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Trash Night
A culture study exploring how people around the world live at home. From outdoor woodstoves in rural America, to special windows in Norway that shed water, to limestone walls in Italy (originally designed to evade taxes!), Trash Night is a celebration of the different ways we live everyday life. Subscribe if you love travel, culture, home, and design. >>>
The Middle Finger Project
Hailed as one of the most prominent unconventional career blogs of its era, The Middle Finger Project has been Ash's signature newsletter since the year 2009, where she continues to ask critical questions about the way we work—and how we can use our work to create a healthy, full, satisfying life. Documenting her own online experiments and projects, The Middle Finger Project was turned into a book by Penguin Random House, and published worldwide. Subscribe for Ash's hot takes on work >>>
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BEING BORING IS COSTING YOU MILLIONS / BEING BORING IS COSTING YOU MILLIONS
About
Known as one of the most irreverent writers online, Ash Ambirge has built an empire out of one belief: being boring is costing you millions.
Her award-winning blog, The Middle Finger Project, was one of the leading lifestyle blogs of its era when she first started writing publicly online in 2009. She then went on to start her first creative agency in her 20s, dedicated to helping boring brands get a personality. Ambirge's flagship book, also titled The Middle Finger Project (Penguin Random House) furthered the mission even more, as she traveled the world giving speeches and workshops and running retreats. Eventually, she developed various online courses and programs designed to help you live a better, more prosperous life by learning how to write more interesting things. Today, Ambirge writes, she consults, and teaches her methods to clients and students from around the world.
Approach
I have no business being a globe-trotting writer and business woman. I grew up curling my bangs in a trailer park, using food stamps to buy popsicles, dating boys who milked cows, bringing boom boxes to stone quarries, and thinking tinted car windows were the ultimate sign of prestige.
But, writing saved me. Writing always saves everyone, doesn't it? While I couldn't shape our circumstances, growing up, the one thing I could shape? Was how I presented myself on the page. I quickly learned that writing was the purest form of democracy there was. Appearances didn't matter. Income didn't matter. The car you drove didn't matter. The only thing that mattered were your ideas. And, if you had good ideas? You had leverage.
Work
Freelance Writing & Commissions
Ash is available as a freelance journalist specializing in telling punchy, fresh stories about the world we live in, known for her sharp humor and observational analysis that reframes everything you thought you knew about a place.
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Brand Consulting
Book a 2-hour creative session with Ash, where she'll consult with you on your brand. Ash specializes in personality branding & brand concepts that cut through the noise. (Even in rush hour.)
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Teaching & Mentoring
Through her teaching and community arm, Dead Voice Club, Ash works with marketers, creators, and small businesses to transform their work—and their profits—from "meh" to "ME-OWWWW," using just the words on the screen.
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The Rule Book
01. GREAT BANTER IS AN ART FORM
02. HAPPY PEOPLE ARE HOT PEOPLE
03. IF YOU CAN WRITE, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING
04. YOUR IDEAS ARE BETTER THAN YOU THINK
05. TRAVEL IS THE BEST INVESTMENT ON EARTH
06. PEOPLE WHO ORDER "PLAIN WINGS" ARE SUSPECT
07. FARROW & BALL PAINT IS THE ONLY RELIGION
08. YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GET A COOL HAIRCUT
09. LONDON > NEW YORK
10. GO, GO, GO - THESE 3 WORDS ARE THE ONLY WORDS YOU NEED
“Ash Ambirge is a whole mood. And trust me, you want to be in it.”
— Sarah Knight, Best-Selling Author of
The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck
“We hired David to help with a campaign. He ended up reshaping our brand voice entirely. Best thing that ever happened to our company.”
— Dominique Charles, Creative Director, The Wren Collective
“David has this ability to make everyone in the room feel like they've been heard — and then synthesize it into something brilliant.”
— Tasha Monroe, VP of Marketing, Stridewell Athletics
In just 30 minutes, Ash Ambirge will teach you her famous Chicken in a Pot technique that will instantly make your writing feel more human, fresh, alive, original, and irresistible.
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