AshLee Strong, National Press Secretary for House Speaker Paul Ryan: “[The worst advice I ever got] Stay in your lane.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

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🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Midterm elections are in T minus 6 days. Politicians are trying to convince you to hire them. And behind every politician...is a communications director helping them get the word out. So we brought in two of them to talk to us about how they do their jobs -- and how they made it to the top of the political game. Episode 1: AshLee Strong. AshLee has worked in communications roles all over Washington, from the House of Representatives, to the Senate, to the White House. She was even the senior communications director for Governor Scott Walker’s (R-WI) 2016 presidential run. These days, she’s the national press secretary for one of the most powerful Republicans in the country: House Speaker Paul Ryan. On the couch, she talks to us about what a comms director actually is, how she created a network in Washington, and what it’s like to disagree with your boss...when he’s the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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0:00.0	We've had, I think it was over 120 women on our side of the aisle who were recruited and did run.
0:06.7	That's important and the more women see other women running I think, you know, that they think I could do that too. And it's not as crazy of an idea.
0:17.0	I'm Danielle Weissberg, and I'm Kareli Zakinakin and we are the co-founder of the Skimp.
0:25.0	You're listening to our podcast Skimmed from the couch where we talk to other female
0:28.8	entrepreneurs about what it's like to get to the top and then what it's like along the way. We're talking bad
0:34.8	advice the really really low days the management mistakes everything that goes
0:39.0	into the real stuff. No BS. We started the skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where it all began?
0:46.3	We're on a couch.
0:48.3	Please join us in welcoming Ashley Strong to the couch.
0:52.1	Ashley is the National Press Secretary for in welcoming Ashley Strong to the couch.
0:52.8	Ashley is the National Press Secretary for House Speaker Paul Ryan.
0:56.7	She's been working in political communications for years.
0:59.7	Ashley started as an aide in the White House, then the Senate, and she worked her way up from there.
1:05.2	She's worked in Coms' roles for representatives and senators, and she was even the senior
1:09.3	communications director for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's 2016 presidential run.
1:15.0	Ashley definitely knows a thing or two about the ins and outs of DC and
1:19.0	how to navigate a career there.
1:21.0	Ashley, welcome to the couch.
1:23.0	Thanks for having me. It's great to be here.
1:24.4	We are thrilled to have you. So first question, are you like Toby from the West Wing?
1:29.6	I'm not as glamorous as anyone on the Westwig.
1:34.0	But is that your role?
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