I wanted to address this problem for a larger group because it keeps coming up with my clients and people that want to work with me or another business coach, mentor, guide, healer, etc. Some of them have just found me, others have been on my email list for years, and they want to work with me but for whatever reason they can’t afford to. I’ve been in that situation myself and I want to support you in overcoming this for yourself.
If you’re finding yourself unable to invest in the programs or mentorship that you desire, this episode will help you:
Any work you do before you begin working with a mentor is healing, even if you haven’t started the program yet. You are still healing money, worthiness, and trust wounds just to get that far.
I have some supportive materials I've prepared for you if you're not feeling how life is life-ing right now inside ACCESS. To join, visit ashleyjohns.com/access.
Share with me what inspired you in this episode! Tag or DM me via IG @ashinspires, or visit my website at ashleyjohns.com
May you walk your path with courage and compassion!
with love, trust and devotion to my path,
Ash x
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Okay, so I am really feeling, this particular episode is really
Ash Johns:important, and I'm so glad that I'm doing it now because this is something that
Ash Johns:I have been, I don't wanna say avoiding talking about, but I would always just
Ash Johns:address it and help people on a personal basis, , as opposed to actually having
Ash Johns:an episode or a teaching specifically, dedicated to this particular issue.
Ash Johns:So today we are talking about.
Ash Johns:what to do when you can't afford a program or you can't afford to
Ash Johns:work with a elder, a mentor, a guide, a coach, a healer, whoever.
Ash Johns:and you really, really want to, and you wanna work with them to
Ash Johns:help solve the issue of not being able to work with them, right?
Ash Johns:Essentially.
Ash Johns:And so when I talk about this most times, you know, what would come to mind is
Ash Johns:essentially I really wanna work with a business coach or a business mentor
Ash Johns:or getting this business or messaging or marketing program, but I actually
Ash Johns:don't have the money to pay for it.
Ash Johns:Or I really wanna work on my body and get healthy.
Ash Johns:But I don't even have like, not only the finances, but I don't.
Ash Johns:the money or the finances to buy the materials to even participate fully.
Ash Johns:I might be able to get in the program, but all the things that
Ash Johns:I have to purchase to be part of that program would be a stretch.
Ash Johns:Or I really wanna learn about business and be mentored by business.
Ash Johns:And I have the money, but I don't have the time cause I have to go to my day job.
Ash Johns:But I do want to learn about business so I can quit my day job.
Ash Johns:You know, any experience where essentially there is this chicken and egg experience
Ash Johns:where you want the support, but there's, the thing that's stopping you
Ash Johns:from getting the support is what the support is supposed to help you with.
Ash Johns:So meta, it's so meta, I wanna talk about that.
Ash Johns:I get a lot of people reaching out, wanting to speak with me, wanting
Ash Johns:to connect, want to work with me, following me online for a long time.
Ash Johns:Even being on my email list for years.
Ash Johns:And like every now and again.
Ash Johns:actually, quite often I will get messages from people being like, I really wanna
Ash Johns:work with you but I can't afford it.
Ash Johns:Or I really wanna work with you, but the time zones, or, I really wanna work with
Ash Johns:you, but I've already committed myself to this or, I really wanna work with you, but
Ash Johns:I feel like I've already spent my money on these things and I need to change my
Ash Johns:money situation in order to work with you.
Ash Johns:You know what I mean?
Ash Johns:So I just wanna dedicate a whole entire episodes of this experience
Ash Johns:because my heart truly mm, goes out to those who are in that situation.
Ash Johns:I have been in that situation personally myself.
Ash Johns:I know what it feels like and I want to guide you, support you talk about
Ash Johns:how I transform that experience for myself and give you some tips on
Ash Johns:how you can overcome this yourself.
Ash Johns:So before we get started, I wanna talk about something else, slightly,
Ash Johns:and that is that when we're gonna do a quick tune in and just kind of.
Ash Johns:Ground ourselves and get into this episode.
Ash Johns:But two is that I do have an entire money course coming out.
Ash Johns:It is, maybe by the time you're listening to this, it's already out,
Ash Johns:so just check out the show notes.
Ash Johns:But it's called The Old Money Course, and it's a journey of healing and transforming
Ash Johns:your relationship with money, finances, abundance, and generational wealth
Ash Johns:by doing the work to do that, right looking at your old money wounds, your
Ash Johns:old money, beliefs, patterns imprints, blockages, all the things that's
Ash Johns:preventing you from relating to money in the way that you want to, whether
Ash Johns:it's you have the narrative of it's not enough or that it's gonna go away, or
Ash Johns:that you have to work hard for it, or that it's evil or that it's bad, or that
Ash Johns:it ruins whatever your storylines are.
Ash Johns:And there's like a million of them out there.
Ash Johns:But there's some key ones that.
Ash Johns:Seem to resonate or circled around most often with people.
Ash Johns:That's what this program is about, and it's my take on it.
Ash Johns:You know, there's a lot of money courses and programs out there, but
Ash Johns:I've never done one or put one out.
Ash Johns:I have worked with private and group clients on this inside of the container
Ash Johns:or the program that we were in.
Ash Johns:So money and business always come up, but I've never put anything out that was a
Ash Johns:hundred percent like we're just gonna talk about your personal ancestral relationship
Ash Johns:with money, finances, abundance, and wealth, and what you want it to be.
Ash Johns:So check that out.
Ash Johns:The information's in the show notes.
Ash Johns:I'll be talking about it a bit more as we move through the podcast.
Ash Johns:But here's the first public, if you will, invitation to explore
Ash Johns:it, if that resonates with you.
Ash Johns:Okay.
Ash Johns:So let's tune in for a bit and set the tone for today's episode.
Ash Johns:I feel like I came into recording with a lot of energy, and while that feels
Ash Johns:really good and it's like exclusive and just like really good energy, I actually
Ash Johns:wanna bring it down a little bit.
Ash Johns:Let us get into our cozy receptive, energetically aligned
Ash Johns:energetically open posture.
Ash Johns:That's the word.
Ash Johns:Get in your receptivity posture.
Ash Johns:Ah, I invite you to take a couple breaths with me in,
Ash Johns:hold it for two seconds.
Ash Johns:And out,
Ash Johns:and we'll do another one.
Ash Johns:And as you continue breathing and just get yourself ready to receive what
Ash Johns:I'm here to teach and share today, in this episode, I wanna invite the
Ash Johns:energy of compassion and understanding.
Ash Johns:And I wanna say the energy of teaching, right?
Ash Johns:And so feel the vibration of what I'm gonna be talking about and let it be
Ash Johns:medicine to you and where you are.
Ash Johns:Let it be medicine to someone else.
Ash Johns:If you choose to share this episode with someone with who this would resonate and
Ash Johns:support . Essentially what I'm saying is let this be an invitation to truly
Ash Johns:feel and receive what I'm telling you.
Ash Johns:Even if the words and language sounds like I've heard this before,
Ash Johns:because you may have heard it before.
Ash Johns:This is something that I know to be very true and I have learned.
Ash Johns:You may have heard something before.
Ash Johns:You may hear it every day on social media and the internet, but you haven't
Ash Johns:maybe heard it from me in the vibration of who I am today might just be the
Ash Johns:day you need it to hear it again, for it to truly click in and and
Ash Johns:support you and transform your life.
Ash Johns:All these other variables and circumstances have shifted
Ash Johns:because it's a new day.
Ash Johns:It's a new energy, it's a new, it's new.
Ash Johns:Like we haven't never been in today before.
Ash Johns:So turn your receptivity lens on and let this meet you where
Ash Johns:you're at and where you wanna go.
Ash Johns:Okay, so, I wanna tell you guys a bit about my own healing and skill
Ash Johns:development journey to date, because I talk about this all the time in
Ash Johns:my group programs or even in like my master classes when I offer them.
Ash Johns:And in my email list, if you're not on my email list, I talk about
Ash Johns:how I work with elders and mentors and teachers and coaches now.
Ash Johns:Like to date, you know, I know sometimes we can find someone on the
Ash Johns:internet resonate with their energy and their work, see them as a mentor,
Ash Johns:a teacher, an elder in which we are in, which I most definitely am.
Ash Johns:But we assume that they're not like doing their work.
Ash Johns:And I always tell people I teach by living and I'm always still working
Ash Johns:on myself, growing, getting to my next level, evolving, deepening,
Ash Johns:leveling up, like all of that stuff.
Ash Johns:And.
Ash Johns:. I've been doing personal development, healing, growth, bettering myself, work
Ash Johns:my whole life, but especially since like my teenage years when everyone was
Ash Johns:running off and listening to the latest albums and CDs, like I wasn't allowed to.
Ash Johns:And, but I was allowed to read books and I've always gravitated towards self-help,
Ash Johns:self-discovery, personal development, healing, spirituality, religious studies,
Ash Johns:like all of that, the esoteric arts.
Ash Johns:And so because of that, I have done everything from free programs.
Ash Johns:I've done things that were low price.
Ash Johns:I've done things that cost me literally five figure investments for one month,
Ash Johns:five figure investments for one session.
Ash Johns:I've done things that I needed to pay off over a year, things that I had
Ash Johns:to pay off a year and a half, like.
Ash Johns:, just a whole range.
Ash Johns:And then I've also grown in life based on life, like trusting myself to take a risk,
Ash Johns:be receptive to listen since spiritually and intuitively what life was teaching me.
Ash Johns:And so I just wanna say first that you don't always have to pay for
Ash Johns:personal development and growth, wisdom and knowledge, but it is
Ash Johns:always imparted or invoked or initiated into you via something else.
Ash Johns:Whether it's your inner self, your higher self, initiating yourself,
Ash Johns:whether it's God, whether it's Jesus.
Ash Johns:If you believe in that, your de.
Ash Johns:The elemental spirits that you are attuned to and belong to, whether
Ash Johns:it's your ancestors, whether it's a mentor, an elder, or just life itself.
Ash Johns:Like there's always going to be a relationship between a minimum of two
Ash Johns:things that are gonna teach you something, whether you're going to pay for it with
Ash Johns:financial money, cash money, credit cards, barter system where you're trading
Ash Johns:a trade for a trade, which, you know, I have thoughts about that, but whatever.
Ash Johns:I've done it before, I won't ever do it again that I know of.
Ash Johns:Or if it's a quote unquote free, but you're paying for it through
Ash Johns:your energy, through your chores and your giving back, your volunteering,
Ash Johns:your time, your sacrifices, right.
Ash Johns:. One of the lessons that I've learned that allowed me to harness the energy of
Ash Johns:courage and authority was trusting myself to take the risk to quit my day job when
Ash Johns:I did back whatever years, number, years ago, and allow the experience of doing
Ash Johns:so be my teacher on trusting my path, taking a leap like I know how to take
Ash Johns:leap after leap after leap because I've done it multiple times because one, I
Ash Johns:desired it, two life, universe, spirit.
Ash Johns:This human experience presented the opportunities for me.
Ash Johns:I took those opportunities and I let that experience, that process from beginning
Ash Johns:to end and the outcome teach me, right?
Ash Johns:And it didn't cost me anything other than making the choice.
Ash Johns:Working through my fear, staying grounded in my body, speaking life
Ash Johns:into myself, holding myself st.
Ash Johns:You know what I'm saying?
Ash Johns:Like everything is always gonna require an exchange.
Ash Johns:Whether it is again, energy, time, money, those are the main three, you know?
Ash Johns:But there are other ways of exchanging something valuable for something else.
Ash Johns:So I say that to say you don't have to pay anyone, me or anybody else for anything.
Ash Johns:God, life, your ancestors, your spirit, your higher self, all
Ash Johns:those versions, right of entities.
Ash Johns:We'll teach you what you need to teach, but we do not do life alone.
Ash Johns:It's not an isolation.
Ash Johns:So if you don't wanna pay someone, or you don't wanna invest in
Ash Johns:yourself financially, you will be investing in yourself in another way.
Ash Johns:And I want us to understand that because, you know, this is a free
Ash Johns:podcast and I'm teaching literally for free, quote unquote right now.
Ash Johns:. But in order for you to apply and really metabolize like, digest and metabolize
Ash Johns:and get the nourishment of what I'm even teaching now, you have to choose to apply.
Ash Johns:You have to choose to step into it.
Ash Johns:And that's not always the easiest thing.
Ash Johns:Like we can't always see ourselves in that way.
Ash Johns:Okay.
Ash Johns:I don't wanna go too, too, too far, but I just wanna invite you into
Ash Johns:looking at when are you wanting to.
Ash Johns:Pay with your time and energy and without money in other ways.
Ash Johns:And when it's time to invest financially, monetarily in a program and a
Ash Johns:coach, and a mentor and a teacher, and an experience essentially that
Ash Johns:will help you transform your life in a way that you actually desire.
Ash Johns:It's so funny, my doggy right now, just came onto and he's like, burrowing
Ash Johns:himself into the blanket so he could be close to me while I'm talking to y'all.
Ash Johns:All right.
Ash Johns:We're all nice and cozy.
Ash Johns:Okay, so that was perfect.
Ash Johns:And like the reason why that's so important is look at this, we're
Ash Johns:like 14 minutes in and I haven't even gotten to the actual teaching.
Ash Johns:This is gonna be a good.
Ash Johns:. I've had people who didn't necessarily discredit my price point or what I
Ash Johns:charge or what the experience cost.
Ash Johns:They weren't doing that.
Ash Johns:They're like, charge what you're worth.
Ash Johns:I get it Ash.
Ash Johns:And I'm like, I really actually don't believe in that entire
Ash Johns:ideology of charge what you're worth.
Ash Johns:Like, I'm a hundred percent priceless.
Ash Johns:There's only me in this one life, this one time looking this way to do
Ash Johns:this mission, to have this energy, to walk in this field this one time.
Ash Johns:You know?
Ash Johns:So that is, there is no amount of money that could ever surmount to my worth.
Ash Johns:I am literally off the Richter scale.
Ash Johns:There is no scale for how much I'm worth.
Ash Johns:So the charge, what you're worth thing, I think is bullshit.
Ash Johns:It's played out, it's old and it's not true.
Ash Johns:And it, it actually triggers everybody's worthiness issues but we can get into
Ash Johns:that when I have some more episodes about entrepreneurship and my journey and that.
Ash Johns:But for today, I just wanna talk about.
Ash Johns:You don't have to pay again.
Ash Johns:Let me, let me wrap up this thought fully, cuz like I still haven't fully landed
Ash Johns:the plane in the way that we want to.
Ash Johns:And that is that you don't have to pay for anything in cash
Ash Johns:and money and credit, right?
Ash Johns:But you will have to pay with your time and effort.
Ash Johns:You can quit your job, take the risk, go out, leave social media for a while, sit
Ash Johns:in the, in the woods in the nature and let spirit and life teach you that way.
Ash Johns:And then come back, go sit with an elder in the middle of
Ash Johns:nowhere, an indigenous group.
Ash Johns:Go travel across the lands and you know, like do that.
Ash Johns:And then come back and integrate it and offer it.
Ash Johns:And sit in your wisdom and your knowledge.
Ash Johns:And it doesn't cost you what it costs.
Ash Johns:You.
Ash Johns:Stay in the comforts of your home with your cable tv, with your TikTok, with
Ash Johns:your internet, doing your day job, being able to go and eat out when you want.
Ash Johns:Having the luxuries to shop what you want, like somewhere you're gonna have to
Ash Johns:give in order to receive what you want.
Ash Johns:. So there's that.
Ash Johns:Okay.
Ash Johns:And I could even unpack that further, but for now, that's enough . But yeah, I
Ash Johns:mean, I remember when I was first getting my very, very first, and this is like
Ash Johns:years ago, I feel like it was like 2011 my first reiki initiation attunement.
Ash Johns:And like I, I was living in Chicago at the time.
Ash Johns:I had just moved back to Chicago from New York City leaving advertising agencies
Ash Johns:and moving into like a smaller agency.
Ash Johns:And I remember looking at the flyer for a while.
Ash Johns:I think it was like 250 bucks or something.
Ash Johns:I can't remember what the price was, but I was like, okay,
Ash Johns:this is gonna be an investment.
Ash Johns:I really want to become Reiki attuned.
Ash Johns:And it makes me giggle now because I literally saved.
Ash Johns:The flyer and just kept looking at it and looking at it and meandering
Ash Johns:over it and like marinating over it and like, thinking about it.
Ash Johns:And am I really, I like missed a couple of the signup dates
Ash Johns:because I just was a little afraid.
Ash Johns:I didn't think I could afford it.
Ash Johns:I thought it was expensive, but I really wanted it and I just kind
Ash Johns:of let, I held it for a while.
Ash Johns:And there's nothing wrong with that.
Ash Johns:Like, one of the tips that I want to share with you, and I'll go back over all of
Ash Johns:them succinctly as we move through this episode, but like, if there's something
Ash Johns:that you want and you for whatever reason, feel like you can't afford it
Ash Johns:right now, or you are afraid to pay for it even though you can't afford it, or
Ash Johns:you are nervous that if you pay for it, then you're gonna suffer in some way.
Ash Johns:Or you don't know if you're gonna get your money's worth by sending
Ash Johns:for whatever reason that you know you want it, but you're not taking action.
Ash Johns:Pin it up on a vision board, like keep it folded up in your wallet.
Ash Johns:If you have a budget tracker, add it into your budget tracker before
Ash Johns:you're even ready to pay for it.
Ash Johns:So you can just get used to that money is coming into you and that money is
Ash Johns:gonna go out for the thing that you want.
Ash Johns:I do future budgets for myself all the time.
Ash Johns:I play around what it's gonna feel like to make a million dollars in a
Ash Johns:day or a million dollars in a month.
Ash Johns:Like I play around with these numbers and like what would I spend it on?
Ash Johns:What would I do with it?
Ash Johns:Like what would get taken care of?
Ash Johns:Who would I give it to?
Ash Johns:How would I save it?
Ash Johns:How would I invest it?
Ash Johns:What is the first thing I'm gonna pay off?
Ash Johns:Like I start to talk to money in the frequency and energetics of money
Ash Johns:to tell it what I would love to do with it, with it being in my life.
Ash Johns:And sometimes I'm making a list of all the things that I wanna experience
Ash Johns:and then assigning a dollar amounts to it, such as a vacation back in
Ash Johns:the Mediterranean, going to Cyprus, going to Italy, so on and so forth.
Ash Johns:I'm like, based on what I wanna do, these are the monies that I know I want to have
Ash Johns:available to me to have this experience.
Ash Johns:So there's nothing wrong with doing that.
Ash Johns:I've had people who said, I've been on their vision board for years,
Ash Johns:and they were so excited when they could actually work with me.
Ash Johns:Like, that's awesome.
Ash Johns:That's a long-term way of manifesting.
Ash Johns:That's a long-term way of preparing to work with someone.
Ash Johns:And personally, I feel like it's such an honor that you deeply wanted something
Ash Johns:enough to keep it in your peripheral until you were ready or you felt like
Ash Johns:you were ready to actually experience it.
Ash Johns:That's really beautiful, right?
Ash Johns:So everything doesn't have to be now, now, now, now, you know, like I have
Ash Johns:an image of my future and I, I think we do this a lot actually when it
Ash Johns:comes to big ticket items, like big material items such as buying a home or
Ash Johns:your dream car or like your engagement ring or, you know, stuff like that.
Ash Johns:But we don't do it when it comes to like, personal development or things
Ash Johns:that will help us in our day-to-day.
Ash Johns:Like I had a picture of housekeeper and a nursing support doula.
Ash Johns:I have pictures of things like that that will allow my day-to-day
Ash Johns:experience of life prosper.
Ash Johns:Pictures of being able to hire the right team.
Ash Johns:Pictures of . Yeah.
Ash Johns:Like investing in myself.
Ash Johns:I want a new mentor at Elder Comp.
Ash Johns:There could be an image or a line item for how much I want to invest in
Ash Johns:myself with that experience way before it's time for you to actually do that.
Ash Johns:So here's an invitation for you to explore that.
Ash Johns:If there's something that you want and someone might be marketing about
Ash Johns:it right now, but based on where you are, you feel that it's not attainable,
Ash Johns:then just go ahead and put it on your ledger, put it in your notebook,
Ash Johns:write about it every month or every week or every day that you journal.
Ash Johns:Like do that.
Ash Johns:So anyway, I did that with my reiki first initiation, and then finally I
Ash Johns:did get it and it was beautiful when I was like, okay, I'm gonna pay this $250.
Ash Johns:I'm gonna do the one or two day session.
Ash Johns:I can't remember if the first, I think the first attunement is just a one day, right.
Ash Johns:It was so long ago.
Ash Johns:I feel like, I don't remember, but it's okay to do that.
Ash Johns:. I know with social media and how everything is speeding up, we feel
Ash Johns:like we have to do it right now.
Ash Johns:We start experiencing fomo and like a lot of people will ask me, are you gonna offer
Ash Johns:this again to almost soothe their nervous system, which is a good thing, soothe
Ash Johns:your nervous system and the decision making, but it's also like you don't
Ash Johns:have to do that if you want it right now.
Ash Johns:Like if you're gonna make an excuse, even though you have the money
Ash Johns:right now, but the fear is bigger than your ability to actually take
Ash Johns:action and pay for what you want.
Ash Johns:If you're asking, are you gonna offer it in the future to give you an excuse
Ash Johns:or a way out so that you can do it when it's more convenient for you, you're just
Ash Johns:delaying your own growth, in my opinion.
Ash Johns:Not to say that you can only grow with me or someone else, but it's not
Ash Johns:even about the person or the program.
Ash Johns:It's truly about you.
Ash Johns:What you are essentially saying to the universe is that I do not value
Ash Johns:my own growth, not just what this program or person are, are willing to
Ash Johns:teach and share and bestow upon me.
Ash Johns:But I also would rather hold onto my scarcity and my limitation than to stretch
Ash Johns:myself into what doing so will teach me about my money, about my finances,
Ash Johns:about my faith, about my abundance.
Ash Johns:Because there's two things happening.
Ash Johns:It's the actual program and what it's, and the person or what
Ash Johns:they wanna help you with or what you want them to help you with.
Ash Johns:But it's also your relationship to money that's happening at the same time.
Ash Johns:So you have an opportunity to heal multiple things or
Ash Johns:evolve in multiple things.
Ash Johns:If you make a decision that you do really want something and you are gonna
Ash Johns:call in the finances or do what is required to have the finances or the
Ash Johns:energy, or the time or the space, right?
Ash Johns:Or the focus to commit and show up to that thing, right.
Ash Johns:So, let me backtrack a little bit cause I've already started giving you some
Ash Johns:of the things I wanted to cover and I love that it's flowing out organically.
Ash Johns:And I know that this is hitting somebody out there to kind of
Ash Johns:call you on your BS lovingly.
Ash Johns:Cuz I have been here.
Ash Johns:I even returned here when I have big investments that I'm making and I'm
Ash Johns:working with like a more, a leader.
Ash Johns:You know, I've worked with some people that like, seriously, I, I won't go
Ash Johns:into all of that, but like, there's levels to this and I've shake it and
Ash Johns:this investment of being like, oh my God, the business is just now in like
Ash Johns:this incredible overflow and abundance and now I'm gonna go and take this
Ash Johns:huge chunk of cash to invest further into me and in the business right now.
Ash Johns:Like, I'm really gonna do that.
Ash Johns:I know that feeling.
Ash Johns:So I know it when you're beginning.
Ash Johns:I know it's when it's in the middle.
Ash Johns:I know it when it's now at this level.
Ash Johns:And to be honest with you, there's people who's, well, this
Ash Johns:isn't even about being honest.
Ash Johns:I think we all know this.
Ash Johns:There's people way beyond me.
Ash Johns:Like I feel like I'm a baby in the game, even though.
Ash Johns:From my skillset and my wisdom and my knowledge, I'm very
Ash Johns:much so an elder returned.
Ash Johns:But anyway, back to the very first thing I was gonna teach and share with you
Ash Johns:about what to do when you cannot afford a program or to work with a person and
Ash Johns:you really wanna join and work with them to work on a particular problem in
Ash Johns:your life or to transport something in your life, but you can't even afford to
Ash Johns:work with them to work on the problem.
Ash Johns:you get what I'm saying?
Ash Johns:It's getting like a little bit of a tongue twister, but we're on the same page here.
Ash Johns:So first thing, I want you to actually ask yourself why you want to join the program.
Ash Johns:Why do you wanna work with that particular person?
Ash Johns:Why like truly, and do not.
Ash Johns:Go to their sales page or their post or what they told you.
Ash Johns:Don't go to my sales page.
Ash Johns:Don't go to what I told you.
Ash Johns:Don't tell.
Ash Johns:Don't go to what I marketed to you.
Ash Johns:I want you to take the time in your own words and your own energy and your
Ash Johns:own desires to write out or say in your own head why you actually wanna
Ash Johns:work with me or someone like why?
Ash Johns:, is it that you feel like that they've walked the walk and now they can help you?
Ash Johns:Is it that you feel very safe and nurtured and you feel like you can be
Ash Johns:yourself and you want a space for someone to witness you and you feel safe with?
Ash Johns:Is it because they have a step-by-step process and you feel like all you
Ash Johns:have to do is follow that process and you're gonna get results?
Ash Johns:Is it that you've been isolated and you're ready to come in communal,
Ash Johns:you know, teaching and learning?
Ash Johns:Again, is it that you've been in a bunch of communal and like theoretical
Ash Johns:book teaching stuff and you wanna have an experience of embodiment
Ash Johns:that is personalized to you?
Ash Johns:Is it that you wanna partner in building your, like what is the real reason why
Ash Johns:you feel drawn to the program and the person and what do you want from it?
Ash Johns:You have to know that for yourself and what you're
Ash Johns:searching for, because then the.
Ash Johns:, aperture, it's one of my favorite words right now, widens, and you can
Ash Johns:start to attract the right teacher, mentor, coach, guide, healer, author,
Ash Johns:whatever, and program that is going to meet the needs of what you want
Ash Johns:and need in your life right now.
Ash Johns:As opposed to you seeing someone talking about something and trying
Ash Johns:to see if you trust yourself to make the sacrifice to step out there, to
Ash Johns:work with them or to sign up, right?
Ash Johns:Like get clear on what you want so you can draw to you plenty of options that
Ash Johns:will help you move through your journey and move through your journey, not
Ash Johns:based on their life or their process or their program, but in my opinion
Ash Johns:and what my work is really focused on is this is a program or a processor.
Ash Johns:Working with me is about helping you unravel your stuff that's unique to
Ash Johns:you and your lineage in your life and your calling and your legacy.
Ash Johns:Not that it's the same thing as mine, cuz it's not like this is not a
Ash Johns:cookie cutter experience, so, That's another thing to talk about at another
Ash Johns:time, but just ask yourself why, like what are you actually searching for?
Ash Johns:What do you des desire and what do you need help for?
Ash Johns:And why are you drawn to that particular person?
Ash Johns:Then you need to ask yourself, if you've done all that you can to
Ash Johns:fix, transform, evolve this aspect of your life or your whole life.
Ash Johns:If that's the case, yourself in the way that this program or person claims
Ash Johns:that they will help you do This is really important because what I see
Ash Johns:in this consumerism of self-help and growth and healing and building a
Ash Johns:business or having what are all these things is like we're getting so used
Ash Johns:to quickly outsourcing our power and being told by experts, quote unquote,
Ash Johns:cuz not everybody is actually an expert.
Ash Johns:I think we know that by now.
Ash Johns:But like we're just getting.
Ash Johns:Trigger happy , to my opinion of constantly looking outside of ourselves
Ash Johns:for someone to teach or tell us instead of actually applying what we already know
Ash Johns:and getting intimate with that first, and then saying, okay, I've tried this.
Ash Johns:I've done, you know, 30 days of journaling.
Ash Johns:I've held myself accountable as much as I possibly can, and I have
Ash Johns:pinpointed where I abandon myself.
Ash Johns:I've pinpointed where fear comes in and gets the best of me.
Ash Johns:I've pinpointed when I drop the ball every time I've pinpointed, when I have this
Ash Johns:reoccurring pattern and I need someone to help me break that pattern and level up.
Ash Johns:I'm looking for someone who can hold me to this, who has wisdom, expertise,
Ash Johns:practice, proven in whatever ways, vet people for a while, right?
Ash Johns:Who can help me in this particular aspect.
Ash Johns:Quote unquote, the outcome.
Ash Johns:Like right now, we've gotten so used to looking for the outcome and the
Ash Johns:results instead of understanding what you need to be healing and transforming
Ash Johns:in your own life and patterns and belief in psyche and body, right, that will
Ash Johns:allow you to then get those results.
Ash Johns:I know that selling the result is what everyone loves cuz we want
Ash Johns:more sex, more money, more power, more freedom, time freedom, right?
Ash Johns:More ease, more health, right?
Ash Johns:We sell that.
Ash Johns:But the truth is, when we sell the journey or when you are in love with the journey,
Ash Johns:or you believe in the journey, you will always get the outcome that you want.
Ash Johns:When you want to evolve who you are as a person and you go through that journey
Ash Johns:of evolving yourself, honoring yourself, letting go of old things that you've
Ash Johns:inherited and or been taught and or had to pick up to survive, you will always
Ash Johns:get the results that you want, even beyond the ones that you realize that you want.
Ash Johns:So we're skipping a process like you would have more success and more people
Ash Johns:wouldn't feel like they're being lied to, or abused or manipulated by the
Ash Johns:coaching industry, which is a whole thing.
Ash Johns:Have to do a whole episode on that.
Ash Johns:If you were clear about what your pitfalls are and you don't know your pitfalls, if
Ash Johns:you don't actually show up for yourself for a bit first, you know, I, I wanna
Ash Johns:tell you guys like full transparency, and I've never told anyone this.
Ash Johns:I actually didn't hire my first business coach until it was
Ash Johns:either late 2020 or late 2021.
Ash Johns:I can't remember.
Ash Johns:It's one of the two of those, those for some reason that that time of
Ash Johns:year is starting to blend together.
Ash Johns:Like I was on one timeline.
Ash Johns:Either way is I've been doing business literally since college, like since
Ash Johns:I was 18 and some way, shape or form.
Ash Johns:And I've had my business since 2015 on like officially and before that
Ash Johns:it was unofficial cuz I was doing it while I had a day job in advertising
Ash Johns:secretively at night on lunch breaks with my coworkers and over the weekends.
Ash Johns:So it literally, if we just count 2015 to 2020 or 2021, that's five or six years
Ash Johns:of me being in business and making money.
Ash Johns:And I did not have a business coach.
Ash Johns:I was figuring it out on my own.
Ash Johns:I was looking things up for free.
Ash Johns:, right?
Ash Johns:Or paying for little workshops here and there.
Ash Johns:Before I ever invested $1,200 a month for a business coach, plus 10% of my revenue.
Ash Johns:And then the price went up and the price went up, and the
Ash Johns:price went up right as I grew.
Ash Johns:So ask yourself why you want what you want.
Ash Johns:Why do you wanna work with someone?
Ash Johns:Why do you want to get in a program?
Ash Johns:And then ask yourself if you've done all that you can do yourself to transform
Ash Johns:your life in the way that you want, that this program or person is telling you.
Ash Johns:Because it's really important for you to know that as set
Ash Johns:point that will save you so much.
Ash Johns:And let me tell you another reason, and this is now me.
Ash Johns:Fully on my soapbox.
Ash Johns:If you're interested in ever working with me or being in my field or
Ash Johns:in my work personally, I'm not in the business of convincing anyone.
Ash Johns:And so sometimes when people come to me in a consultation or we're having a
Ash Johns:group call and we're doing like q and a or we're about to kick off, like,
Ash Johns:you know, a launch of some type of program or some type of experience I'm
Ash Johns:offering and people want me to tell them why in so many ways that they should
Ash Johns:join a program or what the program's gonna do or why it's structured the
Ash Johns:way that it is, or essentially sell the program to them into their life.
Ash Johns:I'm like, nah.
Ash Johns:Like, take that energy elsewhere.
Ash Johns:You need to know what you want.
Ash Johns:And it just so happened that I was launching offering, inviting
Ash Johns:you into my world and what I do.
Ash Johns:And so we have this synergy because we've, we've been called
Ash Johns:to cross paths essentially.
Ash Johns:, right?
Ash Johns:We've been called to cross paths in that moment, but if you don't know
Ash Johns:what you want, and then I'm offering something out in the world, in the
Ash Johns:internet, whatever, and you're like, oh, I think that's kind of what I want.
Ash Johns:That's one of the reasons why we keep hovering and lingering and watching and
Ash Johns:going through an entire cell cycle and questioning if we can afford it, and
Ash Johns:questioning if it's worth it, and talking yourself into it and talking yourself
Ash Johns:out of it and waiting until the last day.
Ash Johns:It's because you haven't gotten clear on what you actually want.
Ash Johns:Because when you're clear, what you want, the universe is gonna bring it to you.
Ash Johns:You're gonna cross paths with the right person at the right time
Ash Johns:and just gonna be at instant.
Ash Johns:Hell yes.
Ash Johns:You might have to check some dots and be like, okay, how long is it?
Ash Johns:And like, okay, is there an extra fee?
Ash Johns:And like, can I add this or can I, you know, you're gonna work out the things,
Ash Johns:but like it's not gonna take you forever.
Ash Johns:When I know that I'm hungry and I want to eat something healthy, I am not
Ash Johns:going to wait a long time to order.
Ash Johns:When I go to the restaurant that I want, when the restaurant shows itself,
Ash Johns:cuz I'm driving down the road and I know that I have a taste for a burger,
Ash Johns:I'm gonna stop and get a burger.
Ash Johns:But if I'm like, oh, I don't know if I'm hungry, or if it's just that I'm thirsty.
Ash Johns:And meanwhile someone's like, here's the restaurant coming up.
Ash Johns:It's, it has a bunch of slushies and drinks.
Ash Johns:And I'm like, oh, I don't know.
Ash Johns:And like, can you tell me if this is actually what I want?
Ash Johns:Let me tell, you know, you're like, no, you actually don't wanna drink this.
Ash Johns:You actually don't wanna eat this.
Ash Johns:You're trying to figure it out.
Ash Johns:So just keep driving down the road, until you know what you want.
Ash Johns:And then you'll pull into the next, opportunity that serves your desire.
Ash Johns:So this is very, very, very important and I wanna inspire you to take
Ash Johns:this seriously and give yourself permission to get clear on what you
Ash Johns:want and what you're searching for.
Ash Johns:Yeah, instead of like waiting and hoping that someone's gonna
Ash Johns:sell it to you or explain it to you or break it down for you.
Ash Johns:. Okay.
Ash Johns:So anyway, that was all like bonus, basically . Now I'm gonna
Ash Johns:get into the actual teaching.
Ash Johns:Oh, it's funny.
Ash Johns:This is really, really, really interesting.
Ash Johns:Yeah.
Ash Johns:When you know what you're looking for, and let me tell you one more thing about that.
Ash Johns:This is really good.
Ash Johns:Sometimes the truth of what comes through when you ask yourself,
Ash Johns:what are you really looking for?
Ash Johns:What are you really searching for?
Ash Johns:How do you wanna be supported and why?
Ash Johns:You'll realize if you've actually fallen into victimhood and you're looking for
Ash Johns:someone to save you, or if you're actually ready to be guided into your own power
Ash Johns:and process, and that's a big deal.
Ash Johns:Like that's a really big deal.
Ash Johns:That's what's gonna make or break your experience and keep you in your
Ash Johns:power so you can grow and retain what you are being taught, what you're
Ash Johns:being shown, what you're being guided into as opposed to starting to create
Ash Johns:a co-dependent relationship with a coach, a guide, a mentor, or a program.
Ash Johns:It's fantastic to cross paths with someone, to learn from them.
Ash Johns:And then when you leave, you're like, I got this information.
Ash Johns:My life has evolved and I can like wave goodbye for a while and we may
Ash Johns:work together again in the future.
Ash Johns:We may not.
Ash Johns:You've got when you need it, and you continue on your path.
Ash Johns:That is true self mastery, self grow, self-empowerment, and it doesn't have
Ash Johns:to be where you are losing yourself or becoming deeply attached to someone
Ash Johns:who's supporting you on your path.
Ash Johns:All right, let's move on.
Ash Johns:So here's the first thing you need to do if you are wanting to get into a
Ash Johns:program, but you cannot afford it, whether that's money, which is the main thing
Ash Johns:that I'm focusing on in this particular.
Ash Johns:recording this episode, but it might be your time.
Ash Johns:It might be your effort.
Ash Johns:It might be your energy, it might be your focus, like you just don't have
Ash Johns:to give or will not give what the program requires to get into it, even
Ash Johns:though the program or the person is gonna help solve your issue with money
Ash Johns:or time or resources or whatever.
Ash Johns:This is what you need to do.
Ash Johns:First thing is decide that you actually really want it, right?
Ash Johns:So after you ask yourself why you want what you want, and have I
Ash Johns:done everything that I need to do?
Ash Johns:What am I really searching for?
Ash Johns:Once you're clear about that, you need to go ahead and decide that
Ash Johns:you actually really want this.
Ash Johns:It doesn't matter if it shows up today, if it shows up tomorrow, if it shows up
Ash Johns:next week, if it shows up a month from now, if it shows up a year from now.
Ash Johns:Or the money shows up today, shows up tomorrow, shows up a week
Ash Johns:from now, shows up a month from now, shows up a year from now.
Ash Johns:You have to decide that you actually want that experience and
Ash Johns:you want this experience to evolve this specific thing in your life.
Ash Johns:Right.
Ash Johns:And I'm, I'm saying this generally cuz you could touch this into so many aspects
Ash Johns:of personal development and growth and healing and empowerment, right.
Ash Johns:And leveling up.
Ash Johns:So we're just gonna keep it general, but you have to decide,
Ash Johns:you can't like say, I would like it or it would make me feel better.
Ash Johns:It would create an easier life.
Ash Johns:You have to say, I want to have a successful, stabilized, multi six figure
Ash Johns:business that brings in 10 K plus a month minimum overnight or while I'm sleeping.
Ash Johns:Not overnight, but like while I'm resting.
Ash Johns:While I'm sleeping.
Ash Johns:Passive income.
Ash Johns:Like this is my desire.
Ash Johns:I want this and I want someone to teach me how to do it in
Ash Johns:a way that resonates with me.
Ash Johns:I want, this is like, you have to get clear on this because a lot of
Ash Johns:times we want the ease and we want the benefit, but we don't really.
Ash Johns:Decide that we wanted, that when it shows itself, we're gonna say yes to it.
Ash Johns:We're like a little wobbly on that and I understand why.
Ash Johns:Don't get me wrong.
Ash Johns:I understand we have fears.
Ash Johns:I understand we haven't had anybody in our family show us.
Ash Johns:I understand, like all these things, but you still have to decide in your
Ash Johns:heart that this is something you want to come to fruition in your life.
Ash Johns:That's it.
Ash Johns:There is no part of me that does not believe no and has not decided
Ash Johns:that she's an entrepreneur.
Ash Johns:Even when I had a day job, even when I worked at my first job, which was
Ash Johns:McDonald's by the way, like I knew I was always going to be an preneur.
Ash Johns:It's taken me, I'm 36 now, so I started doing entrepreneurial
Ash Johns:stuff when I was 18 officially.
Ash Johns:Right?
Ash Johns:So, I mean, you guys do the math, what is it, 26 years?
Ash Johns:I can't do math.
Ash Johns:28.
Ash Johns:I mean, it would be 20, so 18 years, I, yeah, that sounds about right.
Ash Johns:18 years.
Ash Johns:math is not my thing unless it's a spreadsheet and we're looking at revenue.
Ash Johns:Okay, , but.
Ash Johns:. I decided that.
Ash Johns:And there's been many different iterations of entrepreneurship of business.
Ash Johns:Ups and downs, ins and outs with it.
Ash Johns:Without it like making money.
Ash Johns:Not making money, clients sign up.
Ash Johns:Like all these things have happened.
Ash Johns:But at the end of the day, I was still an entrepreneur.
Ash Johns:Right?
Ash Johns:And I did decide moments where I was like, I do need support.
Ash Johns:I do need help.
Ash Johns:I am ready to be guided in a way for someone to show me what I do not see in
Ash Johns:my leadership, in being an entrepreneur and being a CEO and being a spiritual
Ash Johns:healer or spiritual entrepreneur.
Ash Johns:I need someone to show me what I do not see.
Ash Johns:And I'm ready for that.
Ash Johns:Right?
Ash Johns:And here comes the mentors, the guides, the teachers, the
Ash Johns:coaches that have supported me.
Ash Johns:So decide that you want that.
Ash Johns:That, I mean, I could.
Ash Johns:That could alone.
Ash Johns:Could be its own workshop on how to decide.
Ash Johns:Cuz people think they've decided, but they actually haven't.
Ash Johns:But anyway, moving on.
Ash Johns:The next thing is, as I was sharing earlier, I've even.
Ash Johns:Not only have I put things on a vision board, like people I wanted to work with
Ash Johns:or programs I wanted to pay for, or what I was calling in as it relates to support
Ash Johns:and guidance and teaching programs.
Ash Johns:I even kept the tabs open for the programs.
Ash Johns:Like I kept them in my bookmarks.
Ash Johns:I use a Mac, so you have like the bookmarks, like,
Ash Johns:I need to clean those out.
Ash Johns:, there's things when I did clean out my bookmarks that I actually
Ash Johns:did sign up for in the future and forgot that I bookmarked them.
Ash Johns:And I was like, oh yeah, I did sign up for that and I did do
Ash Johns:it, and it was great, you know?
Ash Johns:So bookmark stuff, leave tabs open.
Ash Johns:Like when I know I wanna sign up for something, but I'm not quite
Ash Johns:ready, I'm like, okay, I have three more days to sign up for it.
Ash Johns:I'm just gonna lead the tab open.
Ash Johns:I'm gonna go travel.
Ash Johns:I'm gonna take this flight.
Ash Johns:I'm gonna go out to eat.
Ash Johns:I'm gonna have a good time.
Ash Johns:I'm gonna let it settle in my system.
Ash Johns:I'll give myself three days of keeping that tab up before I go ahead and commit.
Ash Johns:Like, give yourself a timeframe of when you're gonna commit.
Ash Johns:Keep the tab up, marinate on it.
Ash Johns:Get the energy of it.
Ash Johns:Imagine being in that program.
Ash Johns:See if it's really time and if it truly does serve you, and if it's
Ash Johns:not, then put it on the vision board or bookmark for the future as
Ash Johns:something you're gonna come back to.
Ash Johns:This is really important because this kind of eliminates that pressure in my opinion,
Ash Johns:like if you truly are in a space where you can't afford it or you can't do it, you
Ash Johns:don't have the energy, you don't have the time, whatever the reason is, the hours
Ash Johns:that they're meeting for the program isn't available and you've got kids, whatever,
Ash Johns:which that's a whole nother sidebar.
Ash Johns:Okay.
Ash Johns:Email the person, email the teacher, the guide, the mentor, reach out to
Ash Johns:them about the program if it's a time thing, or if you do need to see if
Ash Johns:there's an extended payment plan, like closed mouths don't get fed.
Ash Johns:And something that really bothers me personally is when people tell me
Ash Johns:later on that they wanted to sign up for something but they couldn't afford
Ash Johns:it, or they didn't have the time and they never reached out to say, is there
Ash Johns:any way, is there any possibility?
Ash Johns:Could you offer me, can I do this?
Ash Johns:Like, go for what you want guys.
Ash Johns:. And that doesn't mean that just because you ask or you offer that
Ash Johns:you're gonna automatically get it.
Ash Johns:Because I've done it and I've gotten a, no, people have done it
Ash Johns:with me and they've gotten a no.
Ash Johns:Sometimes they've done it and I've said yes, or we've worked something out.
Ash Johns:But like you won't know what's possible if you don't do it, which
Ash Johns:that in and of itself is, is what one of my mentors will say is free game.
Ash Johns:Because you're doing something, you're recoding your ability to
Ash Johns:go after your desires, receive a no, and still go for your yes.
Ash Johns:Like you're recoding your system and your energy filled by doing that.
Ash Johns:Like that in itself is a whole entire healing process if you allow it to be.
Ash Johns:, but most times we don't.
Ash Johns:We just sit back, we're telling ourselves all these stories, like,
Ash Johns:oh, they're gonna think this about me.
Ash Johns:Or like, what if I default or what, blah, blah, blah.
Ash Johns:Like I had multiple people who were on multi extended payment plans
Ash Johns:and like have to do, and that's not obviously my favorite way to work.
Ash Johns:I love for people to be able to come right in and commit to their payments, but at
Ash Johns:the same time, we're transforming lies.
Ash Johns:We're in the in between, we're in the bridge.
Ash Johns:And so sometimes you have to build bridges for you to cross over . You
Ash Johns:can't just walk over the bridge.
Ash Johns:We have to build it as we go step by step, plank by plank.
Ash Johns:So I have done that and I was so grateful that not only did someone
Ash Johns:meet me in that when they could, but I also met myself in it.
Ash Johns:I grew as a person.
Ash Johns:When I asked for what I needed, I did stretch.
Ash Johns:I did, you know, get a little uncomfortable, but it was achievable
Ash Johns:uncomfortability as opposed to like a completely oblating your belief
Ash Johns:in yourself by going for something that is completely outta reach.
Ash Johns:You know what I mean?
Ash Johns:Okay.
Ash Johns:So put it on a vision board, leave your tabs open.
Ash Johns:The third thing I would suggest is to do all of their free things.
Ash Johns:, like reach out to them and ask if there are offerings that are in the
Ash Johns:back of the house, is what I call it.
Ash Johns:I have so many things I have created over the eight years of this business
Ash Johns:that if someone emailed me and was like, do you have anything around this ash?
Ash Johns:I would be like, oh my God, I totally do.
Ash Johns:Let me send you this link, or let me have my team send this out to you.
Ash Johns:Mentors, elders, guides, coaches, teachers, like we have so much content.
Ash Johns:We teach so many things because we are living what we teach and we
Ash Johns:talk about things so many different ways and then we evolve it.
Ash Johns:And like if someone were to email me and ask for something specific and I'm like,
Ash Johns:oh yeah, we totally taught about that.
Ash Johns:I haven't sold it.
Ash Johns:It's just sitting in the back.
Ash Johns:I'll give it to you for a hundred bucks.
Ash Johns:Or here, just take it.
Ash Johns:Like if you don't ever ask.
Ash Johns:What someone might have that can meet you where you are currently at.
Ash Johns:Because what they're currently offering is outside of your price range or
Ash Johns:outside of your resources range.
Ash Johns:Like you'll never really know.
Ash Johns:And also even though a website or a social media is your real
Ash Johns:estate, you know what I mean?
Ash Johns:Like it's your home essentially on, on the worldwide web.
Ash Johns:We can't make everything visible.
Ash Johns:Like you would get lost on my website if you saw every single page.
Ash Johns:And so there's a lot of things that are available on my site
Ash Johns:that is in the back of the house.
Ash Johns:It's a link that is not in the navigation bar.
Ash Johns:Like you would only get it if I was running an ad or you asked for it, or
Ash Johns:you found one of my old blog posts and clicked on it and was able to sign up.
Ash Johns:Like.
Ash Johns:I remember when I really wanted to work with someone and I was also vetting
Ash Johns:them and feeling them out and seeing if I could trust them and if their energy
Ash Johns:was clear and if they, you know, did good work and they were trustworthy.
Ash Johns:I was all over their fucking website.
Ash Johns:I'm not gonna lie, like I was even typing in their website and doing
Ash Johns:backslash and typing in just random things to see if I could find one of
Ash Johns:their backend pages and like going through all their old social media posts
Ash Johns:if they said anything about DM this or go to this website cuz you know, sometimes
Ash Johns:we typed the URL into the actual caption.
Ash Johns:I did that work and I found those links and then I would hit them up
Ash Johns:and be like, is this still available?
Ash Johns:Like, I literally did this to one of my mentors.
Ash Johns:I found stuff from her and.
Ash Johns:I did like a Facebook search of her name, and she was in all these free
Ash Johns:groups back when groups were just coming out . And she had all these links to
Ash Johns:things that she had done before, like I'm telling you, six and seven years ago.
Ash Johns:And I was like, Hey, is this still available?
Ash Johns:You offered it free.
Ash Johns:Is it possible to come back to it?
Ash Johns:Like, can you, and she, you know, was like, girl, that stuff is so old.
Ash Johns:Like what I'm coming out with now, you don't, you're already beyond it.
Ash Johns:But I was like, you're on hiatus and I want this support.
Ash Johns:I want to learn this with you.
Ash Johns:She's like a master Alchemist.
Ash Johns:She's not like, she actually is so, This is what I'm saying, when you
Ash Johns:wanna vet someone or you really wanna be in someone's wisdom or learn from
Ash Johns:them, you don't just sit back and like get lazy about it, you know?
Ash Johns:And I don't mean that to be an asshole, I'm just saying the truth of like, we've
Ash Johns:gotten so comfortable with being fed stuff through social media and fed stuff.
Ash Johns:Like, do you guys know a long, long, long, long time ago, like elders
Ash Johns:lived on the edge of a village and you could only go to them when you were
Ash Johns:summoned, or when you asked, or when you were like, they had to send word.
Ash Johns:You can just rock up and click on a link and book a session and read their words.
Ash Johns:All willy-nilly like this, like . And I just wanna bring us back to
Ash Johns:that awareness, that care, that I wanna say reverence for taking the
Ash Johns:time to look for stuff to explore.
Ash Johns:This old saying goes, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Ash Johns:But it seems like in this modern age, people are behaving in a
Ash Johns:way where they're like, I want the teacher to appear whenever I want.
Ash Johns:I'm not ready.
Ash Johns:I'm not showing that I'm ready.
Ash Johns:I'm not pursuing, but you just need to come here and serve me and I'll pay what
Ash Johns:I can or try to work with you for free.
Ash Johns:And it's just not, it's not right.
Ash Johns:And let me tell you another side note, and this is whole sermon, but I'm
Ash Johns:gonna make it really, really short.
Ash Johns:When you're working with a teacher, a guide, an elder mentor, and I will
Ash Johns:even include a coach, and they are woman feminine embodied, if you will.
Ash Johns:you wanting to receive from them without giving anything,
Ash Johns:whether it's appreciation, money, time, reference filling out a
Ash Johns:fucking form, which kills me.
Ash Johns:Guys, like I'll tell you, one of my pet peeves, I'm totally ranting now,
Ash Johns:I'm one of my pet peeves is when I create something, an offer, and my only
Ash Johns:ask is that you fill out the feedback form and tell me what you got from
Ash Johns:it, help you process the information.
Ash Johns:And you can't do that.
Ash Johns:But you say thank you in the actual call.
Ash Johns:It's like so annoying.
Ash Johns:It's so annoying.
Ash Johns:. It's such a simple thing to do.
Ash Johns:It truly is.
Ash Johns:We really need to come back to being present in these healing
Ash Johns:and growth relationships.
Ash Johns:It doesn't take long to process what you received and give that information back
Ash Johns:to a person who is willing to share their knowledge with you so that you don't
Ash Johns:have to quit your job and run all over the world and do this stuff on your own.
Ash Johns:They're offering it to you right now, right?
Ash Johns:Just, just right now, you know what I'm saying?
Ash Johns:Anyway, coming back to this.
Ash Johns:This is really good though.
Ash Johns:I love how this is just flowing out right now.
Ash Johns:I know that it's gonna connect.
Ash Johns:I know that it's gonna talk to y'all.
Ash Johns:But anyway, I found her stuff all over the internet and she was like, you
Ash Johns:know, some of it's available, some of it's not, whatever, so on and so forth.
Ash Johns:Anyway, getting back to this topic do the free things.
Ash Johns:Listen to the podcast like you're doing now.
Ash Johns:Sign up for their stuff, ask for and explore things that are back
Ash Johns:of house and take your time.
Ash Johns:Just like vet marinate, prepare, you're getting into the space so
Ash Johns:when you can work with that person.
Ash Johns:Right.
Ash Johns:And I get it sometimes, like the business people are always like, make
Ash Johns:it easy for people, make it easy.
Ash Johns:And I'm like, hmm.
Ash Johns:Yes and no.
Ash Johns:We can't make it so easy that you then not learn how to fish for yourself.
Ash Johns:Right?
Ash Johns:The whole personal development, personal growth thing is to help
Ash Johns:you become a better person for you to have the life that you want.
Ash Johns:And that can't be outsourced forever because someone's made
Ash Johns:it easy for you to do something.
Ash Johns:You're gonna have to stretch your own wings and know how to efer your own
Ash Johns:energy in a way that most serves you.
Ash Johns:So when you are working with a fem uh, woman a feminine embodied person, and
Ash Johns:you're wanting to receive without ever giving anything back, that is essentially.
Ash Johns:Doing the same thing that everyone is anti the patriarchy.
Ash Johns:You wanna use the resources of the land, but you don't wanna take care of the land.
Ash Johns:You want to praise it and be around its energy and leak from it, but
Ash Johns:you don't want to sustain it.
Ash Johns:You want to be cared for and seen and heard and poured into and
Ash Johns:guide it, but you don't wanna give anything back, like pay for it.
Ash Johns:Like that is literally abusing the feminine.
Ash Johns:And so I'm not saying, you know, calling anybody an abuser, I'm
Ash Johns:just saying look at your behaviors.
Ash Johns:Because with this movement right now where everybody's still so anti patriarchy
Ash Johns:and hate and men and like all the stuff that's going on in the collective right
Ash Johns:now, I think it's so interesting that so many women are doing that, but then
Ash Johns:they turn around and treat each other the same way that they say that they don't
Ash Johns:want men in the patriarchy treating.
Ash Johns:and I've seen this with white women, I've seen it with black women, I've
Ash Johns:seen it with Latin women, I've seen it with mixed women, I've seen it with
Ash Johns:Asian, I've seen it with all of us.
Ash Johns:So this is not economics or or socioeconomics.
Ash Johns:This is not race.
Ash Johns:This is, all of us have been doing this to each other.
Ash Johns:And I'll tell you guys, I'm gonna go on a little bit more of a rant.
Ash Johns:I've had somebody who claim to be an apprentice of mine, a mentee.
Ash Johns:She never received mentorship in that way or being an apprentice in that way.
Ash Johns:She was part of a program.
Ash Johns:And when I corrected her, I was like, no, this is how this needs to be said.
Ash Johns:Decided to like block me, unfollow, remove.
Ash Johns:And I was like, wow.
Ash Johns:That's so interesting because again, woman to woman and black woman to black woman,
Ash Johns:the only thing I'm requiring of you to do is tell the truth, is tell the fucking
Ash Johns:truth and honor this work and who I am in the way that it should be presented.
Ash Johns:And because I took a stand for that and required you to do
Ash Johns:that and called you out on it.
Ash Johns:right?
Ash Johns:To make sure that the energetic relationship between us is clean and
Ash Johns:it's represented appropriately out into the world you showed your ass.
Ash Johns:You know?
Ash Johns:So we need to be looking at, if we're even congruent in our relationship
Ash Johns:to receiving support and guidance and knowledge and teaching and help, whether
Ash Johns:it's peer to peer, client to peer mentor to mentee, student to teacher, whatever,
Ash Johns:but there's some fucked up behavior going on that is not cool at all.
Ash Johns:That was just a side note.
Ash Johns:It also helps to set the tone.
Ash Johns:, but I can also refer people back to this episode moving forward , cuz
Ash Johns:I just couldn't believe it.
Ash Johns:I was like, wow.
Ash Johns:But these are the similar people who are all, you know, ranting and raving
Ash Johns:about black women, this and women this, and feminism that, and da da da da da.
Ash Johns:But at the end of the day, you are showing exactly who you are based on how you treat
Ash Johns:other people, especially when they hold a high standard for you to adhere to.
Ash Johns:So anyway, that standard, bringing it back to what I'm talking about, the
Ash Johns:standard is even when you're doing free things, even when you're doing low price
Ash Johns:things, even when you're exploring and finding those back of house links, if
Ash Johns:this is a program that benefited you, if this is a person you wanna work with
Ash Johns:and you're looking to invest further with them in the future when you can't
Ash Johns:afford it and you do have the time and it does work out, give back, give back
Ash Johns:because you're basically preceding.
Ash Johns:Pre abundantly seeding what you wanna be receiving at the next level in the
Ash Johns:future when you do work with them.
Ash Johns:Right?
Ash Johns:If you're not getting the gist right now, this is all about energetics.
Ash Johns:Your relationship to asking what you want, energetically, your relationship
Ash Johns:to finding and going after what you want.
Ash Johns:Energetically, your relationship to deciding what you want
Ash Johns:energetically, right?
Ash Johns:The energy that you carry sets the precedence of what you have access to.
Ash Johns:So working on your energy, you can start doing before you ever pay a dollar or a
Ash Johns:dime for anything based on your character and how you choose to show the fuck up.
Ash Johns:Next thing, yes, engage in their social media presence when you can.
Ash Johns:I think this is a no-brainer for the most part.
Ash Johns:I see people doing this all the time.
Ash Johns:They'll send me a dm, they'll thank me, they'll be excited.
Ash Johns:I've done it to people.
Ash Johns:I still do it to people.
Ash Johns:Listen to the podcast.
Ash Johns:Love what you said.
Ash Johns:Oh my God, Ashley's so great.
Ash Johns:Commenting underneath.
Ash Johns:, which is cool.
Ash Johns:And really this isn't even about the person's response or their knowledge.
Ash Johns:It's really you getting again, into their energy of what they're
Ash Johns:teaching and just having a presence.
Ash Johns:You are essentially saying, I'm putting energy towards this because I do
Ash Johns:wanna work with them in the future.
Ash Johns:I'm not gonna just like silently watch, cuz like, there's an aspect
Ash Johns:to that as well, especially if you're not doing it with intention.
Ash Johns:I'm watching, but I'm not investing with a comment.
Ash Johns:Oh, but I wanna be part of a program that I can't invest in right now.
Ash Johns:There's a correlation there.
Ash Johns:Again, where's the opportunity to give what you can towards what you want.
Ash Johns:If that program or person has the means or the knowledge or the wisdom to guide
Ash Johns:and teach you towards the thing that you wanna transform in your life, in what way
Ash Johns:do you wanna offer something towards them in exchange for what they can give you?
Ash Johns:It's quite simple.
Ash Johns:Okay, Five.
Ash Johns:Give up the, I already know this and I already do this energy and mindset.
Ash Johns:I've seen this where someone really wanted to join a program of mine and
Ash Johns:so I did like a freebie or like a talk or something, a q and a session
Ash Johns:about it to like warm people up.
Ash Johns:And the person was kind of like trying to vet and understand me and
Ash Johns:like glean as much as they could because they could not afford to
Ash Johns:get into the program at the time.
Ash Johns:And so they kind of came with this energy, like, I already know this.
Ash Johns:I already do this.
Ash Johns:So what's gonna be new in the program again, kind of that like,
Ash Johns:prove me, I need what you've got, but I'm not certain for myself.
Ash Johns:I don't trust myself.
Ash Johns:I don't trust you, so I need you to prove.
Ash Johns:And very much so on like an ego trip.
Ash Johns:And, and you know, for me, I'm just like, I don't know what to tell you then.
Ash Johns:If you already know this and you already do this, then you wouldn't be here.
Ash Johns:Like your energy was drawn to this program for a reason.
Ash Johns:And even if you think you didn't receive what you needed, I know that you
Ash Johns:did, otherwise you would not be here.
Ash Johns:You're just thinking that it has to look or you're looking for something.
Ash Johns:This, this is what cracks me up.
Ash Johns:And this is like next level, high level healing, guiding
Ash Johns:energetic field stuff because.
Ash Johns:. The thing is, it's about the vibration of the information, and again, the variables
Ash Johns:and the timing that that information comes to you in your life, right?
Ash Johns:I talked about this at the beginning of the episode, and so if you are listening
Ash Johns:at a certain space in your journey, you're looking for something that's new, but as
Ash Johns:the Bible says, and as a lot of different parables and elders of different lineages
Ash Johns:say, there's nothing new under the sun.
Ash Johns:It really isn't.
Ash Johns:It's very simple.
Ash Johns:There is no new, news here.
Ash Johns:Could it be said slightly differently?
Ash Johns:Sure.
Ash Johns:Can it be delivered in a different kinda experience?
Ash Johns:Absolutely.
Ash Johns:Can we do it at night instead of during the day?
Ash Johns:Can we do it in person instead of online?
Ash Johns:Sure.
Ash Johns:All those fucking formats are cool and great, and you can say it in many
Ash Johns:different conceptual ways so that it penetrates through your trauma,
Ash Johns:through your ancestral patterns, and into your heart, and therefore
Ash Johns:transforming you and embodying your whole life in a different way.
Ash Johns:All of that is true, but if you're looking for some new, new, like some secret sauce,
Ash Johns:you fucking miss the boat, you know?
Ash Johns:. And so when someone comes to any program being like, I already know this.
Ash Johns:I already do this.
Ash Johns:Tell me something new.
Ash Johns:That's what's gonna convince me to sign up.
Ash Johns:Or that's what, you know what I mean?
Ash Johns:I'm like, this is not that.
Ash Johns:This isn't about looking for something new.
Ash Johns:This is about it actually coming into your life and transforming.
Ash Johns:We have a lot of fucking knowledge.
Ash Johns:We're literally coming out of the age, a Pisces age of Aquarius stuff.
Ash Johns:And so, you know, we've had a lot of, and the age of just Gemini and internet
Ash Johns:and technology like telling, telling, telling, like information, information,
Ash Johns:information, hoarding information, keeping information, knowing a lot of shit.
Ash Johns:But you haven't implemented and you haven't applied it in your life, right?
Ash Johns:So when you're looking for how do I get the means and energy to
Ash Johns:something and you're kind of testing it out, you need to be looking for,
Ash Johns:can I even absorb, am I willing to receive what this person is offering?
Ash Johns:Right.
Ash Johns:I think this is really, really, really, really important.
Ash Johns:If you really knew something, you would be embodying it and
Ash Johns:your life would look different.
Ash Johns:If they are saying something to you that you know, but they're saying it
Ash Johns:again and you're hearing it again, then obviously you needed to fucking hear it.
Ash Johns:, I'm saying a lot of fuckings in this particular episode.
Ash Johns:I think that's very funny.
Ash Johns:Anyway, give that up.
Ash Johns:Give that up because that energy, that mentality, that mindset is blocking you
Ash Johns:from even seeing how you could be able to afford, how you could be able to
Ash Johns:be a part of a program or receive the knowledge that the person's giving away.
Ash Johns:Either paid or free.
Ash Johns:Or free, you know?
Ash Johns:I wanna say stop bouncing around to multiple healers
Ash Johns:and coaches at the same time.
Ash Johns:And this is not to be on some like gatekeeping control my
Ash Johns:people, keep people in my network community, like none of that.
Ash Johns:Cuz honestly, I'm actually a very extroverted introvert.
Ash Johns:I'm, I'm a, I'm deeply attractive person, both physically and energetically.
Ash Johns:I love being around people, but I actually like being a loner and a bit of a healer
Ash Johns:and like by myself, Rick loose kind of person coming outta my shell when
Ash Johns:I want to disappearing where I don't.
Ash Johns:So the whole idea, even though in the cards for me it is to
Ash Johns:have a huge community and like be a leader and a mentor to
Ash Johns:millions that kind of skis me out.
Ash Johns:So just remember I said that in this episode, But the reason why I
Ash Johns:say stop bouncing around is because you're getting into energy fields
Ash Johns:with a lot of different people and it starts to muddy your own compass and
Ash Johns:North star and sense of direction.
Ash Johns:And so you start being like, well, this person said this and this person said
Ash Johns:this, but I also want this, but I'm afraid of this and I don't know what's true.
Ash Johns:And it's like everything that everyone said is true.
Ash Johns:Everything that you desire is true, but because you're listening and you're
Ash Johns:in the field of so many different people, you can't figure out which
Ash Johns:way serves you the best right now.
Ash Johns:Cuz none of those ways are wrong.
Ash Johns:But you're listening to too many people.
Ash Johns:It's like the old saying, there's too many cooks in the kitchen.
Ash Johns:, simplify that.
Ash Johns:I can't tell you how, like, I wouldn't say annoyed, but I'd just be like,
Ash Johns:I don't know what to tell you.
Ash Johns:When people, someone told me, actually more than once, they were like,
Ash Johns:Hey, I'm in between your program and this other person's program.
Ash Johns:Which one do you think I should do?
Ash Johns:And I'm like, well, duh, I'm gonna say my own because my shit is awesome.
Ash Johns:Like, what the fuck?
Ash Johns:? I was like, I don't know.
Ash Johns:Which one do you feel drawn to?
Ash Johns:Like what kind of question is that?
Ash Johns:But like, they're like, well, they talk about this and you said this,
Ash Johns:and what do you think is true?
Ash Johns:And I'm like, I don't know.
Ash Johns:Whatever you think is true is true.
Ash Johns:Like that's not my job.
Ash Johns:My job is to do what I'm doing.
Ash Johns:And if you feel called and you feel ready and you're clear about what you
Ash Johns:want and what you need, then you will know what resonates with you most.
Ash Johns:I'm not, again, in the business of convincing, but the reason why this is
Ash Johns:very important when you're trying to decide or figure out what to do when you
Ash Johns:can't afford to join a program or work with someone that you wanna work with
Ash Johns:and you wanna join I wanna call it like splicing of your energy ends up being one
Ash Johns:of the reasons why you can't harness your energy towards the financial abundance you
Ash Johns:need and want for what you want, right?
Ash Johns:When you're clear and you have someone that you wanna work with and you have
Ash Johns:their program on your vision board and you're like, this is what I'm working on
Ash Johns:this whole year, and this is what I wanna see change in my life around money or
Ash Johns:around blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever it is, your energy is going in one space.
Ash Johns:It's trying to call in the abundance and the resources for
Ash Johns:the thing that you most desire.
Ash Johns:But when you're scattered around all these different peoples and
Ash Johns:all these different methodologies and all these different ideas, your
Ash Johns:fucking energy is, it's not as potent.
Ash Johns:Like that's just, that's just how it is.
Ash Johns:That's energy.
Ash Johns:. So, you know, for me, I've actually signed up for something,
Ash Johns:a program three different times.
Ash Johns:The first time I signed up for it, I was like a hundred percent, and then
Ash Johns:I kind of wobbled halfway through and didn't finish it, but I was like,
Ash Johns:I got what I needed the first time.
Ash Johns:Second time I was like, Hmm, I don't wanna actually participate, but I'm gonna sign
Ash Johns:up just so I have it in my field because I know I want to cultivate this in my life.
Ash Johns:So I'm just gonna like sign up just to have it in my field.
Ash Johns:I'm not going to the calls.
Ash Johns:I only pop into the group a few times.
Ash Johns:The third time it's like I'm so focused, I'm going week by
Ash Johns:week, homework by homework.
Ash Johns:I'm so committed, but I've removed all the other things in my life so
Ash Johns:I could have my energy going in the direction that I wanted to go and I
Ash Johns:could have the energy to metabolize and see how my life reflected the
Ash Johns:teachings that were coming in.
Ash Johns:right.
Ash Johns:So it's a, it's a really easy thing to do, to say, I really wanna work
Ash Johns:with this one person, or a program on this thing, and I know who it is.
Ash Johns:I've identified it, and so I want to call in the money, the provision,
Ash Johns:the time, the support to allow me to have access to this thing.
Ash Johns:It's, it's focusing your energy.
Ash Johns:so long story short, what to do when you can't afford a program.
Ash Johns:that is gonna help you solve the problem.
Ash Johns:Not being able to support the program.
Ash Johns:, you gotta get clear that you want it.
Ash Johns:And there's a lot of practical things like this was a lot of concepts and
Ash Johns:looking at behaviors and talking about how people behave when they
Ash Johns:can't join things and all of that.
Ash Johns:But this cleans up your energy field.
Ash Johns:It really does.
Ash Johns:So that you can call in the money that you want and need for what you want and need.
Ash Johns:Right.
Ash Johns:So you can learn more about money and or whatever it is.
Ash Johns:Right.
Ash Johns:I'm just using money as an example because that's what's been coming up
Ash Johns:most recently in my own business with people interested in working with me.
Ash Johns:Now, there's a lot of practical things you can also do.
Ash Johns:I mean, this episode is already over an hour, which I'm very surprised I haven't
Ash Johns:done a long episode in a long time.
Ash Johns:So I will take a quick moment to say, you know, the very practical
Ash Johns:things, can you raise your prices?
Ash Johns:Can you ask for a raise at work?
Ash Johns:Can you do overtime?
Ash Johns:Can you sell something?
Ash Johns:Can you do an extra shift?
Ash Johns:Can you borrow it?
Ash Johns:Can you put it on credit cards and work on your money stuff so that
Ash Johns:you can also be okay with the debt?
Ash Johns:And also be okay with paying it off.
Ash Johns:Do you want to work on your worthiness wounds so you know that
Ash Johns:you are worth calling in the money to be able to pay for something?
Ash Johns:Like there's so many different practical and also psychological, emotional,
Ash Johns:mental levels around healing this dynamic of desiring something but
Ash Johns:not having the means to access it.
Ash Johns:And I, I've just barely scratched the surface to it, but.
Ash Johns:I will say a lot of times we are resistant to just simply asking for help.
Ash Johns:I remember when I was first working on like my male wounds, outside of
Ash Johns:my own ancestors and my lineage and modality, and I started going outside
Ash Johns:of that into other aspects of it.
Ash Johns:Someone was like, ask a man in your life that you trust for provision
Ash Johns:to support you and paying for this to heal your relationship with men.
Ash Johns:And I was like, oh my God, I never even thought about that.
Ash Johns:Like, I'm so independent woman.
Ash Johns:I'm so like six figure business woman.
Ash Johns:Like, oh my God, why didn't I think about that?
Ash Johns:I think that I actually just want it to be supported by a man to
Ash Johns:heal my relationship with men.
Ash Johns:I was doing a double dip, like a double layer by signing up.
Ash Johns:In the program in this way was already starting to read Pattern,
Ash Johns:my Relationship with Men and Money.
Ash Johns:Long story short, definitely another episode.
Ash Johns:But all that to say an example of what you're doing before you ever sign up for
Ash Johns:a program is already starting the healing and the growth that you are desiring.
Ash Johns:It is showing you where your deepest wounds are.
Ash Johns:It is showing you where your great fears are.
Ash Johns:It is showing where your reoccurring patterns are.
Ash Johns:It's showing your opportunity for leveling up.
Ash Johns:It's showing you if you pay attention and not brush it off.
Ash Johns:If you see that you put off signing up for something over and over and over
Ash Johns:again, or you keep talking yourself out of it, or you have the money,
Ash Johns:but you are afraid that you don't, or you're trying to have the person
Ash Johns:convince you that it's worth it.
Ash Johns:Beyond what they've already said in their events or in their sales page or whatever.
Ash Johns:Like, you gotta look at that and ask yourself why, cuz that's
Ash Johns:actually what you're healing.
Ash Johns:And when you work on that, you'll start to get all the other things
Ash Johns:that you want in your life.
Ash Johns:Like the money, the man, the house, the job, the ease, the confidence,
Ash Johns:the sexiness, whatever it is, the body that you are looking for, it is
Ash Johns:healing the thing that prevents you.
Ash Johns:And the money is only a symptom of it.
Ash Johns:The I don't have the time is only a symptom of it.
Ash Johns:There is a deeper wound pattern, trauma response that you are living
Ash Johns:by that's preventing you from having the thing that you need that will
Ash Johns:give you access to the program.
Ash Johns:So that's what I'm gonna leave you with today.
Ash Johns:This was robust, it was layered, it was real.
Ash Johns:And it also included some very personal stories and experiences that I've had.
Ash Johns:Now, I wanna just say this before I leave.
Ash Johns:. If any part of you thinks that I'm talking about you in this
Ash Johns:episode, I'm probably not.
Ash Johns:I literally have talked to thousands of people and I have so many examples
Ash Johns:and people have done these things multiple times in many different ways.
Ash Johns:So , I always like to give my disclaimer, and you know what, listen,
Ash Johns:what did my Grammy used to say?
Ash Johns:Only hurt dogs bark, or whatever.
Ash Johns:I'm a little bit being an asshole there.
Ash Johns:Okay.
Ash Johns:I'm sorry.
Ash Johns:I'm sorry.
Ash Johns:I'm sorry.
Ash Johns:I'm not trying to be an asshole.
Ash Johns:I'm just saying take the medicine here, right?
Ash Johns:I am a loving person and it's so important to just get the truth of what
Ash Johns:I know and what I see, and let it serve you and your life for whatever it is.
Ash Johns:That's the medicine.
Ash Johns:That's the love.
Ash Johns:Thank you for being here.
Ash Johns:I want and hope and pray that not only does this metabolize in your system
Ash Johns:and serve you, but that you also go throughout the rest of your day.
Ash Johns:with compassion, with courage, and with the understanding that you are
Ash Johns:absolutely meant to walk this path in your life, to heal what you're meant
Ash Johns:to heal, to become the person, the woman, the man that you're meant to be.
Ash Johns:I'm sending you out lots of love wherever you are.
Ash Johns:Again, thank you for being here, and I'll see you soon.