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Evolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER046 | 10 Books To Support The Woman You Are Becoming🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This short bonus episode shares a curated list of books for women who can feel themselves evolving and want guidance that feels supportive, grounded, and intentional. If you’re in a season of transition and craving perspective without overwhelm, this list gives you a clear place to start.I created this book recommendations list as a standalone resource so the women who need it can easily find it and return to it. These are books I’ve...
2025-12-2406 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER045 | How I'm Holding Space for Grief Without Rushing the Healing (Sunday Coffee Chat)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This Sunday Coffee Chat is a check-in. A pause. A moment of honesty.I’m sharing where I’ve been after the recent loss of my grandmother and how I’ve been moving through grief without rushing it, fixing it, or trying to make it look a certain way. This is not a teaching episode or a lesson. It’s simply presence, reflection, and care in real time.We talk about what it looks like to...
2025-12-2109 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER044 | When You’re Carrying Too Much: A Guided Release to Feel Lighter🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is a guided release and visualization you can return to anytime you feel heavy, overwhelmed, or out of alignment. It’s an immersive experience designed to help your nervous system settle, your body soften, and your spirit feel supported.You’ll be gently led through a visualization where you lay down what you’ve been carrying and release it into a flowing river, symbolizing surrender and trust. This is an invitation to stop holding ev...
2025-12-1623 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER043 | How to Pack Light and Create Space for Your Next Chapter (Sunday Coffee Chat)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This Sunday Coffee Chat explores what it really means to pack light as you prepare for your next chapter. Many of us are praying for clarity, peace, alignment, and new opportunities, but moving forward often requires creating space first. Space in your mind, your life, your relationships, and even your physical environment.In this episode, I walk you through five practical ways to release what no longer feels aligned so you can make room for what’...
2025-12-1419 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER042 | Remembering Your Growth and God’s Track Record to Rebuild Self-Trust🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is a reminder of who you are and who God has been in your life. We’re talking about the negativity loop and how the brain naturally replays fear, doubt, and worst-case scenarios, especially during seasons of transition or uncertainty. When that loop goes unchecked, it can quietly shape your identity, confidence, and ability to trust yourself.This conversation invites you to remember your own evidence. The growth you’ve experienced. The healing you’v...
2025-12-0917 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER041 | 10 Questions to Help You See the Woman You Became This Year (Sunday Coffee Chat)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This Sunday Coffee Chat creates space to reflect on the woman you have been becoming throughout the year. Not the milestones you hit or the goals you checked off, but the internal shifts, the growth, and the quiet ways you showed up for yourself.In this episode, I guide you through five parts of reflection, each offering two identity-centered questions designed to help you see yourself more clearly. You can sit with all ten questions...
2025-12-0716 min
Michael and Mom Talk CancerMichael and Mom Talk to Lindsey and Thomas: Episode 66, Brain it On!Michael and ashlee (Mom!) talk to Lindsey and Thomas Kealey, husband and wife, who have been navigating a journey of leukemia and caregiving, while also hosting a podcast! Michael and ashlee feel a kindred spirit stirring while interviewing these two souls who share so much in common. Thomas and Lindsey started out in the cancer world when Thomas's mom was diagnosed with cancer, and shorty after that, Thomas himself was diagnosed. Like Michael, Thomas had a stem cell transplant and is now facing the complication of graft versus host disease. Lindsey has been by his side, with unwavering support...
2025-12-0253 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER040 | How to Choose a Word of the Year That Aligns With the Woman You’re Becoming🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)In this episode, we explore how to choose a word of the year in a grounded and intentional way. The kind of process that comes from reflecting on what this past year asked of you and tuning into who you are becoming next.I share the Evolving Into HER approach to choosing your word. A simple, intuitive process rooted in identity and self-awareness. You’ll be guided to reflect honestly on your year, listen to your fut...
2025-12-0211 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER039 | Year-End Anxiety and the Fear of Falling Behind (Sunday Coffee Chat)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)If the end of the year has you feeling tense, reflective, or questioning yourself, this conversation is for you. The kind of questioning that shows up when you start replaying the year, wondering about the choices you made, the ones you didn’t, and what all of it means moving forward.This Sunday Coffee Chat is a reminder that December doesn’t get to define your worth or rush your becoming. We talk about the pressure...
2025-11-3009 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER038 | Morning Gratitude Affirmations for Peace, Presence, and Ease🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is your Morning Gratitude Recalibration. It is a gentle way to start your day with more softness, more intention, and more awareness of what already feels good in your life. You will move through fifty affirmations that help you ground your energy and come back to yourself before the world starts asking for anything.Play this while you move through your morning. Getting dressed. Cooking breakfast. Doing your skincare. Cleaning up. Driving. Walking...
2025-11-2516 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER037 | Gratitude Beyond the Journal: Making Gratitude a Way of Living (Sunday Coffee Chat)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This Sunday Coffee Chat is an invitation to experience gratitude in a more embodied, lived way. Not as a checklist or a routine you force yourself through, but as something you can actually feel in your body and carry with you through your day.In this episode, we talk about moving beyond gratitude journaling and into noticing the small, ordinary moments that soften you and remind you that life is still meeting you. The first sip...
2025-11-2309 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER036 | Comparison Will Pull You Off Course. Here’s How to Stay in Your Lane (Get Out of Your Own Way, Part 4)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode of the Get Out of Your Own Way series explores how comparison slowly pulls you out of alignment. It starts small. Scrolling. Looking sideways. Noticing someone else’s pace and suddenly questioning your own. Before you know it, comparison has you doubting your timing, your progress, and the path you’re on.We talk about why comparison shows up, especially when you’re growing, and how it slowly chips away at your joy, confidence...
2025-11-1820 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER035 | Legacy Reimagined: Softness, Boundaries, and the Woman You’re Becoming (Sunday Coffee Chat)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This Sunday Coffee Chat offers a gentler way to think about legacy. Not the accomplishment driven version many of us were taught to chase, but the legacy shaped through the woman you are becoming day by day. As I reflect during my birthday season and spiritual fast, I’ve been sitting with the idea that legacy is less about what you produce and more about how you move through your life.In this episode, I share how...
2025-11-1612 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER034 | How the Inner Critic Keeps You Stuck and How to Heal Her (Get Out of Your Own Way, Part 3)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode continues the Get Out of Your Own Way series by addressing one of the most familiar obstacles to growth: the inner critic. That voice that questions your progress, second guesses your timing, and makes you doubt your worth often started as protection. Over time, though, it can keep you stuck in cycles of overthinking, comparison, and self-doubt.In this conversation, we learn to relate to the inner critic differently. Not as something to fight...
2025-11-1120 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER033 | When You Stop Searching for Answers and Choose Peace (Sunday Coffee Chat)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This Sunday Coffee Chat is a gentle conversation about peace beyond understanding and what it looks like to live from that place in real life. I’m reflecting back on a season where everything felt uncertain and sharing how I learned to stop trying to figure everything out and let peace meet me exactly where I was.We talk about releasing the need to control outcomes, the freedom that comes with surrender, and how practicing...
2025-11-0912 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER032 | The Trap of Perfectionism: How Waiting to Be Ready Keeps You Stuck (Get Out of Your Own Way, Part 2)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode continues the Get Out of Your Own Way series by naming one of the most deceptive patterns that keeps women from moving forward: perfectionism. The constant tweaking, planning, researching, and waiting for everything to feel just right can look responsible on the surface, but underneath it’s often fear, doubt, and hesitation disguised as preparation.In this conversation, we unpack how perfectionism hides behind good intentions and quietly becomes a form of self-sabota...
2025-11-0423 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER031 | A Soft Return to Joy: Embodying the Joy of Living (Sunday Coffee Chat)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This Sunday Coffee Chat is an invitation to slow down and reconnect with the joy of simply being alive. Joy doesn’t wait for everything to be figured out or for you to hit certain milestones. It often lives in the small, ordinary moments we rush past when we’re focused on what’s next.In this episode, we explore joie de vivre, the idea of finding joy in everyday living, and how it can become a pe...
2025-11-0211 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER030 | The Trap of Being Busy (Get Out Of Your Own Way Series, Part 1)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode opens Part One of the Get Out of Your Own Way series by naming one of the most common ways we unintentionally block what God is already doing in our lives: staying busy. Constant motion can look productive on the outside, but it often becomes a way to avoid stillness, clarity, and trust.This conversation is for the woman who keeps saying things will slow down later, who feels uneasy when there’s space, an...
2025-10-2819 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER029 | It's Time To Get Your Spark Back, Girl (Sunday Coffee Chat)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This Sunday Coffee Chat is for the woman who’s been holding it together, showing up, and keeping things moving, even while feeling drained underneath it all. The kind of tired that isn’t fixed by sleep, because what you’re really craving is a sense of renewal, softness, and reconnection with yourself.In this episode, we slow everything down. We talk about noticing where your spark has dimmed, not because it’s gone, but because you’v...
2025-10-2610 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER028 | Getting Out of Your Own Way When God Has Already Said Yes🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode opens a new series centered on a simple but honest truth: many times God has already said yes, and we’re the ones standing in the way. Not intentionally, but through patterns like self-sabotage, comparison, staying busy, overthinking, and trying to control the timing instead of trusting the direction.This series is for the woman who knows she’s ready for more but keeps delaying because she’s watching what everyone else is doing, waiti...
2025-10-2113 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER027 | When the Life You Built No Longer Feels Aligned (Sunday Coffee Chat)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This Sunday Coffee Chat is a gentle invitation to pause and reflect on what a beautiful life actually means to you now. Inspired by a moment in Eat Pray Love, this conversation explores what happens when you look at the life you intentionally built and realize you no longer see yourself in it. Sometimes growth changes your values, your desires, and the version of success you once chased.In this episode, we talk about redefinin...
2025-10-1910 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER026 | Why You Keep Attracting What You Don’t Want in Love: When Fear Disguises Itself as Standards🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode takes an honest look at how fear shapes the way many women move in love. A lot of dating conversations today center on protection, red flags, and staying guarded so you don’t get hurt again. You hear things like “the dating pool is trash,” “there are no good men left,” or “men always disappoint.” While those statements can feel validating in the moment, they also train your nervous system and expectations in ways that directly shape you...
2025-10-1427 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER025 | Your Refinement Season Is Preparation, Not Punishment (Sunday Coffee Chat)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This is the very first Sunday Coffee Chat, a short and gentle conversation created to help you slow down, breathe, and ease into your week. Nothing heavy or overwhelming, just a moment to reflect and reconnect with where you are right now.This episode centers on refinement, a season many women find themselves in when progress feels slow but meaningful change is still unfolding. It can feel frustrating to be showing up, doing the work, and...
2025-10-1213 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER024 | No Experience Is Wasted: Finding Meaning After Loss, Disappointment, and Unexpected Change🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is a personal reflection on one of the hardest seasons of my life and what it taught me about meaning, faith, and becoming. I’m taking you back to a time when everything I thought was stable began to fall away. Financial stress, career disappointment, shifting relationships, and deep personal loss all collided at once, leaving me questioning myself, my direction, and what was ahead.Through that season, I came to understand that no exp...
2025-10-0731 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER023 | The Cost of Limiting Beliefs: Releasing Old Stories That Hold You Back🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode invites you to pause and take an honest look at the cost of the beliefs and stories you’ve been carrying. Fear, perfectionism, self-doubt, and old labels often feel familiar, but over time they shape your choices, influence your confidence, and impact your relationships and sense of peace. When left unexamined, these patterns can keep you playing small and repeating cycles that no longer reflect who you are becoming.In this conversation, we bring aw...
2025-09-3023 min
When The Call Hits HomeBreaking the Stigma: Substance Abuse, Hope, and Resilience in First Responder FamiliesHosts:
Dr. Ashlee Gethner, LCSW – Child of a Police Officer
Jennifer Woosley Saylor, LPCC S – Child of a Police Officer
In this heartfelt follow-up to their interview with Marian Crossgrove, Jennifer and Ashlee dive deep into the often-overlooked topic of substance abuse in the first responder community. With no guest this week, the hosts reflect on Marian’s story of resilience, recovery, and hope. They use her journey as a springboard for a candid discussion about why substance use is so common among first responders, how it impacts families, and what real recovery can lo...
2025-09-2427 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER022 | Why Not You? Releasing Self Doubt and Learning to Receive🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is a reminder to stop shrinking yourself and start receiving what you desire. So often the thing standing between you and the life you want is an internal story rooted in doubt, comparison, or feeling like you need to be more ready before you move. We’re talking about how to shift that narrative and step into a posture of worthiness, confidence, and openness to what’s available to you.I share moments from...
2025-09-2324 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER021 | Let God Drive: How to Stop Worrying About the Future and Trust Divine Timing🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is a conversation about releasing control and learning how to move through life with peace instead of constant worry about what’s next. I’m sharing why I rarely worry about the future anymore and how prayer became a grounding daily practice that changed my relationship with trust, timing, and uncertainty. We talk about sending blessings forward into your life, asking God to go before you, and choosing assurance over anxiety.We also explore...
2025-09-1633 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER020 | The Eldest Daughter Experience: Healing the Parentified Daughter (Part Two)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode continues the conversation on the eldest daughter experience by moving into what healing and change actually look like after years of parentification. Many women who grew up carrying emotional responsibility, keeping the peace, and staying “on” for others enter adulthood feeling resentful, exhausted, and unsure how to live differently. This conversation explores how those early roles shape the nervous system, relationships, and sense of self long after childhood ends.We talk about releasing uns...
2025-09-0930 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER019 | The Eldest Daughter Experience: Growing Up Too Soon and Carrying Too Much (Part One)🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode opens Part One of an honest conversation about the eldest daughter experience and the effects of parentification on women who grew up carrying responsibility far too early. Even if you were not the eldest child, you may recognize this role through early emotional maturity, self-silencing, people-pleasing, or becoming the one everyone depended on. Parentification often teaches daughters to suppress their needs, stay composed under pressure, and equate love with responsibility.Part One...
2025-09-0231 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER018 | Stop Giving Up On Yourself🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is a loving but honest reminder to stop giving up on yourself. So many women start strong and then walk away when the results don’t come fast enough. Whether it’s healing work, journaling, therapy, supplements, cultivating healthy friendships, or personal growth, we often abandon the very practices that would change our lives if we stayed consistent. In this conversation, we unpack why the brain craves instant results, how subconscious attachment to outcomes pulls you off...
2025-08-2627 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER017 | If Love Comes, Beautiful. If Not, Life Still Gets to Be Good🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is a real conversation about love, non-attachment, and building a life that feels full whether partnership comes or not. So many women quietly wonder if love is still possible for them or if they should stop hoping altogether. In this conversation, I share how practicing non-attachment transformed my relationship with love, dating, and my own life. Non-attachment is not giving up. It’s freedom. It’s learning how to protect your peace, romanticize your everyday, and...
2025-08-1931 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER016 | The Trap of Having It All Figured Out: Releasing Pressure and Trusting the Process🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode speaks to the pressure so many women carry to have their life fully figured out by a certain age. That mindset creates anxiety, perfectionism, and a constant sense of falling behind, even when you’re doing the work and growing. We’re talking about where this pressure comes from, how it keeps you chasing an imaginary finish line, and why releasing the need to know everything can bring more peace, clarity, and alignment into your life. Wh...
2025-08-1223 min
Quiet Connection - Postpartum Mental HealthAshlee K - Not the Plan: Birth, Trauma, and Postpartum SurvivalSend us a textIn this deeply moving episode of Quiet Connection, I’m connecting with Ashlee King, a mother whose path into parenthood was anything but smooth. Ashlee shares her harrowing journey through hyperemesis gravidarum, preeclampsia, HELLP syndrome, a traumatic emergency C-section, and multiple postpartum hemorrhages. Her daughter’s NICU stay was only the beginning of a long road of emotional and physical healing.Ashlee’s vulnerability and strength shine as she discusses postpartum anxiety, mom rage, and the pressure to “be okay” when everything around her was falling apart. From living in a camper in...
2025-08-111h 06Evolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER015: Before the Blessings Materialize, This Happens First..This episode is a soft but powerful energy forecast for the woman who’s been doing the journaling, the therapy, the tapping, the morning walks, the deep inner work.And maybe you’ve been wondering when it’s all going to show up in your life.When the blessings are going to land.When the energy shifts are going to feel real.What if I told you the return on investment has already begun?It just doesn’t look like what you expected.Before the blessings arrive,You feel differen...
2025-08-0521 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER014 | The Power of Daily Joy Deposits: How Joy Builds Confidence, Magnetism, and Ease🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is an invitation to reconnect with joy as a daily practice, not something you earn after healing or hard seasons. We’re exploring how joy shifts your energy, supports nervous system regulation, and strengthens confidence, magnetism, and embodiment. Joy helps you feel more present, grounded, and open as you move through your life and step into the woman you’re becoming. You’ll learn how to build your personal joy bank, romanticize the small moments, and be...
2025-07-2423 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER013 | How To Make Room for the Love You Actually Want...🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode opens a real conversation about the beliefs you carry around love, where they come from, and how they influence what you allow yourself to receive. Many of these beliefs were formed as protection after disappointment, heartbreak, or unmet expectations, but over time they can limit your ability to experience the partnership you desire. We explore how to move from cynicism into discernment, rebuild emotional safety, and step into the identity of a woman who feels sec...
2025-07-1719 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER012 | Are You Supporting Your Future Self or Stressing Her Out? A Healing Reframe for Overthinkers🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode invites you to take an honest look at the energy you’re sending into your future. So many women believe they’re supporting their future selves, but underneath the mindfulness and presence, there’s still anxiety, pressure, and fear looping in the background. That energy doesn’t disappear. It moves forward and can impact the life your future self is stepping into.We’re talking about how overthinking, rushing your healing, and constantly scanning...
2025-07-1716 min
Purposeful Women of GodRiches, Righteousness & Remaining Steadfast | James Series Ep. 10We made it! Today’s episode is the final one in our James series and we are wrapping up with chapter 5. There are 6 themes within this chapter we’ll be covering today and those themes are: the rich man, being patient to the coming of the Lord, letting your yes mean yes and your no mean no, praying over your afflictions, the prayer of a righteous man availeth much and saving the ones that go astray. As you can see we have a lot we’re diving into today.We have enjoyed studying this series so much and ho...
2025-07-0838 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER011 | How to Trust That Your Inner Work Is Paying Off🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is your reminder to slow down and actually witness the woman you’re becoming. So often you’re growing, healing, regulating, and showing up in ways you never have before, but because the progress isn’t loud or dramatic, you overlook it. Sometimes you are already living in what you used to pray for, and the only thing missing is your ability to recognize it.We’re talking about honoring your growth in real time, cel...
2025-07-0315 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgBold Beginnings: A Celebration of One Brave Yes, Fifty-Two Episodes, and the Listeners Who Made It MatterWe made it to 52! In this special season finale episode, Ashlee is joined by her favorite co-hosts - her kids - for a behind-the-scenes celebration of The Big Ideas Podcast’s first full year.It’s a heartfelt (and unedited) conversation filled with gratitude, giggles, awkward silences, toddler mic battles, and the kind of unscripted sweetness that reminds us why we show up in the first place.Together, they look back on:Favorite memories from Season 3Big takeaways and lessons from a year of podcastingWhat’s coming next in Seas...
2025-07-0218 min
Hope Cast275. Ashlee's Story In this episode, Ricky and Bonnie are joined by Ashlee, another Living Hope participant, as she shares her own perspective on coming to Living Hope and how God has met her in her own struggles and journey with same-sex attraction. They discuss the need for vulnerability in the church and how to encourage that in communities of believers.
2025-06-3022 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER010 | What’s for You May Already Be Here: Training Your Mind to See It🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is your reminder that what you’ve been praying for might already be in your life, you just haven’t learned to see it yet. Sometimes the shift is about recognizing the clarity, support, alignment, and opportunities God has already placed around you. We’re exploring how your Reticular Activating System shapes what you notice, what you overlook, and what you allow yourself to believe is possible. When your mind is trained to expect struggle or dis...
2025-06-2616 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgCalled to Build Together: Practical Help for Couples Balancing Marriage, Business & Mission with Andy IlgYou’ve heard the phrase “don’t mix business with pleasure”, — but what if doing life and work together was God’s idea?In this heartfelt and honest episode, Ashlee is joined by her husband, Andy, for a behind-the-scenes conversation about navigating marriage, business, parenting, and purpose as a team.From scheduling date nights and sharing responsibilities to giving grace when life gets messy, they share the real (and sometimes embarrassing) ways they stay aligned in a world that’s always pulling them in a million directions.Whether you’re already building something with your spouse o...
2025-06-2526 min
Hope Mommies Podcast - Gospel Hope for Grieving MomsEpisode 46: Praying The Lord's Prayer Through Pregnancy After Loss with Ashlee SchmidtAshlee Schmidt joins Kristin Hernandez for a conversation about drawing near to God in prayer and trusting His love and sovereignty through the journey of pregnancy after loss. Ashlee vulnerably shares her story of losing two babies and navigating the high-risk pregnancy that followed, and how God taught her to lean on Him in the midst of grief, fear, and uncertainty. Together, Kristin and Ashlee introduce Hope Mommies' newest Hope Group study, designed to walk alongside women navigating pregnancy after loss through the framework of the Lord's Prayer. Whether you're in this season yourself or simply seeking...
2025-06-2553 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER009: Energy Healing Changed My Life...and It’s Been Guiding My Becoming Ever Since.🌺 Get My Soft Life Subliminal 🌺In this episode, Ashlee shares how energy healing became one of the most supportive practices in her life. Not just when things were hard, but even when everything was going well.She walks you through how she blends it into her own life, and why it’s a tool you can start using right now. You’ll also get to experience a short guided moment to help you clear your energy in real time.In This Episode▸ How Ashlee discovered energy healing and made it her own...
2025-06-1917 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER008 | Why Knowing Better Doesn’t Always Lead to Change🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is for the woman who knows better but still struggles to do better, even after all the healing work, mindset shifts, and breakthroughs. We’re getting honest about that space between awareness and action, the part of your journey where old patterns keep repeating because your nervous system, your identity, or unhealed parts of you still feel safer in the familiar. Ashlee breaks down why this happens, how to rebuild self trust, and what it looks li...
2025-06-1218 min
Purposeful Women of GodFaith without Favoritism | James Series Ep. 6Have you known people that just hang around certain people for the status or notoriety it gives them? What about at church, have certain members been treated differently than others because of their societal status? Showing favoritism to some while neglecting others has been an issue since the beginning of time and it’s what James will be addressing in the lesson we are teaching today.We will be diving into chapter 2 today looking at verses 1-12. We have all been guilty of showing favoritism from time to time but we hope by the end of this le...
2025-06-1042 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER007 | Discipline Is the Bridge Between You and the Woman You’re Becoming🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is a reminder that discipline is the bridge between who you are now and the woman you’re becoming. Motivation comes and goes, but discipline is what builds confidence, clarity, emotional stability, and the kind of self-trust your future self needs. We talk about the real side of consistency, especially for the woman who feels distracted, overwhelmed, neuro-spicy, or tired of starting over. You get to define what consistency looks like for you, and you get to...
2025-06-0523 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER006 | You Don’t Need to Hit Rock Bottom to Evolve🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is your reminder that you don’t have to hit rock bottom to evolve. So many women wait until everything is falling apart before they finally choose themselves, but real growth doesn’t require a crisis. Sometimes the shift begins with a nudge, a sense of restlessness, or the knowing that you’ve outgrown a version of yourself that no longer feels aligned. This conversation explores why we’ve been conditioned to link transformation with struggle and...
2025-05-2918 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgPlot Twists, Pain, and the Presence of God: An Unhinged Conversation with Amanda HayhurstJoin Ashlee and Amanda Hayhurst - author, speaker, & Bible teacher - for a deeply moving conversation as Amanda shares the plot twists that shake the very core of your faith. From life-threatening health diagnoses (plural!), to marriage struggles, Amanda is a living testimony of what it means to walk through the valley with God beside you every step of the way. With unflinching honesty and gentle hope, Amanda invites you into the raw spaces most people are afraid to speak about. You’ll hear:Why feeling your feelings is not weakness, but a pathway to true he...
2025-05-2844 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER005 | Stop Waiting to Live: Finding Joy in the In-Between Seasons Of Life🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode is a gentle reminder that the in-between is not a waiting room. It’s the season after you’ve outgrown who you used to be but before the next version of your life fully takes shape. So many women pause their joy here. You shrink your confidence, you hold back, you wait for clarity, success, or love before you let yourself really live again. But this space isn’t punishment. It’s preparation. It’s where God grows y...
2025-05-2220 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgDream Big, Lift Heavy: The Unstoppable Woman’s Guide to Winning at Every AgeJoin Ashlee and powerhouse guest - Payden Montgomery - as they dive into Payden’s bold leap from her corporate climb to co-owning GoPerformance, coaching champions, and raising the next generation of strong men.In this fire-fueled conversation, Payden will: • Light a fire under your dreams and challenge you to chase what sets your soul ablaze — no holding back, no second-guessing; • Drop real-world wisdom to help you become the strongest, healthiest version of yourself — not just for today, but for the decades still waiting for you to...
2025-05-1441 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER004 | You’re Not Lost. You’re in a Midlife Awakening.🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode speaks to the mid-life awakening so many women enter in their mid to late 30s. It’s the season where nothing is falling apart, yet nothing feels fully aligned anymore. Your desires shift, your spirit feels restless, and you start craving clarity, depth, peace, and a life that reflects who you’re becoming. This conversation helps you understand the signs of awakening, why this transition can feel confusing even when everything looks fine on paper, and ho...
2025-05-1219 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER003 | I Chose Myself: My Midlife Awakening and Identity Shift🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)This episode walks you through the mid-life awakening that shifted everything for me. At 35, I reached the moment where I could no longer settle for a life that looked successful but felt misaligned with who I was becoming. This conversation explores what it means to let go of old identities, release what no longer supports your growth, and trust God through a season of uncertainty, clarity, emotional healing, and deep transition. If you’re craving freedom, purpose, co...
2025-05-1221 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER002 | Becoming HER Is a Devotion to Your Future Self🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)In this episode, we dig into what it truly means to become HER, not as a trend or an aesthetic but as a devotion to the woman you are becoming. This conversation opens the door to deeper confidence, emotional healing, self-trust, and the kind of clarity that comes when you stop performing and start aligning with your authentic identity. If you’ve been doing all the right things but still feel disconnected from yourself, this episode helps you r...
2025-05-1211 minEvolving Into HER | Mindset, Identity, and Confidence Coaching for The Woman Becoming HER001 | This Podcast Is A Safe Space for Women in Transition and Becoming🎧 Get My Soft Life Subliminal for FREE📚 Explore My Book Recommendations📩 Join HER Inner Circle (Email List)Evolving Into HER begins with the story behind this space and the woman it was created for. This episode meets you in the in-between seasons where you’re growing, healing, rebuilding confidence, and learning to trust God in a deeper way. If you’ve outgrown who you used to be and you’re craving clarity, purpose, peace, and a life that feels aligned with your true identity, this conversation will feel like coming home. We explore what it means t...
2025-05-1214 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgBeyond the (Disney) Castle: How to Turn Your Dream into a MovementJoin Ashlee and special guest Malorie Elrod —adoption advocate and founder of Funding Love—as they share Malorie’s passion for serving the adoption community, which, surprisingly, led her family straight to the Magic Kingdom Castle. In this honest conversation, Malorie will inspire you to:Expand your vision for what God can do through your “Yes, I will!”; Trust your craziest ideas with bold faith & brave action; andDeepen your understanding of & compassion towards everyone in the adoption community.If you’re curio...
2025-05-0742 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgConquer Your Message: Unlock the Power of Your WordsJoin Ashlee and special guest - Grammy-recognized songwriter & co-founder of ConquerPreneur Tonya Stout - as they reveal of power of turning our testimonies into compelling & high-converting messages.In this powerful conversation, Tonya (also known as the “Soundbite Queen”) will empower you to:See your past failures & setbacks as setups for your best comeback; Use your unique talents to multiply and reach many, andBridge the gap between your limited perspective and what God can do through you.If you’ve ever dr...
2025-04-3049 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgUncomfortable Obedience: How to Follow God’s Lead Into Purpose, Promotion, and Public ImpactJoin Ashlee and special guest - Chairperson of the Cobb County GOP, Mary Clarice Hathaway - as they share the good & hard parts of following God’s lead into the world of politics.In this inspiring conversation, Mary Clarice shares:the faith required to pursue opportunities (waaaay!) outside our comfort zones; lessons of stewarding the small things even when there’s no reward; andmindsets to overcome negativity & real-life opposition.If you’ve ever felt God calling you into something new but...
2025-04-2344 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgYou’re Not Too Late: Finding Purpose in Your Waiting SeasonsJoin Ashlee and special guest - author & speaker Rebecca George - as they reveal deep truths from her new book, “You’re Not Too Late: Trusting God’s Timing in a Hurry-Up World.” (Order today at the link below!)In this thoughtful & honest conversation, Rebecca shares:personal experiences of overcoming comparison, doubt, and deep longings;the dangers of living in the “if onlys” and finding purpose right here-right now; andthe gift (often in disguise) that closed doors really are.If you’ve ever wrestl...
2025-04-1639 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgUnderestimated: How to Overcome Fear’s Lies Once & For AllJoin Ashlee and special guest - bestselling author & speaker Mary Marantz - as they dig deep into her new book, “Underestimated,” and pull back the curtain on Fear’s most common (and boring!) lies, and share how we can overcome them once and for all.In this candid conversation, Mary reveals:why creative entrepreneurs are the most at risk and how we can stand against Fear’s tactics,the dangers of overthinking and what’s reeaaally happening,the power within us to create something new - NOW.
2025-04-0953 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgIt Takes Two: How to Build a Solid Marriage AND Business EmpireJoin Ashlee and her special guest - her husband and multi-business owner, Andy Ilg - as they share their up-close-and-VERY-personal story of building companies from their home garage to nationwide… and creating a lasting family legacy. In this honest and enlightening episode, they’ll share: Confessions of some of their hardest moments in marriage & business,Encouragement to break free from the “Golden Handcuffs,” and Husband/Wife hacks for working together and bringing out the best in each otherIf you’ve ever wante...
2025-04-0250 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgThe Inside Scoop: How to Build Businesses While Raising BabiesJoin Ashlee and special guest - business owner & mom of 5, Lauren Koritko - as Lauren shares her honest & inspiring story of starting (multiple!) businesses while raising (lots of!) babies. You’ll hear how she: Created boundaries to protect her family’s goals & dreams Overcame the comparison trap & “mom guilt”Learned to pivot when seasons change If you’ve ever wondered “how in the world can you run successful businesses AND raise your family to love it too?”, this episode is for YOU. You’re going to want to push Pla...
2025-03-2645 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgTake the Leap: It’s Time to Elevate Your LifeJoin Ashlee and special guest - business owner & special event planner, Meg Enge - as Meg shares her up-close & personal journey of following God’s call to take the biggest leap of her life. Listen as she proves that we have no time to waste, empowers us to do what we never thought was possible, and reminds us about the importance of setting real-life examples for the next generation.If you’ve ever wondered if you’re hearing from God or moving in His timing, this episode is for YOU. You’re going to want to...
2025-03-191h 03
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgYes, YOU! How To Step Into Your Purpose with Holy ConfidenceJoin Ashlee and special guest - author & speaker, Whitney Akin - as Whitney shares her powerful (and ironic!) journey of becoming an author and helping others feel seen. Listen as she challenges us to seek God’s approval above others’ opinions, to know the difference between truly resting or just hiding, and to have a “holy confidence” to step outside our comfort zones again & again.If you’ve ever felt unqualified in your calling or doubted God could use your story, this episode is for YOU. You’re going to want to push Play now to hear As...
2025-03-1237 min
Coffee + Crumbs PodcastWhat's Saving My Life Right NowFrom rediscovering the art of thrifting to embracing breathwork, today we're sharing what's keeping us grounded in the midst of life's demands. While Ashlee's fueling her body with protein smoothies and filling her Little Free Library with hope-filled books, Katie's got Jackie Hill Perry in her earbuds and Half Baked Harvest meals on her plate. We hope this episode inspires you to find a workspace with loads of natural light (it doesn't have to be a coffee shop!) and a sliver of time to finally clean out that junk drawer. This show is brought to you ad-free b...
2025-03-1137 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgReady or Not: Designing a Life You (Really!) Want" with Micayla BedoianJoin Ashlee and special guest - co-owner of Refined Marketing and graphic design expert, Micayla Bedoian - as Micayla shares her inspiring story of overcoming insecurities and trusting that she was capable of so.much.more. Listen as she reveals the power of surrendering our plans, empowers us to get over ourselves to serve others, and shares expertise on growing a stand-out brand in today’s market.If you’ve ever felt the nudge to step into something new but you need an extra dose of courage to show up truly as yourself, this epis...
2025-03-0550 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgTrue Resilience: Turning Hard Seasons into Healing That LastsJoin Ashlee and special guest - writer, podcast host & journaling expert, Jessica Boarman - as Jessica shares her heart-wrenching story of loss and the hidden destruction it caused. Listen as she exposes lies about perfectionism, redefines what true resilience looks like, and provides practical ways to move forward after experiencing deep grief.If you’ve ever felt stuck in a season of grief or need encouragement that there’s a greater hope, this episode is for YOU. You’re going to want to push Play now to hear Ashlee & Jessica’s conversation to make sure thi...
2025-02-2645 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgBecause God Says So: How to Walk in Your True WorthJoin Ashlee and special guest, ministry leader and entrepreneur Sara Byars, as they talk about Sara’s inspiring redemption story. Listen as she shares about overcoming her struggle with self-worth, learning to hear God’s voice over the world’s, and leading others with a bold purpose.If you’ve ever felt unqualified and need some practical steps for believing what God says about you, this episode is for YOU. You’re going to want to push Play now to hear Ashlee & Sara’s conversation to make sure this next season is full of big dreams c...
2025-02-1945 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgBecause God Says So: How to Walk in Your True WorthJoin Ashlee and special guest, ministry leader and entrepreneur Sara Byars, as they talk about Sara’s inspiring redemption story. Listen as she shares about overcoming her struggle with self-worth, learning to hear God’s voice over the world’s, and leading others with a bold purpose.If you’ve ever felt unqualified and need some practical steps for believing what God says about you, this episode is for YOU. You’re going to want to push Play now to hear Ashlee & Sara’s conversation to make sure this next season is full of big dreams coming true...
2025-02-1915 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgColoring Outside the Lines: How to Live with Uncompromising BoldnessJoin Ashlee and special guest, fabric & fashion designer Katie Kortman, as they talk about Katie’s entrepreneurial journey from her home closet to the runway! Listen as Katie:• shares stories from her early days of sewing clothes for her growing family• reminds us to show up boldly even when we feel inadequate• challenges us to wear bright “scary” colors because it helps more than just us. If you need some inspiration to trust your gut or take action even when you feel...
2025-02-1247 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgNo Regrets - You Were Made For ThisWelcome to Season 3! Join Ashlee and special guest Erin Weathers as they kick off the new season with a powerful episode that’s sure to inspire. Listen as Erin shares honest stories of growing her career when she “had no business doing that!”, exposes lies that tried holding her back, and breakthrough mindsets she’s learned along the way.Â
If you need inspiration to move forward on a dream that seems too big or too late, this episode is for YOU. Push Play now to hear Ashlee & Erin’s conversation to make sure this next season...
2025-02-0547 min
Purposeful Women of GodWho is Jesus to the Catholic?We can’t believe we are almost half way through our new series “Who is Jesus to You?” If you have missed the first 3 episodes in this series you’ll want to go back and check those out.Today we will be looking at “Who is Jesus to the Catholic?” Out of all the religions we have looked at so far I will say the Catholic statement of faith aligns the closest with Christianity. Because of this it may be hard to see the differences in what Catholics believe versus what Christians believe and that’s what we want to hel...
2025-02-0444 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgDream It. Plan It. Do It!Join Ashlee for their final episode of 2024 as she shares her family’s tried-and-true practice of creating dream boards AND making a plan of action to actually accomplish those big dreams. If you need some inspiration to help your kids (or yourself!) dream big dreams, or some practical steps to make them reality, this episode is for you. You’re going to want to push Play now to hear Ashlee’s 6 Steps for Setting Goals to make sure this next season is full of big dreams coming true for you. Â
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2024-12-1020 min
Big Ideas Podcast with Ashlee IlgSecrets of GratitudeJoin Ashlee for this timely and honest conversation as she shares her family’s personal story from this time last year as they faced severe health challenges. Noting that being thankful doesn’t mean being naive to reality, Ashlee helps to unlock the secrets to finding gratitude no matter what season you’re in. If you want this Season of Thanks to help build a future of optimism and hope, this episode is for you!
Be sure to grab the 6-Step Guide to Chase Down Your Biggest Dreams here.Â
As always, we hope t...
2024-11-1115 min
Coffee + Crumbs PodcastThe Parenting Hope We All Need Right Now with Sissy GoffFriends, grab your notepad and pen before you hit play on this one. Licensed professional counselor, renowned author, and co-host of the Raising Boys and Girls podcast Sissy Goff (!) is with us today—and you're going to want to write down everything she says. Sissy is both a beacon of light and a wealth of tangible advice. We chat about fostering deep connections with our kids, guiding children toward self-confidence, and even some simple steps to change the trajectory of our families if we need a restart on the path toward healing. Sissy's encouragement is equal parts practical and pr...
2024-04-3043 min
Purposeful Women of GodHope for Hall with Founder Caroline Filchak - Inspiring Inclusive PlayIn today’s episode we are speaking with the founder of Hope for Hall, Caroline Filchak. Caroline is a Hall County native and has such an inspiring story. She speaks of living a very charmed life with her family as she grew up and she would eventually go on to marry her high school sweetheart. Caroline and her husband welcomed their first child into the world a healthy baby boy but it wasn’t until their second child that Caroline’s focus began to shift as her world would be turned upside down. They were faced with severa...
2023-10-2428 min
Abram's SongIntroduction & DiagnosisWhat if the most unimaginable tragedy turned into a lifeline for others? This is the raw and riveting journey of Jack and Ashlee, who faced the devastating loss of their son, Abram, to a terminal illness. Over a span of 22 months, they dealt with an astounding array of challenges - from the gut-wrenching diagnosis to the stark differences in how they processed their grief. Their story is an earnest testament to resilience and the strength of faith amidst unimaginable pain.
Navigating through the complex medical system becomes a necessity when you’re advocating for so...
2023-09-241h 01Michael and Mom Talk CancerMichael and Mom Talk Cancer: Episode 25, Talking with THE Marques OgdenJoin Michael and ashlee (mom) as they speak with Marques Ogden, who had it all, lost it all, and is now sharing his message of inspiration with us. Marques is a former NFL player, who became a successful entrepreneur, but then hit rock bottom, lost his fortune, turned to alcohol and painkillers, found himself working as a custodian to survive, with only $400 to his name. Marques realized the analogy in his new job of cleaning offices, to cleaning up his life. He picked himself up, finding purpose in his pain. Such a similar message to Michael and Ashlee, who...
2023-07-1618 min
The Joyful Mourning - A Podcast for Women Who Have Experienced Pregnancy or Infant Loss190. 10 Things to Know About Grief After Baby Loss: What I Wish Every Grieving Mom Knew with Ashlee ProffittIn this episode I am sharing with you what I want every grieving mom to know about grief after the loss of a baby. If we were sitting down for coffee and I could share with you what I have learned in the nearly 15 years since losing my infant son about grief and navigating this journey of life after loss, these are the things I would tell you. I pray they offer you hope. I pray they remind you that you are not alone. THIS EPISODE IS DEDICATED TO JACOB WALKER. T...
2023-02-0933 min
Teams with EDGEBONUS REPEAT: Boundary is not a Dirty WordWe're on hiatus for the summer - watch for the launch of Season 4 on August 25. In the meantime, take some time to enjoy one of our most popular episodes from Season 3. Boundaries are a big topic - we need to think about them, plan them, set to them, and stick to them to uncover that elusive work life balance. Hope you're having a great summer.
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Setting and communicating boundaries can be a difficult exercise. Boundaries can feel restrictive and limiting. But I challenge you to think of them as freeing – as setting yourself up for su...
2022-08-0431 min
For the love of humanityIn Transformation + Trust Series Part 5 Breakdown + RaptureIn this seven part series we discuss Transformation from a conscious and intentional evolutionary perspective. Â This episode is deeply personal, I speak about the breakdown, the bare emotional experience of unravelling, real time inspiration and catalyst and my experience of rapturous love. Â Sharing this I hope to provide a sense of commonality and compassion for anyone going through change in their life and walking the evolutionary path - everyone. Â I discuss my hope and generalized love for humanity as we walk out this collectively transformative time! Â Â
I am so grateful to be able to show up here and be vulnerable and l...
2022-07-1849 min
With WomanBirth of a mother: Rosie & Mac In todays episode, midwives Sophie and Ashlee are joined by Rosie - who shares her incredible waterbirth with her first son, Mac. With Ashlee as Rosie’s midwife the theme of this episode is truly how impactful woman centred care can be. Rosie explores how the support of her doula helped change her perception of birth and taught her to let go of expectation. How she changed models of care guided by intuition & the importance of reminding your partner to check if theres petrol in the car! As usual there’s lots of laug...
2022-04-251h 12
Teams with EDGES2 Episode 20: Gratitude and the Confidence to Lead Authentically with Morgan RuffMorgan Ruff spent 20+ years working in the environmental field. She found herself lost and broken down. Instead of giving up, she learned to cultivate hope and joy from within to become a stronger leader and a stronger person. In this episode Ashlee and Morgan discuss the practice and power of gratitude, and how learning to be truly grateful can help nourish your confidence as a leader...and in life.
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2022-01-2747 min
Coffee + Crumbs PodcastGrief and Hope with Kristin YoungOur guest this week, Kristin Young, knows a thing or two about grief—five years ago, she lost her son Colby to cancer. Miraculously, she knows even more about hope. In this episode, Kristin graciously shares what it's like to hold sorrow and joy simultaneously, how she's learned to make grief her friend, and how we often learn things through suffering we could never grasp by only having joy. We hope this conversation offers you a glimmer of hope, and encourages you as much as it did us. For more encouragement in your motherhood journey, check out th...
2021-12-071h 00Teams with EDGES2 Episode 12: Flip the drama triangle, and ditch the culture of complainingWhen there's tension on your team, everyone feels it. Your team suffers by feeling stuck and powerless. Your work suffers as productivity goes down. You as a leader suffer as your time is taken up by managing conflict. But there's hope - you can flip the script and help your team become empowered to solve problems.
In this episode, we talk about the Drama Triangle, and the roles leaders and their teams can play in building - and continuing - conflict. By recognizing our own role, we can help change the dynamic and ditch the culture of...
2021-11-2529 min
ReadabilityEpisode #65: Things I Want to See From Shadow and Bone Season TwoHello and welcome or welcome back to Readability! 📚This week, I wanted to talk about my thoughts and hopes for the second season of Shadow and Bone! This show has given me so much hope for the future of book to screen adaptations. Let’s talk about what I think should happen and what I’m looking forward to in season two! Hope you enjoy, keep reading folks bye!Readability is an anchor podcast by me, Ashlee Kelsen! I am twelve-years-old and really love talking about books! This podcast is family friendly. However, audiences will be warned of any themes in book...
2021-10-0310 minReadabilityEpisode #54: Tips to Read Multiple Books at OnceHello and welcome or welcome back to Readability! 📚Reading multiple, like two or three books at once, sounds a little more then slightly difficult, but it’s really not! It’s something that I’ve practically mastered, and I wanted to give my tips and tricks to doing so! I hope these help and hope that you enjoy this episode of Readability!!Readability is an anchor podcast by me, Ashlee Kelsen! I am twelve-years-old and really love talking about books! This podcast is family friendly. However, audiences will be warned of any themes in books I review.Keep reading folks! 📚--- Support...
2021-07-2205 minReadabilityEpisode #52: Playing Akinator with Ashlee!Hello and welcome or welcome back to Readability! 📚Oops, sorry for the second long episode so far. I had a lot of fun making it though! Today, I’ll be playing Akinator, where a genie, the Akinator, tries to guess what character I’m thinking of. I did a lot, and you may or may not have heard of some of them, so I hope it’s a fun time! Don’t worry, next week will be a review instead of a lengthy, unscripted episode from moi. Hope you enjoy!!Readability is an anchor podcast by me, Ashlee Kelsen! I am twelve-y...
2021-07-1152 min
The Purpose of Motherhood33. Hope in the DarkHave life’s trials left you feeling forgotten, hurt, angry, or depressed? Do you need to hear that yes you will be ok, yes there is hope, and that you are not alone? Get ready to grasp that much-needed fresh breath of air as we talk to author Candice Deleeuw. Her testimony of how darkness turned to a morning ray of hope after the loss of her son is a message you need to hear. Connect with her on IG @Candice_deleeuw or on FB @candicedeleeuw.author. You can find out more about HHH at https://hopeinhealinghearts.org Grab her bo...
2021-05-2633 minReadabilityEpisode #41: Cinder by Marissa Meyer ReviewHello and welcome or welcome back to Readability! 📚Welcome back to Readability! It’s Ashlee once again to review, read or recommend. I am so stoked to be back! In this episode, I wanted to talk about a series that brought me back into read and means a lot to me, The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer! I hope you enjoy and I’ll see you next week for a new episode!Readability is an anchor podcast by me, Ashlee Kelsen! I am twelve-years-old and really love talking about books, along with reading them! This podcast is family friendly. I don’t u...
2021-05-0811 minThe Joyful Mourning - A Podcast for Women Who Have Experienced Pregnancy or Infant Loss100. 5 Things I've Learned About Grief & Baby Loss from 100 Episodes with Ashlee ProffittYou are listening to The Joyful Mourning Podcast episode 100. I cannot even believe it. God has used stories and honesty, tears and even laughter to bring joy and hope and healing to women around the world who have experienced the loss of a baby. This episode is an incredible milestone. One that I can hardly believe. There were many many weeks when the ontaking of producing yet another episode felt too much or too heavy. There were weeks when I wanted to shut the nearly broken laptop or put away the microphone and call it...
2020-11-1325 min
Living Hope WesleyanBonus episode! Pastor Jeff interviews Ashlee Eilandwww.AshleeEiland.com
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2020-10-0755 min
“Can We Talk” with Hope GiselleLet’s Keep it Real With: Ashlee Marie PrestonOn this episode Ashlee and I dig deep on the hard stuff and were able to peel back a couple layers of the media frenzy trans women of color are swept into while navigating the reality of living life itself.
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2020-01-271h 53
Coffee + Crumbs PodcastEncore Episode: Motherhood + Loneliness (Ashlee's Favorite)We thought it would be fun to end season four by revisiting some of our most loved episodes. Today is Ashlee's favorite, where we unpack why motherhood feels so isolating sometimes. Don't miss the episode's new intro and wrap up, with Indiana, April, and Ashlee's final chat together! Whether you're new to motherhood altogether or a veteran mom who hasn't found her tribe yet, we hope you can relate to this vulnerable conversation and walk away inspired to put yourself out there. Visit us at Patreon to learn more about how you can support us next year. ...
2019-12-1735 min
The Joyful Mourning - A Podcast for Women Who Have Experienced Pregnancy or Infant Loss057 Navigating The Holidays After Pregnancy Or Infant Loss With Ashlee KaraschEach week during the month of November I am interviewing women about what it looked like to navigate the holiday season while grieving. In Episode 56 I spent time talking with Lindsey Dennis and her perspective was incredibly helpful and relatable, especially for a mom who has received a life-limiting diagnosis for their baby. In this week's episode I am interviewing Ashlee Karasch about her experience with miscarriage and navigating the holidays while grieving the loss of her baby. Her insight is grace-filled and hope-filled and also full of very practical thoughts about navigating family expectations and potential triggers. She shares...
2019-11-1452 min
The Joyful Mourning - A Podcast for Women Who Have Experienced Pregnancy or Infant Loss026 Miscarriages, Questioning Your Faith & Trying to Get Pregnant Again With Ashlee KaraschEpisode 026. In this episode I talk with Ashlee Karasch, a wife and a mama, who has walked through multiple miscarriages. In this episode Ashlee shares her story of loss and how during that season of intense grief her faith was tested as she questioned everything she thought she believed. Ashlee shares honestly about how she found healing, what advice she would give to a grieving couple, and what it was like to try to get pregnant again. She also talks about how she found help amidst her loss and her answer might surprise you. Lastly, we talk about the importance...
2019-03-1351 min
Coffee + Crumbs PodcastThis Is How We Do: Organization & SystemsCalling all Monica Gellers! From family schedules and laundry to email and to-do lists—today we're sharing the organizational tips and systems that keep our homes running (relatively?) smoothly. In this episode, April shares a smart hack for managing mail (tip: don't let it enter the house!), Ashlee passionately discusses her cutthroat approach to clutter, and Indi is mostly just here to listen and learn. Whether you geek out over a pretty color-coded calendar like April or keep your entire family's schedule in your head like Ashlee, we hope this conversation makes you smile and possibly inspires you to fi...
2018-10-1645 min
Coffee + Crumbs PodcastGrow Your Hope with Ruth Chou Simons"You don't have to be blooming to be growing." Oh, how encouraged we are by these words from Ruth Chou Simons! On today's episode Indiana and Ashlee chat with Ruth, artist, photographer and mom to six boys, about her initial calling as an artist, her current blossoming career and what life looked like in the waiting in between. We talk about what it looks like to cultivate hope in the midst of the mundane, uncertainty, and creative setbacks. Like what you heard? Visit coffeeandcrumbs.net for more inspiration on your motherhood journey. And, don't forget to subscribe...
2018-04-1039 min