Wide Open with Ashlyn Harris

Ashlyn has an unfiltered conversation with Nikki, a sports-obsessed baseball mom and patient. Hear how Nikki’s diagnosis inspired her to do more for herself, and how playing competitive sports helped prepare her for her toughest competition yet. Ashlyn and Nikki discuss what it’s really like to be a woman, balancing work, her treatment, and her son’s hectic sports schedule. Plus, Nikki talks about how her family, friends, and doctors became a team she could lean on for support. Visit https://www.novartis.com/us-en/sites/novartis_us/files/kisqali.pdf for full prescribing Information for KISQALI (ribociclib). Sponsored by Novartis.
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Ashlyn sits down with entrepreneur Tristan Schukraft for a candid conversation about building businesses, expanding access to PrEP and HIV care, and preserving queer spaces. Tristan shares how failure, ambition, and vision shaped his career. He also opens up about polyamory, relationships, visibility, shame, and the importance of protecting LGBTQ+ communities and the spaces that give them refuge, history, and connection.
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Coming out can feel like starting all over again — being a beginner in love, relationships, and of course, sex. In fact, navigating sex in non-hetero relationships is probably the most nerve-wracking part of people’s queer awakenings. In Casey Tanner’s work as a queer sex therapist, she wants to erase the shame and fear associated with feeling like a beginner. Today, Casey sits down with Ashlyn to talk about her work, how she helps clients understand their desires, and to answer your burning questions about queer sex.
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Jeffrey Masters, creator and host of LGBTQ&A, joins Ashlyn to discuss the art of meaningful interviewing, the importance of preserving queer history, and what years of listening to queer icons and activists have taught him. They explore empathy, visibility, mental health, activism, and how asking better questions can create space for people to tell the stories behind the headlines.
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How can we support LGBTQ+ athletes? How is the state of women’s soccer? Is it hard being a mom? How do you know you’ve found “the one”? This week, Ashlyn is answering these and more in a reflective listener question episode.
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