Am I A Self-Karen? with Ashlee Marie Preston

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Do you know where your donor dollars and time are actually going? Activist, thought leader, and founder of the social impact campaign YouAreEssential Ashlee Marie Preston joins Jonathan to discuss the trillion-dollar industry that is the US non-profit sector, the ways in which non-profit organizations can undercut to the aims of grassroots political movements, and how we can work to dismantle a system that doesn’t always serve the communities it claims to protect. Follow Ashlee Marie Preston on Instagram @ashleemariepreston and Twitter @AshleeMPreston. Learn more about YouAreEssential at YouAreEssential.org, or on Instagram and Twitter @YAEOrg. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for 40-minute
0:04.6	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by activists and founder of UR Essential, Ashley Marie Preston,
0:15.8	where I ask her.
0:17.2	Am I a self-caron?
0:19.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm so excited to officially welcome Ashley Marie Preston for
0:24.4	our first, like, like, I'll hold it air quotes and say official Getting Curious episode.
0:29.8	Yes, it's happening.
0:31.8	It's happening.
0:33.8	I got to meet you from initially from doing the New York City Pride event that you
0:39.0	had so graciously invited me to be a part of, and that was when we first got to kind of
0:43.6	really connect in real life.
0:45.8	And since then, I've just been continually blown away by your brilliance and your activism
0:51.7	and, you know, just who you are.
0:55.6	And so really, when I wanted to have you on the episode, it was like, my first question
1:00.3	was, what do you want to talk about, Ashley Marie Preston, until we had that live when
1:05.7	I learned about the nonprofit industrial complex?
1:08.8	I never heard of it until you told me.
1:10.9	Yeah.
1:11.9	Well, first of all, welcome.
1:12.9	Thank you.
1:13.9	Thank you.
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