Done Showing Up Half-Assed: Embodiment, Storytelling, and Becoming Episode 15

The woman I started becoming this year is done showing up half-assed. And if you’re here, I have a feeling you are too.

In the final episode of Making HERstory for 2025, Ashley Crabb reflects on a year that was heavy, demanding, clarifying, and deeply transformative. This episode is about embodiment. It’s about choosing your hard. It’s about staying instead of burning it all down. And it’s about reclaiming your story as the foundation of everything you’re building.

Ashley shares the behind-the-scenes moments that shaped her this year, including nearly quitting the podcast, replacing hustle with refinement, investing in support, navigating late-diagnosed ADHD, leaning on her village, and stepping fully into the woman she’s becoming. She reflects on how storytelling shifted when she shifted, and why the future belongs to women who are rooted enough to tell the truth without flinching.

This Episode Is For You If:

• You’re done performing success and ready to embody it
 • You worked hard in 2025 and feel changed by it
 • You’re craving alignment instead of burnout
 • You know your story matters but don’t want to turn it into pick-me energy
 • You’re stepping into 2026 ready to build from truth, not exhaustion

About This Episode:

This episode is a closing ritual for 2025 and an opening invitation into what’s next. Ashley explores the difference between hustle and embodiment, why storytelling is not a trend but a human need, and how women are reclaiming their voices, boundaries, and leadership by coming home to themselves.

Inside this episode, you’ll hear:

• Why hustle and performance burned Ashley out and how embodiment changed everything
 • What happened when she almost quit the podcast and chose to stay instead
 • How refinement replaced panic and hustle in her work
 • Why investing in support, therapy, and community shifted her leadership
 • How storytelling evolves when you stop abandoning yourself
 • Why the women leading in 2026 are grounded, honest, and embodied
 • What it means to stop chasing rooms and start building them

If you’re standing in the in-between space of the year, feeling the pull to live, lead, and tell your story differently, this episode is your reminder: you are not late. You are right on time.

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