Episode 62: Advocacy after Loss with Ashley Spivey

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Episode 62: Advocacy after Loss with Ashley Spivey @ashleyspivey Join Rachael this week as she chats with Ashley Spivey, a former contestant on The Bachelor, turned advocate and online content creator! Ashley has used her platform to advocate for various causes, including stillbirth prevention and paid family leave for stillbirth families. Since October is Infant Loss and Awareness month, Ashley shares her own personal journey of infertility and loss openly on social media and talks about how she aims to raise awareness and promote empathy. Inside this episode: Ashley discusses her transition from reality TV (The Bachelor!!!) to social media. How Ashley uses her platform to talk about fun and serious: politics, books, recipes, parenting, loss, and so much more! The importance of transparency and trust in content and the misconceptions about influencers and their work. How she manages sharing her daughter’s life on social media: the challenges, hate, comments, need for boundaries, and respect from followers. Ashley’s experience with infertility and loss, stillbirth, and anxiety during pregnancy, and how she’s keeping her son CJ’s memory alive How to support someone who has experienced loss. Learn about the advocacy work being done for stillbirth prevention. And so much more! Mentioned in this episode: Ashley’s Instagram: @ashleyspivey Information on The Shine for Autumn Act: https://www.shineforautumnact.org/ The Rainbow Clinic in NYC and LA: https://www.pushpregnancy.org/rainbow-clinic App- Count the Kicks Ashley’s Book Rec: Mayluna: A Novel If you enjoyed this episode, please rate 5⭐️ and write us a review! ⬇️ ✨For sleep support and resources, visit heysleepybaby.com and follow @heysleepybaby on Instagram! 😴☁️🤎✨ Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram | Tiktok | Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to No One Told Us, the podcast that tells the truth about parenting and talks about all this stuff you wish you knew before having kids.
0:10.3	I'm your host, Rachel, and today I'm really, really thrilled to be speaking with Ashley Spivey, who gained a platform actually from The Bachelor, which I feel like is so weird because that's not at all who you are now.
0:21.9	She decided to use her platform for good and she shares about everything from politics to recipes and books.
0:29.9	And she even decided to be a complete open book with her infertility journey sharing her journey to become a mom online and she's openly shared
0:38.9	about her three miscarriages and one stillbirth. And after losing her son, CJ, she decided
0:44.6	to push for paid family leave for stillbirth families and stillbirth prevention bills nationally.
0:51.3	Ashley finally had her adorable daughter, Penny, in 2002, and in 2024, the Stillbirth
0:58.5	Prevention Act was signed into law. Ashley creates the most amazing, welcoming, and supportive
1:04.3	community online and is such a fierce advocate for families. And I'm so happy to have you here.
1:09.8	I've been following you for such a long time, and I just admire you so much, and I'm so happy to have you here. I've been following you for such a long time.
1:11.6	And I just admire you so much. And I'm really excited to chat today. I'm so glad that we can make
1:16.5	this work. I was like messing up, scheduling it for forever. So I'm glad to finally be here.
1:25.3	It's hard. It's hard to carve out the time. And you're doing this
1:27.7	like post bed time. It's what like 8 p.m. for you. So I really appreciate it. And so for those
1:34.0	who aren't familiar with you, I know I said you started on The Bachelor, but like if somebody
1:38.0	started following you today, they would never have any idea that you were on The Bachelor because
1:41.8	you don't really talk about it that much. So sometimes
1:45.4	I even forget about it. But tell us a little bit about that journey and how that led to you
1:51.2	starting a social media platform. Yeah. I feel like even if you start following me, you probably
1:58.1	have no idea what I look like because I rarely ever show
2:01.2	pictures of myself. So I think it's like really surprising for people to find out that I was on a
2:06.1	reality show. And the reason for me going on that show is it was just like a very petty move on my
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