The High Achieving Woman with Ashleigh Mayfield

Ashleigh Mayfield
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Join Ashleigh Mayfield as she pushes high-achieving women to become the confident leader their success requires.

  1. 17h ago

    Fully Persuaded: Trusting God's Power When the Promise Is Delayed

    Are you trying to make God move by working harder? In this message from Romans 4, Ashleigh Mayfield shows how Abraham carried his faith through 25 years of waiting, not by his own strength but by the power of God. Discover the peace of stewarding what God has placed in your hand while trusting Him with what He has kept in His. If you've just made a decision for Christ, please respond HERE: https://saralandchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/1016673 To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: https://www.saralandchurch.com/give Or text GIVE plus any amount (i.e. $25) to (251) 357-1607 Looking for a church near Chickasaw, AL? Join us Sundays at 10:30am at 907 Shelton Beach Rd, Saraland, AL 36571 You can plan your visit here: https://saralandchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/1037356 Chapters 0:00 What's Coming Up 1:04 "Good, But Not Good Enough" 2:46 "That's Not How God Works" 4:20 Justified Through Faith 5:14 A Promise That Took 25 Years 6:21 Romans 4, verses 17-22 8:03 Step 1 — Steward the Vision 9:38 Your Environment Matters 11:47 Genesis 15, verses 1-6 13:52 Write the Vision Down 14:45 Promises You Can Stand On 16:17 Step 2 — Steward Your Focus 18:08 Faith and Facts 19:58 Step 3 — Steward Your Belief 22:01 Thoughts, Words, and Actions Aligned 23:02 Take Action When It Looks Dead 24:33 Step 4 — Be Fully Persuaded 25:30 Every High Achiever's Nightmare 27:06 "Keep Your Hands Off" 28:32 What Are You Trying to Make Work? 30:18 Genesis 21, verses 1-7 31:26 Steward What's in Your Hand 32:17 Prayer Scripture References: Romans 4, verses 17-22 Genesis 15, verses 1-6 Genesis 21, verses 1-7 Additional Scriptures Referenced: Romans 4, verses 13-16 Romans 5 Genesis 12, verses 1-4 Genesis 17, verses 1-21 Habakkuk 2, verse 2 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17 Romans 8, verse 1 Hebrews 13, verse 5 #saralandchurch #stewardyourfaith #faith #waiting #promises #abraham #hope #trust #fullypersuaded #highachiever #godspower #romans4 #ashleighmayfield #jasonmayfield #sermons #church #Jesus

  2. Sep 21

    Credibility Is Currency: How to Become Someone People Trust Online

    Credibility is what makes people believe you before they ever buy from you. In this episode, Ashleigh Mayfield explains how to build credibility as a woman running an online business on social media, and why trust alone isn't enough. She covers five practical habits, drawn from 10 years of building a business almost entirely through social media marketing: 1. Market the direction you are going, so 95% of your content aligns with what you're actually selling. 2. Become a student before you try to become the expert, and learn publicly instead of pretending to have arrived. 3. Show the habits that support the product, rather than treating the product as the hero of every story. 4. Show receipts instead of adjectives. Share the book, the walk, the 6:15 AM alarm, the real reason you still use the product. 5. Let people watch you do hard things, including the months that don't go the way you wanted. She also covers why copy-paste posts and AI-written captions damage credibility, why she publicly said a company's product tasted terrible and why that built trust instead of costing her, and what it means to become the woman your results require. CHAPTERS 00:00 Who this episode is for 01:35 "How do I build what you built?" 02:11 Trust is the floor, credibility is the depth 02:40 The questions your audience is silently asking 03:29 You don't have to say the humble thing 04:40 Do you actually do what you say you'll do? 05:51 Tip 1: Market the direction you are going 09:08 Tip 2: Be a student before you try to be the expert 10:25 The Facebook Lives that took me from $200 to $2,000 12:13 Tip 3: Show the habits behind the product 13:46 Why I told everyone a product tasted terrible 16:23 Tip 4: Show receipts, not adjectives 17:44 Copy-paste posts and AI captions kill credibility 18:36 Tip 5: Let people watch you do hard things 20:03 People trust people who keep promises to themselves 21:11 Become the woman your results require Listen to the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2YcOYHCj3LSHPsd5Zm28Wx Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-high-achieving-woman/id1444795787 Follow along: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theashleighmayfield/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theashleighmayfield

  3. Sep 14

    Emotional Intelligence: Social Awareness (Part 3 of 4)

    Part 3 of a four-part series on emotional intelligence. Parts 1 and 2 covered self-awareness and self-management - what is happening inside you. This episode turns outward to social awareness: the ability to read a room, to notice what other people are feeling, and to respond to what they actually need rather than what you assume they need. Ashleigh covers what social awareness is and is not, why recognizing someone's emotions is not the same as agreeing with them, and the signals of low social awareness - interrupting, dominating conversations, joking in sensitive moments, and defaulting to a victim mindset when you are the common denominator. She then gives three ways to develop it: 1. Ask one question: "Do you want me to be your friend or do you need me to be your leader?" She walks through what each answer sounds like in business, tells the story of the team member who chose "leader" during a family crisis, and shows how the same question works with your kids. 2. Put yourself in someone else's shoes and assume positive intent instead of negative intent - the speeding driver, the kid who blows up after school, the customer who does not message you back. 3. Be fully present. Ninety-three percent of communication is non-verbal, and multitasking costs you all of it. Content note: this episode includes a story, shared with permission, about a friend whose teenage daughter attempted to take her own life. It runs from roughly 13:58 to 17:10. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome back and the coaching call giveaway 00:48 Start with Part 1 if you missed it 01:18 Can you read the room? 01:37 Why pattern recognition became my superpower 01:59 What's happening in me vs. what's happening in you 02:30 The friend who can't see me 03:17 Social awareness is about you seeing other people 03:40 The questions that test your social awareness 04:24 Empathy, listening, and perspective-taking 05:23 Recognizing emotions isn't the same as agreeing 06:02 Get curious instead of assuming the worst 06:29 Be what they need, not what you think they need 06:55 The two versions of me 07:52 The Mario hat from Target 08:34 "I'm putting my red hat on now" 09:19 Different people need different things 10:38 The habits that signal low social awareness 11:09 When you're the common denominator 11:54 How to develop social awareness 12:32 Tip 1: Friend or leader? 13:58 A story I've told many times, with permission 17:10 Don't assume you know what someone needs 18:22 Tip 2: Put yourself in someone else's shoes 18:55 Assume positive intent 20:38 Tip 3: Be fully present 21:14 The power of people watching 21:48 You always have a choice Enter the giveaway for a free 30-45 minute one-on-one coaching call: leave a five-star review, screenshot it, and tag @theashleighmayfield on Instagram or Facebook.

  4. Sep 7

    Social Management: Handling Conflict, Feedback, and Boundaries in Your Relationships (Emotional Intelligence, Part 4)

    Social management is the fourth and final pillar of emotional intelligence, and it is the one that decides whether your relationships survive conflict. Social awareness is reading the room. Social management is knowing what to do in the room. In this episode Ashleigh Mayfield covers what poor social management looks like in practice: avoiding difficult conversations, exploding during conflict, passive aggression, holding grudges, people pleasing, and weak boundaries. She explains ice box anger, the habit of not reacting at all, and why small relationship problems become big relationship problems when nobody knows how to handle them early. She then gives three practical tools. First, how to take feedback well: pause, do not get defensive, and ask whether the person bringing it has good intentions. Second, why the sandwich method of feedback, positive then negative then positive, is a terrible leadership practice that makes every compliment you give sound disingenuous, and what to say instead. Third, asking permission before you vent, so that respect is built into the relationship on both ends. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome and thank you 00:56 Part four: what social management is 01:38 Seven questions that expose your social management 02:14 Reading the room vs. knowing what to do in it 02:59 Don't shoot holes in your own boat 03:19 Why we throw relationships away 04:14 Ice box anger: the people who never react 04:52 What poor social management looks like 05:46 Learn to take feedback well 07:06 Why the sandwich method is terrible 09:28 Ask permission before you vent 10:21 Vent up, not down 11:03 Closing Topics: emotional intelligence, social management, relationship management, conflict resolution, giving feedback, the sandwich method, boundaries, passive aggression, people pleasing, leadership communication. Leave a five star review, screenshot it, and tag @theashleighmayfield on Instagram or Facebook to enter the raffle for a one-on-one coaching call.

  5. Aug 31

    Emotional Intelligence: Self-Management (Part 2 of 4)

    Part 2 of a four-part series on emotional intelligence. This episode covers self-management: the ability to control what you are feeling when you are feeling it. Self-management is not about ignoring your feelings or pretending they do not exist. It is about making sure your emotions do not negatively run or ruin your life. Ashleigh describes it as creating a pocket of space between what you feel and how you respond. Ashleigh tells the story of a 2018 company conference where her leader moved nine lanes down at a bowling alley event, leaving her at a lane with only her husband and one team member. She explains what she felt in that moment, why she chose not to leave, and how that single decision led to a twenty-minute conversation with the founder of her company. Thirteen months later her monthly income went from about $4,000 to $48,000 in one month. She also covers what poor self-management costs you in leadership, why people value a predictable leader, and what growing up in an unpredictable household taught her about walking on eggshells. The episode closes with three techniques for developing self-management: 1. Change your location. Get up, leave the room, take a walk, breathe different air before you react. 2. Box breathing. Inhale for four seconds, exhale for four seconds, tracing a box in your mind's eye to calm your nervous system. 3. Sleep on it. You do not need to respond immediately. Wait a day, a few days, or a week before you address the situation. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome back — and thank you for the reviews 00:19 Leave a review, win a one-on-one coaching session 00:55 Where we are in the four-part emotional intelligence series 01:14 The one I was worst at 01:34 Self-management is not about ignoring your feelings 02:20 When one bad comment could ruin my entire day 02:50 "I'm a serial quitter" 03:58 Splitsville: the incentive I qualified for 05:13 My leader moved nine lanes down 06:01 "This is a moment that makes you feel inadequate, isn't it?" 07:23 Fixing my face and asking strangers to bowl 08:23 The leader who said "I'm gonna stay with you" 08:48 The founder of the company walks in 10:13 $4,000 a month to $48,000 in one month 10:59 Self-management, defined 12:28 The pocket of space between what you feel and what you do 13:22 Growing up in an unpredictable household 15:37 Tip 1: Change your location 16:14 Tip 2: Box breathing 18:02 Tip 3: Sleep on it 19:32 It's a muscle you build every day Write a five-star review, screenshot it, and tag Ashleigh on Instagram or Facebook to be entered for a free one-on-one coaching session. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theashleighmayfield/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theashleighmayfield YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AshleighMayfield The High Achieving Woman with Ashleigh Mayfield. Over 10 years coaching high-achieving women in personal leadership, business, and the messy middle between the career you have and the calling you cannot shake.

  6. Aug 24

    Emotional Intelligence, Part 1: Self-Awareness

    Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and to understand and influence the emotions of other people. It breaks into four parts: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and social management. This episode is part one of four, and it covers self-awareness. Ashleigh Mayfield defines self-awareness as the ability to see yourself accurately even when it isn't flattering, and makes the case that most people's biggest obstacle is not their circumstances, their past, or their boss — it's themselves. She tells the story of shutting down her husband Jason's ideas for years without listening, the day he told her she was a dream killer, and what she had to admit afterward: that she was projecting her own insecurities and calling it encouragement. She then covers three practical ways to build self-awareness: asking "why did that bother me?" instead of reacting, asking other people for honest feedback and not defending yourself when you get it, and journaling to find the pattern underneath a repeated emotional reaction. Also in this episode: why a low-EQ woman believes things happen to her while a high-EQ woman knows she controls her response, why people trust predictable leaders, what happened when Ashleigh sent 13 leaders a non-anonymous form asking them to critique her leadership, and why "I'm just being honest" is often just rude. CHAPTERS 0:00 Hey, hey, everybody 0:30 Win a free one-on-one coaching call 1:16 Why a four-part series on emotional intelligence 2:05 The hard truth: I was my own biggest problem 3:40 What emotional intelligence actually means 4:10 The four parts of emotional intelligence 4:46 Low EQ vs. high EQ: who's really in control 5:18 Four questions to gauge where you are 6:00 What a lack of emotional intelligence costs you 7:12 Why people trust a predictable leader 7:54 So what is self-awareness? 8:46 My husband Jason and the dreams I shut down 9:29 "You're a dream killer" 10:39 Your biggest problem is also your biggest solution 11:38 Do other people's opinions pay your bills? 13:04 You cannot lead what you cannot see 15:09 Extreme ownership changed everything 15:48 Habit 1: "Why did that bother me?" 16:44 Habit 2: Ask for honest feedback 17:28 What 13 leaders told me about my leadership 18:40 Habit 3: Journal to find the pattern 20:02 Self-awareness is a muscle Mentioned in this episode: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink. Leave a five-star review, screenshot it, and tag @theashleighmayfield to be entered to win a 30-45 minute one-on-one coaching call. Drawing at the end of the month.

  7. Aug 18

    How to Be Confident Before You Feel Confident | #AskAshleigh

    How do you build confidence while you're still not confident? Listener Jessica asked, and Ashleigh Mayfield answers in this #AskAshleigh episode. Confidence isn't gifted — it's earned, one kept promise at a time. Ashleigh walks through seven practical shifts: borrow belief until you build your own, keep the promises you make to yourself, start before you're ready, act like your future self, collect evidence instead of emotions, get comfortable being uncomfortable, and stop comparing your beginning to someone else's middle. You don't become confident and then take action — you take action until confidence catches up. Chapters: 0:00 — Intro: the #AskAshleigh question 0:57 — No one feels confident before they start 2:20 — Borrow belief until you build your own 4:16 — Keep the promises you make to yourself 6:13 — Start before you're ready 6:52 — Act like your future self 9:13 — Collect evidence, not emotions 12:44 — Get comfortable being uncomfortable 15:03 — Stop comparing your beginning to their middle 17:40 — Confidence is earned, not gifted Have a question for a future #AskAshleigh? DM Ashleigh on Instagram or Facebook.

  8. Aug 10

    You're Not Where You Want to Be - and How to Fix It

    When you're a high achiever and you're still not where you want to be, the answer isn't to beat yourself up — it's to get honest and take action. In this episode, Ashleigh Mayfield breaks down what to do when you've fallen short of your goals. She covers why frustration is normal but staying stuck isn't, the three levels of getting honest about your activity (showing up, tracking/measuring, and staying consistent), why your action creates motivation instead of the other way around, how discipline beats feelings, why comparison and "looking left and right" drains the energy you need, and how to become the person your results require. Practical, direct personal development for women who want to stop repeating what isn't working and get back on track. Chapters: 0:00 Why you're not where you want to be (and why it's normal) 0:21 Don't self-deprecate — do personal development first 1:45 Frustration is normal, but staying stuck isn't 2:51 The definition of insanity: stop repeating what fails 3:38 Tip 1: Take accountability — get honest about your activity 5:49 Give whole, not half 7:27 Tip 2: Stop waiting until you feel motivated 9:02 It's about discipline, not motivation 11:41 Stop comparing: quit looking left and right 13:42 Celebrate progress, not perfection 15:14 Tip 3: Become the person your result requires 17:48 The goal isn't overnight success

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