.png)
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
124. Triggering Others, Impulsivity & Never Settling (A Story)
There's been a lot of weird and emotional stuff coming up for me lately. Some stuff I had done a lot of therapeutic work on and thought I'd healed from & other stuff that has happened more recently. If you're on my email list you have an idea from the story I shared about my bio-dad. These situations have caused me to reflect on a lot so this episode is going to get really personal. I hope you can gain some nuggets of wisdom, validation, or normalcy from my vulnerability. ❤️
THE JUICY HIGHLIGHTS:
🖤 Vulnerability creates connection
🖤 Unrelenting in my pursuit of happiness
🖤 Navigating the hurt from relationships ending due to my unwillingness to settle
THE EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
[0:50] The different tiers of content within my business
[2:55] How to stabilize your nervous system when you're going through grief
[3:55] The emotional stuff that's been coming up for me lately
[4:53] Backstory on my childhood & the pessimism I witnessed
[6:00] Making a conscious & subconscious decision to live a life free of struggle
[7:00] The tea on my education journey & the mentor that I adored
[10:05] The pessimism I witnessed has shaped me to be a fighter
[10:30] Impulsively changing everything the second I'm unhappy
[11:28] Deep-seated fear of getting too comfortable
[12:00] My life decisions have made others uncomfortable...
[12:35] Why can't I just be "regular" and be content in the mundane? 😫
[14:02] These decisions have cost me & it hurts
[14:39] I'm not the best friend, but I'm really f*cking loyal
[15:38] You'll never meet someone who cares more about what people think than I do & I hate it
[17:12] Doing whatever it takes to never settle
[17:47] I am NOT loving Texas 😳🫣
[19:54] My greatest challenge in entrepreneurship has been dealing with people judging me
GET SUUUPER VULNERABLE WITH ME
- Join The Email List 💌
- Jump into my All-Inclusive Membership ✨
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.
LIVE OFFERINGS
• 1:1 Mentorship
FREE & LOW TICKET OFFERS
• The Passive Program Suite
CONNECT FURTHER
• The Instagram community sees all the real time updates
• The website has all the current news