Ashly Perez: ...that not everything is binary
Nobody Told Me!
Nobody Told Me!
4.2 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Could you use some wisdom, encouragement and enlightenment? Our guest, Ashly Perez, is here to give it!
Ashly spent more than five years producing, writing, acting and directing short-form internet content for Buzzfeed. She was a Buzzfeedsensation, starring in more than 250 videos, many of which became viral. These days, she’s a television writer and artist and the author of a new book called, Read This for Inspiration: Simple Sparks to Ignite Your Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. If you're anything like me and my mom, |
| 0:17.9 | you could use some wisdom, encouragement, and enlightenment right about now. |
| 0:22.6 | And if your answer is yes, you're going to want to hear what our guest on this episode, |
| 0:26.8 | Ashley Perez, has to say. |
| 0:28.9 | Ashley spent more than five years producing writing, acting, and directing short form |
| 0:33.7 | internet content for BuzzFeed. |
| 0:35.4 | Ashley was a BuzzFeed sensation starring in more than 250 videos, many of which became viral. |
| 0:41.8 | These days, she's a television writer and artist and the author of a great new book called |
| 0:46.7 | Read This for Inspiration, Simple Sparks to Ignite Your Life. |
| 0:52.1 | Ashley, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:54.1 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:55.6 | Tell us how the book came about. You know, it really was one of those books that is a function of |
| 1:01.0 | what I needed in my life. So I have ADHD and it's hard for me to concentrate. And I also have |
| 1:08.0 | because of that a lot of different interests in my life. |
| 1:11.4 | And I wanted books that gave me inspiration. |
| 1:15.1 | And honestly, we all have that same, I think we all have that in same intrinsic feeling and desire, |
| 1:20.8 | but we don't have the time to do it. |
| 1:22.9 | And so I was tired of waking up every morning and getting phone fatigue, |
| 1:27.2 | like immediately getting on the news, |
| 1:29.2 | getting through its like sad news cycle, and then not knowing really how to start your day. |
| 1:34.4 | And so I wrote this as a function of that in order to be a two to three minute replacement of |
| 1:40.1 | getting on your phone, reading sad news, and then feeling like your energy is drained before your day |
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