Speaker B describes struggling to ask for help despite loving to give it, blaming middle child syndrome. A mastermind peer recently told them to stop focusing on others and consider their own needs. Speaker B wonders if Speaker A experiences the same imbalance.
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and talk to you about you.
Yes, you. The reason I say that is twofold. Today, somebody— I, I was texting with, um, a woman I'm in a mastermind with, and I said, how can I support you? What's going on with you? How can I support you? And she wrote back to me, This is not about me, this is about you. Stop it. I was like, stop it. Okay, because for me, sometimes it's hard to receive as much as it is to give. Like, I love helping you with your business, talking digital strategies, PR strategies, doing all that stuff. Like, that's what lights me up, so I wanna do it. But when somebody wants to turn around and do that for me, sometimes it's hard for me. I don't know, it's that middle child syndrome again. I don't know what it is, but is that hard for you?