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
Designing a Life That Feels Like Mine: Choosing Alignment, Expansion & Intentional Living with Ali Hanson | Episode 191
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In this conversation, I sit down with Ali Hanson—sustainability consultant, creator of The Mindful Edit, founder of Civic & Soil, and community builder behind Cultivate Carp—to explore what it really means to design a life that feels like your own.
Ali’s journey is one of intentional evolution.
After selling two hospitality businesses, she found herself at a threshold—choosing not certainty, but alignment. Not a predefined path, but expansion. What followed was a deep reconnection to her values and a rebuilding of life and work from the inside out.
We talk about what it means to:
- build businesses rooted in sustainability, mindfulness, and impact
- navigate multi-passionate identity and multiple expressions of self
- choose expansion over certainty—even when it feels unfamiliar
- redesign life through values instead of expectations or performance
- and what it looks like to live more quietly, honestly, and intentionally
Ali also shares her personal journey of support and transformation—from working with coaches and therapists, to stepping into life strategy conversations with her husband that led to a creatively designed life between two places she now calls home.
This is a conversation about letting go of what is “good” to make space for what is aligned. About trusting yourself in transition. And about what becomes possible when you stop trying to fit into a life—and instead begin to design one that fits you.
If you’ve ever felt yourself in a season of becoming, rebuilding, or redefining what success and alignment actually mean… this episode is for you.
ABOUT ALI :
Ali Hanson is a sustainability consultant, content creator, and community builder focused on helping individuals and businesses live and operate more mindfully. After selling her two hospitality businesses, she now works at the intersection of mindful living, business strategy, and environmental impact.
Ali is the founder of The Mindful Edit, a platform dedicated to making sustainable living feel approachable and realistic, and Civic & Soil, a consulting practice that helps hospitality brands streamline operations, reduce waste, and build more intentional, values-driven businesses. She also creates local community experiences through Cultivate Carp in Carpinteria, California.
When she’s not working, you can find her traveling, exploring the local food and wine scene, or dreaming up her next adventure with her husband, Drew, their dog Avocado, and their two cats Buster & Maui.
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