Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urge. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.

And I am so excited and honored to have Ainsley Earhart here today. She has a brand new book that is coming out this week called America. I'm so glad you were born. She is on Fox News. Wow. Ainsley, welcome.

You are so cute. Hey Jenny. Thank you so much for having me on. Okay, Fox News from 6 to 9 a.m. every morning on the weekdays, but also you have done so much there. You worked your way up, like you talked about your grandpa. He worked his way up at the Coke factory and you were doing like weekends and midnights and all of these things and now everyone can see you 6 to 9 a.m.

on the weekdays co-host of Fox News Channel Fax and Friends alongside a bunch of other people.

I've read your memoir and I have a couple of your kids books, your New York Times bestseller.

I would love to kick it off with this, especially since we're talking about a kid's book and kids may be listening in.

I would love if you would talk about the fact that you almost became an orthodontist

and the advice that you could give kids or teens that you can always make a change

in what your plans are.

You know, I, my heart, my passion was for the theater. I loved being on stage. I loved

taking acting classes, was very involved in some classes that they had in South Carolina.

I went to the governor's school for the arts and theater and then tri-district consortium,

which was something for middle schoolers and you auditioned for it.

I loved it. And it was wonderful and wasn't involved in plays in high school. And then I also worked

a babysat for the Boyd's. And then Dr. Boyd said, he's an orthodontist. He said,

will you please come and work in my practice? I need someone to clean the instruments, to sterilize them,

to organize the front desk, to help make appointments, to, he was on the filing system.

We didn't have the computer system for each of the patients yet. So I'd have to every,

every patient had a chart. I was in charge of making sure those were organized and put back.

And then anyway, I worked for him, did all of the, sometimes I worked in the front, sometimes worked in the back. And he said, I want you to take over my practice. And I will pay for dental school. He went to UNC. He said, I will pay for your dental school. And I'll try to get you into UNC or I can help you. I can write a letter for you. and you can take over my practice. You'll be in your hometown.

You'll, we're in into UNC or I can help you. I can write a letter for you. And you can take over my practice.

You'll be in your hometown. You'll, we're in Northeast Columbia. You'll know all of your friends will

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