Introducing: Wide Open with Ashlyn Harris
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4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
“Wide Open with Ashlyn Harris” invites guests and listeners alike to open up, share their struggles and triumphs, and explore how being wide open—both on the field and in life—leads to personal and professional growth. Each episode, Ashlyn Harris leads an unfiltered conversation with an influential figure from sports, entertainment, fashion, music, or politics. In sports, “wide open” signifies a moment of readiness, awareness, and opportunity to make an impact. In the real world, it reflects vulnerability, honesty, and courage to face challenges with authenticity. On this podcast, “wide open” means seizing opportunities, breaking down barriers, and embracing one’s true self.
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| 0:00.0 | In sports, being wide open means you're ready to seize the moment, a chance to make a game-changing impact. |
| 0:10.2 | In life, it's about embracing vulnerability, showing up with honesty, and finding the courage to face challenges head on. |
| 0:19.1 | I was, like, frantic. |
| 0:20.7 | And he's like, I'm going to ask you something and like, are you gay? |
| 0:24.9 | And for whatever reason, I said yes. |
| 0:27.3 | We've all had moments that cracked us wide open. |
| 0:30.6 | Times when life tested us, broke us down, and made us question what's next. |
| 0:36.5 | But it's in those moments that we discover what we're |
| 0:40.2 | really made of. It was a moment that should have broken me, but just because of how I was raised and |
| 0:46.1 | my bullishness and arrogance to want to be great, hardened me. It gave me a platform to be so |
| 0:51.1 | singularly focused on greatness. I've been there. |
| 0:55.3 | I've felt the weight of tough times. |
| 0:57.8 | But every setback has taught me something. |
| 1:01.0 | Resilience. |
| 1:02.5 | It's what fuels us to rise stronger and more determined than ever. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Ashlyn Harris, two-time women's World Cup champion and former goalkeeper of the |
| 1:13.1 | U.S. women's national soccer team. In my new podcast, wide open, I'll sit with trailblazers from |
| 1:19.8 | sports, music, fashion, entertainment, and politics to explore their toughest moments and the |
| 1:26.7 | incredible comebacks that followed. |
| 1:28.9 | I think the beauty of being queer is you get to unpack the parts of yourself that are genuinely |
| 1:33.7 | you and the parts of yourself that are conforming to some idea of what you are supposed to be. |
| 1:38.6 | I had nothing but the money that I had on me. And in my anger, I got my children up out of the bed |
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