Ally Love
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115 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Ally Love’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you feel like you're in the dark because of those things, all I want you to imagine is that if you turned on the light in this dark room that you're in, the reality of the situation is that there will be people standing shoulder to shoulder with you because you're not alone in this discomfort. You're not alone in your uncertainty.
You're not alone in this turmoil that you're going through, in this emotional space that you're in. And while our emotions and our stories may be different and uniquely ours, You are not alone in the fact that you still have to confront those things and deal with those things.
Oh, thank you. I tend to get that question interesting enough. It's like, how are you the most positive person? And a short answer, I'm not. I'm just like everyone else. And that level of inclusivity is all encompassing and understanding that we are all maybe different in regards, but all uniquely the same. We all want to be better and be better versions of ourselves.
And so I think for me, it's as much as possible, evening the playing fields and letting everyone know that you're always invited and you always have a seat at the table I'm sitting at.
Absolutely. I will preempt this by saying social media is a really tiny aperture to what real life looks like, right? It's a curated space. So is anything that's usually on TV. You have makeup on, you have your best outfit. All of these things are curated opportunities. And not to say that they're not important because they are. We use these platforms to share stories, to share information.
But sometimes what ends up happening is that the story gets dismissed a bit and it's more of the optics. And so I just wanted to preempt that preempt what my story I'm about to share with that, because I think it's really important, again, this concept of being approachable and relatable is really true to who I am. At nine years old, I got hit by a car.
I was at a family gathering and, you know, as a family, we usually on the weekends do family barbecues and celebrate and just enjoy each other's time. And so I was at a family gathering. I went to the ice cream truck to get some ice cream like any fun, ready to eat ice cream nine-year-old is. And then I was walking across the street and a car which was parked on the side drove around and hit me.
I ended up flying up in the air, landing on the hood of the car, rolling to the side. I broke my left femur. I cracked a lot of my front teeth and I skinned my body up. I was in the hospital for seven days.
Five of those seven days, I had a weight tied to my ankle to keep the bone, my femur bone separated because at the age of nine, there was no plate for my hip because your femur is basically your hip. It's the largest bone in your body. And most times people who break their hips, they're a little older.
So it was very rare that a nine-year-old would come into the hospital in an emergency with a broken hip. And so that was the case. And I had to wait for five days to until they created a plate and then shipped it from China so that I could have surgery.
And now during this time, I can tell you it wasn't easy, and I could not imagine what my family was going through because as an adult now, while I don't have kids, I do have nieces and nephews, I can only imagine how challenging, how heart-wrenching, and how emotional that could be for any parent. What ended up happening was that experience
however traumatic it was, was a turning point in my life, even at nine years old. And I will be transparent, Heather, and say I haven't actually shared this story quite a bit. I only recently started talking about it since we've been in this pandemic, so for the past two and a half months.
And it's been coming up because while you are in your home and you're thinking about life or death because we're hit with COVID-19, a lot of self-awareness started to really play a role in the work that I was doing for myself. And And so this story started to really manifest.
And, you know, I've talked about it with my mom quite a bit, but it was this moment where she was standing next to me and she had just finished talking to the doctor and she said, you know, she was honest. She said, it's not looking good and you have a decision to make.
Now, the question that she asked me at that time, I don't know if I'd have the courage to ask a nine-year-old, let alone a nine-year-old that was my daughter. But she asked me, she said, you have a choice and you can either choose to live And if you choose to live, you have to fight. You have to fight relentlessly. You have to fight hard. Or you can choose to die.
And if you choose to die, we support you. We know that it's not easy. And she was like, if you choose life, you have to pray to God and you have to fight. You make that decision and you let us know. And it was one of those things, again, that was odd as I think about it in the past. She gave me some time in the hospital.
She went down, took a walk, came back, and we kind of picked up on the conversation. And after me praying, I grew up very religious. My family's religious. After praying, I... Let her know. I was like, you know what? I want to live. I want to fight. And it was that opportunity that my mom afforded me the responsibility to decide about my own life. That was the turning point for me.
And I started fighting. And I keep saying this often. It's like in that moment of choosing to fight for my life, I've never stopped. And it's not like a woe is me story, but it was that turning point that said, you know what? I understand what close to death feels like.
I know what it feels like to be in a hospital room for a very long time, not sure when you would get out in a sense, because we weren't sure when the plate was going to be finished. And I know what it feels like to make a decision about yourself. And so ever since that moment, I sincerely have always decided to decide.
I've never just idly said, you know, I'm not going to make a decision because not making a decision is making a decision. And so I've been decisive in where I go, knowing that there are consequences on both sides, but that has played a big role in what my life has ended, the path into which I taken over the years.
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