How I'm Slowing Time Down | Ep. 386

What happens when you finally create the life you spent years trying to quantum leap into… and suddenly, you don’t want it to move so fast?Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to slow time down.My babies are growing. My parents are getting older. Seasons are changing. And I keep finding myself wanting to grab onto these moments and say, wait… not yet. I’m not done soaking this in.In this episode, I’m sharing what I’m learning about being present enough to actually receive the life you’ve created — instead of constantly rushing toward the next version of it.We’re talking about reflection, documenting the little moments, clearing the things that drain your time and energy, streamlining your life and business, and creating enough space to actually process your life while you’re living it.Because maybe the goal isn’t always to speed things up.Maybe sometimes the quantum leap is realizing… you’re already here.And letting yourself stay here long enough to feel it.WORKSHOP!APPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMYASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKITLISTEN TO ASHLEY’S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACHVISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP 

Try It Out!I got in the shower one day and it hit me. The thing I'd been calling jealousy? It wasn't that. It was something else entirely.A stranger built her account with nothing but "yap videos," just her, a camera, and her real life. Six months of consistent value. Then a $1.2 million launch in 10 days. Then $5 million in 70 minutes the second time around.The internet lost it. I lost it a little too. Not because I didn't believe it could happen, but because some part of me knew it could happen for me too, and I hadn't let myself feel that yet.This week's solo episode is a real and raw unpacking of what was actually underneath that feeling, and why I think you've felt it too.Inside the episode:✨Why comparing yourself to someone else's win works like a mirror🚀The launch that broke the internet (and cracked me wide open)✨Why your success was never supposed to be linear, rational, or make sense🌀The nudge I almost talked myself out of following✨Why you don't need the proof before you start. You need to start to get the proof.If you've ever watched someone else's win and felt something uncomfortable you couldn't quite name... If you've ever thought "why not me?" and then immediately talked yourself out of it... If you've ever waited for proof before you'd let yourself begin...Go High Level 30 days FREE link: Try It!APPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMYASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKITLISTEN TO ASHLEY’S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACHVISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP 

 ✨The exact message I received — word for word — and why it came now🔥Why your income going down (or up) means NOTHING about you, your program, or your success👑How breaking attachment to the “things” is the prerequisite for holding bigger energy, bigger impact, and bigger money💫Why my kids were the catalyst for the deepest identity shift of my life🌊What it actually feels like to find out who you are apart from ALL of itIf you’re in a season where things are being stripped away and you’re wondering what the hell is happening — this episode is your permission slip to see it differently. You’re not being punished. You’re being prepared.“None of it means anything about you. And that is what you need to know.APPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMYASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKITLISTEN TO ASHLEY’S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACHVISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP 

⬇️  QCA enrollment is OPEN.   ⬇️The Quantum Coaching Academy is where you stop wondering if you’re “ready” and start becoming the coach everyone wants to hire. 8 months of live training. 8 internationally-recognized certifications. The exact tools you’ll hear in action across this episode. This is the case study group, and it’s application-only by design. You can be in the next Foundations call with us.Apply now → APPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMYThis one’s for anyone who knows they’re meant to coach but keeps stopping themselves with the same thought:“What if I say the wrong thing?”“What if I can’t fix them?”“What if I don’t have the answer?”If that fear is the thing keeping you from applying, hitting record, or saying YES to the version of yourself who actually does this thing… press play.Because in this raw behind-the-scenes episode, Ashley takes you inside a real QCA Foundations call to dismantle the single biggest internal objection that keeps coaches stuck before they even begin.You’ll hear a peer-coaching round where one student slips into “fixing mode” and Ashley redirects her in real time, with zero shame. You’ll hear what happens when a coach stops trying to have the answer and just asks one good question instead.And in the centerpiece of this episode, you’ll hear Kaitlin go from “I’m so behind” to “I’m not behind” in real time. Ashley fixes nothing. She just asks the question.This is the relief nobody tells you about until you’re inside the room.Inside this episode:Why “having the answer” is the wrong job description for a coachThe moment in a real coaching demo where reassurance would have ruined the breakthroughA live peer-coaching round where Ashley redirects a fixing-mode reframe (with zero shame)Why being a “meaning-making machine” is the goldenness of every coaching sessionThe exact question that took one student from “I’m behind” to “I’m not behind” in 30 secondsThis episode is for the coach-curious soul who’s been hovering at the edge of YES for months. The ones who keep stopping themselves because they think they need to be ready first. The ones who’ve never been told that the work isn’t to fix anyone. It’s to ask the question that lets them find it themselves.🎧 Press play and feel the relief.LinksAPPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMYASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKITLISTEN TO ASHLEY’S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACHVISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP 

⬇️  QCA enrollment is OPEN.   ⬇️The Quantum Coaching Academy is where you stop wondering if you’re cut out for this and start becoming the coach everyone wants to hire. 8 months of live training. 8 internationally-recognized certifications. The exact tools you just heard in action. This is the case study group, and it’s application-only by design. You can be in the next Foundations call with us.Apply now → APPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMYThis is the audio nobody gets to hear.A real coaching demo. Beginning to end. Unedited.Georgie, our Assistant Program Director (and a quantum coach herself) agreed to step into the client seat to demo for the cohort. She brought a real conversation she’d actually had with her husband before joining the team. About quitting her corporate job to coach full-time. Real tension. Real stakes.She thought she was going to work on the conversation.What unfolded? None of us saw coming. Including her.In this raw behind-the-scenes episode, Ashley walks you inside that demo. You’ll hear the opening question. The pause where the whole room shifted. The moment Georgie said something out loud she didn’t even know she believed.You’ll also hear Ashley teach IN the demo. Mid-coaching. Pausing to explain what just happened and what most coaches would do wrong in that exact moment. Which is exactly the kind of education you get inside QCA.This isn’t a curated highlight reel. This is one demo, beginning to end, with all the pauses, all the breath, and the breakthrough that nobody scripted.Inside this episode:What a real coaching demo sounds like (with all the silence intact)The single question that cracked the whole demo wide openWhy “bad coaching” in that moment would have been to reassure herHow Ashley names her own closed-ended question mid-demo (and recovers in real time)The framework woven through every quantum coaching session, taught while it’s actually happeningThis episode is for the coach who’s been wondering what a real coaching demo looks like inside a certification. For anyone who’s been told “trust the process” but has never actually seen what that process IS. For the ones quietly questioning if they could ever hold space like this.You don’t need to imagine it anymore. You get to sit inside one.🎧 Press play and let Georgie’s breakthrough show you what’s possible.LinksAPPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMYASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKITLISTEN TO ASHLEY’S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACHVISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP

What happens when life completely rewrites your plans…and you decide to rewrite yourself instead?Michelle Hooey is a mother, author, and QCA-certified coach who has lived more lives in the last three years than most people live in a decade.After spending six months in the NICU with her daughter Goldie, navigating seizures, no diagnosis, palliative care, and deep uncertainty, Michelle didn’t collapse into fear.She rebuilt herself.One 15-minute pocket of devotion at a time.From corporate high-achiever to present, grounded mother.From hospital rooms to signing her first coaching clients.|From processing trauma to writing a book that’s already creating ripple effects.Michelle shares what it really looks like to navigate plot twists with grace and how the smallest daily ritual can become the foundation of an entirely new identity.In this episode, Ashley & Michelle dive into:🌊 The identity unraveling that happens when motherhood changes everything🌊 Saying yes to becoming a coach while life was anything but calm🌊 Learning surrender the hard way🌊 The 15-Minute Rewrite (Regulate → Reflect → Reclaim) and why 1% of your day is enough🌊 Writing The Goldie Effect and healing through visibility🌊 What it truly means to be someone’s miracleThis episode is about resilience.About surrender.About trusting your intuition when it whispers louder than the world.And about becoming “a thousand women”, and honoring every single one.🎧 Press play if you need proof that you can rebuild your identity, even in the middle of the unknown.GRAB YOUR COPY OF THE GOLDIE EFFECTMICHELLE ON THE WEBMICHELLE ON INSTAGRAMASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKITAPPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMY JOIN QUANTUM COACH CATALYSTLISTEN TO ASHLEY’S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACH VISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP

This one’s for the big-hearted disruptors, the coaches with books trapped in their Notes app, and the women who know they have something to say... but keep stopping themselves from saying it.Megan Reed is back, and she’s bringing the unfiltered truth, main character energy, and her signature “say it like it is” energy.She’s a best-selling author, book coach, Reiki master, and the founder of Book Baddies. But really? She’s the permission slip you didn’t know you needed to finally write that damn book.In this episode, we’re talking visibility, vulnerability, and what it takes to claim your role as a thought leader (even when fear’s trying to drive the car).Inside the convo:📚 What it actually means to be a thought leader (hint: it’s not about being the smartest in the room)📚 Why your book idea doesn’t have to be original to be powerful📚 The real reason you’re not writing (spoiler: it’s fear, wearing a cute little “I don’t have time” disguise)📚 How writing a book brings all your sh*t to the surface — and why that’s actually part of the magic📚 Why your story is the strategy (not a perfectly polished one-liner)This episode is equal parts heart medicine, creative firestarter, and loving ass-kick. If you’ve ever whispered “I want to write a book…” then press play and let this be the moment you decide.And if you’re really ready to make it happen? Megan’s 12-month mastermind, Book Baddies, is where your someday-book becomes a done deal. (Yes, even if life is full, messy, or mildly chaotic.)Oh and her newest book Fuck Fear? It’s dropping this weekLet’s birth your next chapter, together. Literally.JOIN BOOK BADDIESGRAB YOUR COPY OF FUCK FEARMEGAN ON INSTAGRAMASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKITAPPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMY JOIN QUANTUM COACH CATALYSTLISTEN TO ASHLEY’S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACH VISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP

No one tells you this part.The part where you get the life you worked for…and instead of fireworks, something inside you quietly lets go.In this vulnerable solo episode, Ashley speaks to the moment after achievement. When success stops giving you dopamine, ambition goes quiet, and the identity that once kept you safe no longer fits.Not because anything went wrong, but because something finished.This episode isn’t burnout, or ingratitude, or even “losing your edge.”It’s about grief.The kind no one names.The grief of outgrowing the version of you who needed success to feel safe.Inside Ashley shares all about:✨ Why success often functions as an identity, not a goal✨ The unnamed grief that comes when ambition stops driving your nervous system✨ How motherhood exposes what achievement was really doing for you✨ Why neutrality can feel scarier than struggle for high-performing women✨ The moment success shifts from something you pursue to something you embodyThis episode is for the high-achiever who’s confused by her own neutrality.The woman who thought she’d feel happier here.The leader quietly wondering who she is without the chase.Press play if you’re ready to stop chasing who you were and meet who you’re becoming.ASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKITAPPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMY JOIN QUANTUM COACH CATALYSTLISTEN TO ASHLEY’S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACH VISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP

Maternity leave was everything Ashley had prepared for:Support. Rest. Systems humming. Revenue flowing.Everything was held beautifully, abundantly, just as she intended.So why did it feel… uncomfortable?In this raw and revelatory solo episode, Ashley peels back the layers on what it means to be held without earning it, and how rest, ease, and abundance can actually feel unsafe for high-achieving women… until we rewire what our bodies believe we have to do to deserve them.This episode is for the mama, the leader, the visionary woman rewriting her relationship with ease, money, and worth.Inside this episode:✨ The quiet shame that surfaced because of support✨ How postpartum rest uncovered a sneaky performance wound✨ The money block hiding inside your resistance to ease✨ What nervous system safety has to do with worth + receiving✨ A powerful self-coaching reframe that will change how you define successIf you’ve ever felt guilty for getting help, weird about resting, or caught yourself justifying your joy, this episode is your permission slip:You’re allowed to be supported without proving your worth.🎧 Press play and start letting yourself be held.APPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMY (Last Chance for the January cohort!)ASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKITJOIN QUANTUM COACH CATALYSTLISTEN TO ASHLEY’S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACH VISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP

We're celebrating another year of breakthroughs with the Best of BAM 2025!These fan-favorite episodes are the ones that cracked hearts open, sparked quantum breakthroughs, and reminded you of the magic you're here to embody. Whether you’re re-listening or catching them for the first time, each one is a power-packed portal back to your purpose. Imagine having the secret key to every decision you’ll ever make. 🔑You were never meant to overthink your way through life - you were designed to know.To trust yourself.To move like someone who already does.In today’s episode, Human Design expert Erin Claire Jones joins me yet again to help unlock the blueprint inside you — the one that shows you exactly how you're wired to decide, lead, and create from your highest power. 🚀Inside, we’re diving into:💫 How to crack your personal decision-making code - and stop second-guessing yourself💫 Why overthinking is killing your vibe (and what actually speeds things up real fast)💫 How to tell if it’s fear talking - or your intuition dropping the mic💫 The wild plot twist that changed Erin’s whole life - and why your big yes probably won’t look how you planned💫 Why trusting yourself isn’t just smart - it’s literally the cheat code to making moves that actually work🎧 Take a walk, sip your latte, and unlock the moves you already know you’re meant to make.GRAB YOUR PERSONALIZED HUMAN DESIGN BLUEPRINT (USE CODE QUANTUM)ORDER ERIN’S BOOK HOW DO YOU CHOOSE?FOLLOW ERIN CLAIRE JONES ON INSTAGRAMASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKITAPPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMYLISTEN TO ASHLEY’S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACH VISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP