#141 - Ryan Ashton - Grief, Identity & Going Viral

Ryan Ashton, known online as @ryanashtonwashere , joins me for a remarkably honest conversation about losing his father to Lewy body dementia, the strange shape of anticipatory grief, and what happened when a deeply personal video took him from 300 to 39,000 followers overnight; now almost 150,000. We talk about the pressure to turn vulnerability into a business, protecting people’s trust in a…