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Limitless: Unlocking Your True Potential31. Quitting the Job, Not the Mission: Leaving the System to Step Into Alignment (with Dr. Ashley Blackington)“I don’t ever want to feel like this again—and I don’t want to feel like this so badly that I am willing to be incredibly uncomfortable figuring it out.”In this powerful episode, I sit down with Dr. Ashley Blackington, occupational therapist, founder, mother of four, and lifelong cycle breaker, for a conversation that weaves motherhood, identity, healthcare systems, entrepreneurship, and intuitive leadership into one beautifully honest tapestry. Ashley shares the pivotal moment she decided to walk away from a system that no longer aligned, the uncomfortable clarity that followed, and the deeply human process of...2025-04-221h 02 $AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You\'ve Been Missing$ AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing70. From Surgeon to Startup: Dr. Noor Ali on Building Businesses, Babies, and BoundariesSupport AND/BOTH: Help us offset production costs while we're growingIn this episode of The And Both Podcast, Dr. Ashley welcomes Dr. Noor Ali, a Bangladeshi-American medical doctor turned health insurance consultant, community builder, and beverage brand co-founder. Dr. Ali shares her remarkable journey from immigrating to the U.S. at age five to becoming a surgeon abroad—and later pivoting her career after facing insurmountable red tape while trying to transfer her medical credentials back to the U.S.You'll learn:How to navigate major life and career pivots with resilience and int...2025-04-1854 min $AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You\'ve Been Missing$ AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing69. Trauma Lives in the Body: Sangheetha Parthasarathy’s Journey Through Immigration and HealingSupport AND/BOTH: Help us offset production costs while we're growingIn this episode of The And Both Podcast, Ashley sits down with the incredible Sangheetha Parthasarathy—a Harvard and MIT alum, birth worker, and now nervous system coach. Sanha’s career journey took her from major consulting firms like Oracle and Accenture to co-founding a nonprofit focused on birth advocacy and eventually building her own body of work around somatic trauma healing and nervous system regulation.Ashley and Sangheetha covered a lot in this conversation, including:What it feels like to li...2025-04-111h 01 $AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You\'ve Been Missing$ AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing68. Feeding with Love: Supporting Infants and Mothers in Uncertain Times With Suzie DriscollSupport AND/BOTH: Help us offset production costs while we're growingIn this episode, Ashley is joined by Suzie Driscoll, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of Tiny and Mighty Therapy, specializing in infant feeding. Together, they reflect on becoming first-time moms during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and how those experiences shaped their parenting, careers, and personal growth.Suzie shares her journey from working at Seattle Children’s Hospital to launching her own private practice, motivated by the challenges she faced with feeding her newborn during lockdown. With deep empathy and clinical exp...2025-04-0447 min $AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You\'ve Been Missing$ AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing67. Startups, Parenting and Unexpected Caregiving with Three Time Founder Ellen HockleySupport AND/BOTH: Help us offset production costs while we're growingIn this episode, we're sitting down with Ellen Hockley—a seasoned entrepreneur, mom of two, and caregiver—to explore what it truly looks like to build and grow businesses while managing life’s most demanding roles. Ellen shares her journey from founding a sustainable event planning company in NYC, to launching a maternity activewear brand during the pandemic, and most recently, starting her consulting firm that supports postpartum and purpose-driven female founders.The conversation also dives into Ellen’s unexpected role as a care...2025-03-281h 02

Quotable: A Female Entrepreneur PodcastStreamline Your Family Life with Ashley BlackingtonStruggling to keep up with the chaos of work and family life? Do you desire a more harmonious balance? It is possible to unravel the clutter and create a more functional system, and today’s guest, Ashley Blackington, the innovative mind behind Dovetail Designs, has created just the solution for busy moms who are also entrepreneurs. Her home management system is the key to achieving a more efficient, organized and streamlined approach to juggling all the responsibilities, ultimately leading to improved work-life harmony. With her insights, you can optimize your own home management and feel more on top of yo...2024-01-1035 min

Experience Motherhood31. Redefining Home Management and Embracing Shared Parenting with Ashley BlackingtonEver feel like motherhood is an unforgiving juggling act? You're not alone. That's why I've invited Ashley Blackington, an occupational therapist turned CEO of Dovetail Designs, to share her game-changing strategies for transforming the chaos of family life into a harmonious symphony. She created the Dovetail® framework by combining her 12+ years of clinical experience, research, and the lived experience of trying to, collaboratively, run a busy home with her husband. Our discussion uncovers the magic of making the 'invisible' workload visible, redistributing tasks, and establishing a thriving environment of shared parenting responsibilities.As we peel back the l...2024-01-0948 min $AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You\'ve Been Missing$ AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing9. The Home is for Living, Not for Staging with Sara Kelly, founder of Your Aligned HomeSend us a Text Message.This week we are talking with Sara Kelly from Your Aligned Home. Sara is originally from Nebraska but now lives in upstate New York. She is a wife, mom, and dog lover. She’s also had over 20 jobs throughout her life and does not consider herself a career woman. Sara is currently a business owner who is trying to, as cliché as it sounds, enjoy every moment life currently has to offer.Your Aligned Home originated from Sara going into other people’s homes and asking them what...2023-12-151h 05 $AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You\'ve Been Missing$ AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing8. Slowly But Surely, Profound Change Can Happen with author Jenna HermansSend us a Text Message.We are honored to have Jenna Hermans on the show today. She is a wife, mom of four, co-founder and COO of a transformation company called Be Courageous, and author of the book Chaos to Calm - Five Ways Busy Parents Can Break Free from Overwhelm. We are chatting all things from career transitions to what it’s like working with your husband.Jenna has a background in psychology, organizational management, HR, and ran a preschool for five years. All of these skills and experiences set her up...2023-12-0857 min $AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You\'ve Been Missing$ AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing7. It Doesn't Have to Be Invisible with Allie Karagozian, founder of Holding BothSend us a Text Message.Today I am joined by the lovely Allie Karagozian. She is an Occupational Therapist, the owner of Holding Both, and the mom of two young boys. Allie has been an OT since 2015 and founded Holding Both; a organization that helps moms through secondary infertility, in 2022. We discuss how she handles the fast paced life of occupational therapy while balancing the slowing down that is needed when women are experiencing something like secondary infertility.Allie shares her own experience with secondary infertility and explains what it was like...2023-12-0153 min $AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You\'ve Been Missing$ AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing6. The Holiday Pep Talk I Wish I Would've HadSend us a Text Message.I have been in the beginning stages of holiday planning and prep work. What I wanted to do with this episode is come on and share my three points for this season. This is the pep talk I wish I would’ve had years ago so hopefully you are able to take away some pointers.The three areas that I focus on in this conversation are making sure you’re putting yourself on the list, being aware of the “should” activities, and not falling into the marketing scheme o...2023-11-2422 min $AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You\'ve Been Missing$ AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing5. Having a Child Shocks the System with Christina BogatskySend us a Text Message.Christina Bogatsky is a mom of two and has her own coaching practice; Totally Fine Coaching. Before having children she spent nearly two decades in the corporate world. Motherhood rocked her world and in today’s conversation she shares the trials and tribulations she’s learned along the way.We discuss how motherhood opened up her eyes to the small things and allowed her to figure out what really matters. Christina also shares how she had to learn that even five minutes of daily self-care lead to monu...2023-11-1758 min $AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You\'ve Been Missing$ AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing4. Come As You Are with Hive Co-Founder Andrea SommerSend us a Text Message.Today I am sitting down with the very talented, multi-dimensional Hive Co-Founder & CEO Andrea Sommer. Andrea and I first met when I was a participant in the Hive Investment Readiness Accelerator. She is also a mom to an almost five year old daughter and today’s episode is all about showing up as your whole self in entrepreneurship.Andrea shares the backstory of Hive and how it started organically as a support group in a friend’s basement. It has now grown into a global startup accelerator with...2023-11-1044 min