Her name is present for every single episode of the show. Every single Brony in the fandom has knows her name.Which is kind of scary when you think about it.Anyways, Lauren Faust was a guest of honor for BABSCon this year and many people had a chance to hear from her. I know a lot of them were present for her panel on the Saturday of the con—I can only imagine how empty the vendor hall was for that hour—and I'm sure a ton of questions were asked by moderators and fans alike.Lauren was kind enough to agree to take time from her schedule and sit down for an interview with Equestria Daily while she was at BABSCon. To say it was an honor to interview her would be an understatement, and my nerves were through the roof when I was getting ready for this one.You can check out the whole interview after the break!My pleasure. Happy to.They were all memorable for different reasons, but that very first one, BronyCon 2012, was insane. I think it was just so huge and I don't think I really understood what I was in for. There's not many times in your life you get standing ovations from thousands of people, so that one still sticks out as just the most- I think I was the most astounded at that one.There were many tears shed at that one.Well, before I even made, I went to San Diego Comic-Con many, many, many times for my work onand. What's fascinating about the Pony conventions is just the insane passion behind it. San Diego is full of fans—there's definitely passionate people there—but at the Pony conventions, I see people who tell me that the show changed their life. I've never seen that, at least not so concentrated, at the other comic conventions. I'm sure it happens—because we all have things that we love that changed our lives—but it's so much more apparent and huge at the Pony conventions than I've ever seen it at the comic conventions.I have some specific memories, but they're either funny or surprising. The thing that's had the most impact on me isn't so specifically one instance. I'm still in constant shock at how many people tell me that the show has changed their lives. It's not just one person here or there. It's like half of the people I talk to say it changed their life for the better, not just a little, but significantly. Almost that it saved their lives. Those are my favorite things to hear. That's my biggest takeaway from the conventions. To know what it feels like to have something you created, and something you dreamed up, have such a profound effect on so many people. I can't even explain it. It's not one specific memory but, collectively, that's the thing that has the biggest impact on me, means the most, and that I take away with me from every single convention.Oh, you're very welcome. My pleasure.Oh my God, casting John de Lancie was insane! It was amazing and I don't- it had been a long time since I'd been as nervous as I was when I went to record him for the first time. I hope my voice didn't shake. I don't know if he even noticed, but I had a huge knot in my stomach. I was so terrified that this guy, who's this brilliant actor, who's had so much experience, that I had so much admiration for, just thought it was some dumb little kids' cartoon or something. It was amazing and then to be able to become friends with him afterwards and to regularly speak with him has been surreal in how incredible it is. I don't know if I can emphasize enough how insanely amazing it was.Yeah, yeah, he's an inspiration.I have a very good friend, Tammy List, who I've worked with at Cartoon Network for a very long time and she and I are animal dorks. She's my one friend that I can sit around and talk about my dogs for three hours, and she's actually interested. She just called me up one day and said, "Hey, I heard about this little zoo and their having a fundraiser and we can go pet fennec foxes." I went, "Oh my God. Let's do it." We went and it was just a little fundraiser. We'd never heard of it before, and she just stumbled across it in a magazine ad as a local advertising sort of thing.We went and we had a lot of fun. We both did, but she had so much fun that she went back there regularly and started volunteering. Then, probably a good year and a half after she started volunteering there, I started volunteering there. So I was volunteering there on the weekends while I was working onI was nothing special at that time, so I was just cleaning chinchilla cages. There wasn't much more to it than that.I volunteered there on the weekends for several months. Around the time when I started sharing on social media about bronies and their amazing generosity with helping out fundraisers and stuff like that, the Wildlife Learning Center asked me to be on the board of directors, specifically to help with fundraising. I'm so proud to say that Bronies have raised over forty thousand dollars!For the Wildlife Learning Center. It's just kind of a, "Hey, let's go do something fun," that over the years just blew up into this second job for me.Yeah, I was so surprised that worked.What memory? For me it's, God, getting to meet the animals. Once you're there for a while—because they're protecting the animals and their health and safety is the most important thing for them—and they trust you and know you're not going to make any stupid mistakes, you start to get to do really cool stuff. The first time I went to see Lola the sloth—and they let me in her enclosure—and I fed her an ear of corn, I just melted into a puddle. Sloths are the magical creatures. If they have a sloth at the zoo, they hide. You never see them.Getting to see one two feet in front of me, and give her food that she eats with her mouth right there was the biggest thing for me. It was just unbelievable.Yeah, definitely.I don't know. She can go as slow as she wants. I'll watch her all day.I just did sketches for the splash cards like two days ago. They're still working on it. If they're quiet, it's because they're busy. They're working like crazy and we're always talking a little bit about trying to get out there a little bit more. I know the forums went up and they either just had or are very soon due to do another live stream. I think we're just waiting until we have something super cool to show and everything is still not quite finished enough to share. I bet a million dollars that there's going to be a point where the floodgates open and we'll have plenty to share.Oh, I'm glad to hear it.That's very much something that we'd like to do, and that we've talked about quite a bit. The funding from the Kickstarter is going to funnel entirely into the game, and if the game does well enough—and generates enough interest that we can bring in more funding to do those sorts of things—we absolutely will. A dream of the group, collectively, is to let it build out even further.Well we all hope so.No, not necessarily. Just whatever- if there's anything more that you'd like to either elaborate on or any new questions.Yeah, sure. If we have time.Yeah.I think some of them might fall a little bit into the stereotype. What's funny to me is that sometimes I see fans apply the stereotype that wasn't necessarily intended and elaborate on that. But I'm really proud to say that they all kind of buck the system a little bit. Twilight is smart, reads a lot, is a little antisocial, and is kind of OCD, but she's not a nerd. She doesn't have glasses and the nasally voice. She's still sweet, and smart, and pretty which is the opposite of what we think is a nerd.Rarity is always my example. She's beautiful, and she loves clothes, and she loves being beautiful, but she's not mean. She's not snobbish. She's not a shopaholic. She's an artist! I think everybody kind of falls in that category. Some definitely more strongly than others. Characters like Applejack and Fluttershy might be a little bit more towards their stereotype, but other characters, I think, really ...Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Thank you.