Breaking Religious Perfectionism: How Spirituality Brought Me Closer to God | Episode 35

The Eldest Daughter Series: A Peek Inside Every Episode | Episode 36

The Eldest Daughter Series: A Peek Inside Every Episode Eight episodes. One story. And this is your invitation to hear it all. This mashup is a glimpse into each episode of The Eldest Daughter Series — a peek inside the moments, the truth, and the becoming that lives inside this body of work. If something in here stops you, if something lands a little too close, that is the episode calling you in. The Eldest Daughter Series — All 8 Episodes 1. Awareness is Not the Work: How to Stop Watching Your Patterns and Actually Change Them [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2532347/episodes/18902015] 2. The Eldest Daughter: Where the Cycle Comes From [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2532347/episodes/18930538] 3. The Narrative She Was Handed and Carried Alone [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2532347/episodes/19017941] 4. The Wildfire and the Ember [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2532347/episodes/19049599] 5. How Losing Everything Became the Beginning [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2532347/episodes/19092408] 6. The Eldest Daughter Lie: Why You Can't Save Your Family [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2532347/episodes/19131579] 7. Motherhood Didn't Make Me Lose Myself - It Revealed Who I Really Am [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2532347/episodes/19166940] 8. Motherhood, Visibility, and Reclaiming Your Voice [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2532347/episodes/19204126] What You Will Hear a Glimpse Of * The moment Ashley stopped minimizing her dreams and shrinking herself so others could hold her more comfortably * The truth of the firstborn daughter — the parentification, the perfectionism, the people pleasing, and the desperate need to finally be held * What it cost her to carry the eldest daughter role for 16 years — the silence, the cycle, the recklessness, the destruction * Packing three suitcases, moving across the country, and bringing every shadow along for the ride * Losing her job when COVID hit and being forced — for the first time — to stop running and actually look at herself in the mirror * The hardest conversation she has ever had: looking her mother in the eye and drawing the line in the sand * What rebuilding actually looked like — therapy, coaches, shadow work, and finally learning the map of herself instead of punishing herself for not following the path right * The moment she stopped being an audience member in her own life and stepped into the story she was always meant to tell Who This Series Is For * The woman who has been making herself smaller so the people she loves do not have to feel uncomfortable * The woman who recognizes herself in the eldest daughter role and is ready to understand what it has cost her * The woman who has been aware of her patterns for years but has not yet taken the step toward truly changing them * The woman who is in the breaking right now and needs to hear that the rebuild is worth it * The woman who is done asking for permission to take up space Key Quote "The feral little girl, the eldest daughter, the reckless martyr, the cycle breaker mother. The woman who is repairing, rebuilding, adding on to herself, to her narrative, to the movement in real time. All of her is here with me. All of her has always been with me, ready to shine." Each episode lives on its own — start anywhere, or start at the beginning. Follow or subscribe so you never miss what comes next. If something in this mashup stopped you mid-scroll, mid-commute, mid-whatever-you-were-doing — go find that episode. Your story is in there somewhere. And it is ready to be heard. RESOURCES + CONNECTION: Find Ashley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsashleycrabb/  Download the Tell My Story Firestarter: https://ashley-crabb.mykajabi.com/opt-in  Book a Vibe Check Call with Me: https://calendly.com/itsashleycrabb/30min

{Flashback Episode} Becoming the Woman Who Can Hold More | Episode 20

Join me as we go back to episode 20 for a memorable part of my story this week! Let's take a look back at it together: This episode is for the moment when the story you’ve been telling yourself stops working—not because you failed, but because you’re being asked to become someone who can hold more. Not more hustle. Not more pressure. More support. More truth. More wealth in its real forms. This conversation is about the quiet identity shift that happens when you stop performing strength, stop martyring yourself, and finally allow yourself to receive the support you keep saying you want. We talk about what it really means to manifest—not as wishful thinking or perfect routines, but as embodiment. As becoming the woman who can receive what she’s been asking for. In this episode, we explore: * The difference between wanting support and being willing to receive it * How control, martyrdom, and “doing it all” quietly block abundance * Why manifesting is about identity, not forcing outcomes * How other women are essential to building sustainable wealth * The way motherhood reshapes leadership, ambition, and support * The identity shift required to move from survival into embodied abundance This episode is for: * Mothers who feel like they’re carrying everything alone * Women who crave support but struggle to accept it * Builders who are exhausted from proving their worth through burnout * Women navigating wealth, leadership, and visibility after motherhood * Anyone who knows she’s meant for more but feels stuck between control and trust “In order to receive what you are asking for, you have to become the woman who can hold it.” If this episode stirred something in you, here are a few ways to keep the conversation going: Download the Tell Your Story Firestarter [https://ashley-crabb.mykajabi.com/opt-in] — a free guide to help you get your story out of your head and into embodiment, leadership, and action. Book a 30-minute vibe check [https://calendly.com/itsashleycrabb/30min] if you want clarity, support, or space to talk through what you’re building and becoming. And if you’re here for community, stay close. This podcast is a room for mothers, builders, and leaders who are done doing it alone. You don’t have to earn support by suffering. You don’t have to prove your worth by carrying it all. Wealth isn’t built in isolation. It’s built in rooms. In relationships. In trust. And you were never meant to do this alone. RESOURCES + CONNECTION: Find Ashley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsashleycrabb/  Download the Tell My Story Firestarter: https://ashley-crabb.mykajabi.com/opt-in  Book a Vibe Check Call with Me: https://calendly.com/itsashleycrabb/30min

Breaking Religious Perfectionism: How Spirituality Brought Me Closer to God | Episode 35

You Don't Have to Choose: God, Spirituality, and the Permission to Have Both I grew up believing faith had a strict set of rules. And for a long time, I fought the tension between the God I was raised to believe in and the spiritual woman I was becoming. The crystals on my desk. The angel cards. The intuition I couldn't ignore. The signs I kept seeing everywhere. For years I asked myself — am I doing this wrong? Can I love God and still trust all of this? And then something finally clicked. What This Episode Holds * Growing up in Lancaster County where faith wasn't just an activity — it was woven into everything — and the moment I first started quietly questioning it * The difference between questioning God and questioning my relationship with God — and why that distinction changed everything * How becoming a mother cracked open a whole new layer of this conversation — and forced me to figure out what I actually believed * The moment it finally clicked: if God didn't want me to find Him in intuition, in nature, in synchronicities — He wouldn't have woven Himself into all of it * Unlearning religious perfectionism and the version of faith that asked women to shrink, obey without question, and cage their spiritual gifts * Why spirituality didn't pull me away from God — it brought me closer to Him Who This Episode Is For * The woman who loves God but has felt guilt around her crystals, her intuition, her angel cards, or her spiritual practices * The woman who grew up in the church and has spent years trying to reconcile what she was taught with what she actually feels * The woman who has been told her intuition is unreliable, her emotions are dangerous, and her spiritual gifts are rebellion * The woman who is ready to stop justifying her relationship with God to anyone else Key Quote "God never asked women to shrink. The world did. Systems did. Culture did. But God gave you a spirit and a mind of free will that was big and brilliant and amazing — and He never told you to cage it." If this one resonated, follow or subscribe so you never miss what comes next. This conversation is just getting started. You are allowed to be the woman who prays and also pulls angel cards. Who believes in Jesus and the universe. Who feels God in church and in the forest and with her feet in the grass. Your spirit and your faith were never meant to compete. They were always meant to work together. You were designed to have both. RESOURCES + CONNECTION: Find Ashley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsashleycrabb/  Download the Tell My Story Firestarter: https://ashley-crabb.mykajabi.com/opt-in  Book a Vibe Check Call with Me: https://calendly.com/itsashleycrabb/30min

Motherhood, Visibility, and Reclaiming Your Voice {Part 8 of 8 Series: Eldest Daughter Turned Cycle Breaker} | Episode 34

In this deeply personal and emotionally charged episode of Wealth in Mothers, Ashley Crabb shares the truth behind her transformation—from a woman trying to make herself digestible for the world to a mother reclaiming her voice, visibility, and purpose. Ashley unpacks the emotional cost of shrinking yourself to fit inside rooms that were never built for you. Through motherhood, rebuilding her identity, and learning to trust her own truth, she realized something life-changing: her story was never the obstacle—it was the work itself. This episode is a powerful reflection on identity, motherhood, creativity, leadership, embodiment, and what happens when women stop performing and start telling the truth. Ashley explores the journey from fragmentation to wholeness, why mothers are starving for honesty instead of perfection, and how reclaiming your story becomes the ultimate wealth lever. She also introduces Release & Rise, an intimate full moon experience designed for mothers ready to release shame, reclaim their truth, and rise into the fullest version of themselves. If you’ve ever felt like you were “too much,” too intense, too emotional, too ambitious, too visible—or if you’ve spent years trying to abandon parts of yourself just to belong—this episode will feel like coming home. WHAT YOU’LL HEAR IN THIS EPISODE *  Why your story is not something to hide—but your greatest wealth lever  *  The emotional exhaustion of performing a life that isn’t aligned  *  How motherhood awakened Ashley’s voice, truth, and creative power  *  The danger of abandoning your gifts to stay accepted  *  What happens when women stop fragmenting themselves to fit into different rooms  *  The difference between performance and embodied leadership  *  Why mothers are starving for honesty, not polished perfection  *  The power of visibility, truth, and saying yes to your own life  *  How authenticity creates magnetic leadership and ripple effects in community  *  Why women were never made to shrink themselves to be loved  ABOUT RELEASE & RISE Release & Rise is an intimate gathering hosted by Ashley Crabb and sponsored by Wealth in Mothers and The Yoga Place. Held under the second blue moon of the month, this sacred experience invites mothers to release shame, reclaim their truth, and rise into embodied wealth and visibility. *  Date: May 31  *  Time: 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM  *  Capacity: 13 mothers only  *  Ticket Price: $31  Get Your Tickets: https://www.itsashleycrabb.com/offers/eYHbnzr2/checkout  [https://www.itsashleycrabb.com/offers/eYHbnzr2/checkout] If this episode resonated with you, share it with a mother who is ready to stop shrinking herself and start reclaiming her truth. Be sure to subscribe to Wealth in Mothers for more conversations on motherhood, leadership, visibility, creativity, wealth, and embodied truth. And if you’re ready to step into the next version of yourself, join Ashley for Release & Rise [https://www.itsashleycrabb.com/offers/eYHbnzr2/checkout] before tickets are gone. RESOURCES + CONNECTION: Find Ashley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsashleycrabb/  Download the Tell My Story Firestarter: https://ashley-crabb.mykajabi.com/opt-in  Book a Vibe Check Call with Me: https://calendly.com/itsashleycrabb/30min

Motherhood Didn’t Make Me Lose Myself — It Revealed Who I Really Am {Part 7 of 8 Series: Eldest Daughter Turned Cycle Breaker} | Episode 33

Motherhood doesn’t erase women. It reveals them. In this deeply raw and transformative episode of Wealth in Mothers, Ashley Crabb dismantles one of the most dangerous narratives women are handed: that becoming a mother means losing yourself. Instead, Ashley shares how motherhood cracked her open — exposing every inherited survival pattern, every identity she performed, and every version of herself she was never meant to carry forever. This is a conversation about breaking cycles, grieving old identities, rebuilding self-trust, and discovering that the “lost” woman so many mothers search for was never actually gone. Ashley explores the emotional reality of motherhood, survival mode, eldest daughter conditioning, nervous system exhaustion, entrepreneurship, identity shifts, healing, self-awareness, boundaries, and what it truly means to rebuild your life from the inside out. If you’ve ever felt like motherhood unraveled you… this episode will help you understand why that unraveling may actually be your becoming. This is not about perfection.  This is about reclamation.  This is about wealth in mothers. IN THIS EPISODE *  Why motherhood doesn’t make women lose themselves  *  The identity grief many mothers experience  *  The difference between bending and breaking  *  Survival mode, performance, and eldest daughter conditioning  *  How motherhood forces self-confrontation  *  Why healing requires letting old versions of yourself go  *  The emotional reality of rebuilding after burnout  *  Learning self-trust after years of self-abandonment  *  ADHD diagnosis, therapy, shadow work, and nervous system healing  *  The shift from surviving to fully living  *  Reconnecting with the “feral little girl” within  *  What true wealth in mothers actually means  KEY QUOTES > “Motherhood didn’t make me lose myself. Motherhood brought my identity forward.” > > “I wasn’t grieving the woman I lost. I was grieving the woman I needed to let go of.”“Breaking is one of the most beautiful things in this world.” > > “I didn’t break to not get back up. I broke so I could rebuild.” > > “I no longer have capacity to live in survival mode anymore.” > > “The searching was never about finding more. It was about returning to the little girl I left behind.” > > “Once a woman returns to that feral little girl… watch out world.” If this episode resonated with you, share it with another mother who’s ready to stop surviving and start rebuilding. Be sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode on social media so more mothers can reclaim their voice, identity, and wealth. Join Ashley’s “Release and Rise” Full Moon Gathering A sacred experience for mothers ready to reclaim their voice, power, and inner wealth. Only 13 spots available: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYNUtHmEZRF/ RESOURCES + CONNECTION: Find Ashley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsashleycrabb/  Download the Tell My Story Firestarter: https://ashley-crabb.mykajabi.com/opt-in  Book a Vibe Check Call with Me: https://calendly.com/itsashleycrabb/30min