Living an Intentional Life Podcast
Welcome to Living an Intentional Life Podcast — a space for women who are remembering their hearts, reclaiming their energy, and creating lives that actually feel like home.
This is a place where you don’t have to perform, push, or prove — a place where you are met in your truth, your tenderness, and your becoming.
I’m your host, Ashley Strong Smith, and I believe that the deepest transformation doesn’t come from doing more — it comes from living with intention and listening more deeply to who you really are.
Each week, I share honest conversations and supportive tools you can gently try on in your own life — invitations to come back to your heart, trust your inner knowing, and create a life that supports your nervous system, your dreams, and your wholeness.
Here, we honor growth that is rooted, not rushed. We honor boundaries, embodiment, and the quiet wisdom of your own heart. You’re not here by accident. You’re here because something in you is ready for more — more truth, more softness, more alignment, more belonging.
So take a breath… and let yourself arrive.
Living an Intentional Life Podcast
Intentional Listening with LD Nicola, Nationally Acclaimed Singer | Episode 132
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Tune into this week's episode of "Living an Intentional Life Podcast" as I have the insane honor of sitting in an intimate conversation with Nationally Acclaimed Singer LD Nicola for a deep dive into "Intentional Listening."
She shares her journey of going absolutely all a dream planted deep within her heart, what has unfolded since making that very decision and all she does on a daily basis to stay connected, committed to and trust in this very dream.
Her voice, is one that creates change. One so angelic and piercing that tears immediately form, chills consume to skin and your heart opens. Listen here - https://www.elleditmusic.com/listen
About LD :
LD Nicola is a nationally acclaimed singer who has performed in over 100 venues in over 40 states, in front of well over 300,000 people. She is a member of the Recording Academy and has released 5 EPs and 2 Singles which she has toured extensively throughout North America.
LD’s classical training began at age 9 in Seattle, Washington as a member of The Northwest Girl Choir with whom she competed nation-wide. She continued her classical training and began studying opera throughout high school and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University where she now sits on the College of Visual and Performing Arts Council.
Steve Wozniak once Tweeted, “Her singing and music put me in heaven” from his balcony seat at her performance at The Chapel in the Mission in San Francisco.
Allen Foster of AXS media, wrote in his review of her first music video release in 2015, “She spins magic from her heart through her lips to create songs that are more powerful than mere words and music.”
LD is an accomplished off-shore sailor of wooden tall ships, a master certificate holder of numerous therapeutic modalities, and seasoned self-sufficient traveling musician.
The soon to be released Elle Dit collaboration with Julie Flanders and Emil Adler if October Project represents a clean break from her earlier solo career in order that the LD persona may emerge as a self-contained and singular voice without predefined origins or expectation.
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