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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And so I started modeling, which put me in a position financially to be able to afford a house with an apartment with one roommate instead of three. And then from modeling, I knew I saw that there were girls that were a little older than me, but similar hosting. They were doing, you know, New York one and the taxi cabs and all of these things. And I was like, wait a minute. How did she get there?
And I started doing research. And I have always been curious around how did someone get to the place that they are, not to say I should have everything, but also to identify what are my strong points. And at a young age, I knew in college what my strengths were. I knew that I was a good dancer. I knew that I was a great performer.
And most importantly, one of the things that I knew I was great at, most importantly, and that I loved doing was talking to people. I I could talk all day to everybody. I loved it. In New York, everyone has so many interesting stories. And so that's when I started taking classes. I leaned into, even with anything, I always say lean into resources to figure out what you don't know.
So that's what I did. I started taking hosting classes and I started going on, I started, you know, Googling New York hosting auditions. anything until I got an agent and I was signed with Wilhelmina Modeling and then I started doing hosting.
And so I really, really, for the lack of a better word, or maybe more, not a lack of a better word, but for the word we're commonly hearing these days, I hustled hard, right? I was, it was my, and in my own words, I bossed up. It was me just, again, leveraging those skill sets and those passions to put me in a position where I could afford living in New York. I was safe.
I was in a position where I wanted more and I could figure out how to do that. And I think that that's what my family wanted as well. My mom was like, you can stay there, but we got to make sure you're okay. And so that was the agreement that we had and it ended up working out.
So it's actually the story of LoveSquad. It's Of all of this, and I know those of you that are listening, this sounds so, it might sound so good to you, but it comes with a lot of no's. It came with a lot of no's. And it definitely came with a lot of heartache and quote unquote failure, right? These things, these lessons, right?
But it was one of the reasons why I bossed up or hustle hard or any tagline or any quotable message you want to put in front of that is because it was basically out of frustration and a lack of resources. As a young woman, as a young mixed woman, as a young Black woman in New York City, it's not easy.
You know, it's not easy wanting to make more of yourself, especially when you don't have a clear path. I think I look at my life kind of like how Sheryl Sandberg talks about moving...
around in a company in her book lean in it's a jungle gym it's not just vertical you know it's a jungle gym that you're moving and that's kind of how I look at my career being a part of this slash generation people are dynamic women are dynamic we are dynamic and we're multi-dimensional multifaceted and it's one of those things to say you have more than one passion most times you have more than one skill set you can offer and so
I wanted to make sure that I was going down the right path. And the only way to do that was to pursue these areas that I was curious about.
And so in those moments of hard times, in this concept of an unconventional career path, this frustration and lack of resources didn't always afford me the opportunity to be in rooms where decisions were being made or to be in places where I could network and find my fairy godfather. mentor mother or whatever, like I wasn't able to do those things.
And so what I decided to do once I got a little older, past 21, was offer the information back. I know, and I come back to what I said to you, Heather, when we first started talking is there's no difference between me and anyone that's listening. No matter how old you are, how young you are, where you live, in terms of what we desire for ourselves and for our family. We are all uniquely different.
I do identify that. I would be remiss if we didn't say that, but we are all uniquely the same in wanting to be a better versions of ourselves or be our best selves or continue to help be a citizen of our community and continue to do things fairly and just and equally. And those are all of our desires for the most part.
And so knowing that I didn't want any, if I got to, you know, from point A to point B and it took me three hours and I can offer insight to someone who is either curious to get from point A to point B, I can offer them insight that will shorten that time and they get there in 90 minutes. Why wouldn't I do that? And so that's when I created Love Squad.
I was like, you know, all the information that I, it may not be much, but But everything that I know right now or have learned, I'd love to share with someone so they don't have to get frustrated or they don't have to pay for it. Knowledge is very expensive. Information is expensive.
And so I created Love Squad out of, again, a shared frustration and lack of resources to say, hey, everyone come out. It started out as a website. Adidas found the website. It was a really crappy website, to be completely transparent.
adidas found it asked if i would create some content for their site i was definitely emailed back like i think you got the wrong person because this is not good stuff and they were like no we want you to create some some content and from there i decided to continue pursuing this quote-unquote blog that i had and it was about the time i was talking to a friend and she's like you need to invite people out and at this time i only had about
3,000 followers on my Instagram. And I had, and not to say that wasn't a lot. I mean, that's still a lot of people following you. So I was very grateful, but I'm not sure all those people were interested in meeting me. At this point, I think I was hosting for the Brooklyn Nets and I decided to do a little event, partner with a space in New York City and invite anyone who wanted to come out.
It was going to be a free event, 50 spots, because you know, New York, we don't have that much space, 50 spots. And what ended up happening, which was the aha moment around Love Squad was is what ended up happening was I opened the Evite and within 15 seconds, 50 spots were taken and 75 people were on the wait list.
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