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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 McDonaldâtherapist, 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 youâre feeling overwhelmed, stretched too thin, caught in productivity guilt, or stuck running on stress, this podcast meets you where you areâwith therapeutic insights, embodied practices, and heartfelt stories that create real shifts. Whether youâre 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 worksâoffering grounded guidance you can apply in real life.
What youâll 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 youâre asking the following questions, youâre in the right place:
- How do I stop tying my worth to productivity?
- How do I know if Iâm 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 youâre ready to reclaim peace, expand what you can hold, and create success that doesnât 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
136. The Catalyst To My Deep Depression, Emotional Eating, & Call To My Selfish Era
Welcome to the first episode of Nomad Musings. Possibly low quality audio, but high quality connection. đ
Ya'll know that 2023 was a hard year for me. I was dealing with some friendship breakups that fucking sucked. Why are friendship breakups the hardest?? I lost my passion for health which is SO unlike me. I lost my consistent workout routine & I was eating chips and ice cream like my life depended on it. 𼲠&& I really hit my breaking point where I felt so numb & paralyzed by life that I needed to turn it all off in order to make ANY decisions moving forward... For which I am so grateful because I was able to dive head first into my health. Today I am officially down 30 pounds and I am damn proud of myself for the work I've put in. I finally feel my spark coming back. For life, business, relationships, travel, && health. Ugh, I am so proud of where I am at today and the quality of life I'm producing.
THE JUICY HIGHLIGHTS:
⢠Struggling with perfectionism
⢠Emotionally eating.. My crutch of chips & ice cream đŚ
⢠Lump on my breast that I'd been ignoring
⢠Soul crushing friendship breakups
⢠Uncovering infections & parasites
⢠How I lost 30 pounds
⢠Our nomad plans for the remainder of the year
THE EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
[0:56] New candid bi-weekly walk episodes
[5:15] The musings broadcast inside the membership
[7:08] Completely losing myself & passion for health
[9:11] Still unhealed from friendships lost
[15:19] The straw that broke the camel's back...
[16:14] Realizing Texas was not for us
[18:14] Feeling so lost & confused & stopped everything
[18:49] Weighing myself to find I was at my all-time highest
[20:00] All the health tests I did
[21:19] 80/20 eating transition
[22:18] Texas allergens are WILD and took vengeance on my son
[24:05] Muscle testing to find bacterial staph infection
[25:34] How I lost 30 pounds
[29:29] Peer-led retreat, girls time, and our anniversary trip
[33:40] Our passion for travel & nomad plans for 2023
[38:36] Where should we go next??
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MORE ABOUT ASH
I am the definition of duality â I swear like a sailor and break rules like itâs my job, but I also hold incredible space for my clients and work my ass off to help them achieve the success theyâre 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.
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