Shamelessly Ambitious
Ashley McDonald, Therapist & Nervous System First Business Mentor
5.0from 78 ratings
- 214
- Episodes
- 38
- Transcribed
- 78
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Shamelessly Ambitious
Shamelessly Ambitious is an honest, grounding, and vulnerable podcast for ambitious, emotionally intelligent women who are done proving themselves, tired of living in constant high-functioning burnout, and craving a life and business that actually feel good. Hosted by Ash McDonald—therapist, nervous-system-first business mentor, and speaker this show blends clinical expertise with lived experience to deliver nervous system tools, embodied strategies, and radical permission so you can expand your capacity, root into emotional steadiness, and build sustainable success that supports your whole life. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stretched too thin, caught in productivity guilt, or stuck running on stress, this podcast meets you where you are—with therapeutic insights, embodied practices, and heartfelt stories that create real shifts. Whether you’re navigating motherhood, entrepreneurship, or the messy middle of redefining success, each episode helps you slow down, regulate, and return to a felt sense of safety in your body. With over a decade of experience at the intersection of therapy and leadership, Ash pulls back the curtain on what really works—offering grounded guidance you can apply in real life. What you’ll hear: Honest conversations about burnout recovery, nervous system regulation, and redefining success Somatic tools, meditations, and practices that build inner safety and capacity Stories of motherhood, mom-life, ambition, and the courage to create a life and business that feel rich and real If you’re asking the following questions, you’re in the right place: How do I stop tying my worth to productivity? How do I know if I’m experiencing high-functioning burnout and what do I do about it? How do I balance motherhood and leadership without losing myself? How do I calm my body when I feel overwhelmed or overstimulated? This is the podcast for when you’re ready to reclaim peace, expand what you can hold, and create success that doesn’t cost you yourself. Tune in and take the next step toward a regulated, rooted, and deeply fulfilling life.
- Publisher
- Ashley McDonald, Therapist & Nervous System First Business Mentor
- Category
- business · education · health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Sept 2021
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
38 of 214 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
212. Shamelessly Unedited in Europe
6 Oct 2026
211. Shamelessly manipulating the people I love
29 Sept 2026
210. Shamelessly Identifying the Habit Making Life Harder
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212. Shamelessly Unedited in Europe
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I want to take back so much of that. While also I did have a lot of it, not perfect, but I had it. It's not non-existent, but there's parts that I want to bring back. And I think that we all need this reminder. Like, where are we being digestible? Where are we making ourselves smaller? And not just in the limelight or in front of somebody that we care about or maybe even don't care about, but like to ourselves. Where am I being digestible? And so I kind of wanted to bring that here. I have been having some of the most epic conversations and in those conversations have been really radical truths. […]
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- Megan Yelaney
- Sophia Parra
- Sophia Rose
- Cait Howard
- Jake
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 60 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 18 ratings
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