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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
148. The Final Episode In My Beyond Profit Era
Welcome to the final episode... at least for a little while. Tune in to hear the journey that led me to this choice, including the challenges of balancing work and life, and the realization that sometimes, even the things we love need to take a backseat. 🎙️🚗 Exciting — I’ve recently reclaimed full control over my content and emails which has felt really good. I've been opening up space and pulling back on some things to pour my energy into a mastermind I’ve been secretly crafting BTS.
As I prepare for a personal milestone — my 37th birthday — I reflect on the lessons learned from my sabbatical and how I’ve shifted away from the "revenue rat race." In this episode I chat about the dangers of scaling without sustainability and why doing more to make more isn’t always the answer. Instead, we ought to be simplifying and focusing on what truly matters. Those beyond profit moments. 🎂🌳🌊🌅🥾👨👩👧👦💋🍦
THE JUICY HIGHLIGHTS:
• The importance of spaciousness and intentionality in work and life
• How reclaiming control over my content has allowed me to focus on what truly matters
• The dangers of scaling without considering mental wellness and sustainability
• My special BIRTHDAY SALE {August 28-31}
• Living for the moments beyond profit
THE EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
[0:40] My impromptu break from the podcast
[2:04] When we say things like this out loud we start to operate from a "lack of"
[3:09] Taking back pieces of my business that I was previously outsourcing
[4:13] My birthday plans with my bestie 🎂
[5:55] Learning about myself & my business during my sabbatical
[11:15] Doing more to make more
[14:30] This mastermind will soon be my only offer 😲
[17:10] The Beyond Profit mastermind
[24:58] Living more the beyond profit moments & building a business that supports that
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Join the email list at the footer of the page to get in on the juice of my birthday sale! 🎂 I’ll be completely OOO hiking & camping in the middle of Arizona so you won’t see this marketed anywhere! Besides, the email list gets all the tea anyways.
📲 MESSAGE ME "BEYOND PROFIT"
Message me beyond profit and I will give you the information and you might be able to snag one of these spots. As of now, tier one is unlimited, tier two has 8 spots available, and tier three has just 4 spots left! Simply shoot me a message “Beyond Profit” and I'll give you more details. We can have a conversation about it. We can even hop on a call if that's what feels good for you.
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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