The Voice of Ash
The Voice of Ash is a podcast for high-functioning women who are tired of performing their lives and ready to come home to themselves.
Hosted by shadow work coach Ashley LaButte, this space is where emotions become wisdom, self-betrayal turns into self-trust, and healing goes deeper than mindset shifts. Through raw conversations, embodiment practices, personal stories, and powerful reflections, you will learn how to stop abandoning yourself, become friends with your shadow instead of fighting it, and make grounded choices that align with who you truly are. Not who you were taught to be.
The Voice of Ash represents what rises after everything false burns away.
Ash is what remains after transformation (the truth, the clarity, the real self beneath the masks). This podcast is about finding your voice after survival, after people-pleasing, after living for everyone else. It is the sound of becoming who you actually are. This journey is not perfect and is messy.
If you are emotionally intelligent, self-aware, and ready to stop living on autopilot, this is where your rebirth begins.
Transformation isn’t loud.
It is honest. It is embodied. It is powerful.
Welcome to The Voice of Ash. Where you rise from what no longer serves you and step into who you are becoming.
The Voice of Ash
Trust That Life Loves You Enough to Break Your Heart
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He planned the date. Sent the reservation. Then his mom had a stroke, he went out of state, and when he came back — something felt different. Ashley's intuition knew it immediately. But she didn't fully listen. And a week and a half later, she got ghosted by someone she'd been more vulnerable with than almost anyone in her life.
In this tender and honest episode, Ashley shares the full story — the connection that felt real, the moment she abandoned her own instincts, the anger, the sadness, and the audiobook line that cracked something open in her: trust that life loves you enough to break your heart if it means saving your soul.
She also opens up about deleting the dating apps entirely, what she was actually using them to avoid feeling, and what her shadow work coach said that stopped her spiral cold.
In this episode:
- The date that never happened and what it stirred up
- Why she's setting a new boundary around emotional intimacy before meeting in person
- What getting ghosted after deep vulnerability actually feels like
- Her shadow work coach's reminder when she questioned all her healing
- The difference between chasing love and loving yourself enough not to
- Why losing someone can be protection in disguise
- Deleting the dating apps — and sitting with what's left