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Shamelessly Ambitious I Helping Ambitious Women Prevent Burnout + Create Nervous System First Success in Business, Motherhood, & Life
Shamelessly Ambitious is an honest, grounding, and vulnerable podcast for ambitious, emotionally intelligent women who are done proving themselves, tired of living in constant high-functioning burnout, and craving a life and business that actually feel good.
Hosted by Ash McDonald—therapist, nervous-system-first business mentor, and speaker this show blends clinical expertise with lived experience to deliver nervous system tools, embodied strategies, and radical permission so you can expand your capacity, root into emotional steadiness, and build sustainable success that supports your whole life.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stretched too thin, caught in productivity guilt, or stuck running on stress, this podcast meets you where you are—with therapeutic insights, embodied practices, and heartfelt stories that create real shifts. Whether you’re navigating motherhood, entrepreneurship, or the messy middle of redefining success, each episode helps you slow down, regulate, and return to a felt sense of safety in your body.
With over a decade of experience at the intersection of therapy and leadership, Ash pulls back the curtain on what really works—offering grounded guidance you can apply in real life.
What you’ll hear:
- Honest conversations about burnout recovery, nervous system regulation, and redefining success
- Somatic tools, meditations, and practices that build inner safety and capacity
- Stories of motherhood, mom-life, ambition, and the courage to create a life and business that feel rich and real
If you’re asking the following questions, you’re in the right place:
- How do I stop tying my worth to productivity?
- How do I know if I’m experiencing high-functioning burnout and what do I do about it?
- How do I balance motherhood and leadership without losing myself?
- How do I calm my body when I feel overwhelmed or overstimulated?
This is the podcast for when you’re ready to reclaim peace, expand what you can hold, and create success that doesn’t cost you yourself. Tune in and take the next step toward a regulated, rooted, and deeply fulfilling life.
Shamelessly Ambitious I Helping Ambitious Women Prevent Burnout + Create Nervous System First Success in Business, Motherhood, & Life
120. My Journey To a Million Dollars
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Ahhh! I freaking did it. I surpassed a million dollars in my business. 💸 The feelings that came up when I sat down to journal about this million-dollar milestone were heavy, in the best & worst ways... 🎧📝
THE JUICY HIGHLIGHTS:
🖤 My million-dollar email
🖤 How I'm celebrating myself
🖤 The many dualities of entrepreneurship
🖤 Creating space for this crazy journey inside Empire Society
THE EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
[0:30] Checking my "million dollar email"
[1:27] Explaining my "roadmap to a million"
[3:15] My husband's and my real-time genuine response to reaching this milestone
[3:44] My solo getaway to the most dreamy Airbnb
[5:30] Deep realization of "you did it!"
[6:40] Owning a business isn't a walk in the park (for me or for you)
[7:21] Telling that voice inside my head to shut up
[7:53] Being the woman who knows I'm here to make a really big impact
[8:11] Wondering if this milestone was even that impressive...
[9:44] Journaling on the best & the worst moments of entrepreneurship
[10:00] Sustainability is built on patience, not by moving too fast or too slow
[12:05] The duality of feeling alone and meeting some of the best people ever
[14:58] Extraordinarily high highs and epically low lows
[16:42] Celebrating myself & also celebrating YOU
[17:58] This journey is crazy, that's why I created the Empire Society
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MORE ABOUT ASH
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) ...