Michael Ashford

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523 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

Michael Ashford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And she got back to me and she said, Hey, we haven't even asked for speakers yet, but send me your idea.

And it just built from there where she she took me in and said, Yeah, this is this is what we want.

And I was actually the first speaker at the first ever.

event and now I'm the head speaker coach and the curator of that event myself.

So wow.

No.

Funny how those things work out.

Oh well thank you for that.

I I gotta tell you, the day that I got that letter in the mail.

Saying that I was on academic probation and one more semester of less than a two point oh GPA, I was gonna be out.

Man, that's a come to Jesus moment if you ever if you ever had one.

That's that's a lot of soul searching that happens in that moment where you've got that proof in front of you that you are failing.

And that's what it had come to for me.

I had spent years thinking that, hey, I'm I'm gonna go to Kansas State University.

They've got a great world-renowned engineering program.

I'm good at math and science.

I'm my valedictorian of my senior class in high school.

I got my scholarships and my schooling ready to go and paid for.

What I had done, Tim, is I had listened to a lot of other people's plans for my life.

And I had never truly stepped back and said or asked myself the question rather.

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