Our guest this week is celebrity stylist, TV personality, and CEO of her own lifestyle brand, Ashley North. Ashley is most well known for being Kevin Hart’s stylist and now she’s sitting down with The Stacks to discuss reading. She talks about the not so glamorous parts of being a stylist, her daughters’ love of books, and diversity in school reading curriculum.

We cover a lot of topics this week, and its all down there in the show notes. Use the links below when you shop on Amazon and iTunes to help support The Stacks.

BOOKS

• Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
• Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started by Justin Bieber
• I Can’t Make This Up by Kevin Hart
• The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
• On Becoming Baby Wise by Robert Bucknam M.D.
• The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• How to Get Sh*t Done by Erin Falconer
• The Confident Woman Devotional by Joyce Meyer
• A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
• Stuck by Jennie Allen
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Saddle Club Series by Bonnie Bryant
• Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
• Sweet Valley High by Francine Pascal
• Babysitter’s Club Series by Ann M. Martin
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Fifty Shades of Grey Series by E.L. James
• Becoming by Michelle Obama

EVERYTHING ELSE

• Justin Bieber (in purple hoodie)
• Kevin Hart
• Soul Plane (MGM)
• Chris Brown
• “Golden Globes 2016: The 10 Best-Dressed Dudes” (The Staff, The Hollywood Reporter)
• Terrence J
• Drake
• Chadwick Boseman (at Met Gala)

• “Who Dresses ‘Black Panther’ Stars Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan: 7 Top Hollywood Men’s Stylist” (Carol McColgin, The Hollywood Reporter)

• “Inside Hollywood Reporter’s and Jimmy Choo’s Power Stylists Event With Chadwick Boseman, Gwyneth Paltrow, the Fanning Sisters and More” (Jane Carlson & Ramona Saviss, The Hollywood Reporter)

• Becca Tobin
• Eddie Murphy
• Ludacris
• Chingy
• Tracee Ellis Ross
• Tiffany Haddish
• Girls Trip (Universal Pictures)
• Keep It (Crooked Media)
• AN Style Candles (Traci’s Favorite Candle)
• The Joy Luck Club (Buena Vista Pictures)

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