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Speaker 1: Missed opportunity. I love sharing conversations. Hosting them requires a

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lot of show prep. Mike podcast platform features thousands of guests.

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What you don't have access to are my missed opportunities.

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The show prep was one hundred percent done, the conversation

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didn't happen. I keep all of my notes because I

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believe that paths will one day cross again. Let me

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explain missed opportunity. It's my questions and statements without their answers.

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I'm leading open enough space at the end of every question,

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hoping they'll download the talk and insert their answers. Missed

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opportunity is a lost piece of history, like a message

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in a bottle. It's been tossed out to see Now

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it's time to locate the destination. This week, we're putting

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focus on my missed opportunity with Ashlan Harris from the

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podcast Wide Open. Ashland Harris Wide Open. Her calling is

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to invite guests and listeners to open up, you know,

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to share their struggles and triumphs, because she believes inside

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her soul that it helps feead personal and professional growth.

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Her podcast features people from the world of sports, entertainment, fashion, music,

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and even politics. Wide open signifies a moment of readiness,

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awareness and opportunity. The podcast has a true purpose to

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embrace oneself learning how to break down the barriers. Ashland

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is a two time World soccer champion, a goalkeeper and

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now the creative consultant and producer for Hello Sunshine and

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Deep Blue Sports. The invitation to share a conversation with

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Ashlan Harris arrived on February six, twenty twenty five. Within

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a few hours, I was blessed with a yes. It

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would be a double which means a twenty minute conversation

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for Wednesday, February nineteenth, my slot nine twenty to nine forty.

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My reply rock on a zoom link was sent to

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me on February eighteenth. The show prep was done and

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ready to receive real answers. Not even two hours go

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oh bye, and the next email arrives there are changes

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in her schedule. There would not be a conversation. Then

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another email stand by. We're told that she can make

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the conversation, only to learn it wasn't going to happen.

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Coming up next, My questions and statements to podcaster Ashlan Harris. Hey,

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welcome back to Missed Opportunity. This week, my missed opportunity

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with podcaster Ashland Harris. Her podcast is titled Wide Open,

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That moment when we break wide open and take not

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only notes, but we learn as we all grow forward.

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When did you realize that this was going to be

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something that needed to be accomplished, A podcast that's all

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about letting things go and being more open about your

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true self. Brooke said, it wasn't about her, it was

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about putting the light on the newsmakers. Your conversation with

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Brooke Balden, Hey, I live in the Carolinas. She's also

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a tar hill. When you stop giving yourself to the bosses,

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you take the steps that you were called to climb with.

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Brooke needed that moment with C and N. All broadcasters do,

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and oh my god, it creates tears, but then you

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whisper inside. See this is proof that I am not alone.

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Your interviewing style is not interviewing. You're actually having physical conversations.

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You know, Brooke thought of herself as being the good girl.

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She colored between the lines. Her truth in this is

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very very revealing. When did you know that you had

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this amazing way to get guests to speak up? I mean,

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you are the listener first how do you keep your

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cool when your guests are setting stuff up? What are

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you learning from all of this that can serve as

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tools in the future. One thing that you point out

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is there are no two barriers the same, but we

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can learn from each other. You don't put the entire

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focus just on sports. You allow us to step into

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a real world. Let's talk about Colton Underwood, TV personality

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and former pro football player. Yet you let us see

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the human side. Colton new with sexuality. His openness has

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helped hundreds of thousands of others. I love that Colton

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puts focus on fatherhood even while facing his own inner secrets.

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Tim Harvard he asked the question, what do you want

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your legacy to be? I love how loyal you are

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in being unfiltered. I mean, you can drop that f

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bomb anytime you want to. I work with the younger generation.

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Job hopping has got to stop. You're a goalkeeper. How

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do you deal with things like this? And there you

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have it, My missed opportunity with Ashlyn Harris, the host

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of the podcast Wide Open. This is a lost piece

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of history. You now know the questions, Now let's locate

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the reactions. The door is always going to be open.

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If you are or no Ashland Harris, please reach out

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to me at errowc at gmail dot com. That's a

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R R o e C at gmail dot com and

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as usual, be brilliant