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Welcome to the Grief Series, a collection of conversations about the grief woven throughout our lives with some extraordinary women bringing their raw, vulnerable stories to the mic. I hope you see yourself somewhere in these stories.
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This episode is for anyone who has ever walked away from something they built, a career, a marriage, an identity, and wondered what the hell comes next. My guest, Delia Monk, has done it more than once. She came to this conversation with the full story: leaving journalism, building a six-figure copywriting business she eventually had to grieve, navigating divorce as a single mom, and making one of the scariest leaps of her professional life.
TOPICS WE EXPLORE
Leaving the career you built your identity around
When AI devalues your trade overnight
The $12,000 rebrand that didn't save it
Fear laced with excitement vs. fear laced with scarcity
Cutting the rope and going all in
Grieving the life you thought you'd have after divorce
Giving up half your child's childhood
The scrappy list: 100 ways to make money
What opens up when you finally let go
THE POINT
Grief is the price of going all in. You can't grieve what you didn't love, and you can't become who you're meant to be without leaving someone behind.
ABOUT DELIA
Delia Monk helps people who are ready for their next chapter figure out what that actually looks like and how to talk about it. After years working in messaging and copywriting, she pivoted into transition and pivot coaching, helping women who feel unfulfilled or called toward something new discover what comes next and position it with clarity. She's British, based in Barcelona, and entirely worth finding.
Find her on Instagram @delia.monk and at deliamonk.com.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
deliamonk.com
The Mixermind (networking community mentioned by Ash)
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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.
LINKS:
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Welcome to the Grief Series, a collection of conversations about the grief woven throughout our lives with some extraordinary women bringing their raw, vulnerable stories to the mic. I hope you see yourself somewhere in these stories.
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This episode is for anyone carrying grief that doesn't have an obvious name. My guest, Chrissy Powers, is a therapist, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy practitioner, and someone who has personally held space for me in some of my own deepest healing work. We talk about the grief that lives inside a marriage you're still in, the mourning of watching your children grow up, the loss that comes with deconstructing your religious upbringing, and what it actually takes to feel your way through grief instead of solving your way around it.
TOPICS WE EXPLORE
Complicated grief vs. the grief we're taught is acceptable
Grieving inside a marriage you haven't left
Watching a partner struggle and the ultimatum that protects your family
The invisible loss of your children growing up
Outgrowing a partner who isn't on the same healing path
Raising emotionally literate sons in a culture that discourages it
Deconstructing religious upbringing and what it costs
Finding a guide, trusting your body, and reclaiming intuition
THE POINT
Grief isn't reserved for death. It lives inside the marriages we stay in, the children we watch grow, and the beliefs we outgrow, and the only way through any of it is to feel it instead of fix it.
ABOUT CHRISSY
Chrissy Powers is a licensed therapist and the founder of Paradigm Wellness Collective, a group practice in Southern California. She's trained in psychedelic somatic therapy and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and has spent over 16 years in practice helping people heal through embodiment, vulnerability, and deep inner work. Her book, Woman Embodied: The Practice of Coming Home to Yourself, releases October 27th.
Find her on Instagram @chrissyjpowers and at chrissypowers.com or email her @ chrissypowersmft@gmail.com. 
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Paradigm Wellness Collective
paradigmwellnesscollective.com (find a practitioner)
Woman Embodied: The Practice of Coming Home to Yourself (Chrissy's book, out October 27th)
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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.
LINKS:
Become the Regulated Woman
Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com
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Welcome to the Grief series - a collection of conversations about the grief woven throughout our lives with some extraordinary women bringing their raw, vulnerable stories to the mic. I hope you see yourself somewhere in these stories.
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This specific episode is for the women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond who are entering a new season, physically, emotionally, and mentally. My guest, Bryn Daylor, brought her whole heart to this conversation and bared it all from her grief around physical changes, ambition shifts, and comparison as we age. 
TOPICS WE EXPLORE:
The identity shift underneath every physical change
Grieving the attention you used to get
Aesthetic procedures, the pressure, the fear, and the nuance
Losing reckless abandon
Building ambition from belief instead of survival
Starting a family later and doing the math on time
How comparison kills your output
What shamelessly ambitious looks like when you stop performing
THE POINT:
Aging is the grief that lives in the gap between who you were and who you're becoming, and the only way through it is to name it. 
ABOUT BRYN:
Bryn Daylor helps women unmask themselves through creative expression so they can have the life and love they really want. She works with women to strip back layers of conditioning so that when they go to share themselves, whether through storytelling, writing a book, or putting a creative project into the world, they are doing it from the core of who they actually are. Find her on Instagram @bryndaylor and on her podcast, Seen.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Bryn's podcast: Seen
Vanquish Vitiligo (product for vitiligo coverage)
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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.
LINKS:
Become the Regulated Woman
Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com
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Welcome to Ash Unplugged, the behind-the-scenes monthly episode where nothing is off the table and the real shit gets said.
In this episode we’ll explore the full rebrand reveal, the complete list of things I hate right now, the red flags me and my husband built together, and how I’m actually running our summer successfully.
TOPICS WE EXPLORE:
The rebrand
Everything I hate right now
My red flags and what l’m doing about them
How I’m structuring my summer to be present, but still successful in my business
The guest series coming up. 
THE POINT:
The things that make me successful are not just the pretty ones… it’s the walks at 6:30am, the plan that never waits until morning, the self-coaching loop I often use on myself, and the willingness to say exactly what I think, including the things I hate.
MENTIONED:
Rebrand team: Catie Cupples (copywriter), Christina at Gem Creative (designer), Katie at 26 & Then Some (naming strategist), Dallas (VIP strategy session)
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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.
LINKS:
Become the Regulated Woman
Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com
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Women with ADHD have been told their intensity, their fast brains, and their emotional depth are dysfunctional…but I truly believe ambition and neurodivergence can coexist in the healthiest way. The traits we have been taught to suppress (the hyperfocus, the pattern recognition, the emotional intelligence) are the exact things that create momentum, innovation, and success.
In this episode, we’ll explore what ADHD actually looks like in high-achieving women, how to build a life and business that works with your brain instead of against it, and why supporting your brain is not the same thing as trying to erase it.
TOPICS WE EXPLORE:
ADHD in high-achieving women (the obvious signs and the ones nobody talks about)
Why intensity, sensitivity, and emotional depth are assets, not dysfunction
How I got my formal diagnosis and why
Using cycle syncing, intentional scheduling, and pressure as a tool
Medication as one tool in the toolbox (not the whole toolbox)
The link between ADHD and high-functioning burnout
How to stop pathologizing the parts of you that make you, you
THE POINT:
There is a difference between intensity and dysfunction. The goal is to understand yourself so deeply that you can support yourself properly and use your most powerful traits as the assets they actually are.
MENTIONED:
Episode 192. Regulation Isn’t the Zen Bullshit You’ve Been Sold
Fit with Coco: (My go-to workout)
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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.
LINKS:
Become the Regulated Woman
Get emails that feel like your best friend (if your best friend was a therapist and actually told you the truth).
Use code BB20 to get The Burnout Breakthrough for only $7
Follow me on IG (dropping in once a quarter for updates & gossip)
Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com
Work with Ash