Amanda Nguyen

Pretty Big Deal with Ashley Graham

Ashley Graham

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ashley Graham sits down with a real life superhero, Amanda Nguyen! Amanda is the CEO of civil rights start up Rise —an organization she started after becoming a sexual assault survivor during her senior year of college. At the age of 28, Amanda has already written and passed more 30 laws for 80 million people. She’s also worked at NASA, the White House, and been nominated for the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. Throughout her impressive activism, Amanda has never lost sight of her goal to travel to space — and with her track record, we know it’s only a matter of time before lift off.

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HOST: Ashley Graham

GUEST: Amanda Nguyen

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Ashley Graham, Penni Thow, Scooter Braun

CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Kelsey McWilliams, Ava Coleman

DIRECTED BY: Kaliya Warren

WRITER: Ava Coleman

LINE PRODUCER: Jess Vogel

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Ilyssa Walker

RESEARCHER: Shanaz Mahmud

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Katherine Castro

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COLORIST: Marika Litz

SOUND MIXER: James Sparber

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ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION SUPPORT: Raquel Dominguez, Jennifer Spottz

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Transcript

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0:00.0	As always, this episode is sponsored by my go-to stop for anything makeup Revlon.
0:11.2	Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Graham and this is Pretty Big Deal where confidence is key.
0:17.1	Every episode I get to pick the brains of brilliant inspiring honest, new and old friends
0:23.1	who are a pretty big deal.
0:25.7	Today we are talking to real-life superhero Amanda Wynn.
0:31.8	Amanda is the CEO of Civil Rights Startup Rise.
0:35.6	At the age of 28, Amanda has already written and passed 27 laws for 72 million people.
0:43.8	Amanda Wynn is in the house!
0:49.1	Okay, so I definitely want to get into Rise and all your activism and that you're doing and
0:54.1	it's just it's remarkable, it's incredible and it's groundbreaking but I have to talk to you about
0:59.2	your first true love which is space. I mean it's like it's so fun to even just say.
1:06.0	So tell me about where your love of space came about. Wow, I've always loved space.
1:10.7	I think one of the first memories I have is looking up at the sky and just marveling at how
1:17.6	beautiful the sky is. I think there's something so humbling and also so aggrandizing about space.
1:25.9	Like when you're looking up at the sky it's actually the past.
1:29.2	That photon from that star has traveled billions of years to come to your eye.
1:34.6	So special.
1:35.7	So you're supposed to have this space.
1:38.3	Yeah, but also we are but a blink of an eye in the universe.
1:42.4	That's true.
1:43.2	So you know if I ever feel small I always think to myself you know I'm able to not only understand
1:50.9	that I'm alive, I'm cognizant but I'm also able to love and feel things and how special is that?
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