Meet Ashlee Young

We were lucky to catch up with Ashlee Young recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Ashlee, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?

My grandmother. I am the youngest of a million cousins 🙂 but my mom is 1 of 10, and my grandfather passed as soon as my youngest aunt and uncle were born (twins). I’ve seen my grandmother stretch a penny into a dollar and everything in between. I feel as long as I have this stage, I’m supposed to make a difference with it and that all came from my grandmother, Willie Ester Young.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

It took ten long years but I am the “made it story” in radio rising from unpaid intern to an executive. In 2014 I started to intern with iheart (then clear channel) for college credit, but fell in love with it and pursued programming and on air beyond Jacksonville, FL (where I went to college). After a decade of doing pretty much everything in a radio station I realized my heart really lies with creating content, marketing and still interviews – as I’m a journalism major. I’ve added talent representation and paid influencer under my belt but my current focus is providing true journalistic content in hip hop and making a space for women to be leaders in the music business.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Resilience, you will hear so many no’s but all it takes is to get back up again to hear that one yes that matters,

Discernment, knowing what opportunities, and even people are actually beneficial to you and which are just giving you the short end of the stick.

Self investment, you will get no where waiting for someone to invite you or offer you something – get out create it and sell it!

As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?

I recommend “Positioning” by Al Ries & Jack Trout to everyone I know, it changed my perspective of being a manager in a creative business and just marketing in general.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @ashleeonair
• Facebook: @ashleeonair
• Twitter: @ashleeonair
• Youtube: @ashleeonair

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