I deeply identify as an entrepreneur. I identify as someone who can see an opportunity because it matches my creativity and my soul’s calling, and can offer something within that gap in the market, and feel confident to back it and to allow it to be something that makes the world a better place. You don’t have to be interested in running your own business to have an entrepreneurial spirit, and that’s what I’m going to talk about today.

Even if no one in your immediate family is an entrepreneur, if you look back far enough in your lineage you will find resourceful, entrepreneurial souls creating wealth, money, and commerce in their own way. Their energy flows through you, even now, and they are so excited for you.

People with an entrepreneurial spirit are much better equipped to:

• Find and create solutions
• Move through transitions with ease and ingenuity
• Seize opportunities
• See unique problems and unique ways to solve them
• Leverage their own superpowers and cultivate high powered communities

I’m glad you’re here because we’re going to activate your creative ownership and entrepreneurial spirit so we can move forward as the generational pattern breakers we are.

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with love, trust and devotion to my path,

Ash x

Music: Cafe Lounge by FASSounds | A Podcast Launch Bestie production

All right, so welcome back to the show.

Those of you who are listening to the podcast, you don't see that it

is most definitely nighttime and uh, if you're on YouTube, you know that

because you're seeing that everything is warmly lit and my eyes are like low.

I'm in my favorite.

Burgundy.

lounge dress.

And it's about, not even about, it's actually after 10:00 PM Um, and if

you guys don't know, not only am I an early bird, but I'm also late to bed.

So I think this is gonna be a very juicy episode, because I'm recording it in.

Pre liminal, cozy, winding down, nice and slow.

Vibe.

Let's crawl in to today's episode.

I'm hoping that even if you're listening to this at the beginning

of your day or midday, you can drop into these very present and relaxing

vibes that I've got going here.

And I would even invite you, if you can, if you wanna sink into the energy that I'm

recording this episode in, if it's not.

Time of day, or you can't get into that state, maybe save this episode, you

know, for end of day when you wanna wind down and, um, be inspired, you know?

Those of you who are listening via the traditional podcast

platforms, rate to give me a review.

I'd love to see you guys sharing this on social media and tagging me.

Um, it, it just delights me to be honest with you.

So a reminder slash invitation slash sharing my desire.

Which I think I talked about that at the very, very beginning

of birthing this podcast.

Um, my desires for this space.

And I still feel they are the same, even though the podcast continues to evolve.

okay, y'all, when I wrote the notes and got this idea about this episode,

I really did think about it through the lens of entrepreneurship and.

Being a small business owner, and the journey of stepping into

your entrepreneurial power, and those of you who don't know this,

it's like my favorite line ever.

I had a background in advertising, branding, market research.

I have, um, been entrepreneurial my whole life or aspired to be an entrepreneur

my whole life and have had so many.

Failed and successful, but mostly failed, experiences.

And so, you know, when I first like really started my business, it was in consulting,

it was leaving the ad industry and taking those services and offering them to mom

and pop and small business owners, um, which then led me into being an advisor

and a consultant, which then led me into.

Coaching then led me into healing.

And here we are, full circle, doing all the things, just being myself.

And so, um, I really did, you know, if I were to say this is a content pillar of

things that I want to talk about on this podcast, conscious business, becoming an

entrepreneur, tapping into your purpose, your passions, your gifts is, you know,

the sentiment, but the takeaway, I'm gonna give you a heads up, the takeaway.

And the key message here is actually applicable to anything and everything in

your life, especially those of us who are stepping into empowered, fully expressed,

completely balanced, creational.

Women cure me when I say this.

You need this message.

So whether you're an entrepreneur, whether you are a small business owner,

whether you aspire to that or not, this episode still has a medicine.

For you because it is ministering to me when I got the download to share it.

And even with me writing out the notes and now with me delivering it to you.

And I wanna even share another thing.

You know, in previous episodes I've talked about how I've never gone back

and listened to my podcast episodes, especially those where I was invited as a

guest speaker to other people's podcasts.

And in the last month, that has changed.

I've been going back and listening to these episodes that I put out in March.

it's, 20, 23 right now, y'all, if you're listening from the future,

and I was like, oh my gosh.

Like, hmm, I needed to hear this again.

Like, oh, there's so much juice in medicine, Ash, like,

thank you for delivering this.

So I just like to share that because even though I carry such incredible gifts, I'm

so great at who I am and what I do, and I offer that and share that with all of you.

My medicine is also for me, and I, I just came into that embodiment, not

realization, not understanding, cuz I realized it, I knew it, but the

experience of it has shifted and I'm now feel cold to re-listen to what I'm

saying and let it edify and nourish.

And level me up again and again and again.

So that's a little transparent and vulnerable.

The teacher is a student to themselves.

The student is a teacher to themselves.

moment.

One more thing before we crawl into this.

Let me please thank you for supporting me.

Again, whether you're on YouTube, whether you're getting the clips, whether you're

seeing this, wherever you're seeing it, you're subscribed or you're popped in.

because March the rebirth of this podcast had the highest downloads ever.

We were almost at 1200 downloads, and that really made me feel proud and

excited, and inspired and supported, seen, appreciated, and loved.

Like that was just amazing.

So thank you for downloading.

Thank you for listening.

Yeah, that was juicy.

That was juicy.

And, and yeah, if you wanna see my face, head over to the YouTube

and subscribe to see this episode.

Cause I'm, I'm beaming and I wanted to remember to thank y'all for downloading.

thank you for listening and supporting my work.

So this title, some of us will, Millionaires or multimillionaires,

but we all should be entrepreneurial.

And I will say this is a little bit of a tongue and cheek title because

I was a part of and know someone who has a platform, a movement, a brand

all around like becoming a millionaire.

Shout out to her.

but I know not everyone.

Empowered or inspired or desire, it might not be your life path to

be, a millionaire or to even be an entrepreneur, and I believe all of us.

Truly believe in my soul, all of us, especially in this day and time,

especially, what's coming into this world, into this plane, into the cultures

that's changing and the economies that's moving and the new technology that's

being created, the conflict that's still brewing, so on and so forth.

And that's not to bring in the energies of fear, it's just to

remind us that we are in a changing.

If there's anything about planet Earth is that we're constantly changing.

Things are the same and things are different at the same damn time.

And so in these moments that we find ourself in being

entrepreneurial and spirit, in my opinion, is a non-negotiable.

And while that expression of that characteristic can be embodied

in many different ways, it is intangible as we move into.

Uncertain times.

Even more uncertain, continually uncertain, right?

The ability to create something out of nothing.

Hold conviction and ownership and pride.

Show up with your head raised.

your authority intact, your interest to create.

Hold follow through.

Like I know this language is sounding very masculine, like masculine traits,

and you guys know I'm all about being a balanced creational woman.

Meaning that your masculine energies, your feminine energies, your God creational

energies are fully online and inside of you and supporting your soul's, calling

your ancestral agreements, and truly you creating the life that you are meant

to have and enjoy in this lifetime.

And I want you to just hear me out that I'm just talking about an energy of

ownership, agency, autonomy, freedom, that you can be embodying and showing

up as and performing no matter who you are, where you are, what your background

is, what language you speak, what wounds you carry, what blessings you have,

what privileges you've been given.

Whether you are a nine to five worker hopping from job to job, work in the

gig economy, or a multi, six figure multi-millionaire entrepreneur, small

business owner, investor, like the ability to own who you are and what

you do and have pride in that is just, it's the kreme de la creme.

Like truly, like truly.

So, Crawl into this a little bit more, and I am gonna give some tips for those

of you who are curious about becoming an entrepreneur, are trying to, or

struggling to, or frustrated with it.

And you are maybe like, you know, teetering on trying

to go back and get a job.

I can talk about that.

There's so many podcast episodes and.

Yeah, programs and courses, I could teach on that because I've been

walking this path for a while now and I've gone back to jobs in corporate.

I've left, I've done a lot of things.

I've been on my own for a long time now.

So if that's you, definitely reach out and let me know because I can have

more episodes on that in the future.

But first off, I wanna say that I really love being an entrepreneur,

like, surprise, surprise.

And don't get me wrong, that does not mean that there are not tough.

Challenging times, growth edge times, but it's so worth it, right?

And I deeply identify as an entrepreneur.

I identify as someone who can see an opportunity and feel and

see that opportunity because it matches my creativity and my souls

calling my soul's agreements.

and can offer something within that.

Or create a market, but in the gap in the market and, feel confident to back

it and to allow it to be something that makes the world a better place.

That was a very long definition, but that is my definition of entrepreneurship.

And, I'll make sure that we put this in the show notes.

I do have like a principles to spiritual entrepre.

Which you don't even have to be a spiritual entrepreneur for it

to resonate with you, or even interested in entrepreneurship.

It'll still resonate with you, but it's a little quick video training

that's on YouTube, so I will make sure that we have that in the show

notes because it really breaks down my definition of entrepreneurship and how

that separates or how that's different than, being a small business owner.

Or, you know, working a job or even being an entrepreneur, right?

What does it mean when we say we're entrepreneurial?

So I will put that in the show notes cause it's actually really great.

I think I taught this, back in either 2018 or 2019 and when I rewatch

it, it still rains true for me.

And I've had quite a few people like, fine, I don't.

Being an entrepreneur.

There's so many times you, especially an online entrepreneur, where

there's just things you've created and you forget all about it.

But then someone's poking around your website and they find it.

This is one of those things that you guys find, right?

They like find it, they subscribe and I'm like, oh my God,

that's still being delivered.

Like it's still being auto delivered.

And I haven't even checked in on that.

And I think that that's very funny.

So those of you who have found this like cool, those of you who have not,

I'll put it in the show notes, but it's a really cool, and helpful training.

Let me bring this in the context of like who I am and why entrepreneurial

energy and being entrepreneurial spirited is so important.

Personally, I know from my ancestral healing work and looking at my family

model and how I'm called to show up in this work that I come from a long

lineage of money makers of business dealers and small entity corporation

owners who created opportunities for the.

Who created opportunities for their families and their communities.

Right now, in my immediate family, in the family that I grew up

in, no one's an entrepreneur.

And I didn't have a relationship with my biological father until I was 15,

and he's always been an entrepreneur.

So the reason why I love, ancestral healing work and really giving yourself

the space to embody, reclaim, own.

Stand within step inside of who you truly are by doing ancestral healing and

personal growth work and defining and creating your freedom is because it shows

you who you belong to and who you are regardless to what's currently around you.

You know, I knew that I was a wealthy, creative woman when we were in the

hood, like when I grew up in the hood.

You know, when I moved to the high end suburbs, I was like, okay, well this makes

sense, but also I'm very down to earth and these people don't seem to be able

to communicate what they really mean cuz they're, you know, holding on a facade.

And I, I just, even to this day, I think that that's really interesting

cuz I'm, I'm always saying exactly what I mean, but I do it in a way that

feels so authentic and high class, high touch, high care that people are

just like, huh, no one really shows up.

Not to like toot my own horn, but to toot toot, you know.

Anyway, getting back on topic here.

I really appreciated seeing in my lineages other women and other men and other people

who were very successful when it came to the entrepreneurial game and just owning

what they did because like going a couple generations back to people I didn't

even know, cuz you know, my great-great grandmother, I knew that she had a

little side hustle and stuff like that.

but there were a few people.

Just beyond her.

So yeah, I wanna say like five generations.

Yeah, that would be great.

Great, great.

Yeah.

generations back where it was like, yeah, they ran numbers.

They had a whole underground system for creating and cultivating wealth and

money and commerce in times where we had Jim Crow in times that there was still

enslavement and injustices as African Americans in, in this country, in the.

It's, and so being able to see, like, I think we define entrepreneurship

always with like a brick and mortar or being able to put it on your taxes

or you're paying your own salary or you're this booming online TikTok or

social media, online entrepreneur.

But at the end of the day, we all come from people who did

what we do in their own way.

So you might feel like it's your first time being entrepreneurial.

Again, whether you have a day job and you're just, that person that people go

to that they know things can get done, or you literally are an entrepreneur.

So being entrepreneurial spirit or being an entrepreneur, sometimes we

feel like we are the only one, or we truly are the first and we're just the

first or the only one in a long time.

And when you experience that and see that as I did, it

gave me a boost of confidence.

It gave me a boost of support.

It gave me reassurance that even in the days where I am low on my own

confidence or my tank is a little empty, I can feel them being like,

we understand and you can still do this, you know, and not to say that.

Self source and that myself, it feels good to be creating a life and and

legacy that you want and you feel your lineage and your extended family

really about what you're doing.

You know, think about how much.

people complain and be like, man, my own family doesn't support my small business.

And I'm like, yeah, it'd be great if they did.

But they also are not the people called at this time to do what you are doing.

But there are other people in your lineage that you don't know who've

passed on who are so excited about you.

Just because the living people don't understand or get it doesn't

mean that the other people in your lineage and family don't get it.

So I guess the message there is like, if you don't feel the support or you

don't see the blueprint or an example of what's possible in your immediate

family or your chosen family or your AKA living family, that's one of the

reasons why we do ancestral connection and healing work so that we can see and

connect with those who have and who'd hold those characteristics and that

support and that love for you as you walk this path for the first time in a long.

So there's just something about being an entrepreneur and having

an entrepreneurial spirit.

I definitely had an entrepreneurial spirit before I became an entrepreneur.

Like I remember bosses, teammates, teachers, just being

like, Ash is a team leader.

She will own that.

She will fix it, she will solve it.

She comes up with all these creative solutions, like there

is a level of creativity and ownership that every entrepreneurial

least spirit person carries.

In fact, I would say that that's the definition.

If you're not gonna own a business or create something, you are creating

something and solving problems and taking ownership of that process

inside of someone else's business.

And I'll tell you, I've hired people that I have loved working with, have

been some of my best team members because they had that entrepreneurial spirit.

You know, like it's actually one of the hiring.

In my business is like, how entrepreneurial are you?

If I say, here's the issue, or this is my desire, or this is the

opportunity I'm thinking, will you take what I'm talking about and try

to find solutions and present them and create a whole project around it?

It's more like find the other pieces and make it your own.

And bring it to me as a solution to the bigger picture that we're solving

that we're a part of as a team in this business, as opposed to a traditional

VA or tech person who's like, okay, tell me what I need to do to give me

the steps and when I'm done with my hours or you know, whatever, you pay

me and I'm out and I don't really care.

Like I get the gig economy, I get, there's a time to have jobs like that.

But in where we're going, the person who can own their time and their

energy and their conviction and their.

Creativity.

I know I keep saying that.

I feel like we are the people who are gonna be able to move through these,

these transitions with way more ease and ingenuity, and innovation than

people who are like, tell me what to do.

Tell me where to go.

I was driving with my fiance the other day, and I know I'm starting to rub

up against some bare cultural and societal, you know, Issues around like

class and all the things like that.

So, you know, we can always have a discussion around that.

I welcome that in the comments and in the reviews.

but like I was saying, babe, I feel that the new middle class is

gonna be people who are preneurs and Entrepreneurial and spirit.

And people who, you know, making a million dollars is minimum wage now.

And I know that's weird to say that, cause I definitely saw a post today where

someone was saying, making six figures a hundred thousand is you're in poverty.

But that's really where we're going honestly, with all this

digital cryptocurrency and all the things that's happening with the

governments and you know, it's like our whole economic and value system.

Class system is shifting.

And so it's either gonna be, you're a person who can create whether you

have a lot of money or not, but you're creative and you take ownership and you

see opportunities and you put things together and purse something new, whether

it's in a business again or inside of someone else's business, but you have

that skillset and that approach to life.

Or you're gonna be the person where someone's gonna dictate things to you

and you're gonna be seen as less valuable because as soon as I can program a.

Or someone who I can pay less to do that.

You're out of there, you know?

And we've really been living this already.

Right?

But it's gonna be.

More expressed and more volatile is how I'm feeling as this AI movement

comes in and as our reality as we have been living, it continues to shift.

And again, this is not to invite in fear, it's just to open up and encourage you to

look at where you can be more creative.

Look at where you can be more innovative.

Look at where you can take more ownership of your experience to fill.

In your own life, in your community, in the world, in a

way that feels good for you.

Like truly it inspires you and gets your juices going.

Like it's an amazing feeling to be like, Hmm, I see this, I see this.

And if I just put those, overlap those together, you guys know my favorite sign,

my favorite symbol in the visus Pisces.

If I overlap these two things, I now have a.

Crevice who creates something new that's never been seen before.

And even if it's been seen before, it's never been seen by me and my energy and

my purpose and what I came here to be.

And there's, there's power in that.

That's the thing that like no one can really say.

They can't put their finger on it, but they know how it feels and what it's

like to experience what you've birthed.

That is an invaluable.

Right.

An approach to life, in my opinion.

So there's just something about being an entrepreneur.

There's something about being preneur minded and spirited that I just love it.

It's an itch that can never get scratched as a.

Just doing employee as a check.

The boxes I call, I often call it like paint by numbers.

Tell me what to do.

I'll check the boxes.

And I'm like, I don't think of anything else.

Or I don't do anything else.

And again, please, I'm not trying to be an asshole, I'm just saying Right.

I'm just saying.

Just saying.

And I probably have been that person where I was like, I don't not invested

in this at all and I just wanna get paid and be out, but I'm not there.

Honestly think that if you're attracted to me and you're listening to this

podcast, you're not that either, right?

We have our moments, but that's not who we truly are.

So I believe everyone should be entrepreneurial.

again, it doesn't mean that we all have to own businesses, but there is a

special place for supporters, helpers, consultants, entrepreneurs, as we call

it, who again can see so, And bring it to fruition inside of an organization,

inside of a community, inside of a population of people who need it.

Shout out to my doulas and birth workers and caretakers and community guides.

It's the creativity.

It is the ownership.

It's the visions, it's the problem solving.

It's the nurturing it into fruition, right?

How many times do we see something and everyone's like, that can't be done.

Or, how are you gonna do that?

And you're like, I don't know, but you follow.

Your intuition, your creativity, your interest, your curiosity,

and next thing you know, you've nurtured something into existence.

It started off as a little candle making side.

Hobby, and people loved it.

And now here you are making candles and incense on the side just for fun, right?

And being well paid for it and enjoying it and being able to

be with your kids and stuff.

All because you stepped into that entrepreneurial energy

and enjoy creating and.

Creating and being.

It's about the commitment, the dedication, really, I wanna use the word devotion.

Devotion to creativity, devotion to exploration, devotion to trial and error.

Experimentation, play.

I'm using the energies, the words from both sides of the spectrum, right?

Even though the spectrum is a spectrum, I'm just using the polar, words and

examples for the sake of simplicity here and also the passion and desire.

To me, entrepreneurial energy is the ultimate healing playground.

It's where you are facing your deepest fears, your capacity.

Your growth edges, your, as one of my mentors and teachers says,

feedback loops where you're doing the same thing but you are.

Hoping for something else because you're trying to protect yourself, but you

wanna bust the through and you're like, wait, something feels really weird.

Like you're going to see those glitches in your matrix, right?

And then entrepreneurial.

You're gonna see what you're capable of.

Truly, like I don't think that there's any other vehicle for personal and

spiritual and character development as the entrepreneurial path and

walking with entrepreneurial energy.

That validation comes from self and through the process,

and then it is externalized.

And that's something that I've been coming back to full circle on my

own journey where I got so into the serving that I've kind of disconnected

from the source of what would fuel me and the work that I was doing.

And that's why this current break that I'm in, believe it or not, even though I'm

podcasting, I'm in quite a bit of a break.

I'm, I'm in my void.

I'm in my, I don't wanna be seen, and I don't wanna say too much.

Other than this podcast, because we're birthing something new.

So we'll just leave that at that for now.

So even when I worked in advertising, I was entrepreneurial.

I remember, shout out to you, Seth, cuz I know you still creep around sometimes.

Hey, hey.

the guy who hired me in my first ad job was like, I just

need you to do your actual job.

Like can you just do your actual job?

You don't need to be running around and doing this.

And then going in this department and helping the creative people do that.

And like you're volunteering here, like you're never at your desk.

And I was just like, not only am I creative and multi-passionate

and multi-talented, but I'm also solving a lot of different problems.

Like I'm helping with the PR team and they needed someone to interview this.

And I'm like, sure, I'll do it.

Solve the problem here.

Can we do this?

Let's collaborate here.

You know, like I've just always been that way and I think.

In the wrong environment that could be shunned and shut down and shamed

because someone can't control you.

There is a freedom in having an entrepreneurial spirit, especially

when you deliver amazing experiences.

You make people feel a certain way in the process, and you deliver

on a work, a service, a product.

You know, that benefits the whole yourself and.

You can't deny that talent and that magnetic Mm.

Like creational.

Mm.

You know when someone is operating in that way, you just can't.

Now, if you're just unfocused and you go from one thing to the other and you

never complete something and you're just upside down, inside out, then

yeah, someone probably is gonna reel you in and be like, listen, I know

you're so, you know, drawn to so many different things, but I need you to.

Commit to something and produce something and birth something.

But if you are a floater and a creator as I am, and you can move through

those things and actually get it outside of you in a way that impacts

your life and feels good for you, and is life affirming and also benefits

others, then like It's a hell yes.

And that's something that I saw in my career.

People were just like, Yeah, she's never at her desk and she hates

doing these things, but she's really good at all these other things.

So how can we put her in the best position for the gifts that she has, her

entrepreneurial spirit, her creativity, her resourcefulness, so on and so forth.

And that's really how I move so quickly through my advertising and

branding and market research career.

Because people saw and felt what I brought to the table and

wanted to put me in positions to leverage that for me and for them.

And that spirit of collaboration and truly wanting to work with who

people are starts to be birthed.

If you are hiding that or not stepping into it or pushing it

away, it's like you're not giving anyone anything to work with if you

are in a day job or, working in a.

Even with my college sweetheart, we had multiple businesses together.

All of them failed.

This is when streaming was just really getting on.

We had something called like Elm City, cuz we were living in New Haven, Connecticut.

And so we were going to different, you know, things in

the city and documenting them.

And we had so many different projects I can't even imagine.

And then we even like birthed a video production company together.

Yeah, there's, it's always just been something popping up, like projects

to do and to, breathe life into.

So if you see an opportunity, it is yours to seize again, whether you're an actual

entrepreneur or you are entrepreneurial inside of a business of a job, it's yours.

You don't have to ask permission, you just have to communicate.

Lean into it and see what you can.

And how you can create and how you can flow.

If you have a desire, it's yours to create that desire.

I feel that some of us experience something bubbling up and we

feel it in our chest and we're like, oh, that's a great idea.

And we get all excited about it and then we just like leave it for

someone else to do, or we're looking for someone to give us permission

or we don't see how we can do it.

So we just let the energy around that conception just die off.

And.

Like, stop doing that.

seize the opportunity.

As I just said, if you, see a unique problem or you see a problem in a unique

way, then it is definitely yours to solve.

Like that's my favorite, I guess, indicator to step more into this

entrepreneurial energy is like, yeah, everyone can see that problem, but.

Perspective around it is different than everyone around you.

That's when you know you have gold.

And usually when our perspective is different than those around us, we

get insecure and we think that we're different and weird, but really it's

usually a nugget of gold in this, like a really great piece of like juicy.

Yes.

And a story comes to mind.

A couple years back I was really, really into.

Collaborations and like the Healing Coach mentor guide scene.

And there was a lot of us who had platforms who were coming together

doing like sister mentorship exchanges where it wasn't even a program.

We were just coming together to talk and like support each other.

And I remember one woman, um, a woman of color, Was sharing with everyone

that she was in this weird funk and like, you know, everyone was like, Hey,

we're willing to come together and have a special call or session just for you

to help, you know, work through or see what we can see about your situation.

And she kept saying, cuz she's actually a very gifted, business

strategist, and kind of sits at like the intersection of capitalism.

Free labor and like, how can we look at how we work differently and become more

radically just in balance and equitable, you know, that kind of world and work.

And so, um, she kept saying how a lot of times she's working with her own clients

and they're trying to solve something with strategy that's actually something

else, like something completely different.

And as she was talking about her experiences with our clients,

what I know is oftentimes our experiences with clients, Okay.

Are also what we have been experiencing what we experience in our own life.

And as I was listening, I was like, Hmm, okay.

And by the way, y'all, if you don't know, I'm a projector.

So I'm really good at, at observing, taking in a lot

of information, leaning back.

And like the truth will become laser sharp, like the deep thing,

the clarity point, the like, mm.

This is the breakthrough moment.

It's crystal clear and really easy for me to identify and to

deliver that information to you.

And it'll be about your own life.

It'll be about your ancestors.

It'll be about the way forward.

It'll be about what your.

Soul and heart is really trying to articulate, which is why I was so

good at branding and copywriting.

Cause I could just extract what you were really saying and like

put it on paper and people like, oh my God, finally it's out of me.

Like, thank you Ash.

You know, so she's talking, talking, talking.

And like everyone was popcorning up, like being like, Hey, I think it's

this and this is how you can do it, and actually if you wanna make more money,

we can just set up your thing like this.

And it was all about strategy.

And I was like, oh my God, they're doing exactly what her clients would.

They keep looking and they're offering her a strategic solution.

But the truth is there is a deep internal wound and inner turmoil

that is happening with her that has nothing to do with the strategy.

The strategy is easy, and let me give you guys a little side note here.

What I know about my own clients and my own work and my own

existence is that there's a time for strategy and there's a time for.

Right.

There's a time we need to go deep within, and the answer is

within, and the strategy is easy.

There's a time that you are super deep within and you need

to get with a strategy, right?

There's a time where you are too much with strategy, right?

And like you're working with strategy and working strategy, but you are ignoring

your wounds, you're ignoring your heart, you're ignoring your deep patterning.

Like you need to get into that in the strategy.

Actually, you can actually follow through.

You can look at this as a masculine, feminine thing.

You're completely in flow and bliss in what you desire,

but you can't do the work.

You can look at it as, I'm always working, I'm always efforting, but I'm burnt out.

I don't have any passion.

I'm angry, I'm bitter, whatever, right?

There's many different ways that these two polarities can play out, but this

is what was happening with her and I, you know, finally someone was like,

well, Ash, you haven't said anything.

What do you see?

And I was like, again, projector.

Give me an invitation.

Again, I go laser point straight to the root issue.

And sometimes people don't wanna hear that and they're not ready for it.

And I was like, well, thank you for the invitation.

You know, here's what I see.

And I told them what I saw.

I was like, this is not about strategy.

This isn't about money.

She has a great network.

She can make $10,000 a day or a week if she wanted to.

This is about resisting easy work.

This is.

Wanting to be a martyr and a warrior for the cause, instead of being an

example of stepping through the tough times, or the patterning to actually

live and break that barrier, like live the desire that you actually want.

This is about surrendering, not fighting anymore.

Went right to the core, you know, and in that moment her system was a bit

shocked, but she was able to receive it.

And later on, you know, said some things about it.

But regardless to that story, I bring it up.

Just to say when you can see something different than others is something

to embrace, not to shy away from.

That is a hundred percent entrepreneurial energy.

It will make you a lot of great money as it has for me.

It will bring blessings into your life and into the lives of the people

that you can then serve by being yourself from your senses, what you

see, how you observe, how you walk, your perspective, so on and so forth.

This is again, why we all need to be entrepreneurial.

Whatever gift you have is your super.

To be entrepreneurial means you're going to leverage your superpowers and you

will cultivate team and connection and community with people who have other

superpowers that support the cause, right?

And that cause is a reciprocal, juicy, honey pot of goodness and forward

movement for everyone involved.

Boom.

That's what I believe.

And right when I said, boom, Ziggy just walked out the door.

Another side note, Ziggy just got two new beds and homey is living lavage right now.

He is just like, I have beds everywhere and they're so comfortable.

He doesn't know where to sleep cuz he's so comfortable.

Okay, so I'm gonna get ready to wrap this up.

We have a little bit more to say if you're feeling stuck in your life because

you are disconnected from your power to create and attract new opportunities.

I'm glad that you are listening to this podcast episode.

I want you to think about a couple things here.

Firstly, and this is again, it doesn't matter if you're an

entrepreneur or you have a job or work in someone else's business.

I want us all to walk away with this tip that's gonna help activate your creative

ownership, exploratory, entrepreneurial.

Spirit and that is how you did something before isn't how you have will or

need to do it now or in the future.

Let me say that again.

How you did something before in the past does not need to

be how you have to do it now.

It doesn't have to be how you will do it in the future.

It doesn't need to be how you need to do it again.

Okay?

And I know that we know this, but our.

And our coping mechanisms and our survival wounds and our ancestral

agreements will have us being like, oh, this is how I made money before.

I'm gonna do it again.

Oh, this is how I made friends before.

I'll do it again.

Oh, this is how I did an interview before.

This is how I'm gonna do it again.

Where when you step into that entrepreneurial, creative energy you

are looking for what worked before.

What is relevant right now?

What is needed for where I want to go.

It is.

Creative cauldron of some of your past experiences that are relevant

and potent and juicy for you.

Cuz what you did before, even though it gave you the results, is not necessarily

what's going to take you forward.

I say that line over and over and over again.

Okay.

And I'm saying it for a reason.

Cause it's so important in this point in time that we are in as women, as fems, as

creative humans moving forward in this.

Being the generational pattern breakers that we are, it's so

important to be like, I'm so grateful that I did it this way in the past.

However, that may not be the most creative, effective, heart centering,

affirming, freedom building and creating approach moving forward.

So we know this, but it catches up to us all the fucking time.

So anytime you're about to do something, Desiring something, a change in your life,

in business, in money, in relationship, in location, whatever, right?

In your working style and your hiring style and your style, your actual physical

fashion style, how you decorate your home.

You can be like, what am I desiring to cultivate and bring in and create a

new for right now in this present time?

What do I wanna borrow from the past that is relevant and helpful today that won't.

Where we're going in the future.

Okay.

Number one.

Number two, travel.

It always gives me clarity and inspiration and rekindles my drive

and my free bird, and my creative juices and my like potentiality, like,

ugh, travel does it for me, y'all.

And even when I was, you know, in my career in the past, every time

I took a trip, it would be like a marker of a life change for.

Even before I left my job, when I would get ready to move another position,

I was like, I gotta go a new place.

I need to go and feel new energy, be inspired, let it activate something

in my mind and my body and my psyche, and I'm gonna bring it to my current

life and see how it plays out.

And I'll tell you now, like even last year at the beginning of my, pasta

Freedom book writing tour, when I came back to South Florida after my first.

Location.

So I went to Bermuda and when I came back I went to like my normal Trader Joe

grocery store and like my normal errands.

And people were like, whoa, your energy is on point.

What have you been doing?

Like you're glowing, your eyes are bright, your skin looks incredible, your energy

is like, and I, I was just hopping out the woodwork and I was like, oh my God,

I needed that change of location so much.

Breathing life into me.

It's making the words of this book and the clarity around this book come

through and I can see what's no longer aligned for me and how I was writing

this book and what is aligned for me.

That's my growth edge with this book.

Like travel, a new environment will help activate that

creative, entrepreneurial spirit.

So do that.

Go around different people, go to different places, try new things.

do a staycation if you can.

Right.

Go to a different restaurant, a different side of town, a different,

Bed and breakfast or a hotel, and just feel a different energy and

see what it does with how you show up to your life and your work.

Right?

So this is a good time to say this is exactly the reason why I

am hosting a retreat in beautiful Mexico and Baja California

Labor Day, US Labor Day Weekend.

and I'm so excited about it.

The Elevating Woman Retreat is a four day.

Three night retreat in Baja, California will be in the Cabo St.

Lucas area, and it is a hundred percent for any and all women who

feel called to level up in their life.

And you really wanna have a marker.

You wanna go to a new space, be around other women who are looking

at their whole lives and leveling up who they are as a whole.

Creational.

We're coming together to do some practices, some initiations,

and some space holding for you.

So this, I haven't ran a retreat in a little bit, for those of you

who do not know, I used to run an incredible women's only retreat for

up to 20 women, eight a week in Bali, Indonesia, and also in Thailand.

And so it's really beautiful to be back on the retreat hosting circuit with

this one, the Elevating Woman Retreat.

So if you're interested in that and.

Explore all that's included.

The beautiful rooms that I think we have about six more spots left cuz

they have been getting scooped up.

Definitely check out the link in the show notes.

We would love to have you on this retreat.

Okay, so a couple more things and we're gonna go ahead and

wrap up this beautiful episode.

I've received quite a few messages of people who are also an initiative

journey in their business, changing how they are doing things, if

they're going to continue, if they're pivoting all together.

And I just wanna tell you from my heart to yours, I feel you.

Again, I will say that I am in an evolutionary process in my life and in my

business and in my relationship to myself.

I am a.

Woman literally every single day.

And so as we change, as humans, so does our occupations, so does our

identity, so does how we show up and share our gifts in the world.

And so, if that is you and you're listening to this episode, I just

wanna share a few things that came to my heart about, and I'm, I'm actually

getting a little teary-eyed, about my own journey reflecting over these last,

um, five years of my business as it has.

First thing is if you do feel like you're in this initiatory transformative

journey with your relationship to entrepreneurship and business, I want

you to know that there's no shame.

There is no shame to choose.

Regardless to your circumstances, regardless of how your business works

and looks, or how abundant it is, or how it's, you know, struggling or whatever

is going on, there's no shame here.

You know, that's what you, I, we are supposed to do.

Those of us who are actually allowing.

Who we are and, wow, our gifts to be shared in the world, right?

To offer the services based off of our life force energy, our souls agreement.

As we evolve on this planet, the business is supposed to evolve.

And I've even had some people reach out to me to tell me that they've closed

their business and they're questioning if they'll ever be in business again.

And they're wondering how they're gonna live their lives.

And just, my heart goes out to you.

My heart goes out to me.

Because it's a scary thing to have formed your identity and your appreciation

for your entrepreneurial energy and your gifts, and then for that to be

changing right before you and you don't quite know what it's gonna be.

And because we've gotten used to what we have done, we've forgotten what

it feels like to be in that birthing, chrysalis, void, unknown space.

And so it creates a wobble.

And I just wanna honor you if you are also experiencing a wobble.

I've had moments in this journey where I'm like, who am I?

And I'm like, girl, I.

Who I am.

Who we are, right?

And then I'm like, yeah.

And then she's like, no.

And I'm like, I don't know who we're becoming.

And she's like, yes, you do.

And I'm like, oh yeah, that's right.

Okay.

Just to give you a little laugh and a tease in my own moment.

But yeah, I've gotten a couple emails about that and I've been

seeing it across social media.

And so if you're holding shame or guilt or you're questioning yourself

or you know, it just doesn't feel good.

Maybe you're like, I know exactly what's happening.

Sucks, Ash, I'm gonna just validate you and be like, yeah, I get it.

But you've got this.

It is totally in your divine and aligned path, and I believe in whatever it is

that you are being called to evolve from.

And that may mean burning down everything.

It might be collapsing and, integrating and evolving, you know, taking the

pieces of the rubble that makes sense and putting into something new.

And it might be completely stepping into something that

we've never even seen before.

You're supposed to evolve, and I'm celebrating you for doing so

and being brave in your walk to embody your entrepreneurial gifts.

The second thing is I wanna give a major shout out to all of us, including

myself, who were ready, and in the right place to serve these last three to five

years in the way that we have been in our businesses pre pandemic through

the pandemic post, the most inflamed.

Psychically stretched fear mongering time on this planet

that we have had in a long time.

Like globally, when have we had something to affect every person globally?

Think about that.

And here we were being healers, guides, coaches, teachers, authors,

way shores, content creators, information sharers, space holders,

grievers, birth workers, death, honor.

Right.

Solution sharers, inspirational muses.

Structural guideposts, like mind blown.

Think about that, that we were in the right frame of mind in the right

time, connected to our gifts, owning our power and showing up, and also

writing the collective wave of that need and that desire, and that as for.

What an amazing time to have been in the right fucking place as the

right person that you are to have said yes to that opportunity.

I don't care if you only had one client or if you had 10,000.

Right?

How awesome.

So I shout out to all of us, even though those of us who were podcast communicators

and hosts sharing information and stories and think about that, the

DJs who were entertaining us and.

Incredible.

So be proud of what you have offered the world in these last five years.

I know that I sure as fuck am when I think about it.

Okay, and the last thing is entrepreneurials.

Entrepreneurials, that's, I'm just using that word for both of us preneurs

and entrepreneurial spirited people.

I don't know why I'm saying it so hard, we aren't just one thing, none

of us are really, whether you're entrepreneurial or not, but, um,

that's what makes multi-talented and passionate people, great

entrepreneurs, is not being one thing.

Being able to pull from different aspects of self and different aspects of your

experiences and, What you want to see in the world and rolling it up into that

beautiful ball of amazing colorfulness.

So you don't have to be one thing.

I'm not one thing.

And I'm very excited for when the day comes to share with you all

what is emergent for me and my next evolution and it's full package.

More to come on that.

I'll just wrap this up by saying I'm really glad that I did this episode.

It feels really good.

I'm gonna make sure that you guys have the link to the principles of

Spiritual entrepreneurship, um, so you can sign up and grab those videos.

I think it's one video, it might be two.

I don't remember.

Again, it's been, it's been there, but I know it's juicy and good.

And if you're interested in the Elevating Woman Retreat,

please be in touch, check out.

All that we will be hosting and holding and experiencing.

It's gonna be a great one, and it's my official mark back to holding physical

space for the women who are called to be the change in their lives, in

their worlds, and in their lineages.

All right, y'all, thanks for being here.

I'm sending you lots of love.

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