimes the next level doesn't require you to work harder.

It requires trusting the right people enough to stop carrying everything yourself.

-Music Credit-

"Swiggity Swooty" by Guustavv via Epidemic Sound.