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 now this event was going to encompass a workout and then a panel discussion between me and one of my friends. I invited my friend, I was like, girl, can you work for me for free? And she said, yes, she's great. And so it was basically the conversation part that people started sticking around for.
I just shared information on how I built a website, how I started building a brand, where Love Squad came from, how I auditioned, just offering some simple tricks and tips to help the community. And from there, I just decided to continue to pursue that. So I guess, again, long answer to your question is unconventional, absolutely.
But frustration and lack of resources really were my driving points to say, I think I'm worth it. And I think I can do it. And I want to do this for my family. And so that's what I'm doing.
I think that what ended up happening is like you kind of make those tough decisions that you do have to leave. So I remember being a Nick City dancer, and I had been a Nick City dancer for three seasons. And I had a conversation with my boyfriend, Andrew, who's still my boyfriend now. And we were talking about, should I stay a fourth season?
So if I stay being a, Nick City Dancer was affording me that visibility. I love being a part of the team. This was my entry point to the NBA because right after this, I started hosting for the Nets. And so we talked about progress. Identifying what progress looks like to you as an individual is really what drives this decision of leaving or moving on or making a change.
And so he asked me what progress looked like. And I told him and he said, do you think that that can happen where you are in terms of being on the team? And I said it was highly unlikely. And so he said, well, that drives your decision. It seems like you should leave. And it was very uncomfortable because I was like, OK, this makes sense, but it just doesn't feel good. Like no one wants to leave.
And at that time, I didn't have anything lined up. Right. Like I was like, oh, OK, I'm just going to leave this job. And so I ended up really trusting him and in terms of like his feedback and I left. And what ended up happening was it actually shaped my adult career in a sense. I spent three months at home quite a bit.
And instead of, I realized that it was a difference between being busy and being productive in this three months. Being busy is like, yeah, my Instagram story's lit, but I haven't done anything to add value to my long-term goal or even to figure out what that long-term goal was or even short-term goal. And so it's, I had a lot of, again, that self-awareness, that self-discovery started to happen.
I ended up started hosting. That's when I started taking hosting classes. That was the time I said, you know what? Let me explore this. I started by doing on-camera work. I was like, let me just go take a class to see how to get better on camera because I'm going on castings with my modeling agency that were for commercials. And I had no clue.
And again, all this may sound glamorous, but when you're getting a no, every time you go to a commercial casting, you're like, yeah, well, maybe this is telling me I don't got it. I don't have it. But the reality was, it's not that I wasn't good enough. It's just, I wasn't prepared. I wasn't at that point. And so using those three months, I started taking classes, really going in for it and
Honestly, what ended up happening, I sent an email out to all the people that were in my Gmail account at that time. And I said, I am a host. I called myself a host. No one did, but I did after taking like, you know, three months of classes. And I will host your kid's baby birthday party, your baby shower, your charity event. I will host for free for experience.
And it was literally at this point, Heather, that one of my friends who worked for the Brooklyn Nets, they had just moved to Brooklyn. She was like, hey, you've been a part of the NBA. Maybe you could be our host. And I came in for an interview and I was super honest. I was like, hey, no skills here. I do know how the NBA works. I know the game. I know basketball.
And it ended up happening where they offered me the job. And if I hadn't had that conversation with my boyfriend, Andrew, at the time of making the decision, it wasn't me just on a whim saying, I'm done with this or it doesn't make me feel good. No, it was literally like, what does progress, identify what progress looks like for you
Is that allowed in the space that you're in, at the company that you're in? Is it an opportunity? If it's not, then that kind of answers your question. And it makes you make those tough decisions. So that was a story that highlights, I had to make that decision. It was uncomfortable for
Probably felt like I wasn't ready, but I did it and it led me to, now I've been a host of the Brooklynettes for seven seasons. It's one of the best jobs that I have ever had. It's an organization that I love. I've grown there. I mean, I have learned things that I don't think I could ever learn because in hosting, you got to do it in real time.
I actually never put too much pressure on myself to figure that out or have that answer right away. Like many of us, we're in a position where we try to map out what the...
next 10 years looks like we'd probably fail because we never know we'd be here what we had mapped out for 2020 did not look like this that is probably a unanimous quote for everyone where you're just like I didn't expect it to look like this so for me what I end up doing is a short-term goal I want to continue on the paths that I'm in I love being a Peloton instructor I love our community
i love being able and that also too didn't come that wasn't something that i thought i'd be either i never wanted to be an instructor because i didn't think that i was going to ever be good at that or that i had anything to offer in that area so that's what i mean is that even becoming a peloton instructor if i had put myself in a position when i became the host of the brooklynettes to look at five years set a five-year goal and a 10-year goal i would have i would have sold myself short because one of the best things that ever happened to me was becoming a peloton instructor
So for me right now, I stay true to that. I think I do want to stay in the lane of live on camera, scripted, unscripted TV. I love motivational positivity. I love how to's because again, if I can get you from point A to point B, it took me three hours, but it only takes you 90 minutes. I want to be able to offer that or at least connect the dots to someone who can get you that information.
So be a conduit through the conversation for that. I know that again, these are the things that I love to do, what they will look like in the next few Five years, 10 years, I don't know because technology is moving faster than my mind. And so I want to be as I always say, don't be flexible, be fluid because flexibility has a breaking point.
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