Ashley C. Ford is the author of Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir.\u201cFor the first time I felt like I had so many more choices in my life than I originally thought I had. That was my first realization that I did not just have to react to the world, that I could be intentional in the world, and just curious about what came back to me.\u201d\n\nThanks to\xa0Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow notes:\n@iSmashFizzle\n\xa0ashleycford.net\nFortune Favors the Bold\xa0podcast\n5:00\xa0"Roger Loves Chaz"\xa0(Roger Ebert \u2022 Sep 2012)\n11:34\xa0The Giver\xa0(Lois Lowry \u2022 Houghton Mifflin \u2022 1993)\n17:47\xa0Ford's commencement speech at Ball State\n26:09\xa0Ford's archive at\xa0Buzzfeed\n41:00\xa0"Ashley C. Ford\u2019s Debut Memoir \u2018Somebody\u2019s Daughter\u2019 Finds Home at Flatiron" (Paperback Paris \u2022 2018)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices