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Episode 378: Ashley C. Ford, author and podcast host

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ashley C. Ford is a writer and podcast host. Her memoir, Somebody's Daughter, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books.“For the first time I felt like I had so many more choices in my life than I originally thought I had. That was my first realization that I did not just have to react to the world, that I could be intentional in the world, and just curious about what came back to me.” Thanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode. @iSmashFizzle ashleycford.net Fortune Favors the Bold podcast 4:30 "Roger Loves Chaz" (Roger Ebert • Sep 2012) 11:00 The Giver (Lois Lowry • Houghton Mifflin • 1993) 17:15 Ford's commencement speech at Ball State 25:30 Ford's archive at Buzzfeed 40:30 "Ashley C. Ford’s Debut Memoir ‘Somebody’s Daughter’ Finds Home at Flatiron" (Paperback Paris • 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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to be protected if something goes wrong. Hey it's Max we're taking a little break this week so no new episode but we wanted to

1:18.6

put one of our favorites from 2020 back through the feed. This is a conversation that I had with the writer and podcast host Ashley C Ford and

1:29.5

Ashley and I talked in February 2020. It was one of the last interviews I did in person before

1:36.2

everything shut down and Ashley I mean you'll hear but actually is is truly I

1:41.5

think one of the most fun people to talk to not just that I've had

1:46.4

on the show but just like on earth I think she is one of the most fun people to talk to and

1:51.2

we got into all kinds of stuff in this conversation. We talked about her finances,

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