When to Ask for Help With Your Podcast (And When to Push Through)

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Takeaways

• There is a real test for knowing whether to ask for help: are you willing to learn a new skill and do it poorly at first, or do you have zero desire to learn it at all?
• Abbey is currently building her first full coaching program, Bet On Your Podcast, and hitting her own limits on the website and email funnel side, work that falls outside her zone of genius.
• Hitting a roadblock is not a sign to quit. Asking for help, whether that is a coaching call, a course, or hiring someone outright, is what keeps a podcast alive.

Summary of the episode

Recording from the lake again this summer (better internet out there than at her own house, which still baffles her), Abbey uses this episode to work through a question in real time: when do you actually need to ask for help with your podcast? She is in the middle of launching her first full coaching program, Bet On Your Podcast, and while the video lessons, scripts, and tutorials came easily, since that is squarely her zone of genius, building the actual website, email list, and funnels has been a real struggle.

Abbey lays out the test she uses to decide whether to learn a new skill or hand it off: do you actually want to get better at this, even if you are bad at it at first, or do you have zero interest in ever learning it? For her own coaching program buildout, she wants to learn it, so she is pushing through even though it is slower and less familiar territory. But she also shares the story of her longtime client Liz, who has never wanted to learn editing or content creation and has been fine outsourcing that piece from day one, because she knows exactly where her own line is.

The bigger point Abbey wants every podcaster to walk away with is that hitting a roadblock is not a sign to quit. It is a sign to ask "do I want to learn this, or do I want this handled?" and then actually act on the answer, whether that means a pick my brain call, an online course, or hiring someone to take it off your plate completely.

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