Elle Roberts interviews Ashley C. Ford on her newly released memoir, moving back to Indiana, peach cobbler and everything else.
About the speaker
Ashley C. Ford is a writer, host, and educator who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband, poet and fiction writer Kelly Stacy, and their chocolate lab Astro Renegade Ford-Stacy. Her memoir, Somebody’s Daughter, will be published by Flatiron Books on June 1, 2021. Ford is the former host of The Chronicles of Now podcast, co-host of The HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio, seasons one & three of MasterCard’s Fortune Favors The Bold, as well as the video interview series PROFILE by BuzzFeed News, and Brooklyn-based news & culture TV show, 112BK.
She was also the host of the first season of Audible's literary interview series, Authorized. She has been named among Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 in Media (2017), Brooklyn Magazine's Brooklyn 100 (2016), Time Out New York's New Yorkers of The Year (2017), and Variety’s New Power of New York (2019).
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It really upsets me when people think they have to protect other people’s secrets with their silence because that silence is fueled by shame, and shame is corrosive to a person’s spirit.
Privacy, to me, is about what’s sacred.
That’s my process: don’t give up, and go to therapy.
I find that the number one thing I can do with self-care is be honest.
