Ally Love
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115 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Yeah. Not at all. I mean, at that point I had a cast that covered my entire stomach all the way down to my foot. So it was a half of a body cast and I had a hospital bed in my living room. So we had to read, you know, with any child that's injured, you usually have to make some adjustments to how you're living. And so we had to make some major adjustments. I was homeschooled.
I had physical therapy. Once the cast, the cast had to come off in parts. That's how big it was. So You know, it was like having this part, the entire cast on for six weeks and then having a quarter of it removed around the ankle and then at the knee and then at the waist. And so it was one of those things where I probably had a cast for about five months on, but it was removed in parts.
And during that time, I can say that it definitely tested my relationship with my mom because I was going through a lot of pain and she was there with me while I was homeschooled and going to physical therapy. But it was one of those times where...
it really was, again, not only a turning point in me deciding around my life, but it was a turning point in solidifying a solid foundation between my mother and I. And it's not easy, as you say, you have a 13-year-old. When you get to pre-teens, it gets even harder emotionally, and then teens.
And so I think we went through all of the pre-teen, teen emotions when I was nine years old, because I was in the house with her. She would take me outside to get some sun. We lived in Miami, so we'd go in our backyard. And it was awful, because She'd have me laying out there and my cast was sweating and I would be annoyed by her.
And so we had a lot of the tough conversations early on and it really put us in a great place to become close friends. Obviously, she's my mom and we're family, but it's put us in a position even to this day to become the closest of friends.
It was almost as if you're acknowledging, you're witnessing everyone move about and you're static and you feel like you're not doing enough. Even as a young kid, you're not playing enough. You're not going to school. You know, you're just not doing enough. It put me in a position where I started feeling like, yeah, I had FOMO, fear of missing out. I was missing out on so much.
But it did help put in perspective, don't take things for granted. And the same thing with quarantine. Often enough, and interesting that you bring this up, we had a big, in our foyer, we had a big window that looked out, yes, into our front yard. And in our front yard, it was as far away, it was like a sidewalk.
And so I'd see everyone going to school in the morning and I'd stand there in that window. And it just reminded me never to take anything for granted. And that was one of the reasons why I ended up becoming a dancer because the doctor after physical therapy let my mom know, you know, manage your expectations. She may walk with a limp.
She probably will have arthritis when she's in high school and she'll probably never become a runner or be very athletic. So manage your expectations. And so knowing this information and actually going through
this everyday why it's same in front of this window and see life happening before me I decided I wasn't gonna take anything for granted and I didn't want anyone to decide who and what I could do but me but me and God and so I decided yeah I'm gonna start running I'm gonna start walking I'm gonna start dancing so I started doing these things and really learning how to do them and eventually I became a dancer that's why I moved to New York City is to pursue dance and
And when I came to New York City, I got a scholarship to go to Fordham University and get a bachelor's in fine arts through the Alvin Ailey program, a minor in theology. And still during that time in college, we used to have Florida ceiling windows. I would stand in my dorm room and look outside and watch how busy New York was. And it would be a moment of nostalgia.
And of course, like a moment of being grateful and pretty cathartic in a way of acknowledging that I wouldn't take this for granted. I wouldn't take the fact that I was able to move away from home, go to school, use my body at that point to really convey messages in a big city that I always loved. As I'm talking to you right now, exactly what we're talking about is what I'm doing.
I literally sit in front of the windows of my apartment while we have been in pandemic, and I have calls, I have meetings, and I look out of the window at everything that's going on. It's just a great reminder, again, not to take things for granted.
Short answer, no. But longer answer, it ended up unfolding in one specific way. I always say that you find your career one of two ways. Either you've known since you were a kid that you were going to do this and nothing has deterred you from that path, or you lean into people telling you what you're good at. And so I knew that I could do a lot more than dance.
And the reality, to be completely candid with everyone who's listening, many of us know what it means to either graduate high school or college or just venture out into adulthood. And you have to make a decision. You have to either follow a love, a pursuit, or a passion, or you got to make money to survive. At the point of my senior years, I started working with companies.
I got afforded the opportunity to go to San Francisco and Canada and work with these professional companies. What I realized is that I wouldn't be able to sustain or afford living in New York once I graduated. And I didn't want to, quote unquote, become a starving artist. And the reason is because, honestly, my family wouldn't be able to bail me out or help me. So I didn't have any cushion.
And so what ended up happening was... Around my senior year, I decided to go in to become a model. I was like, what are my other assets that I could use? And for lack of a better word, exploit in a way to make sure that I am using every talent God has given me. I remember my mom telling me this story and I'm going to butcher it in the Bible of just like, you know,
This man was given one talent, he buried it. This man was given two talents, he used it, it multiplies. This man was given, you know, whatever talents. And it's like the more of that story of being given talents is that if you hide your talents, then they die, they fall away. But if you utilize them, they grow, they multiply.
And so I knew that that was a possibility if I could defy almost dying and coming out to be a dancer and move to the best city in, I would say this is a personal opinion, the best city in the world, one of the best cities in the world, New York. And pursue that passion. I knew that I could use and leverage other skill sets. There was more that I could offer.
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