High Heels Higher Standards

About High Heels Higher Standards

High Heels, Higher Standards is a bold, unfiltered podcast where two executive women get real about power, purpose, and the pressure to play small in careers, relationships and life. Ashley & Heidi blend ambition with authenticity and humor with hard-hitting advice to help high-achieving women own their voice, set the bar higher, live unapologetically, and level up.

Publisher

Ashley Werner

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Jul 2025

Latest episode

22 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

23 of 54 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Jul 2026

   WHEN SUCCESS ISN'T ALIGNMENT: ART, AIRPORTS & 15 YEARS OF BECOMING High Heels Higher Standards | Special Episode

   What if the thing you built successfully no longer fits? Ashley and her 15-year friend Laura on walking away from applause to protect what's sacred. SPECIAL OFF-CYCLE EPISODE: We're taking a breath this week. July's series on money, power, and the stories we inherited will be right here waiting for you next week. But it's summer. And this conversation — recorded earlier this year with one of Ashley's longtime, beloved friends — felt exactly right for this moment. Sometimes the most powerful t...

2. 

   15 Jul 2026

   Negotiating When You're the Only Woman at the Table

   You're not bad at negotiating. You're negotiating a harder game. Heidi breaks down the visibility tax, the double bind, and the five moves that actually work. You did the research. You know the market rate. You walked in prepared. And you still left money on the table. If you've ever wondered why negotiating feels fundamentally harder for you than it seems to for everyone else in the room — you're not imagining it. In this episode, Heidi and Ashley break down exactly what's happening, why it'...

3. 

   8 Jul 2026

   The First Money Memory That's Still Running Your Life

   Your money habits aren't a discipline problem. They're a memory problem. Heidi and Ashley trace your financial behavior back to the moment it actually started. You can know your worth on a spreadsheet and still flinch every time you talk about money out loud. That's not a confidence problem. That's not a strategy problem. That's a story problem — and it started long before your first paycheck. Welcome to July on High Heels Higher Standards. This month's theme is Money, Power & the Stories...

Inside a recent episode

Why Women Are Promoted for Performance But Men Are Promoted for Potential

Published 24 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I increased retention. I had zero audit findings this year. Yeah, you did. That's my girl. You speak the language of business. You speak in KPIs. You use the language that actually matters because vocabulary shapes our world and it shapes people's perceptions of us. And if you're not good at this, you can learn how to be better at advocating, but find a friend, phone a friend, phone a mentor that is good at wordsmithing things because it's all about optics. And number two, I tell people, Tell everybody where you're going. Don't assume that leadership knows. They cannot read your mind. If you want a role, be like, I really want this. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

20 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

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