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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
142. Sharing My Reinvention & The Thing I Fucked Up In My Business
This week's musings is brought to you riverside. I wish you could see & smell how fresh it is here. We are currently in Livingston, MT which is just outside of Bozeman. I am walking through the city alongside the Yellowstone River. 🗻 We're actually leaving today so I don't feel like I can fully check Montana off the list as we only stayed for two days, but we're off again and heading to Spokane, WA. Ya girl is ecstatic. 🚙🚦🌄
I'm also giving away the real tea in today's episode. I promised to always keep it real with what's going well & what's not going so well ⏤ today I'm opening up about something I really fucked up recently in my business that brought some negative feelings to the surface. I'm also sharing something I'm SO freaking excited for that will be LIVE July 14-19. Are you ready to step into her? 👀✨🫦 Details below!
THE JUICY HIGHLIGHTS:
• My last adventure walk in Livingston, MT before we hit the road
• Trying to catch some {affordable} vibes in Coeur d'Alene, ID
• Currently obsessed with being a bookworm 📕
• Selling myself short & giving too much away with a recent offer
• Having a massive wakeup call and breaking free from my prior urge to settle
• Introducing: HER REINVENTION 🥹
THE EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
[0:45] Coming to you from the cutest Airbnb of all time
[2:06] Getting back in the car to leave Montana today ⏤ We are WA bound!
[2:52] Hiking sourdough trail... are you freaking kidding me? 🥖🚶🏻♀️
[3:42] Still giving into my desires for more... ICE CREAM 🍦
[4:52] Catching a vibe in Coeur d'Alene but it's damn expensive!
[5:45] We are in the highs & lows of traveling annnndd bickering 😭
[7:19] My current obsession & I'm hooked 📕
[8:07] How do you instill the love for reading in your kids? 😅
[10:36] What I'm struggling with
[10:42] Quick pause to listen to the Yellowstone River 🥰
[11:17] The thing I fucked up in my business
[12:38] The new Business Breakthrough offer & selling it out
[15:53] Am I a fraud? Imposter syndrome is kicking in
[16:33] Charging too little for massive over-delivery
[17:49] The amazing feedback I received 🥹🥲
[19:56] Deciding BTS how I want to modify the Business Breakthrough
[21:53] What's going really well
[22:04] Details of my two personal reinventions
[23:01] A severe lack of authenticity within my brand
[25:12] "This is not my life & I will create the one I want"
[27:19] HER REINVENTION!! ⬇️📞✨
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.
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