Ep27: Why Moms Can’t Do Motherhood Alone ft. Ashlei White

In this episode of the Mompreneur Huddle Podcast, I sit down with Ashlei White, founder of the Baswe Mom Movement and the Baswe Mom Experience nonprofit. We dive into her journey of launching a movement for moms, balancing corporate life with entrepreneurship, and the real challenges she faced stepping into motherhood during the pandemic.

Ashlei opens up about:

How she created the Baswe Mom Movement and grew it into a nonprofit.

The hard reality of questioning if moms have to give up their dreams for motherhood.

Why mental health and self-care are essential in parenting.

How her faith and discernment led her to build community for other moms.

The launch of the Baswe Mom Social Society and its expansion to new cities.

Whether you’re a mompreneur, faith-driven woman, or a mom searching for community, this episode is packed with raw truth, encouragement, and the reminder that you don’t have to do motherhood — or purpose — alone.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

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SPEAKER_00 1:12

Girl is the boss, mom. Making everything worth it, girl, you the boss, mom. Staying on all of your business, and when it comes to investment, the baby girl, you're the rest of the girl, you the boss, mom. Yeah, I like that right there.

unknown 1:25

I like that right there.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Today I have an amazing rock star guest with me here in the huddle today, Ms. Ashley White of Boss Mom Official, the Boss Mom Movement. What's up, girl? Hey, how do you know? I've been trying to get you into the huddle for a minute because she is moving and shaking here in Atlanta. Listen, I found out she's my sorrow, y'all. Y'all know Dust is be doing good things. Okay. Big things. That's what we do. How are you, Mama? I'm good. How are you? I am well. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for having me. No problem. All right, let's get right into this interview. Um, tell our audience a little bit about who you are and what it is that you do.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Yeah, so I'm Ashley White. I am the founder, creator of the Boss Mom Movement. Um, along with now the Boss Mom Experience, our nonprofit arm. Yeah. I am a mom. I am a newly fiance. Let's go. Wait, do that again. You can't just do the ring and not, you know, bam. Bam. Um, mom of one, amazing toddler, boy mom, and I'm also still in corporate America. So I'm a corporate baddie too.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

Yes. Yes. How how how do you um compare what you do in corporate to what you do for um yourself? Like, how do you compare that if you were to explain that to the world? Like, how would you compare it? Same, better.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Um, I don't know that I would say the same or better. Okay. I feel like it allows me to still do what I love, which is um people management. Like I am a recruiter. I have been in this space for now 10 years from college recruiting to corporate recruiting, um, internships, all the things. Um, and so I get the pleasure of communicating with people all the time. Um, and then in terms of what I'm doing now with the boss mom, um, still dealing with people, dealing with moms, you know. And so I think I still enjoy it because I still get to make a change in people's lives. And that's helping them either get into college, what I used to do, or get a job.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

So I I love how corporate prepares you for anything that you want to do. Anything, entrepreneurship, motherhood, business like corporate will test you. Like I'm I have a love-hate relationship with corporate America. I mean, but um, it definitely builds you up to be strong enough to deal with whatever God has in your path. Absolutely. That that is um one thing we have in common, the the corporate world. But yeah, so um boss ma. Yeah, boss ma moving and shaking and making noise. So what um what inspired you besides being because um you say you have an your mama one and he's a toddler. So you haven't been a mom very long. No. What inspired you to want to start this movement?

SPEAKER_01 4:18

So it was just the idea of giving up me, my life, my goals um for motherhood. I feel like a lot of times when you hear moms speak, they're talking about all the things that they have to do for their kids or andor spouses and um or partners. And so when I was, when I found out I was pregnant, it was during the pandemic.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

So of course the world is going crazy, right? We shut down, people losing jobs. I was one of those people. Um, and I had just entered into the corporate space. So I had made that transition from education to corporate America, which is something that I had been trying to do for a couple of years prior. So it took me a minute to do it successfully, and boom, I lose my job. And so I'm like, okay, six months later, I'm pregnant. Okay. That's like, yeah, you know, life-changing events. And I felt like, so does this mean what I questioned was so does this mean what I want to do with my life no longer matters? Like, am I going to now have to give that up for the next 18 years and solely focus on building my family? And I wasn't ready to do that. I was going into my 30s at the time, and I'm just like, I'm just getting started, you know, with life. And so, and it and I felt like there was still so many things that I hadn't even probably thought of that I wanted to do, would be interested in doing. And so I'm like, well, how do I balance, right? We we like to use that word, but I don't think it really exists. But how do I balance this life? And um, and at that time, my boyfriend and I, or fiance and I had moved in together, so that was new. And I'm just like, yeah, I know. I don't know if I'm gonna want to do that. You know, I want to be a great mom, I wanna be a present mom, but I do feel like there's still room for me. Yeah, and so that's when I thought of um the boss mom and it started out as the podcast. And I just wanted to interview moms that were handling their business and and motherhood and family life and not being, you know, extremely burnt out or feeling like, you know, regret, which I know that that's hit or miss, right? There are times. But I wanted to just hear from other moms as encouragement for myself as a mom who was getting ready to um go through that transition. And so it evolved from there.

SPEAKER_02 6:30

Yes, and that and that's how it happens. Yeah, you're obedient to to a calling, to something internal. I love that. I love that. Did you have a lot of people that you could look up to that was in your family, that was young moms starting it, or are you like the first generation to really step out and say, hey, I'm going to attack this bigger mission? I want to really build something that I need or that this community needs. Or did you um like how was the women in your life? Did you have that motivation? Did you have that um people that you can aspire to be like? Did you have people you can look up to?

SPEAKER_01 7:02

Yeah, um for starters, my own mom. Okay. So she um coincidentally enough, works in HR as well. And so she was growing through her career. Um, she she worked with AT ⁇ T for ever and ever. She's retired now, but um, and I watched her on a daily basis, and I felt like as a child I didn't feel neglected. I felt like she was there. So that's why I was like, and made those. Yeah, she she I was great in school, but I was also in um a lot of extracurriculars. I was a cheerleader, I was on a track team, you know, and I mean from young, from starting at a young age, I was I started in gymnastics. So it was like I was always doing things, and she was still there, yeah. Still there, and she was like, And I, you know, I was my parents weren't married growing up. They were both very active in my life though. So, but it was still watching her be, you know, be a single mom in a house with her and I, and I would go back and forth between my parents' houses. And um I'm like, but so you have to work, right? You you have to provide. Absolutely. You know, and so I understood that. I mean, there were times as a young girl where I'm like, mom, why are you always tired? Or why you, you know, after work, and and now I understand, obviously, but I still felt like those important moments, like she was there.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

Do you think it would have had a I'm sorry, no, you good. Do you think it would have had a different effect if your mom would have had the community that you're the community that you're building? Do you think it would have been like because I do I know we see um I don't know our age group, but we see the women that come before us and the stress that came with working and single most of us come from single parent households, a lot of us. Yeah. Um do you think this type of community would have a a better effect on I do.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

I I feel like as far as like that mom-friend support, because my mom is originally from Michigan. So her um and my dad moved here when they had me, so she didn't necessarily have that community. Um, and and I mean, since then we've had family move down here and and go back and forth and what have you, but like her friends, like she had told me like they weren't here. They were still up there, you know, they were still up there. Um, of course, she met people along the way, but like that true community, I absolutely do feel like it would be something she would have been able to benefit from. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

And I think that's where it probably stemmed from too. Like just just knowing that you've experienced that with her now that you're a mom, and even though you have a a son, um is there any plans for more? Yeah. So you may get your daughter. Yeah. So that legacy, you know what I mean? Just um showing her because boy, boy, I love boy moms. Shout out to boy moms. I was a boy mom, I still had my daughter, but it hits different when you have a daughter. Yeah. Like doing this, this um mom community and just um excelling through entrepreneurship and just following your dreams and following your calling. It hits different when you got the little people watching. Right. It hits different when you have to, I have to teach you now. And even even with the boys, you have to teach the boys, you know. Um, I think that is it's amazing what you're doing. I I respect everyone that's in the mom space. I respect everyone that's in the mom community. How well you are an HR, so you are you are good with people, um, but your discernment, how do you know when to move and when not to move when it comes to what you're supposed to be doing in the mom space? How do you discern that?

SPEAKER_01 10:32

I'm still I'm still learning. Okay. Um, and I feel like it's trial and error. I am very much a firm believer that we can do anything that we put our minds to. That part. Um, and we're like you are your biggest threat enemy when it comes to the your goals and the things that you want to do because a lot of times we end up talking ourselves out of things, right? Thinking about it too much. You know, we could have second guess, and now you're like, I don't really know. But I I feel like even in this space, I've had a lot of ideas. I've tried things, they may not have worked, or they just didn't work as fast as I wanted them to. So I pivoted. And I'm I'm just in a space of really trying things out to see if it's even something that I'm interested in, you know. Um, I think sometimes we have an idea and you really don't know how it's gonna play out, and you might get into it and say, hey, I don't know if this is for me.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

And we're not supposed to know how it is supposed to play out, right? Your vision is is from God, absolutely, right? And we we're just supposed to do it, right?

SPEAKER_01 11:30

You know, and then I don't know if if so, what was a nonprofit ever in the the lineup or it and because you asked me about discernment and just knowing, and I feel like the nonprofit is a great example. So I actually filed for nonprofit status two years ago. Okay, um, not too much longer after the initial um creation of the Boston movement itself. I was like, I think I want to do nonprofit because I had started a nonprofit with two friends years ago once we graduated college, and it just didn't work out at that time because we all lived in different states. And it was, we were trying to do, we're from Atlanta, so we were trying to do things here, not living here, and it was just too much. Recent graduates trying to really figure out life. Yeah. Um, so I know like giving back, I mean, we're deltas, make an impact, giving back, that's that's already embedded in me. So I knew that I wanted to, and again, I just wasn't sure how. And so I found me and my girlfriend from college, she is in that space and she helped me. And I was not a hundred percent sure that I was ready to step into it because I knew it would be a lot. And I'm working, and I forgot to mention earlier I have a hair store here that I manage. Yes, girl. So when I say a hair store, wait a minute. Um, pause it. What's that's what I'm saying right here? Where's the hair store? It's in Midtown. Really? Yep, off Marietta Boulevard.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

Girl, yeah. Now I gotta sew into that because I've been I've been ordering stuff off of these um websites that I see because I'm I'm fairly new to Atlanta too. Four years is still fairly new. You know how big it is here. So it was correct. So when I know there's a black-owned store or something I need, yes, give me the information. Yes, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Come on, come on with the hair store. So, you know, all of that going on, and I'm just like, I don't know anything about nonprofit other than you know what I what we started back years ago. But again, it didn't really, you know, take off like we wanted it to. So I just felt like I don't know that much, you know, um, especially the the vision that I have for it, you know, once we actually go head in. I mean, we there, we we baby steps, but I was just like, oh Lord, this is a whole nother beast, and I don't even know business like that, you know, even from a LLC perspective. So I was like, this might be too much at one time. Um, so I paused. We applied, we we submitted everything, and I just kind of left it. I didn't even check to see if it had gotten approved. I didn't know because I was just like, you know what? Not not right now. So it doesn't even matter. End of last year, I said, I reached back out to my girlfriend, I said, I think it's time, I think I'm ready because I really want to make impact. Now that we've been doing this for a couple of years, I'm starting to see a lot of needs, and I feel like the nonprofit is going to allow us to give uh back to moms that need the help. And I said, So what happened to what we submitted? You know? I'm like, I don't even know that I that I received, you know, feedback. And I was waiting on a letter in the mail. So I know for sure nothing had come in the mail. Okay. And come to find out, our approval status went to her email. Georgia came to mine, but I must have missed it. So we filed for Georgia nonprofit, um, and then through the IRS. Okay. They were both approved. And I was like, okay, this is good. You know, okay, we got approved, but now I'm worried about taxes. And is it are we, you know, technically dissolved? Like we were dissolved in Georgia, because you know, Georgia, you gotta file every year. And I'm like, well, we didn't do anything, so don't call people. But I'm like, we make anything. We ain't gonna wrestle no feathers, yeah. Right. And so I said, but let me call the IRS and see what do we need to do for that tax exempt status that we have. And so I called and they were like, no, you're still active. You have three years. Come on, we have we just need to see, we just need your information. You need to file. And so I made sure that we did that. And so I said, now that's a sign from God that we're supposed to be here. Yeah. Because now, if we had lost that status, we would have had to redo the entire, you know, application and go through all of that.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

And we didn't have to do that. Yes, that's how you know it was meant to be. But that seed that was sown, and you just said it and forget, like that, that right there, yeah. That's how you know God is real. And the fact that you said something very important, I don't even know the business part of the LC side. Now I gotta learn this right here, is going to stretch you. And you, girl, you about to be oh I just I I love to see black women. I love to see black women moving and shaking and doing things because these are these are the type of doors that opens that that pushes us to the next level. You're you're going to learn. And if you look at everyone else that runs nonprofits and businesses, they started where we where we are, not knowing anything. Right. And they turned out just fine.

SPEAKER_01 16:33

Right.

SPEAKER_02 16:33

You are going to be okay. You're gonna do what you gotta do, you're gonna take these baby steps. And girl, I I'm excited for the for the community. And I am going to join the boss mount community. I want I did actually bought a um a VIP ticket to to the event and I couldn't make it. I had I was I was trying to give the ticket away, and then uh my old co-host uh co-host Soya, who's collaborating with you now, I was like, find somebody to give this ticket to because I want someone to experience this if I can be there. So I am a hundred percent in support of this movement, anything that has to do with moms and helping moms, especially because we don't get the help. Yes, we get overlooked a lot. Yes, and let's talk about some motherhood. What what are some hard the hardest things that you find about motherhood? What are some of these hard truths? Like we heard stuff before we became moms, but what are some things that you realize, yo, this is true?

SPEAKER_01 17:22

Yeah. Um the fact that you are literally responsible for another human being. Another human. Uh and that to me, I mean, that that amount of responsibility is it's a lot. And and not just, okay, we have to make sure they get to where they need to be. And no, you have to make sure it is food on the table. You have to make sure that you are you are mentally capable to handle their mental capacity, their emotions, and and really help develop them as a person. And sometimes you don't, you're not a hundred percent. So how do you do that for another person? There have been times where I'm just not in it that day. I don't have anything to give. And guess what? And he's right there. You still have to. So it's those times where I don't have it for myself, but I gotta have it for you. Yes, you know, but it is times where I have to tell him, baby, not today, not right now. I walked in the house earlier this week after work and I instantly told him. Because I just feel like he needs to be able, and and whatever kid I have next, they need to understand mommy is still a human being as well. So just like you go through your emotions, mommy does too. And so I want to start him early because I feel like that's important for them to understand I'm not a robot. Yes, I am here for you. I am going to do for you, but in this moment, I just need these 10 minutes. And then I walked in the house and I told him that. And my mind, I don't know, something about these pandemic babies. He's been here before, but he understood he stopped in his tracks because he was getting ready to turn up. And that's and he, I'm used to that. That's what he does. He's excited. He's he hasn't seen me all day, and dad, because he does this both the same way. And so he's running down the stairs like mommy, mommy. And I stopped him and I said, Okay, not today. We're gonna have to chill out, you know, this evening. And, you know, it's instant baths, it's instant relax because mommy's had a long day. Um, and I just think that we don't talk enough about the mental capacity of it. Now, I have seen, and I feel like maybe more often now than a couple years ago, just within my motherhood journey, but moms crying on social media and literally crying for help.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Yeah, you know, they're they're definitely more vocal about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:44

And I think that's the thing that we're starting to be, like you said, more vocal about now, just as a community, about the hard times. Yeah. You know, instead of sweeping everything under the rug as if everything's A1 and it's not. And I feel like it's okay for it not to be. Right. And as a community, just as black people as a whole, I feel like we are also diving more into our mental health. It's becoming a conversation that's louder than it's ever been in my 30 odd years, 30 something. I appreciate that though.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

Because even what you said about with your own son, I had to explain to him, mommy still needs her 10 minutes, mommy still needs time, I still have the processes. Explaining that to kids nowadays, that's something that we wasn't afforded growing up. You know, it was always a do as I say environment, but look where that's gotten us. We have a lot of women that is emotionally um detached, we have a lot that don't know how to express their feelings that just coddle up into a ball. So I I appreciate this space, you know. Um, so yeah, I I do agree. I do agree. And and you're just gonna continue to add to add to that space with the resources that we do need because I mean the the need is there. Yeah, the need is definitely there.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 20:56

What what are what is the um um the does he see, does he understand, does he know what you do? He knows mommy works.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

Okay, yeah, he's like you're always working because I so because I'm remote, I I have a full office at home. Okay. Um, and so he'll come in there, he sits in there with me a lot. He likes to be in my lap. But honestly, when when he was born, I was full on remote. Okay. So he did not go to daycare until he was two. So those first two years, I mean, he was there, he had his little setup and he typing and stuff, and he still likes to get on calls. Like, so that part I feel like he's used to because it's always been there since he has stepped foot into this world. Um, but he doesn't know quite, not my day job anyway. Now he knows boss mom. Okay. And like even when we had the summit, he was like, It's boss mom's birthday. Like he's seeing the decoration and stuff. So um he knows that he's been to events. Um, and now that we have the social club, we do have those um mom and Me events as well. So, you know, able to include him. But I I do feel like it's important for him to know. That's why I bring him to things. Exposure to all of it. Exactly. Because even though he's a boy, I want him to know you can do whatever you want to do as well in life. You know, keep his eyes wide and knowing that he's capable. Um, and I think it's important that when he sees me and his dad doing the things that we love to do um personally, I think that that will help instill that same fire in into him.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

Absolutely, absolutely will. Not even on the on the professional level, but just on like the personal level, when kids see their parents doing things to this caliber, like it raises the bar for the people that they want to be around. It should raise the bar. Um because now it's like my mama walked in this light. I can't just let anyone else in my circle or anyone else around me. It's like, because who am I comparing it to? What am I seeing? The people that poured into me. It's like you, I I I love how this generation is operating. Not all of it, but I love how not all of it, there's some crazy stuff out there, but just um the entrepreneur world is growing, yes, and is looking a lot more like us. And yeah, it's it's it's just we all are a benefit to each other. Platforms like this, communities like yours, even in raising our children. We never know your children, your child may be the next doctor that my grandchildren go to. You know what I mean? Or so we never know how we're intertwined or why we're aligned, and just we gotta continue to follow our calling, girl. Yeah, to follow our calling. We do. So you're about to be married now. You about to be married. Look, Miss Saints said, I'm gonna do it. And congratulations again. Thank you. Thank you. How are you feeling about that?

SPEAKER_01 23:46

I'm feeling good. We've we've been together for a while. Um, we've been able to see each other in in various spaces um and grow with each other from being long distance to being in the same, not only the same city, but under the same roof. And, you know, be able to grow like that. Um, you know, he just graduated with his master's, he's a therapist now, which is yeah, so we're heavy on the mental health in our house. And I actually have my bachelor's in psychology. I thought I was gonna be a therapist too. So we we connect in that manner. Um, but yeah, I think, you know, it's it's time for us to take that next step and really understand what that means under God and um, you know, walk this life together as one. So yeah, and and my baby, he's excited. He's like, mommy, I want you to have my last name. So he that's what he knows it as.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

So I love it. I love it. Yeah. How important do you think it is to highlight or showcase black love in this community? Because um, again, majority of the community of the mom communities are single moms. Yeah. Majority, how how important it is for you to showcase the black love side of it in a healthy way?

SPEAKER_01 25:01

Yeah, I 100% think it's absolutely important. I think it is something that we need to discuss more. I I've seen um a couple of videos on um like black uh what is it was married couples like going out together dating, um, not dating, but going on dates. Okay um as as a tribe. It it would be like six different couples. Yeah, you know, married black couples. Um, and and you know, the saying, let's normalize this. Like, and I'm like, yes, let's normalize this and and really build that community because we don't see it. I mean, we see other um ethnicities and races getting married at younger ages, you know, than we do. Like that's a norm for them, that's their expectation. Um, I actually was having a conversation with someone, um, you know, not of black descent at work, and she's younger than me. And she's like, Yeah, I'm looking for my husband. And me and my other coworker who are both engaged, we're like, girl, you got time, and we're older too. And we're like, you have time, like you're still in your 20s, you can um still explore and stuff. And she was like, I know what I want, you know, and very firm on that. And I'm like, well, hey, if you know what you want, girl, go for it too. But you know, I'm like, that just shows like, you know, the preparation, yeah, you know, and us not seeing it and and being okay with not having it, you know. And so, um, and even just when you think about like the divorce rates when we are getting married and not staying married, right? And I'm very big on growing pains. Like you may not like that person every day, they may do something that pisses you off, but how do you get through it in a healthy way? You know, do you need to explore um therapy and and and figure out how to grow together? Because one thing about it is when you think about marriage, when you think of partnership, that you're growing with that person. They don't have to come to you perfect and and vice versa because you never knew you don't. Right. You know, none of us are perfect. Um, but I I believe in building with someone, yes, and longevity, long term, when you hear people say, Yeah, they've been married for 25 years, that's a long time. You know, right, that's a stuff. Yes, right. And how they were able to cope through it and go through it together and rise above it, man, yeah, that's what I look for. And and we both we actually just had a conversation the other night. He looked at me, he said, I hope you know this is forever. And I was like, You know this is forever, like, you know, and so we're on the same page as far as ain't no divorce. Yeah, you know, we don't figure it out, like what needs to be discussed, what do we need to do, what needs to be changed, and we're willing to do the work. And I think that is something that a lot of us are just not willing to do is the work.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

The work, not not just with with someone else, but within ourselves, a certain type of person, certain level of maturity and growth to understand that you can't make permanent decisions on temporary emotions.

unknown 28:09

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 28:10

And if you look at this the the way it is now, like everyone, everyone wants it fast. Like what they got in 25 years is not gonna happen for you in two. Right. You know what I mean? Right. And if things don't go our way, our ego, our own spoiledness, our own whatever you want to call it, shuts it down. Right. You know, and now we're living with regret. So I think I agree with you. I think it is very necessary to show this in this light. It is okay for me not to come to you perfect. Yeah. It is okay for me not to like you today. But I still love you. Exactly. So, yes, yes. Our we're we're gonna be okay. I think that I don't know what the future holds, um, but I know as long as we keep breeding, um, in a sense that's what you're doing as well, you're breeding the next generation of uh of leaders. Every woman that comes through your organization, every woman that that is touched by um the summit or touched by a podcast episode or whatever it is, you're reaching that person, that one woman. Yeah. And the next 10 years, you're gonna breed that next leader. As long as we continue to do that, I feel like like we'll continue to grow and we'll continue to progress. Yes. But we just have to stay obedient to this mission. We have to stay obedient to this mission.

SPEAKER_01 29:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:26

Now, when it comes to the podcast, I know you had one. Um, are you looking to bring it back?

SPEAKER_01 29:34

Yeah. So we actually, um, so like I said, I started the movement um with the podcast. It was virtual um for a few years, and then I stopped because I that that was no longer the vision I had for it. I wanted to be in a studio. Yes. Um, and I was thinking I wanted a co-host. Um, and so we actually relaunched um last year, in the last year, going into this year, and I have two co-hosts. Okay. Yeah. So my best friend Brie and my line sister um Larissa, they are my co-hosts, and we have recorded three episodes and and they're published, but we stopped because life was life and for all three of us. We went from Brie had her beauty conference into the summit and then traveling because now we're going into summer, and it's just been a life. Life's a life. Yeah, life's on life. And that's what I want to, you know, tell moms too. Like, life gonna life. You go through it, that doesn't mean you have to stop. You might just have to pause. Right. But um, so we're pausing. Um, we're still so technically we're still active. It's just been a few months, but um, yeah, so we're back, and uh, we hope to start back recording before the end of the summer. Oh, good, good, good. I love to see it.

SPEAKER_02 30:43

I love to see it. I I do want to know what's coming up next for you. What we got planned. I know we got some more events coming. Yeah. What we got planned?

SPEAKER_01 30:52

Okay, so our focus right now is um we just launched the Boss Mom Social Society. Um, again, discernment, that was something that I have been going back and forth on. I'm like, okay. Um, as I do have a small team, and they're like, you know, we should probably do like some sort of club or something to continuously um see the moms, right? Because we weren't doing a lot. And it doesn't mean you have to have a club, that just means you do more events, right? Yeah. Um, but I really believe in the power of community.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 31:24

And um there's there's just uh more things that we can do on a continuous basis with having this community, but also people have been talking about other cities. Would you continue, would you come out here and do these? And I'm like, okay, I don't know if I will do like a one-off event. Not to say I wouldn't, but I don't know, right? Like, so I'm like, how can we best put this together to where we can reach other moms outside of Atlanta? And so we formed the social society. So we do have, we launched that doors open June 1st. Um, we have our Atlanta chapter, we have Savannah, Georgia, we have Tampa, Florida, Orlando, Florida, and the Fort Lauderdale, Miami area.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

Come on now.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

Yes. So that's like a new baby and growing and growing. That's the new baby right now that we're focused on, but it works in cohesion with the nonprofit. Okay. So there are monthly dues attached, but we have three different tiers. Okay. Um, and so we offer a free tier for moms that just want to stick their toe in it. They're trying to figure it out, right? If this is for them. Um, but then our other two tiers, they are low cost, um, but a part of their monthly dues are donations to the nonprofit. To the nonprofit. Yeah. So um, you know, that's what we're focused on right now. Um, because we're expanding and we're just getting into those other cities, um, they're hosting open events. Okay. Um, like Savannah has one this weekend, theirs coming up, and they have an overwhelmingly positive response to their uh walk in the park. We're all doing we're all doing park events. Okay. Um, and so yeah, we're trying to, you know, it hopefully it don't rain on nobody's parade. But just get out there. You could be amazed of the turnout even on a rainy day. Yeah. I'm like, oh my goodness. And it's mommy and me. So we're getting to know the mom and the kids. Yes. Yes. Um, and so content consistently, though, in the social club, because it's hybrid, it's online and in person. We do have um group therapy that's offered to our top tier. Oh nice. Yeah, I've partnered with um mental health therapists and a wellness coach. Um, Precious is our wellness coach, wellness coach. Um, Nishay and Michaela are our mental health therapists. And so they rotate and do um therapy sessions on a virtual therapy session. I love it. You know, we have our window because we just need an hour to socialize. Um, and then our co-work sessions. So um for our our mom preneurs or moms in in their career, if there or you just need to tackle that to-do list and you need some encouragement. You know, we're gonna work together to get those things done and support each other. So those are our consistent events that happen inside that all you have to do is log on to your computer just to participate in. Um, and that's just where we are right now. There are so many more things um that we want to add. I just had a conversation about a partnership with us, uh nanny service here in Atlanta. Wow. So that we can incorporate some benefits there. So um we're growing and we want to be able to provide these opportunities for our moms, our ambitious moms. It's like, hey, I want to do X, Y, and Z, and I don't know how to do it, or I just need another friend that's doing it with me to keep me encouraged. Right. That's what we're here to do. Provide that. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

Yeah, I see the vision. Thank you. I see the vision. Thank you. And I congratulate you. That is a power move, y'all. Make sure y'all tap in with Miss Ashley White and Boss Mom Official. Make sure y'all, how can our audience reach you? Where was what's just drop all the socials?

SPEAKER_01 35:00

Yeah, how can they join the society? Absolutely. So we are on Instagram as now boss mom official, just because we're running all the entities on one page. So um, we didn't want to have too many pages out there, at least not right now. So you can find us on Instagram, um, under that handle, also on threads. Um, now we are on TikTok as the Boss Mom Movement. It's it's slow, it's slow on that side. Um, I'm trying to hang in there, keep up with all the different social media. Yeah, uh auntie tired, okay? I don't know. It's on that the social media is just not my calling, but we're gonna we're gonna hang in there. So we're there. Um, and then the website is just thebossmom.com. That is where you can find the social society tab um and pick your um plan, whichever membership subscription you will want to subscribe to there. Um, the podcast is on YouTube and all major podcast platforms as well, so you can just search the boss mom movement um and we'll be listed there for you to view and listen.

SPEAKER_02 36:02

And tap in. Make sure y'all tap in with Ashley. Yes. Right now, what I want to do is I want to do a little segment we call rapid fire. So I'm just asking some questions, some this or that question. Okay. This is see where you're see where you at where the moms be at. Okay. All right, you ready? Yeah. All right, you're a morning person or night person? Night person. Night person. You can stay up late and do your work. Late enough. Okay. If you're tired, I'm a morning person. Seafood or soul food. Seafood. See, yes, how five of that. Listen, give me some blue crabs every day.

SPEAKER_01 36:31

Listen, I went to school in Florida.

SPEAKER_02 36:33

Listen, no crabs. Yes, yes. Are you a turn up or turn down when it's time to as far as music? You need some crumb. I'm a turn down, I'm an RB girl. Yeah. I can see you as an RB. I can see the RB is that the old RB though, not the nice early 2000s. Give me some Monica, give me some Drew Hill, give me some of that flow. This new, I don't even know what new RB is.

SPEAKER_01 36:56

I don't even know if it exists anymore. And if it does, you can give me, you know, some scissors, some Summer Walker. But I don't know if they even really in that category. Like it's like uh comedy, but it ain't like they good, but they don't know.

SPEAKER_02 37:10

Yeah, it's not like that 90s, yeah. Not at all. We got um our winter or give give you the beach, or do you need like a winter, a winter, winter wonderland vacation?

SPEAKER_01 37:19

Give me the beach.

SPEAKER_02 37:20

The beach? Yeah, okay. Okay, you get in the water at the beach.

SPEAKER_01 37:23

I ain't gonna too much get in the water, but I just like to be there.

SPEAKER_02 37:26

The atmosphere to sunny because you're a Florida girl. Yeah, okay, all right, okay, all right. Well, I love it. I love it. So I want to thank you for coming on the show again. And I know we are running out of time, but I would love to have you back. I would love to know how we can support um anything you got going on, any events. Tag us in it. We'll definitely share it. I'll share it to my platforms. Um, just keep me in the loop. Uh, and the way the algorithm works now, and I'm not using this as an excuse, we won't do excuses, but the way the algorithm works now, I miss a lot of stuff on my feed. Me too. I don't know what be going on. So I'm like, listen, I'm here. Tammy is in support of every mom community that's doing positive things for our people. Tag me and whatever, and I'll share it. Same. Heaven, no problem with knowing it. Um, and I do want to tell you too make sure you are um commenting and liking and sharing this. We are almost at 2K subscribers on this podcast, and we are slowly growing, but we need you, we need your help, we need your consistency. We know you're watching, and we appreciate that. But just make sure you are hitting that subscribe butt button. Most people that consume videos on YouTube are not subscribed to the channels, and I don't know if if a lot of you know that. And I am personally being intentional about subscribing to channels that I love too. So I just want to put that out there. I want to thank everyone for always tuning in. Our sponsor, Lee Che Capri, um, designer bags for designer moms. You can get your 20% off of any bag with the code HUDLE. That's H-U-D-D-L-E. And a special shout out to um, we are official sponsors to a home from Shauna Foundation. Make sure you check out a home from Shauna Foundation where they provide emergency housing for um women that are are pregnant and um need emergency housing. So those links will be in there. Ways to give will be in the description as well. Leave a comment um if you have a question for me or for Ashley. Um, like I always do with all of my guests, I'm going to volunteer her DM. Just go slide on her DM, ask a question. Yes, ask away. Um, because a closed mouth don't get fed. Um, but I want to thank you for tuning in and thank you again for um joining me for blessing our huddle with your presence. And as always, mom's crown on, chin up, you rock the rest of your week. Have an amazing day.