Is there anything in your business that you dread doing? That makes you feel like: “Oh, my God, I do NOT want to do that! Like, seriously. Give me anything else to do.” If you have something like that which, let's be honest, we all have, make sure to turn the volume up.

 

In this episode of the Shamelessly Ambitious Podcast, I’m talking about those times when things feel hard or like a burden and how it doesn’t have to be this way. I’ll walk you through some practices and questions to help you bring things into alignment – making them fun, simple, and easy.

 

As I said in the episode, “things do not have to be hard in order to be successful.” When things are done in alignment, they get to feel good, they get to feel easy, they get to be easy.

Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here. You're exactly where you're supposed to be.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

 

• The importance of auditing pieces of your life and business and one of my favorite audit practices
• Social Media, Motherhood, and other energy drains
• How to go from dreading something to finding it aligned, fun, and easy
• One of my greatest tricks to keep me motivated and on the right path
•  Doing what’s right for you in each season of your life and business

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• Become the Regulated Woman
• Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
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• Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

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In this episode of the Shamelessly Ambitious Podcast, I’m coming to you with part two of Your Next Best Business Strategy. So, if you haven’t already, listen to episode 42 (part one) before tuning into this one. 

 

Today, we’re talking about the non-negotiables I have in my life and business. Now let's be honest, I don't have a lot of business non-negotiables. I don't find business, strategy, or messaging to be the most important things in my life. My non-negotiables are typically around my personal life. 

 

But I do have a couple of business standards that I absolutely implement and attribute to my success. I very much believe that having these practices, honoring them, following them, loving them, and learning to trust them, has been one of the greatest reasons behind my abundance.

 

In this episode, you’ll hear me say… “I’ve learned to love my experience of service… And this is one of my incredibly important non-negotiable business standards every single day – to serve.” In practice, this looks like honestly not caring if someone EVER pays me, I’m still going to serve and over-deliver to my audience every single time. The free value I provide is just as important as the individualized, juicy experiences that my one-on-one clients receive.

 

Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

 

• My non-negotiable daily practices
• My two non-negotiable business practices
• What I see people doing when it comes to social media
• A practice you can use whenev

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I am the definition of duality — I swear like a sailor and break rules like it’s my job, but I also hold incredible space for my clients and work my ass off to help them achieve the success they’re after. But I'm also here for the non-preneur woman, too. My background in counseling gives me a unique perspective on what it means to show up, serve, & create connection for those who feel like they've never belonged before.

LINKS:

• Become the Regulated Woman
• Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
• Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
• Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
• Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

Work with me 1:1

• Therapeutic Mentorship
• Business Therapy (therapy + strategic mentorship)
...

You get to create whatever business you desire to create, in whatever way you desire to create it. And if for any godforsaken reason, you are living within this belief that it only works if it's been done before (and it's been successful), in this podcast episode, we’re going to release that limiting belief.

 

As I said in the episode, “Success is not circumstantial. It's not based on anything outside of us, it is purely based on what happens within us.”

 

Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

 

• Redesigning your business to meet the lifestyle you desire
• Having more fun with my business and what that looks like now
• The power of leaning in and trusting your intuition (even when it’s something no one has ever done before)
• ENERGETICS come before STRATEGY
• Going inwards: 3 questions to find your next best business strategy

CONNECT WITH ASH

 

Instagram: @ashmcdonald

Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

THE REVIVAL RETREAT

 

The next opportunity to join me, IN PERSON, is happening at a special retreat in ITALY, this October 2022, that I’m hosting with my dear friend (and real-life therapist!!) Andi Johnson. 

 

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I am the definition of duality — I swear like a sailor and break rules like it’s my job, but I also hold incredible space for my clients and work my ass off to help them achieve the success they’re after. But I'm also here for the non-preneur woman, too. My background in counseling gives me a unique perspective on what it means to show up, serve, & create connection for those who feel like they've never belonged before.

LINKS:

• Become the Regulated Woman
• Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
• Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
• Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
• Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

Work with me 1:1

• Therapeutic Mentorship
• Business Therapy (therapy + strategic mentorship)
...

Welcome back to the Shamelessly Ambitious Podcast. Today, I am bringing you another incredible Voxer training from one of my favorite programs, DEVOTED. It was a Voxer Intensive where we got deep INTO it. We got into exactly what it looks like to truly develop and curate devotion to yourself (first) and your business that allows you to take your life to a whole new level. 

 

This specific training was all about energy leaks. In this training I’m specifically asking one question: are you giving your power away?

 

The truth is…everything that we experience – personal life and business – is either giving us energy or it is taking energy. Within this training, I hope to guide you through the process of clarifying where you are experiencing equal energy exchanges and where you are not. 

 

When you trust yourself fully, you start listening to your intuition, and that will guide you along the way to your most abundant life. Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here.

 

 

TOPICS DISCUSSED

 

• Signs you’re experiencing energy leaks
• What you can change today to claim your energy back
• “When this happens, I’ll finally…” – Are you living by this rule?
• BEING before DOING or HAVING

 

 

CONNECT WITH ASH

 

Instagram: @ashmcdonald

Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

 

 

THE ACCELERATORS

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I am the definition of duality — I swear like a sailor and break rules like it’s my job, but I also hold incredible space for my clients and work my ass off to help them achieve the success they’re after. But I'm also here for the non-preneur woman, too. My background in counseling gives me a unique perspective on what it means to show up, serve, & create connection for those who feel like they've never belonged before.

LINKS:

• Become the Regulated Woman
• Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
• Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
• Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
• Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

Work with me 1:1

• Therapeutic Mentorship
• Business Therapy (therapy + strategic mentorship)
...

Trigger warning: child loss. Before introducing today’s guest, I want to warn you that this is a very sensitive episode, and there’s no shame if you feel like this is too much for you right now. I honor where you are now, and next week I’ll have a new episode for you.

 

In this episode, we’re talking about loss, grief, and how it changes the way you do business. To have this conversation I invited Lauryn Laszczak: somatic business coach, three-time female founder, devoted wife, and mom of three. She has spent over a decade building businesses and guiding women into a deeper exploration of themselves and the impact that they're capable of having. Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here.

 

TOPICS DISCUSSED

 

• Lauryn’s personal story around loss and grief
• Moving through shame and guilt when facing hard times
• Letting go of control as women and business owners
• What coaching and motherhood have in common
• The changes in Lauryn’s business after her loss
• How flexibility  and freedom can be often mistaken

CONNECT WITH LAURYN

 

Instagram: @iam_lauryn

Website: laurynlaszczak.com

CONNECT WITH ASH

 

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I am the definition of duality — I swear like a sailor and break rules like it’s my job, but I also hold incredible space for my clients and work my ass off to help them achieve the success they’re after. But I'm also here for the non-preneur woman, too. My background in counseling gives me a unique perspective on what it means to show up, serve, & create connection for those who feel like they've never belonged before.

LINKS:

• Become the Regulated Woman
• Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
• Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
• Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
• Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

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• Therapeutic Mentorship
• Business Therapy (therapy + strategic mentorship)
...

Welcome back to the Shamelessly Ambitious Podcast! The last time I recorded a personal-update podcast was when we had lived in Costa Rica for just one week. Well, now we have officially been here for over a month and I can honestly say that Costa Rica has changed our lives (for the better). It has changed our life, how we experience life, how we experience one another…it has literally changed everything, including what our future gets to look like. 

 

Costa Rica to me is the definition of doing it differently. And it has been a full embodiment of all the things that I have preached, taught, and fully felt in my soul – which is that you don't have to do things like everybody else in order to have the success that you deeply desire. 

 

Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here.

 

 

TOPICS DISCUSSED

 

• Why Costa Rica has been the embodiment of doing things differently for me
• Our dream of living abroad and why we didn’t do it sooner
• What I realized about motherhood since we arrived in Costa Rica
• My life-long search for a home and what that looks like for me now
• Our exciting plans for the next few months
• The two things I want you to take away from this episode
• An invitation to come and join me in Italy

CONNECT WITH ASH

 

Instagram: @ashmcdonald

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I am the definition of duality — I swear like a sailor and break rules like it’s my job, but I also hold incredible space for my clients and work my ass off to help them achieve the success they’re after. But I'm also here for the non-preneur woman, too. My background in counseling gives me a unique perspective on what it means to show up, serve, & create connection for those who feel like they've never belonged before.

LINKS:

• Become the Regulated Woman
• Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
• Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
• Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
• Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

Work with me 1:1

• Therapeutic Mentorship
• Business Therapy (therapy + strategic mentorship)
...

It's not about what you do. Your success is being ignited by the pause and the space that you're giving yourself to be.

 

Welcome back to the Shamelessly Ambitious Podcast! In this episode, I’m talking to Kelsey Van Kirk and I am so excited as this is my first ever podcast interview in Costa Rica. It feels really special – just as special as the message behind this episode. 

 

Kelsey is here today to give you one of the greatest permission slips you will ever receive. And, as she said in the episode, “...all the abundance that’s meant for you will find you if you’re open to it.” Make sure to tune in because that’s just the start of some major gems that Kelsey drops - I know you’ll find something that resonates with you.

 

Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

 

• Where Kelsey’s at, where she was, and where she thought she would be now
• The “I could so I should” mentality and how Kelsey shifted from that
• How “quitting” can be the right next step in business for you
• The one question women in business GET to ask themselves
• Letting abundance come into your life and business
• Cultivating deeply rooted joy and gratitude

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I am the definition of duality — I swear like a sailor and break rules like it’s my job, but I also hold incredible space for my clients and work my ass off to help them achieve the success they’re after. But I'm also here for the non-preneur woman, too. My background in counseling gives me a unique perspective on what it means to show up, serve, & create connection for those who feel like they've never belonged before.

LINKS:

• Become the Regulated Woman
• Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
• Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
• Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
• Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

Work with me 1:1

• Therapeutic Mentorship
• Business Therapy (therapy + strategic mentorship)
...

Welcome back to the Shamelessly Ambitious Podcast! Today’s episode is coming straight out of POTENT, one of my favorite programs I’ve hosted so far. Potent was a Voxer-only (the walkie-talkie app) social media strategy class that I ran a few weeks ago. This is part two of one of the epic trainings from within this program. I'm going to introduce you to one of the most important aspects of building visibility and authority so that your bank account overflows and your DMs are filled with the most soul-aligned clients. 

 

And, I'll help you create content that feels fun and easy. It’s 80% the energetics of it all, and 20% the actual strategy. When you’re done with this episode you’ll have real, tangible action steps to take your social media presence to the next level!! Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

 

• Why I tell all my clients to throw niches and content buckets out the window
• Calling in the most soul-aligned clients
• Moving past the fear of “giving away too much” for free
• The most important question you can ask yourself when creating content
• Possibility marketing vs. pain point marketing
• Serving versus inviting your audience

THE ACCELERATORS

 

If you're liking what you're hearing, you'll LOVE my Accelerators. The Accelerators are intimate & expansive containers each featuring an in-pers

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I am the definition of duality — I swear like a sailor and break rules like it’s my job, but I also hold incredible space for my clients and work my ass off to help them achieve the success they’re after. But I'm also here for the non-preneur woman, too. My background in counseling gives me a unique perspective on what it means to show up, serve, & create connection for those who feel like they've never belonged before.

LINKS:

• Become the Regulated Woman
• Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
• Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
• Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
• Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

Work with me 1:1

• Therapeutic Mentorship
• Business Therapy (therapy + strategic mentorship)
...

Welcome back to the Shamelessly Ambitious Podcast! Today’s episode is all about our big move and the real behind-the-scenes of what it's been like moving to Costa Rica.

 

I’m telling you all about the magic. I mean, I can't really come up with any other word but MAGIC for this experience. When I recorded this episode, we had been in Costa Rica for exactly one week, and trust me, I’ve had many different varying responses to our big move here and our desire to try out something new. So, let’s talk about it all today. Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

 

• Why we decided to come to Costa Rica in the first place
• The REAL behind-the-scenes of moving abroad with 3 children
• Attracting who you ARE not what you DO
• Our first few challenges in Costa Rica
• What I’m most grateful for

 

THE ACCELERATORS

 

If you're liking what you're hearing, you'll LOVE my Accelerators. The Accelerators are intimate & expansive containers each featuring an in-person retreat in a unique location.

 

DM the words ‘PODCAST ACCELERATOR’ to @ashmcdonald on Instagram to snag a very special discount for podcast listeners only. We can chat about all the juicy details you need to know! 

 

All Accelerators are currently full but when yo

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I am the definition of duality — I swear like a sailor and break rules like it’s my job, but I also hold incredible space for my clients and work my ass off to help them achieve the success they’re after. But I'm also here for the non-preneur woman, too. My background in counseling gives me a unique perspective on what it means to show up, serve, & create connection for those who feel like they've never belonged before.

LINKS:

• Become the Regulated Woman
• Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
• Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
• Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
• Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

Work with me 1:1

• Therapeutic Mentorship
• Business Therapy (therapy + strategic mentorship)
...

Welcome back to the Shamelessly Ambitious Podcast! Today’s episode is a little different, and I’m super excited to hear your thoughts on it.

 

So, I run these Voxer groups with my clients, it’s one of my favorite places to host programs and teach – whether 1:1 or in a group, I do these training sessions here and I've had it in my heart and on my mind to share a bit of these trainings with you so you can see really behind the scenes of what it looks like to work with me and to be in a “Voxer intensive” program! 

 

This particular training is a special one. I am talking about CEO days, and more specifically, what a CEO day gets to look like. As I say in the episode, “A CEO day is really a time that you cultivate working ON your business rather than IN your business”. Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

 

• What CEO Days can look like every week
• Getting clarity on your cycle and what your superpowers are
• How to best honor your phase each week
• Planning for the upcoming week 
• Calibrating your energy

THE ACCELERATORS

 

If you're liking what you're hearing, you'll LOVE my Accelerators. The Accelerators are intimate & expansive containers each featuring an in-person retreat in a unique location. The next one is happening THIS JULY in COSTA RICA! This container is for leaders who want to leap into their next level. It includes high level & individualized support with an emphasis on connection, growth, and accelerat

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I am the definition of duality — I swear like a sailor and break rules like it’s my job, but I also hold incredible space for my clients and work my ass off to help them achieve the success they’re after. But I'm also here for the non-preneur woman, too. My background in counseling gives me a unique perspective on what it means to show up, serve, & create connection for those who feel like they've never belonged before.

LINKS:

• Become the Regulated Woman
• Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
• Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
• Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
• Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com

Work with me 1:1

• Therapeutic Mentorship
• Business Therapy (therapy + strategic mentorship)
...