ASHLEY ROBERTS: How I Built a Life That Works For Me | GREAT MOMENTS
episodePreviously titled “Ashley Roberts: How I Built a Life That Works For Me” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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What personal experiences shaped Ashley Roberts' perspective on life?
Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments. Guys, welcome back to another episode of Great Moments. Hope you're having a good day. Now, we are looking back at my conversation with the incredible Ashley Roberts. Now, Ashley was a joy to talk to. She was a pussycat doll. She's funny, honest, open, and I learned so much about her during our chat. Now, we picked one of my favorite moments to share with you, and if you like this, you'd love the full episode, okay? You can find that in the show notes, so just go and click on that, okay? So enjoy this Great Moments with Ashley Roberts. I started doing therapy when I was about 27 years old. And I suddenly started to realize like a lot of things.
Like I thought I was going to get to the age of like 30 and someone was going to open the door and go, come in here, here are all the secrets. And I was like, brilliant. I can't wait for that. I can't wait to find that out. And then 30 years, I was like, fuck. Everyone is guessing. Everyone doesn't really know what's going on. This is everyone's first. No one's had a dress rehearsal.
No, I know this is it.
This is it. That was a scary moment.
I think Riri said, fake it till you make it. It's such a cheesy line, but it's true. None of us have it figured out. We're all trying. But at least I think, again, with doing this book and sharing it, I want people to be open to trying new things that could help them feel better. And help calm down, you know, because anybody, even if you don't have high stress levels and a lot of anxiety, like this kind of stuff will help you just feel good.
Do you think being positive is a coping mechanism or a defense mechanism?
Ooh, that's a good, might be a bit of both, you know.
Because I have that as well. I love being positive. I really like that. And when actually when I had this in relationships in the past, when I was in relationships and people were being negative, I didn't like, I couldn't handle it. Can't handle that.
Can't handle that.
Don't bring that in here. And that wasn't so good.
How did therapy influence Ashley's understanding of emotions?
So it wouldn't allow other people to express their emotions in a relationship that well, because I didn't want that space. I'd rather deny that.
Interesting. You mean even at all? At all, yeah. Oh, wow.
I never, ever liked it. I never liked it. Interesting.
I wonder what that is.
And so then when I started doing therapy, I started to understand how you can open up and understand these different emotions. And then I started to be able to accept negative emotion and realizing that actually being positive all the time, you don't have to be that. You don't have to be all this heightened stuff all the time. Actually being still and feeling the emotions is a good thing.
Yeah, there was this study actually that like there was a high percentage of people that would rather get electric shock than sit with their own emotions. What? Yeah. I mean, and the percentage was like extremely high. So I think that just goes to show, yeah, I mean, you know, it's not necessarily fun, but that's sort of how you get through it on the other side and get growth and evolution within yourself.
Yeah.
Being positive is a great thing, right? Totally. But too much of anything is probably too much.
Do you know, when I... When I spoke about my darker times, which I never had done really before, and I'd opened up about the way that I felt and things like that, it was so good to share because it made everyone perceive me differently. And they realized that there were different sides to it. And I almost feel like this book that you're doing is going to do that for you as well, where you show every side of yourself. And that authenticity that is coming out, that is what's powerful.
Well, yeah. you know, I feel like it's interesting you and I, right. Cause like you said, when you see me, I give off light and you're the same way. Like when you're in that, when I come into your presence, I know I'm going to get like a burst of joy, but also you were very inspiring to me going on that run and being vulnerable within that.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What personal experiences shaped Ashley Roberts' perspective on life?
0:02–2:05
2
How did therapy influence Ashley's understanding of emotions?
2:05–4:50
3
What insights does Ashley share about positivity as a coping mechanism?
4:50–7:26
4
Why does Ashley choose not to have children?
7:26–11:11
5
What does Ashley value in relationships?
11:11–14:10
Speakers
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