Manifesting Miracles: Quantum Leaping Your Success with Ashley Gordon

Ready to manifest some magic and shatter ceilings?  This week on Shattering Ceilings, Lauren and Megan dive deep into the world of manifestation with the badass manifester herself, Ashley Gordon!

Ashley, CEO of The Quantum Coach Co. and founder of Quantum Coaching Academy, breaks down her powerful manifestation techniques that have helped her build a coaching empire and a podcast with over a million downloads!  

In this episode, we unpack: 

• The science behind manifestation and how to harness it.
• Ashley's journey from student to master of personal development.
• Practical tips to align your energy with your biggest dreams.
• How to overcome blocks and quantum leap into your potential.

Whether you're a coach looking to level up or someone ready to manifest their dream life, this conversation is your cosmic cue! Tune in and let's turn those ceiling-shattering dreams into reality! 

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Transcript

SC - Episode 114
[00:00:00] Lauren: Hey everyone. Welcome to the shattering ceilings. It's Lauren 
[00:00:03] Megan: and Megan. And we are here today with another interview. We have Ashley Gordon with us today, who is the quantum coach and the host of the bad ass manifestor podcast. So welcome. Welcome. Thank you for being here. Oh, I'm so excited. Thank you. 
[00:00:20] Lauren: I have been waiting for this interview for so long because I love manifestation number one.
[00:00:26] Lauren: And secondly, I feel like you teach it in a way that. Not a lot of us have heard before, like your definition of it. And just, again, the way you teach it, I'm just so excited to hear more. 
[00:00:37] Ashley: Thank you. I'm so excited to share more. 
[00:00:40] Megan: So we always stop people, stop people off, start people off by having you share a little bit of your story and how you got to where you are.
[00:00:47] Megan: So will you give us just like a little tidbit of how you became the quantum coach? 
[00:00:52] Ashley: Yeah, I would love to. I love how it's like a little tidbit. It's like, how do I filter through a sentence? So [00:01:00] I was, I, I never really knew what I wanted to do when I grew up. Yeah. Right. I would like look at coloring books when I was in preschool and be like, I want to be a princess.
[00:01:07] Ashley: Like I had no idea. And my daughter, 
[00:01:11] Lauren: she wants to be a mermaid. 
[00:01:12] Ashley: So yeah, exactly. I wish there was a mermaid in that book. And so I never had like that. direction. You know how some people are just like, I'm born to be this, or I'm born to be that. I feel like a lot of people just don't know. And that was me.
[00:01:25] Ashley: And so I graduated college with communications and I was very, very lost. I worked in nightclubs. I tried on so many different things. I was like a jack of all trades. My mom would call me. I tried so many different businesses and. My mom was like, you're a jack of all trades, master of none, like figure out your thing and like, do it.
[00:01:43] Lauren: Right. 
[00:01:44] Ashley: Just trying to get me on my path. And 
[00:01:46] Lauren: kind of discouraging though. Not, not, yeah. I mean, she, 
[00:01:49] Ashley: yeah, she was definitely a cheerleader, but also like tough love at times. Right. 
[00:01:53] Lauren: Right. Right. And 
[00:01:54] Ashley: so I I ended up working in real estate and I was working with my boyfriend at the [00:02:00] time and I was just miserable.
[00:02:02] Ashley: I, I, I liked real estate. I was good at real estate, but my work environment was toxic. And so I, I had to leave. It was actually like my my future in laws I was working with. So working with family business to me is just like toxic for some, for me, it was for some others can like deal with it. And it was just like, crushing my soul and I said something has to change and I was in yoga.
[00:02:23] Ashley: I was like really into personal development, always into manifestation, always knew like I'm the creator of my life but I didn't know how to apply it to like bigger things like my purpose and my calling and all of that. I was always like, Let me manifest free drinks at the bar. Let me manifest a parking spot or like, let me manifest.
[00:02:40] Ashley: I wanted a Mac book one time and I was like, I'm determined to manifest a Mac book, manifested the money for a Mac book, whatever, all of that. But I never knew I could do it for like something bigger. You know, 
[00:02:50] Lauren: that's where a lot of us get hung up, you know, like you hear about it, you have an idea kind of what it is, but how to apply it is where most of us are getting hung up.
[00:02:59] Ashley: Totally. [00:03:00] Absolutely. And I just started like asking the universe, What is my purpose? Why am I here? Show me. I was asking for signs. Please show me like what my next step is, what my next move is. And that's when it occurred to me that coaching could be a thing. And I was at a wedding and I was on the dance floor.
[00:03:19] Ashley: I was a little tipsy and it, it, It just like this girl that I had talked to previously. I had a conversation with her at the bachelor party. I saw her and she was just glowing, radiating. And I was like, Carly just drunk on the dance. I was like, girl, you look amazing. And she was like, Ashley, you changed my life.
[00:03:38] Ashley: And it was like the whole party just like froze. And I turned to my husband and I was like, Holy shit. I think I'm supposed to be a life coach. And I didn't know if that was a thing. I didn't know if you could make money doing that. I always, like I said, love manifestation would show everyone and their mom the movie The Secret.
[00:03:55] Ashley: Have you guys watched The Secret? Oh yeah. Of course. Yeah. Of course. Like we all have it memorized. [00:04:00] And I would like gather people in my room and like show them The Secret and like make sure that they understood like how they could use the power of their mind and blah blah blah. And so I was always into it but never thought I could make a business out of it.
[00:04:12] Ashley: And it all started to fall into place. But it was like that very divine moment of like this is what you're supposed to do. And it just clicked. And I started taking steps to like figure out how to become a coach. And, and then the whole world of online business opened up to me and I was like, holy shit, people are making millions of dollars and they're helping so many people.
[00:04:33] Ashley: And I want to do this. And so I dedicated, like that was it. I went all in, I invested in coaches and programs and this and that, like I spent so much money. getting myself, you know, the skillset to be able to really help people. And that's kind of how the journey started. That was in 20, 20, 15, 2015 was when I had the download.
[00:04:57] Ashley: And then it really wasn't until [00:05:00] 2017 that I was brave enough to like go all in on that. So it took me two years dragging my feet thinking I ended up quitting real estate. But in those two years, I worked at the front desk of my yoga studio making 10 an hour. And I would start to record content that I wouldn't share with anyone.
[00:05:19] Ashley: I was just, like, pretending to do this thing. And it took me two years, because I was so afraid to be seen, to work up the courage to start putting myself out there and saying, I'm a life coach. I'm a manifestation coach. I can help you. 
[00:05:33] Lauren: Right. So What do you think it was that held you back during those two?
[00:05:37] Lauren: It was the fear of being seen. It was the fear 
[00:05:39] Ashley: of being seen, fear of rejection of what people thought of me. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be accepted. And at the time, like putting yourself on the internet wasn't really, like now it's like weird if you don't put yourself on the internet. 
[00:05:52] Lauren: I love that thought because there's still people that think it's weird.
[00:05:56] Lauren: I 
[00:05:56] Ashley: know. I know. I know. And [00:06:00] ultimately, ultimately, In my many, like, journaling sessions, I remember writing, like, You know what, what happens if you don't do this? Mm. What happens if you don't do this? Yeah. And how, how, how would that impact you? And what are the consequences that would have on you, but also all the people that you're not gonna help?
[00:06:20] Ashley: Because at that point I knew, like I was there and I always felt like I had a bigger, I feel like all of us had that sense of like, we're here to do big things and like Mm-Hmm. , you know, most of the time people are sitting at their nine to five jobs sitting at their desk being like, this ain't it. Yeah.
[00:06:33] Ashley: You know? So. So do you think that was like 
[00:06:35] Lauren: your big shift? Was like That was my big shift. Was 
[00:06:39] Ashley: like Yeah, and like I was so self conscious at that time like if I had a pimple I didn't want to like go online I didn't want to share, you know what I mean? Like I was like I have to like, you know, but I remember even like at that time I got this huge zit like in the middle of my forehead.
[00:06:55] Ashley: It was so massive. I looked like a unicorn and I was like, you [00:07:00] know what? I'm going live today I would like challenge myself and I'd be like Listen, I'm coming to you with unicorn powers right now. And I like played into it. And I just kind of got really flat with being seen and, and was like, you know what?
[00:07:14] Ashley: If people are going to reject me for putting myself out there, they're going to judge me. Like I have no control over that and I'm going to, I'm not here for them. I'm here for the people that I'm meant to help. And that really was like the big turning point. Yeah. And there's so much more that happened from, from that, from going all in till now of like, you know, how many years later from 2000, really 18 to now.
[00:07:36] Ashley: But that was that was the beautiful 
[00:07:38] Megan: cliff notes. Yeah. Long cliff notes. I love that. Okay. So I want to get into how you teach manifestation, but something that I'm really curious about like I know for myself personally, manifesting that perfect parking spot, little things like that. It feels so like, I don't even think about it.
[00:07:56] Megan: I'm like, Oh, I'm going to target the parking spots going to be there, right? It's always [00:08:00] there. But like, what was that first big manifestation for you? That was like conscious, like I am manifesting this, 
[00:08:07] Ashley: like, 
[00:08:08] Megan: was it the business or was there something that happened before that kind of like fueled? 
[00:08:12] Ashley: Oh, yeah, well.
[00:08:15] Ashley: It's funny because I, I first thought you said unconscious because it was a reflection that I started to, I don't know if you too, like realize like when you look back when I was in high school, I remember I wanted a TV in my room, just wanted a TV in my room so bad. I wanted, I had a TV. I wanted a flat screen TV on my wall and I would just imagine, watch, I loved watching TV in high school.
[00:08:38] Ashley: I was just sleeping all the time, laying in bed, watching TV. And so I just imagined that TV on my wall constantly just because I wanted it so badly. It was like a natural feeling of like, Oh, I just want this. I want this. And then it happened. And looking back, like I remember thinking about the TV on my wall and like, remember the Mary Kate and Ashley movie where they went to like, the Bahamas.
[00:08:59] Ashley: Yes. [00:09:00] Remember that? 
[00:09:00] Lauren: I don't. Okay. 
[00:09:02] Ashley: Well, I remember watching that movie when I was 14 and being like, I want to go to the Atlantis. I wanted to go down that water slide. And then I went onto the Atlantis. So I started putting the thing, putting everything together. And when I first watched The Secret, I had just gotten out of a very toxic relationship.
[00:09:18] Ashley: Like, super fucking toxic, and I was like, oh my god, I was starting to understand why I manifested that relationship. So consciously, I would say that the first, like, very conscious, deliberate thing that I manifested was an apartment. 
[00:09:32] Megan: Mmm. How was like a conscious manifestation and not like, 
[00:09:36] Ashley: Hmm. 
[00:09:39] Megan: Because I think, at least for me, that's where I struggle, right?
[00:09:41] Megan: Is it like, did I manifest this or is this just life happening and I'm putting meaning into something that I'm not? Maybe that's my own internal dialogue. 
[00:09:48] Ashley: I believe everything's a manifestation. So whether it's conscious or unconscious, so like 
[00:09:55] Lauren: a mirror, life is a mirror. Everything, everything 
[00:09:58] Ashley: is like directly mirroring you all [00:10:00] times.
[00:10:00] Ashley: Like when you're, when you're at a, when you're at target walking down the aisles and you're like thinking about something and then a song comes on, it's like mirroring your thoughts sometimes you're like, right? Like everything is reflecting you constantly. 
[00:10:12] Lauren: Yeah. And that sends me on like another tangent too.
[00:10:14] Lauren: It's like, well, then is that the sign or is that the answer or is that just you? 
[00:10:21] Ashley: And the universe is like, I'm whatever you want me to be, baby. Yeah. 
[00:10:25] Lauren: Right. That's where it gets like, 
[00:10:28] Ashley: yeah, I think, I think the apartment was really conscious because I, it was like out of like, desperate, I don't know. I was just like, I need an apartment.
[00:10:38] Ashley: And then it just showed I got the, you know why? Because I was getting into the habit of asking, right. Ask and you shall receive. Yeah. Right. Being more intentional and deliberate in what you're asking for. I remember just like getting out of that toxic relationship and I was living across the street at my dad's house and we, like, I was neighbors with my ex boyfriend [00:11:00] and I was like, I gotta get the fuck out of here.
[00:11:03] Ashley: And so I was just like, please universe, I need an apartment. I was looking on, you know, it taking inspired action. I was looking on you know, websites and stuff like that. And then the next day I went to a salad place where we live in Margate and the, it just opened up. And. The person I was with, I was telling them a story about how I need to move.
[00:11:21] Ashley: And I'm asking, I'm really wanting an apartment. And she goes to the guy, do you have any apartments? Like the salad, like this, the salad's great, but do you have any apartments out of nowhere? And he was like, actually follow me the next day. 
[00:11:33] Lauren: What? 
[00:11:33] Ashley: Wow. He takes me upstairs to this one bedroom apartment in like the hot spot and down where I live.
[00:11:40] Ashley: And. Like, where all the cool places are, the bars, everything. And he's like, it's 1, 500 for the summer. What? In Market? Yeah. And then, I ended up living there for three years, and because I lived there, my husband, my, I didn't know it at the time, my future husband was working in real estate [00:12:00] on that street.
[00:12:01] Ashley: Literally, like, below me. Like, the apartment, like, the apartment was above a surf shop, and the next door was a hair salon, and then the real estate office. 
[00:12:10] Lauren: That's crazy.
[00:12:14] Megan: So, okay. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Now breaking into that a little bit like Laura mentioned earlier that you teach manifestation in a different way and you think of it differently than a lot of these other coaches. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Like if you had someone that was like, I want to learn how to manifest.
[00:12:31] Ashley: Yeah. 
[00:12:31] Megan: How would you get them started? 
[00:12:33] Ashley: That's a good question. I think there's a couple, there's a couple sides to it. So one You have to get really clear on what you want, obviously. Like, I think that's just like, yeah, what do you want? And when you ask for what you want, you have to ask yourself, who do I need to become in order to receive that?
[00:12:52] Ashley: And the embodiment piece, I think, is what's missing in manifestation where a lot of people are in their head and they're like thinking about what they want. They're thinking, [00:13:00] thinking, thinking, thinking, but it's really about being, it's really about embodying that version of you. And so like, yeah. If I was to put an example to it, if you think about the version of me who wanted to have an impact and create a business, she started thinking about what would happen if I didn't do this.
[00:13:17] Ashley: I need to step into this. I'm ready to step into this, getting to be that version of myself who was ready to step into it. And as soon as I started acting like the version of myself, who was ready for that thing, realizing what this was all about, then things started to fall into place. So that's just a, like a little example for that.
[00:13:35] Ashley: But what I teach in manifestation, my framework is release, rewire, receive, right? Because we, everything that we could possibly want is circling around us at all times. So like, I believe that we are in the quantum field right now. And in the quantum field, every single possible potential reality already exists.
[00:13:59] Ashley: So [00:14:00] we are in one reality. And then there's another reality parallel to us. That has us with the car that we want, or us with the partner that we want, or us with the job that we want, or the business that we want. And so, I believe that everything is possible. At all times. And so, you have to have that mindset when you're manifesting.
[00:14:18] Lauren: You 
[00:14:19] Ashley: gotta have that belief that everything is possible. And like, if you think about parallel realities, think about a TV, and how we have like all those channels, and all those channels are existing at one time. Just like imagine all of those channels right now. Mm. You know, we're just tuning in to this channel in this moment.
[00:14:35] Ashley: So we're tuned into this because this is exactly our frequency. This is our energy. This is our belief system. This is our thoughts. This is what we believe is possible. This is our capacity. If I want to jump timelines, quantum leaping, right? If I want to jump into a different version of myself, a different timeline, I, I teach my students and I teach my coaches that we train to, to [00:15:00] ask yourself or your clients, like, what do I need to let go of from who I am right now to become Who I'm meant to be.
[00:15:08] Ashley: So the release part is really important because when we're manifesting, I think a lot of people teach, like, just focus on the good or focus on affirmations and affirmations will create that reality. And I believe in affirmations, but I don't think that affirmations will make much of a difference if you're not actively like releasing the things that are holding you back.
[00:15:29] Ashley: What is the limiting identity that you're holding onto? Most people don't believe they're good enough. Most people don't believe they're worthy. Most people don't believe that they they can be successful or they're, they have fear of success or they're not lovable. And all of these things are generational.
[00:15:47] Ashley: Or past life patterns that we that we have in this life and it's part of our journey and our theme here to release those old lineage patterns and programming to be able [00:16:00] to rewire ourselves to receive. So once we release. And we let go of a limiting story, like the story of, you know, I was afraid to be rejected.
[00:16:11] Ashley: I was afraid to be seen because I wanted to be liked or I didn't want to be embarrassed, right? Like in high school, I tried out for, I transferred from a private school to a public school and it was traumatic for me. And I remember, like, in the private school, I was the lead in the school play, and I was starting on the basketball team, and I ran track, and I did all these things.
[00:16:31] Ashley: I was shining, right, at that school. Then when I transferred, I became like a nobody. I wasn't cool. I didn't make the play. I didn't make the basketball team. And I made that mean that I wasn't good enough. And I actually manifested an illness, like thyroid illness, like a actually, it wasn't thyroid at the time.
[00:16:51] Ashley: It was Epstein Barr. Okay. And I stayed home from school a lot because I was embarrassed. Like it was actually [00:17:00] protecting me from embarrassment. But like, The things that hold us back are protecting us in some shape, way, or form. They're serving us to some degree. And so this is where like life coaching comes in.
[00:17:12] Ashley: We're like, get yourself a coach to do this deep work with someone, because this is how you're going to become the version of you that can receive more. So once you release that, then you rewire it, you rewire the energy to work for you instead of against you. Because when you energy, it can't be created or destroyed.
[00:17:30] Ashley: But it can be reprogrammed. And so our subconscious mind is programmed to believe I'm not good enough to protect me from embarrassment. So how am I going to rewire that? I released it. Now, how am I going to get that energy to work for me instead of against me? Does that make sense? And then once you release and rewire, inevitably you receive, inevitably you're going to just have a new reality, [00:18:00] something's going to shift, something's going to happen, opportunities are going to flow because you're at a new frequency, you're at a new vibration, you're, you're a different person, your energy is completely different.
[00:18:11] Ashley: And it's interesting what happens when we are doing this work because that's when manifestation feels really effortless, like you were saying, because. It is because manifestation is just, it's, it is the way life is. It's not something we have to achieve necessarily, or like focus really hard on to create.
[00:18:29] Ashley: It's more about the shedding and the becoming. 
[00:18:35] Megan: So I have a question about that. Sorry, Larry, did you wanna ask something? 
[00:18:37] Lauren: No, go ahead. 
[00:18:38] Megan: Okay. So I understand the release and the rewire, my question, I guess, lies in like release doesn't look like I'm never gonna have these feelings anymore, right? Because you still have them.
[00:18:53] Megan: It's the way that you navigate through them. Hundred percent. Okay. Because I mean, those things still come up, [00:19:00] right? All the time for me. You even, yeah, all the time. 
[00:19:02] Ashley: All the time. Yes. I'm so glad you said that. Yes, and and I do different things now to release emotions like the embodiment piece of like if I'm feeling a certain way, I'm like, Oh, I'm really feeling like not good enough right now.
[00:19:14] Ashley: Like, Oh, that something pinged me and I'm just like in that sensation. I can recognize it as a sensation and I can move it through my body. So releasing also can look like. You know, for me, like getting on my yoga mat and just like moving my body in any shape, way or form and like letting the energy like move through me, or maybe it's breath work, or maybe it's just like opening up my chest and toning like, and just be like, ah, you know, just anything to like allow thematic stuff, thematic work.
[00:19:42] Ashley: Yeah. 
[00:19:43] Megan: Yeah. So interesting. I wonder, so I was thinking about this the other day. With when we're kids, we have all these little things, right? All the kids have their little things. Maybe one really loves vocal toning, or you have a kid. My kid loves to run and jump and flip off of literally [00:20:00] anything he can find a solid surface, right?
[00:20:02] Megan: Underneath that, that's That kind of our way of taking care and regulating ourselves and getting ourselves through those, like those emotions that pop up. So, have you found it to be helpful in your work to have people kind of look back to like, how did you take care of yourself as a little, what are those little things that your parents told you to stop doing in public because it wasn't socially acceptable or It was annoying to them, right?
[00:20:22] Megan: Because you're running around and swinging your arms everywhere and screaming as loud as you can. Does that take part in how we, like how you teach people how to find what works for them, I guess, because what's going to work is going to be different, right? A hundred percent. 
[00:20:35] Ashley: Yeah. Like I like to call that getting back to your naturalness and tuning into your inner child.
[00:20:42] Ashley: Like what does your inner child need right now? My inner child needs to like, go run at the playground, you know, or my inner child needs to, you know, Jump off of a, like, jump off of a couch and onto a trampoline or, you know what I mean? Like, what, what it, what felt natural to you back then to, to do? And sometimes it's hard for people to access that because they kind of block it [00:21:00] out.
[00:21:00] Ashley: And sometimes it's really easy for them to. To get to it. Yeah, it's really good. 
[00:21:07] Megan: I love 
[00:21:07] Ashley: that. 
[00:21:08] Megan: Thanks. Yeah, I just read it through my mind. Love it. 
[00:21:12] Lauren: I think the embodiment piece I think is it can be difficult to because I think a lot of people including myself sometimes go to that the whole like you have to become her.
[00:21:21] Lauren: Right. And it feels like. Inauthentic, right? Like sometimes because you're not there yet. And it's like, well, how can I pretend to be that person? Especially if it's like a bigger manifestation, right? A bigger goal. And it's like, but I, Can't necessarily walk around being heard. Okay. 
[00:21:42] Ashley: I think this is a good, really great point because I think a lot of people can get hung up in their head on that one too.
[00:21:49] Lauren: And very heady person. I'm trying to harness it down further, but 
[00:21:53] Ashley: Oh my gosh, I feel you. It's not necessarily about walking around like you are that [00:22:00] person. It's for me, what works is what does that version of you feel like. On a consistent basis. So it can be, let's just say that you want to manifest a hundred K months.
[00:22:16] Ashley: Okay, how do you become right? How do you become that version? The numbers arbitrary, everybody listening, whatever you want to manifest. But how do you become that version of you? Right? Because the version of you that's manifesting a hundred K months maybe has, maybe doesn't have to clean your house as much because somebody else is doing it for you and maybe doesn't have.
[00:22:35] Ashley: So you're like, I don't know how to become that because I'm not there yet. I'm not there yet. I'm not there yet. You don't want to get caught up in the, I'm not there yet. So what I have my clients do is put that number in their body, right? And I, what I mean is like, really like bringing that feeling, that sensation of what, what is a hundred K months feel like?
[00:22:57] Ashley: It feels supportive. It [00:23:00] feels peaceful. It feels generous. It feels abundant. It feels overflowing. Those are sensations you can tap into, right? Yeah. That feeling of overflow. Like, tap into that right now. Everyone listening, just feel the feeling in your body right now. Breathing in overflow and imagining like a, a beautiful, like, water overflowing within you.
[00:23:27] Ashley: Like, this abundant energy just pouring. You can pour so freely. Overflow. Feels like prosperity. Feels like, what does it feel like to you? Ease. ease. Yeah, that's it. And when you feel that more, that's when you will attract That into your life because it's, we're a feeling universe. It's not, it's not a thinking universe, it's a feeling [00:24:00] universe and like it creates the coherence between the brain and the heart.
[00:24:04] Ashley: And I find that when my desires come from my heart and they're in my body, like down here is when things happen so much more effortlessly. And I don't have to focus on, I am wealthy, I am wealthy, I am wealthy, because I'm feeling wealthy now, and that's the point, is like the feeling now, and that's, you emanating that energy, is what's gonna pull it in.
[00:24:30] Lauren: I love that. And I feel like that's simple, you know, remembering to do it and feel it, especially when life is life. And, you know, 
[00:24:40] Ashley: it's a dedication, right? Like it's a dedication to yourself and to your practice. And the thing is, is like, I, I, I forgot to do it too. And like, when I sit down and I actually like focus my energy on those feelings.
[00:24:55] Ashley: And then after, the after effects of it, I'm like, I don't know, this is, this does make life [00:25:00] easier, actually. 
[00:25:01] Megan: Mm hmm. Like a lot 
[00:25:01] Ashley: easier. Yeah. It's 
[00:25:03] Megan: wild. I'm, it's, oh, okay, I love this so much. Where my brain is right now is like thinking of the person that works a nine to five, right? And maybe they want to manifest a new job or a new role, whatever it is.
[00:25:16] Megan: But they, we're still cleaning our house. We don't have 50 hours a week of child free time to be creating our new business and hiring coaches and all those things. It's bringing that feeling to everything you do. I'm cleaning the house today and I'm cleaning the house from this place of ease and abundance and flow.
[00:25:35] Megan: Like, this is how it would feel if I was cleaning my toilets if I was having 100, 000 a month. 
[00:25:40] Ashley: Yeah, I was. That's such a good point. I just recorded an episode on my podcast with this woman who I love and she has a membership. It's called anything but average and her whole thing is like anything but average.
[00:25:51] Ashley: And I was asking her like, how do you access that when you feel so average in your life? And she told her story and she was like, you know, I, [00:26:00] I had my nine to five job. I was, you know, everything that you're saying. And she's like, but I felt different, right? My life was the same, but I felt different about my life.
[00:26:12] Ashley: And you have to care enough about yourself to feel different about your life. If you really want your life to change, you got to care about yourself. If that makes sense. 
[00:26:24] Megan: Yeah, I think it's really easy on the good days to like feel that like, 
[00:26:28] Lauren: sure, 
[00:26:29] Megan: I work a regular job. And so on the days that things are going well, maybe I teach a really nice class or something.
[00:26:34] Megan: It's so easy to step into that feeling of like, Oh, I'm so empowered. This is getting me where I want to go, right? This is part of me moving into my next chapter, whatever. And then those tougher days, maybe the kids wake up screaming and crying. And you're like, Oh my gosh, what is my life? What is parenting?
[00:26:49] Megan: We forget to practice. 
[00:26:51] Ashley: So it's the 
[00:26:52] Megan: practicing with consistency, even through those days, right? Just like gratitude or anything else. It's like carrying that feeling through even the moments where we don't necessarily [00:27:00] feel it. 
[00:27:01] Ashley: Totally. I once had a coach tell me like, you got like, it's, it's, it's the practices on the good, on the good days and the bad days.
[00:27:08] Ashley: And a lot of times when it's a good day, you feel like you don't need to practice. It's more so when I feel like shit, then I'm like, I got, I got to get back in my practice. Right. But when I'm feeling good, I'm like, Oh, I don't need to sit down and manifest. Everything's going well. You know what I mean? But it is like the mindset on the good days and the bad days, the consistency, like you were saying.
[00:27:26] Ashley: Yeah. Yeah. And it doesn't 
[00:27:27] Megan: mean we necessarily change all of our habits. Right? Like you don't have to all of a sudden be doing the, the miracle morning and working out seven days a week, eating perfectly clean. It's just who you are and everything that you do. 
[00:27:40] Lauren: Right. I think that's one thing that we talked about, Ashley, before when you and I spoke was there's this idea, and I feel the pressure of this sometimes that, again, like what Megan's saying, everything has to be perfect and to be completely aligned for manifestation to take place because that's even something too, I've heard more recently from a friend, like, you [00:28:00] know, is how you're being in alignment with who you want to be.
[00:28:03] Lauren: And I'm like, Well, no, not everything is. And then I feel almost like guilty or like, almost like super vigilant of behavior or thoughts. And I'm like, well, I don't, that's not who I want to be. So like, I can't, you know 
[00:28:17] Megan: what I mean? That brings in more guilt and 
[00:28:20] Lauren: shame. And then I'm like feeling that, yeah, that pressure, that guilt of like, you know, that I almost like, I can't make mistakes, you know?
[00:28:29] Ashley: Yeah. And, and I, I just want to give you permission that like. Manifesting your life and like manifestation in general is so not about being perfect. It's so not because it's, it's on those bad days or those negative feeling times that that's where all the gold is. That's where you, that's what you have to lean into.
[00:28:50] Ashley: It's not like, don't feel bad or don't have a shitty day or don't be, don't have an attitude or don't yell at your kid. Like whatever, like it's. You can still be [00:29:00] yourself and feel all of your feelings. Like I used to think that manifestation was the same as you. Like I have to put my rose colored glasses on.
[00:29:07] Ashley: I'm good all the time. Everything's great. But I found that things happened faster for me when I was Honoring my truth, whatever my truth was in the moment. So if I'm pissed off, I'm like, I'm pissed off right now. And this is my truth. And that's part of the release process too, where it's like, we're not pushing it down.
[00:29:25] Ashley: We're actually being authentic. Authenticity is like one of the highest vibrations in the universe. Yeah. So if we can honor our authenticity in the moment and be like, yeah, this feeling right now, whatever it is, is my truth right now. I'm in my truth. I'm in my truth. Whenever you're in your truth, you're in alignment.
[00:29:45] Lauren: I love that. 
[00:29:46] Ashley: Thank you. 
[00:29:47] Lauren: That was, that was the permission that I absolutely needed. I love that. 
[00:29:51] Ashley: Just honoring your truth. It makes me emotional, actually, because, like, it took me a really long time to get that, and I resisted it for so long, [00:30:00] in so many ways, and, like, now I love it. I, like, lean into it all the time, and, like, this is my truth, and this is, like, my somatic practice right now, and, like, I just get to be with this, and, like, then I can shift it so much quicker.
[00:30:12] Megan: Yeah. 
[00:30:14] Ashley: Yeah. 
[00:30:14] Megan: I love that. We were doing an interview a couple weeks ago where the, the topic came up of like how your spiritual practices can kind of become like checking off a box. Yeah. And I love that what you just said of like, okay, this is where I am right now. Like this is, this is my somatic practice right now.
[00:30:29] Megan: Cause this is the body that I'm in at this moment. And it makes it more of like, At least for me, I feel like that, that feels way more in tune with like, here I am, here's what I need right now to support myself instead of like, every day I do these things no matter what. 
[00:30:44] Ashley: Mine never looks the same. Ever.
[00:30:47] Ashley: Never has. 
[00:30:47] Megan: You just wake up and it's how you're feeling is what guys do. It's whatever I need. If I 
[00:30:51] Ashley: need a workout, I do do a workout. If I need a meditation, I need a meditation. If I need to like dance it out, I dance it out. Like, 
[00:30:57] Lauren: yeah. 
[00:30:58] Ashley: Lately it's been a lot of dancing , [00:31:00] 
[00:31:00] Lauren: you told me that too, a couple months ago.
[00:31:02] Lauren: Like you were like, are you dancing? And I'm like, yeah, like do your, it's not as much as I would want to, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Because I do love the dance. We gotta go out to dance, but no, 
[00:31:12] Megan: no. Mm-Hmm. . Yeah. Ooh. You know, I've been dancing in my shower a lot lately. Maybe that's too mind, but like, ooh, shower, you know, I always put on good music and before I go in and I'd get into my mind, I'm like, this is where I can think creatively.
[00:31:23] Megan: Right? Yeah. Like, this is what I do in the shower. But lately it's like I feel congested through like my middle right. And so moving and flowing has just felt so good. And it is so, you feel so good when you get outta the shower or whatever, if you just let yourself dance a little bit. 
[00:31:37] Ashley: It's so true. 
[00:31:39] Lauren: And then there's that water element too, right?
[00:31:41] Lauren: Yeah. Yeah. 
[00:31:42] Ashley: Yeah. So much flow. And then like, also like being naked, right? With your body and just like loving on your body, you know? 
[00:31:49] Megan: Yeah. Really, really practicing like deep self love. 
[00:31:53] Ashley: Mm hmm. That's good. Yeah. Well, 
[00:31:55] Megan: that's it. I add new elements of fun to my shower dances. 
[00:31:58] Ashley: [00:32:00] Yeah, exactly. Like, before, this is so weird.
[00:32:04] Ashley: That might be a 
[00:32:04] Lauren: spicy clip right there, Meg. 
[00:32:07] Ashley: Before I had a baby, I was, like, in the shower and I would just, like, grab my boobs and I'd be like, Thank you for filling with milk. Like, thank you so much. Like, because breastfeeding is such a wild card, you know? Yeah. And I would just, like, talk to my boobs. Can you hear him?
[00:32:22] Ashley: He's crying. It's okay. He'll be, he'll survive it. We'll all survive it. 
[00:32:29] Lauren: He heard the milk in the boobs. He's like, mom, you're calling me. Right. I 
[00:32:33] Ashley: think you're calling me. 
[00:32:36] Megan: So I have a question that kind of takes us off of the topic that we are. We have, I know we're short on time. So we have one question we always ask, but there's just one more that I want to ask.
[00:32:47] Megan: Because I feel like personal development can kind of, encompass a lot of our time and become like a major focus. Is there anything outside of like your business and your, like your personal growth practice that [00:33:00] you do that you're passionate about? 
[00:33:02] Ashley: Yeah, I love this question. I, I've been, it's interesting because I feel like for a long time, I put my social life on hold to like build my business.
[00:33:12] Ashley: And like now I, I love like being with people. I love being with friends. I love going out. I love socialization. That's just my personality. So like, that's something that I brought back in. And then also I've been dance lessons. And that's something that It's like a hobby, right? Like I want to take on more hobbies.
[00:33:31] Ashley: So the dance lessons have been awesome and like very transformational and like a new challenge. And I think getting away from just doing my business and just being mine and like, you know, being like breaking out of, you know, the, the day, the day to day, having a hobby. I've taken like guitar lessons before just taking, taking, you know, Different things that I thought I'd be interested in and actually pursuing [00:34:00] them has been really, really fun.
[00:34:01] Ashley: Plus I also love traveling, which is like a whole nother thing. But yeah, I don't know if that answers your question. 
[00:34:06] Megan: No, absolutely. Absolutely. 
[00:34:08] Lauren: Yeah. What about you? Creativity piece in there, you know, opens things up. I feel like. Right. And yeah. Also too, like when you're trying something new, like you're learning something, it's kind of like that.
[00:34:19] Lauren: That dance between like success and, and making mistakes and, you know, like you're totally open. You're more open. 
[00:34:26] Ashley: Yes. More fun. Like, I just want to have fun. 
[00:34:29] Lauren: Yeah. Yeah. You know, when I'm in the energy 
[00:34:32] Ashley: of fun, I'm just, everything is easier. Like when I was on vacation recently in the summer, I like made so much money.
[00:34:41] Ashley: And I was looking at my like statements and I was like, wow, like I'm barely, I'm like not working right now. And it was just the energy. It was the energy that I was in. It was the energy. I was like, I need to go on vacation more. 
[00:34:55] Lauren: You're not the first person that I've heard say that, to be honest. Like I've heard a lot of coaches [00:35:00] and just entrepreneurs in general say that they have made more money on vacation than.
[00:35:04] Lauren: Yeah, like my 
[00:35:05] Ashley: husband to like he was selling houses from from Greece and I was like, this is epic. Like, we need to go on more vacations. This is this is a sign. 
[00:35:12] Lauren: I think it's a proof that it's proof to that, like, hey, I can do this and shit is going to like crumble away. Right? I think 
[00:35:19] Megan: that says a lot about like how grounded you can be in that feeling of abundance, right?
[00:35:23] Megan: Even if we're not in activity all of the time, and every spare moment that we have, like, Being able to enjoy yourself on vacation and do the things that you love, be with your family. Like that is it, right? That is embodiment of it. 
[00:35:35] Ashley: Totally. And I don't think I always felt that way. I think as I was, I think there's different stages of like your entrepreneurship journey of like, you know, when you're building and you're growing, like growing and scaling, like there's just different stages where you feel differently about things, but.
[00:35:49] Ashley: It feels good to be in this spot for sure. 
[00:35:53] Megan: We have that to look forward to. Well, we do want to, we want to be respectful of your time, but we have one last question. Laura, you want [00:36:00] to ask it? 
[00:36:00] Lauren: Sure. So, you know, the name of our podcast is Shattering Ceilings, and we love to talk about just, it could be.
[00:36:07] Lauren: Different for everybody is different for everybody like the personal ceilings that you are shattering in your own life And so you obviously have shattered so many but what are you currently working on right now in your life? What are you what limitations are you shattering? What kind of ceilings are you shattering right now?
[00:36:24] Ashley: Oh, that's such a good question. Right now I am shattering the ceiling of trading my time for money, like completely shattering it. And yeah. And it feels really good. 
[00:36:40] Megan: Yeah. 
[00:36:41] Ashley: Yeah. 
[00:36:42] Megan: Did you still feel like you were trading time for money even now? 
[00:36:46] Ashley: There's times where I do like there's days where I do and days where I don't. But yeah, I feel like I'm, I'm like, like getting there.
[00:36:53] Ashley: You know what I mean? Like really getting there and It's like a little scary [00:37:00] because I always feel like I have to be doing something, you know, got to be working. Yeah. So 
[00:37:07] Lauren: limitation that you're getting rid of right now. Like that, yeah, that's 
[00:37:09] Ashley: something that I've been working on and releasing and like fully being supported by.
[00:37:14] Ashley: My team was amazing and like very supportive and yeah, 
[00:37:20] Megan: that sounds lovely. I would love to have like follow up on that question. See how you feel about it in three to six months. Yeah. I mean, especially because 
[00:37:27] Lauren: what happens in the meantime too, when you finally say, 
[00:37:30] Ashley: yeah, I also want to want to get pregnant again soon.
[00:37:33] Ashley: So you know, I want another maternity leave and that means like stepping away. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Ooh. 
[00:37:42] Megan: I love that. Thank you for sharing that. Yeah. This is fun. 
[00:37:46] Ashley: So fun. Thank you. 
[00:37:48] Lauren: Thank you so much for coming on and sharing. So I, I took notes. Oh, you're so 
[00:37:52] Ashley: sweet. 
[00:37:53] Lauren: Yeah. I know. I'm like, I am putting this into practice.
[00:37:56] Lauren: I'm going to start as soon as we get off of here. 
[00:37:59] Ashley: Yeah. [00:38:00] Same. That's happening into the feelings. That's everyone's homework. Listening 
[00:38:04] Lauren: and dance naked, maybe definitely naked. Definitely. Well, thank you. You are 
[00:38:11] Ashley: amazing. Thank you. 
[00:38:14] Lauren: Yeah. Oh, where can we find you? That's a good question. 
[00:38:18] Ashley: So I am on Instagram at the quantum dot coach.
[00:38:20] Ashley: And yeah, if anyone's interested in becoming a life coach or has ever thought about it, I have a free training that I can gift to everyone. It's called become the dream coach. So if I can give you all the link and if you want to put it in the show notes, anyone listening, feel free to watch it. If you're curious about.
[00:38:39] Ashley: This coach life. And I didn't get to finish my story because we kind of like went on another track, but from becoming a life coach to starting the business coaching. Now I train coaches to become coaches. I have quantum coaching Academy, which is a coaching certification program. And that is my like main, that is my business.
[00:38:56] Ashley: That is what we do. 
[00:38:57] Lauren: You are blowing that up. I [00:39:00] know you shattered last sessions record and I'm sure you are currently shattering this one. 
[00:39:06] Ashley: Thank you. It's been awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So come hang out with me. And my website is the quantum. co literally the quantum. coach and our website is the quantumcoachco.
[00:39:16] Ashley: com. So hang out. Thank you. 
[00:39:20] Lauren: All right. We'll see you guys.