Ashley was born with a fire in her spirit that shows up in everything she does (including her curly red hair!). She spent years building her legal career, and when it came time to have children she was eager to find a community of moms she could relate to. But what she found didn’t quite work for her. She felt out of place when her worlds of work and life couldn’t coexist. Desperately searching for a space to be fully “her,” she came up empty-handed. So, she drew on that fiery passion and created Mommies Hiring Mommies, rebranded as Mompire, which is a community all about, and for, moms doing it all! You can find out more about this heart-centered emotionally based community at the-mompire.com.
Ashley shares some excellent nuggets of wisdom in this episode. One of the things I noticed right away was how heart-centered she is in all that she has created. This is not often the case for former lawyers and many of us who are taught to favor our logical left side thinking brain.
Things We Learned From This Episode
- If you are going to start a business, make sure you are offering tangible value before you start charging. Sometimes it might be a passion project, and that is perfectly ok. Mommies Hiring Mommies started as a labor of love and continued that way for 3 years before making it into a profitable venture.
- The most important thing you can do is to tune into your heart and make sure whatever it is you are doing, or service you're providing is one that you feel passionate and on fire about. This will translate well and authentically in all that you do.
- Above logic, start with how you feel. Go to your heart before your head to find out what is most important to you.
- There is no such thing as work-life balance or balance for that matter. After Ashley struggled with an intense diagnosis of Adrenal Fatigue, she realized that the best way to recover was to create the categories of her life and rate her satisfaction on a scale of 1 - 10. After reviewing that list, she chose the most important area to work on. This happened to be her sleep. As she became more rested, all else fell into place. As a result, she has created a journal that can help guide you to rate and focus on key areas of life. (can I just say, this is brilliant!)
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