Wealth in Mothers with Ashley Crabb

Ashley Crabb

Wealth in Mothers is the podcast for women building businesses, income, and influence without sacrificing their families, bodies, or identities. Host Ashley Crabb redefines what wealth looks like for mothers.. shifting from hustle culture to embodied leadership. Weekly episodes featuring real conversations with mothers who are scaling businesses, claiming authority, and refusing to choose between presence and prosperity. Mothers in wealth, Women entrepreneurs, Business for mothers, Female business owners, Motherhood and entrepreneurship, Women's leadership podcast, Embodied wealth, Visibility for women, Female thought leaders, Mothers building businesses.

  1. Jun 18

    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 Awareness is Not the Work: How to Stop Watching Your Patterns and Actually Change ThemThe Eldest Daughter: Where the Cycle Comes FromThe Narrative She Was Handed and Carried AloneThe Wildfire and the EmberHow Losing Everything Became the BeginningThe Eldest Daughter Lie: Why You Can't Save Your FamilyMotherhood Didn't Make Me Lose Myself - It Revealed Who I Really AmMotherhood, Visibility, and Reclaiming Your VoiceWhat You Will Hear a Glimpse Of The moment Ashley stopped minimizing her dreams and shrinking herself so others could hold her more comfortablyThe truth of the firstborn daughter — the parentification, the perfectionism, the people pleasing, and the desperate need to finally be heldWhat it cost her to carry the eldest daughter role for 16 years — the silence, the cycle, the recklessness, the destructionPacking three suitcases, moving across the country, and bringing every shadow along for the rideLosing her job when COVID hit and being forced — for the first time — to stop running and actually look at herself in the mirrorThe hardest conversation she has ever had: looking her mother in the eye and drawing the line in the sandWhat rebuilding actually looked like — therapy, coaches, shadow work, and finally learning the map of herself instead of punishing herself for not following the path rightThe moment she stopped being an audience member in her own life and stepped into the story she was always meant to tellWho This Series Is For The woman who has been making herself smaller so the people she loves do not have to feel uncomfortableThe woman who recognizes herself in the eldest daughter role and is ready to understand what it has cost herThe woman who has been aware of her patterns for years but has not yet taken the step toward truly changing themThe woman who is in the breaking right now and needs to hear that the rebuild is worth itThe woman who is done asking for permission to take up spaceKey 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

    33 min
  2. Jun 10

    {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 itHow control, martyrdom, and “doing it all” quietly block abundanceWhy manifesting is about identity, not forcing outcomesHow other women are essential to building sustainable wealthThe way motherhood reshapes leadership, ambition, and supportThe identity shift required to move from survival into embodied abundanceThis episode is for: Mothers who feel like they’re carrying everything aloneWomen who crave support but struggle to accept itBuilders who are exhausted from proving their worth through burnoutWomen navigating wealth, leadership, and visibility after motherhoodAnyone 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 — 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 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

    27 min
  3. Jun 4

    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 itThe difference between questioning God and questioning my relationship with God — and why that distinction changed everythingHow becoming a mother cracked open a whole new layer of this conversation — and forced me to figure out what I actually believedThe 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 itUnlearning religious perfectionism and the version of faith that asked women to shrink, obey without question, and cage their spiritual giftsWhy spirituality didn't pull me away from God — it brought me closer to HimWho This Episode Is For The woman who loves God but has felt guilt around her crystals, her intuition, her angel cards, or her spiritual practicesThe woman who grew up in the church and has spent years trying to reconcile what she was taught with what she actually feelsThe woman who has been told her intuition is unreliable, her emotions are dangerous, and her spiritual gifts are rebellionThe woman who is ready to stop justifying her relationship with God to anyone elseKey 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

    20 min
  4. May 20

    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  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 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

    28 min
  5. May 13

    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

    21 min
  6. May 6

    The Eldest Daughter Lie: Why You Can’t Save Your Family {Part 6 of 8 Series: Eldest Daughter Turned Cycle Breaker} | Episode 32

    In this raw and deeply personal episode, Ashley Crabb dismantles the belief that returning home—or becoming a mother—will magically heal generational wounds. After moving back to Pennsylvania while pregnant, Ashley believed she would be the one to bring her family back together. That her growth, her presence, and her children would be the catalyst for change. But instead of transformation, she found herself facing the same patterns, the same pain, and the same roles she thought she had outgrown. This episode is a powerful reckoning with the “eldest daughter” identity, the martyr complex many mothers unconsciously carry, and the invisible labor of holding generational trauma. Ashley shares the moment everything shifted—the line she drew in the sand, the boundary that changed her life, and the realization that healing doesn’t come from saving others—it comes from no longer abandoning yourself. This is a must-listen for mothers who feel the weight of “holding it all together” and are ready to finally put it down. Key Topics:  The illusion that moving home or becoming a mother will fix family dynamics  The “eldest daughter” role and how it shows up in motherhood  Martyrdom, victimhood, and the identity of being “the one who fixes everything”  Invisible labor and generational emotional weight carried by mothers  Assigning unconscious responsibility to children to “heal” a family  The breaking point: realizing nothing changes if you stay in the same role  Boundaries with family, addiction, and choosing self-respect  The difference between saving your family vs. building your own  Letting go of control and releasing what isn’t yours to carry  Rewriting your identity as a mother and woman  If this episode resonated, share it with a mother who feels like she’s carrying it all. Subscribe to Wealth in Mothers by Ashley Crabb for more conversations that challenge the narrative of motherhood.   Leave a review to help expand this movement and amplify mothers’ voices.   Follow Ashley Crabb for deeper thought leadership on motherhood, identity, and generational wealth.   Take a moment to reflect: Where are you still trying to fix what isn’t yours to carry? 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

    21 min
  7. Apr 29

    How Losing Everything Became the Beginning {Part 5 of 8 Series: Eldest Daughter Turned Cycle Breaker} | Episode 31

    I didn't start because I thought I was ready. I started because everything around me stopped working. When COVID hit, I lost my job on the same day Washington state shut down. Not as part of a layoff wave — just me, walking out of that building alone, arms full of my things, trying to hold my chin up. And for the first time in my adult life, I couldn't hide behind the hustle anymore. The income was gone. The illusion of control was gone. And what was left was me — finally forced to slow down and actually look at myself. This episode is about what happened next. Not the clean version. The real one. What This Episode Holds Losing my job the day the world shut down — and why it cracked me open in a way nothing else hadHow I had tied my entire worth, identity, and sense of control to my paycheck — and what happened when it disappearedThe spiral that followed: more drinking, more numbing, more running from what I didn't want to feelThe moment I decided — not in some big breakthrough, but quietly, dog-sitting for a friend — that this could not be itHow I started The Crab That Can with nothing but a flyer, a feral little girl's energy, and a need to point my fire somewhere that wasn't self-destructionWhat it actually looks like to be destroying and creating at the same time — and why that messy in-between is the whole pointWho This Episode Is For The woman who has tied her worth to her work — and felt herself unravel when it was taken awayThe woman who is in the middle of the metamorphosis right now and can't see the other side yetThe woman who has been using busyness, hustle, or control as a way to avoid feeling what's underneathThe woman who is ready to rise — even if she is still matted and messy"I was destroying and creating at the same time. And what I can see now is that what I was actually destroying while I was creating — I was destroying the old narrative while I was building the new one." If this one resonated, follow or subscribe so you never miss what comes next. We are just getting started. This is what it actually looks like inside the cocoon. Not the butterfly. Not the caterpillar. The part nobody talks about — the messy, contradictory, uncomfortable middle where everything is trying and failing and trying again. That is where you are becoming. And once you start breaking out, you cannot be stopped. 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

    20 min
  8. Apr 22

    The Wildfire and the Ember {Part 4 of 8 Series: Eldest Daughter Turned Cycle Breaker} | Episode 30

    **TRIGGER WARNING: Brief discussion of SA included in this episode.** There is a woman who has been holding everything together for so long that she forgot she was allowed to put it down. This episode is for her. Ashley Crabb gets raw about the years she spent living two lives at once — performing control while quietly unraveling, choosing chaos because it was the only language she had ever been taught. This isn't a redemption arc with clean edges. It's the story of what happens before the turning point. The part nobody talks about. What This Episode Holds The moment Ashley stopped pretending — not because everything collapsed, but because the weight of holding it all finally stopped being worth itHow an act of violation in middle school became the permission slip to stop caring for herself entirely, and how she carried that silence forward for over a decadeThe way distance never actually changes anything — because we pack our shadows right alongside our suitcasesThe particular kind of numbness that looks like thriving from the outside, and how COVID stripped away the last place left to hideHow the knowing that she was meant to be a mother arrived not as an idea but as an instinct — and what she chose to do with that ember instead of letting it ignite another fire she couldn't controlThe She-Wolf tattoo, and the woman it represents: not rage for the sake of destruction, but instinct, strength, and the decision to buildWho This Episode Is For The woman who has been the chaos coordinator for everyone else while quietly burning herself downThe eldest daughter who never got held accountable because she was too busy holding everything elseThe woman who ran — to a new city, a new relationship, a new identity — and couldn't figure out why it still followed herThe woman who chose numbness because stopping meant feeling everything she had been outrunningThe woman who is somewhere between the wildfire and the ember, and doesn't know yet that both of those things can live in her at onceKey Quote "I get to be a wildfire and the ember. I get to be something steady. I don't have to be something that burns everything down just to feel in control and to feel powerful. I get to be something that builds." If this conversation landed somewhere real for you, follow or subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss what comes next. The next chapter is already in motion. You don't have to have the plan. You just need the moment — the one where you look at yourself and decide that the life you've been living is no longer worth the cost of carrying it. That moment is not a finish line. It's a beginning. And you belong here, in the middle of it, figuring it out. Still messy. Still becoming. Exactly where you're supposed to be. 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

    21 min

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Wealth in Mothers is the podcast for women building businesses, income, and influence without sacrificing their families, bodies, or identities. Host Ashley Crabb redefines what wealth looks like for mothers.. shifting from hustle culture to embodied leadership. Weekly episodes featuring real conversations with mothers who are scaling businesses, claiming authority, and refusing to choose between presence and prosperity. Mothers in wealth, Women entrepreneurs, Business for mothers, Female business owners, Motherhood and entrepreneurship, Women's leadership podcast, Embodied wealth, Visibility for women, Female thought leaders, Mothers building businesses.