What happens when the life you thought was over becomes the portal to your rebirth? 

In this episode of Unapologetically Yours, Ashley sits down with Misty McCray for one of the most powerful conversations she's ever had, a story of resilience that spans from a federal prison sentence to salvation, somatic healing, and finding the courage to live unapologetically. 

Misty McCray is a storyteller, mother, and embodied movement guide. What I appreciate most about Misty is her willingness to evolve, release identities that no longer served her, and trust her inner authority. When she's not creating or guiding, she's mothering her son and herself, soaking up sunlight, walking barefoot on the earth, journaling, dancing, singing, practicing yoga, and gathering with friends to celebrate life as it unfolds.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

- Misty's arrest at 24 and the moment she felt relief, knowing this was her reset

- The 10 years she spent in federal prison and how she showed up with purpose inside

- The women she met behind bars who became her teachers and soul sisters

- Reentering society, becoming a mother, and navigating survival mode for nearly two     decades

- Why motherhood stripped her in ways prison never could

- The spiral of healing and how growth is never linear

- Finding her inner authority after society tried to cage her freedom

- How your higher self has always been holding you, even in your darkest moments

- What it means to live unapologetically when the world doesn't understand

... and so much more!

A note from Ashley:

When Misty told me that the day US Marshals surrounded her house was the day she felt relief, I knew this was a conversation that would break people open. Misty’s story about her journey surviving a federal prison sentence teaches us about what happens when you surrender to what you don't understand. This conversation reminded me that freedom isn't a place, it's a practice. And sometimes the thing that breaks you is the thing that births you into the truest version of yourself. Misty's higher self has been holding her all along, and listening to her story, I hope you feel yours holding you too.

Connect with Misty McCray:

Instagram: @shebecametheway

Facebook: Misty McCray

Email: [email protected]

Website: shebecametheway.com (coming soon)

Connect with Ashley Logan:

Instagram: @ashleydlogan

Website: ashleydlogan.com

Email: [email protected]

Podcast Instagram: @unapologeticallyyourspodcast

Resources Mentioned:

Human Design

What happens when you wake up to the truth that no one is coming to save you?

… and so much more!

In this exciting episode, Ashley Logan announces the launch of Inner Alchemy Studio, her new coaching practice for high-achieving women who are ready to live life unapologetically. 

After merging her multi-seven figure marketing agency in September 2025, Ashley is stepping fully into her purpose: helping women remember who they are through somatic healing, conscious leadership coaching, and full-body transformation work.

In this episode, Ashley talks about:

… and so much more!

Join the Inner Alchemy Newsletter to be the first to hear about upcoming events and experiences: https://inneralchemy.studio

A Note from Ashley:

I believe it is my job on this planet to help women remember who the fuck they are. Not as someone who has it all figured out, but as someone who has walked through the fire and can be your friend side by side for whatever you're navigating. For so long, I didn't have a mirror - a woman who was fully embodied in her home life, her work life, what she wanted to create. I realized how much I needed that mirror, and then I realized it's my purpose to be that for others.

Inner Alchemy Studio is about transmuting all of it - the good, the bad, the trauma, the beauty, the joy, the pain, the sorrow - into wholeness. Because all parts of you are beautiful. All parts of you deserve to be seen, and there is so much room for your dreams in this world, without the burnout, without the self-doubt.

I’m so excited and grateful to have you on this journey with me! 

Connect with Ashley Logan:

Inner Alchemy Studio: https://inneralchemy.studio

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: [email protected]

What does it cost to speak up? What happens when using your voice in your own community makes you feel unsafe?

If you've ever stayed silent because you were afraid of the consequences, if you've ever watched something wrong happen and didn't know if speaking up was worth the risk, this episode is for you.

In this episode of Unapologetically Yours, Ashley Logan shares her raw, unscripted thoughts and experiences about the courage it takes to use your voice when fear tries to silence you, what we're willing to tolerate in our own communities, and how to build connection instead of division in a time when it feels like the world is tearing itself apart.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

A note from Ashley: I spoke from my heart in this episode, without a script, without an agenda. I share in the grief of anyone who was deeply shaken by the killing of Renee Good. I am her. We all are. No one wants to be shot for trying to do the right thing. This is a time that calls for radical introspection about what it means to be a good neighbor, what it means to show up in your community, and what it means to create a country that is safe, accepting, warm, and joyous for our children. I'm afraid of speaking up, but I can't not speak up - because what I'm willing to tolerate here is what I'm willing to tolerate everywhere.

Connect with Ashley:

Instagram @ashleydlogan

Website https://ashleylogan.com/

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: [email protected] 

There comes a moment when your mind can no longer carry what your body has been holding. This episode is an invitation to listen.

In this solo episode of Unapologetically Yours, Ashley Logan shares her personal journey that led her out of chronic overfunctioning and postpartum burnout, and into the world of sound, breathwork, and somatic healing.

This episode isn’t about “fixing” your body or chasing another wellness trend. It’s about listening and learning how to hear your body’s yeses and nos and honoring them, without guilt.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

…and so much more!

A note from Ashley:

If your body has not felt like a safe place to live, I want you to hear this clearly. You are not broken. Disconnection is often a survival strategy, something your system learned because it did not feel safe to stay present. This episode is an invitation to come back gently. Not with another program to perfect and not with more pressure. Just with stillness, listening, and the smallest acts of honoring what your body is already telling you. That is where the shift begins.

Connect with Ashley:

Instagram @ashleydlogan

Website https://ashleylogan.com/

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: [email protected]

Taylor Swift is a living  example of what embodied leadership looks like. This episode is about what happens when a woman trusts her magic and lets the world rise with her.

In this solo episode, Ashley Logan breaks down seven leadership lessons inspired by Taylor Swift and the creation of the iconic Eras Tour. From trusting your vision to leading with grace, gratitude, and unapologetic power, this conversation is a love letter to women who are here to build something meaningful.

Ashley reflects on Taylor’s evolution as a leader, and how her willingness to live, learn, and lead out loud offers a roadmap for entrepreneurs, creatives, and leaders who are done playing small.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

A note from Ashley

Watching the Eras Tour felt like witnessing what happens when feminine leadership is fully embodied. Taylor didn’t shrink. She didn’t apologize. She trusted herself, trusted her people, and set a standard so high that everyone around her rose with her. That’s the kind of leadership that doesn’t just build success - it changes culture. This episode is an invitation to trust your magic, even when no one else fully understands it yet.

Connect with Ashley Logan:

Resources Mentioned:

How much of your life have you spent trying to prove you’re worthy of being here?

In this week’s episode of Unapologetically Yours, I sit down with Meg Sylvester, artist, facilitator, and someone who has been an important mirror and mentor in my life for many years. I have admired Meg since we first met 25 years ago in college, and have watched her continue to grow and shed her skin. 

What I respect most about Meg is her willingness to evolve in public, to release identities, step away from titles, and tell the truth about what it costs to keep performing. She does not position herself above others. She walks beside them. That distinction matters.

After the death of her father, Meg experienced a profound internal shift. Grief stripped away performance and awakened her creative voice in a new way. Not to teach, impress, or lead, but simply to express. In this conversation, we explore what “I am enough” actually means when it is no longer an affirmation, but a lived reality.

Together, we talk about what happens when you stop trying to be impressive, stop needing to be seen a certain way, and start letting yourself exist, without agenda.

In this episode, we talk about:

A note from Ashley:

I wanted to share this conversation because I see so many people, especially women, carrying the quiet pressure to be exceptional in order to be worthy. Meg’s willingness to live without titles or performance challenged me in a way that felt both confronting and freeing. This episode is not about becoming someone new. It is about letting go of what you no longer need to prove. If you have been questioning who you are beyond your roles, your work, or how you are perceived, I hope this conversation helps you come back to yourself with more honesty and less force.

Thank you for being here.

Connect with Meg Sylvester:

Connect with Ashley Logan:

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: [email protected] 

There comes a moment when the life you built stops working - and once you see it, you can’t unsee it. In this solo episode of Unapologetically Yours, host Ashley Logan reflects candidly on her lived experience of navigating a dark night of the soul. This is the moment when burnout, misalignment, and intuition collide… and the truth begins asking for your attention.

Ashley shares how her own spiritual awakening unfolded: the stillness that came before change, the boundaries that protected her truth, and the small, courageous steps that ultimately reshaped her life. She explores what it means to trust yourself when doing so may unravel identities, relationships, and structures that once felt safe.

This episode is for anyone who feels the deep, unsettling knowing that something is no longer aligned, and is learning how to listen without rushing, bypassing, or blowing their life up overnight.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

… and so much more!

It isn’t about fixing your life or making drastic moves. It’s about tuning in and understanding how to stay present throughout all the ups and downs, and learning to trust yourself again.

A Note from Ashley:

I wanted to share this episode with you because I know what it feels like to realize that the life you’re living no longer fits who you are. This episode comes from a very real chapter of my life. A season where I had to slow down enough to listen, brave enough to tell myself the truth, and patient enough to take one small step at a time. There was grief in that process, there was loss, and there was also a deep remembering of who I am beneath the roles, expectations, and rules I had been living by. I hope it stirs something in you, too! Thank you for being here.

Connect with Ashley:

Instagram @ashleydlogan

Website https://ashleylogan.com/

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: [email protected] 

“You got this, mama.” It sounds supportive -  but for so many women, it actually lands as isolating, silencing, and deeply abandoning. In this solo episode of Unapologetically Yours, Ashley Logan unpacks why the “you got this, mama” culture makes her furious, and how it quietly trains women to carry everything alone while disappearing from their own lives.

Ashley speaks candidly about motherhood, burnout, creativity, nervous system regulation, boundaries, and the slow, courageous work of coming home to yourself. She shares personal stories from early motherhood, the moment she realized she had stopped singing to her children, and how reclaiming her creative life became a turning point not just for her - but for her kids.

In this episode, you’ll hear about: 

… and so much more! 

A note from Ashley:

This episode came from a deep frustration with how pressure gets disguised as encouragement. How often women are told “you got this” when what they actually need is support. I keep noticing how much loneliness lives inside that expectation, and how much we lose when we stop asking for help and start carrying everything alone. My hope is that this episode helps you question where pressure has replaced care in your life, and reminds you that strength does not come from doing it all yourself, but from letting yourself be held.

Connect with Ashley:

Instagram @ashleydlogan

Website https://ashleylogan.com/

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: [email protected]

Welcome back to Season 3 of Unapologetically Yours! This is a season that is starting off on the back end of massive transformation: a divorce finalized, a business merger, a beloved nanny’s goodbye, and a woman learning to trust that shedding can be sacred. In this solo season 3 opener, Ashley pulls back the curtain on the endings, beginnings, and wild timing that have reshaped her life over the past few months.  

Ashley Logan is a writer, storyteller, and spiritual wayfinder, as well as an entrepreneur, mother of three, and host of the Unapologetically Yours podcast. She spent years running Yakkety Yak, a Chicago-based content marketing agency that grew to 30+ employees and nearly $4M in revenue, serving purpose-driven brands around the world. After walking through divorce, parenting three young kids, and navigating a major business merger with The David James Agency, Ashley is redefining what leadership, motherhood, and creative work look like on her own terms.  

In this episode, you’ll hear about: 

… and so much more! 

A note from Ashley:

This episode is a love letter to anyone standing at the edge of a big decision. I won’t sugarcoat the chaos - there’s grief, rage, holy exhaustion, and a hundred tiny goodbyes baked into seasons like this. But I’m also noticing the quiet ways I’m being held: the extra toilet paper stacked, the kids’ laughter on weekday afternoons, the way my body exhales when I clear a closet or say no. My hope is that my story gives you permission to trust your own timing, your own body, your own knowing - especially when the path ahead doesn’t look “practical” from the outside.  

Connect with Ashley:

Instagram @ashleydlogan

Website https://ashleylogan.com/

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: [email protected]