Welcome to Wide Open with Ashlyn Harris

“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. Ashlyn’s unique blend of candor, vulnerability, and boldness allows guests to share the moments that shaped them and the challenges they’ve faced behind the scenes.

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.

Episode 1 launches next week on January 27th. We can't wait to see you there. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
In sports, being wide open means you're ready to seize
the moment a chance to make a game changing impact.
In life, it's about embracing vulnerability, showing up with honesty,
and finding the courage to face challenges head on.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I was like frantic, and he's like, I'm going to
ask you something and like, are you gay? And for
whatever reason, I said yes.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
We've all had moments that cracked us wide open times
when life tested us, broke us down and made us
question what's next. But it's in those moments that we
discover what we're really made of.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
It was a moment that should have broken me, but
just because of how I was raised and my bolishness
and arrogance to want to be great heartened me. It
gave me a platform to be so singularly focused on greatness.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I've been there, I've felt the weight of tough times,
but every setback has taught me some thing. Resilience. It's
what fuels us to rise stronger and more determined than ever.
I'm Ashlyn Harris, two time Women's World Cup champion and
former goalkeeper of the US women's national soccer team. In

(01:15):
my new podcast, wide Open, I'll sit with trailblazers from sports, music, fashion, entertainment,
and politics to explore their toughest moments and the incredible
comebacks that followed.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
I think the beauty of being queer is you get
to unpack the parts of yourself that are genuinely you
and the parts of yourself that are conforming to some
idea of what you were supposed to be.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
I had nothing but the money that I had on me,
and in my anger, I got my children up out
of the ba and I just drove in the middle
of the night from Mississippi back to Kentucky. I'm a
truth teller, yeah, and and I had to tell the truth.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's time for honest conversations, unforgettable stories, and a front
row seat to the moments that changed everything. Welcome to
Wide Open. Wide Open with Ashland Harris is an iHeart
women's sports production. Listen to Wide Open with Ashland Harris
on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get

(02:18):
your podcasts starting January twenty seventh,