Fiercely Honest, Unapologetically Joyful | Ashley C. Ford
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ashley C. Ford (http://www.ashleycford.net/) is a writer, media producer and host, living in Brooklyn by way of Indiana. She currently hosts PROFILE by BuzzFeed News, and is the former host of Brooklyn-based news & culture TV show, 112BK. Ford has written for The Guardian, ELLE, BuzzFeed, OUT Magazine, Slate, Teen Vogue, New York Magazine, Lenny Letter, INTO and she's working on her memoir, along with a collection of interviews (B-Side Chats) with her husband, Kelly Stacy. She has been named among Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 in Media (2017), Brooklyn Magazine's Brooklyn 100 (2016), and Time Out New York's New Yorkers of The Year (2017). And, like all humans, her journey has been anything but linear. In today's conversation, we explore the powerful and, at times, painful awakenings that led her to this joyfully real, confident, compassionate and supported season of work, love and life.
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| 0:00.0 | In her early 30s, my guess this week, Ashley C Ford has done something that most writers |
| 0:11.2 | dream of doing but never do. |
| 0:12.8 | She's reached a point in her career where she is now turning away work, where she is being |
| 0:18.5 | approached to write, to host, to speak on all sorts of things, where she feels such a |
| 0:24.0 | fear sense of conviction and passion for that her decision now has been what is the thing |
| 0:29.8 | that most lights me up and then she says no to everything else. |
| 0:34.6 | That was not always the case. |
| 0:36.6 | Ashley grew up in Indiana and ended up going to Ball State and had to struggle with a |
| 0:42.2 | lot of personal moments of reckoning, early experiences with a family that really center |
| 0:49.2 | into a spiral and had her questioning, her identity, her skills, her abilities, who |
| 0:54.0 | she was. |
| 0:55.0 | And it took some time, some changes in community, a bit of therapy and finding the love of |
| 1:01.2 | her life to really start to reconnect the dots and step back into a place of confidence |
| 1:07.3 | and competence. |
| 1:08.7 | And she has done that in an astonishing way. |
| 1:11.5 | Now out there in the world as a writer, a speaker, a media host and working on a memoir, |
| 1:18.4 | she is making a huge difference in people's lives as she shares beautifully her own story |
| 1:23.8 | and invites others in to explore theirs as well. |
| 1:26.9 | Super excited to share this conversation with you. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:43.1 | You are creative. |
| 1:45.0 | You are dynamic. |
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