Ashley C. Ford

Wounds Are Where the Light Enters

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Ashley C. Ford Live performance by Alba Ponce de Leon

part of a series on Courage
Mar 30, 2018

27:09

Courage comes in many forms. There is physical courage like saving a life and there is also emotional courage—being aware of the story you’re telling yourself and editing it on your own terms.

Ashley C. Ford explores how courage played a role in her life & how it became a catalyst for her inner glow.

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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Truth is beautiful. Truth requires courage. You have to be courageous to admit the truth and to find the truth and to hear the truth. And to accept the truth. It all requires courage, beyond your body.

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The gap between expectation and reality is where pain lives. And that's what we're scared of admitting. It's that we had an expectation, and it bumped against reality. And it hurt.

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