What is going on? Uploading today's episode, we have famous Ashley with us, someone who we've had the pleasure of collaborating with not only through cast magic in our community, but also in other capacities as personally, I've admired the work that Ashley has done. She's been a contributor writer for GoDaddy, and she is also a content producer for RSS.com, which is a very important place in the podcasting community. And so she's embedded in all things content, blogging, podcasting. So, Ashley, please take it away. Tell us a little bit more about the story behind famous Ashley and what are you up to to be?

Oh, man. Yeah, the moniker. The moniker. It's kind of funny, but it's also a very true story that I used to work for Channel Ten down in Tampa, Florida, and I met a guy named Ron from the dawn. He was Ron from the dawn, Cesar. He was a concierge there, and he kept bumping into me at events for Channel ten. And one day he blurted it out, oh my God, the famous Ashley Grant has arrived. And it became kind of like this joke, and he kept calling me that.

And then after a little too much white wine one night, I accidentally ordered business cards with famous Ashley instead of Ashley on my card. And I was trying to make a name for myself as a freelancer. And when they arrived, when the cards arrived, I was like, oh my God, I can't return them. What do I do? And so I handed them out, and it was the first year I made full time income as a freelancer. And I was like, you know what? People are either going to laugh or they're going to make fun of me or they're going to love it. And no matter what, they won't forget. And so I just kind of kept going with it and bought the domain. And many moons later, I'm still freelancing with that moniker.

That's great. And so how did you transition into becoming a full time freelancer. And what is it you do exactly today as a full time freelancer?

The Reader's Digest version is that I've actually been freelancing since I began. I started in the writing world in 2007. My very first post went live just before Valentine's Day in the USF Oracle. And it was all about how to save money on Valentine's Day. And I remember when I got the paper and my name was in it, I was hooked. I was like, oh my goodness, I want to tell everybody all the things I'm writing. And my first paid piece was actually in the St. Pete Times.

It's now called the Tampa Bay Times, but it was the St. Pete Times. Like they had a little circular that they did called the TBT. And it was the hot, new, fresh way to get your news. And I wrote about a local restaurant and that was my first paid piece. And I was like, oh my God, I can actually get paid for my words. And just became addicted to writing about people's stories and learning all the things. I just kind of kept doing it and one thing led to another and I was working for magazines and then I was working for other newspapers.

And when blogging really became a thing, in about 2009, I bought the domain famous ashleygrant.com and I started working for Metro Mix, which was an affiliate of the Channel Ten news station. And that's when I really started getting into writing online and writing for the web. And I don't know if you remember the website about many moons ago, it existed and it was owned by the New York Times for a hot minute and I was their Tampa Bay correspondent. And that's when I really started learning how to professionally blog. And fast forward a little bit to 2014. And I started doing ghost writing and learning the other side of things about not just trying to get Internet famous, but also trying to write in a way that would get people to buy a product. And so since 2014, so, goodness, a decade now, wow. I've been writing for businesses to help them get their content out there, to help their products get Internet famous.

All of those are very different forms of writing, right? Like the reader of a newspaper is a consumer. The about the business angle, even with RSS, the audience might be podcasters, people who have an audience, et cetera. So what is your favorite form of writing? Into who? How did that evolve over time?