Wealth in Mothers with Ashley Crabb

Ashley Crabb
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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.

  1. 21H AGO

    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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. APR 15

    The Narrative She Was Handed and Carried Alone {Part 3 of 8 Series: Eldest Daughter Turned Cycle Breaker} | Episode 29

    This has been one of the hardest episodes I've ever done — and I almost didn't get it out. But it needed to happen, in a raw, unpolished way, because any other version would have been a performance. In this episode, I'm sharing the wound I've been carrying since childhood: the silence, the addiction, the moment my world lost its color, and what it cost me to become the eldest daughter. In this episode, I cover: What life felt like before third grade — free, feral, full of color — and how it all shiftedGrowing up in a home where silence was the loudest language and addiction was the normHow I split my world into the "problem parent" and the "savior parent" — and what both cost meBecoming the eldest daughter: raising my sister, becoming my mom's confidant, and learning to need nothingThe 16 years I spent swinging between the responsible martyr and the reckless escape artist — and why both were survivalThe guilt of resenting the people I loved mostWhat it means to stop paying the price — and what healing looks like when the wound is still fresh Next week I'm continuing this conversation — how I am done paying the price and what breaking free from these limiting beliefs actually looks like in practice. 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

  5. APR 1

    The Eldest Daughter: Where the Cycles Come From {Part 2 of 8 Series: Eldest Daughter Turned Cycle Breaker} | Episode 28

    "I was not planned. I was the reason my parents got married. I raised my younger sister. I was my mother's confidant and my family's emotional anchor." In this episode, I'm going into the origin story. Because before we can talk about breaking cycles, we have to talk about where they came from. Who handed them to us. And how young we were when we picked them up without anyone asking us to. I'm talking about the eldest daughter. Not the Taylor Swift song. (Though, she nailed it!) The actual lived experience of being the one who sees the gap and fills it, who carries the chaos so nobody else has to, who builds her whole identity around being the strong one — and then forgets it was ever a role at all. I talk about: Growing up as the unplanned child who became her family's emotional anchorRaising my younger sister, being my mother's confidant, and filling the gap nobody else wouldHow hyper-independence, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and anxiety all trace back to the same rootThe resentment I carried in my nervous system for 33 years — and the guilt I felt for even calling it thatWhy I was sprinting my whole life instead of running the marathonWhat changes when you finally have a word for what you've been carryingThe difference between the role you took on and the assignment you were always meant forThe hardest truth I had to face: I built my whole identity around a role nobody assigned me. I carried it so long I forgot it was a choice. This episode is for the eldest daughters, the family therapists, the chaos coordinators, the ones who never knew how to say no. The ones who loved so hard it cost them everything — and felt guilty for noticing. You're not broken. You're not too sensitive. You're not dramatic. You're just finally ready to put down what was never yours to carry. And that? That's where the real work begins. 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

    29 min

  6. MAR 25

    Awareness Is Not the Work: How to Stop Watching Your Patterns and Actually Change Them {Part 1 of 8 Series: Eldest Daughter Turned Cycle Breaker} | Episode 27

    In this episode, I'm getting radically honest about something I've been confusing for most of my life—and I know I'm not alone. Being aware of your patterns is not the same as changing them. For years, I convinced myself that seeing my limiting beliefs, naming my generational cycles, and acknowledging my habits meant I was doing the work. But I was still in the cage. I just knew what the cage looked like. I talk about: The difference between awareness and accountability—and why confusing them keeps you stuckThe identity I built around being the martyr, the savior, the chaos coordinator—and what it cost meWhat shadow work actually looks like when you stop talking about it and start sitting in itWhy transformation is uncomfortable, painful, and hard—and why that means you're finally movingLetting go of the need to make your dreams smaller so other people can hold themLearning to receive help, support, and accountability without feeling like a failureWhat it means to forgive yourself and stay accountable at the same timeThe hardest truth I had to face: I wasn't doing the work. I was watching myself not do it and calling that growth. This episode is about the moment I stopped abandoning myself. About choosing to be an active participant in my own expansion—not just an aware observer of it. About naming what I want out loud, without softening it, without shrinking it, even when it makes someone else uncomfortable. Because awareness without action is just a really pretty cage. And you were never meant to stay in it. ✨ This week's reflection prompts: Where are you aware but not yet taking action? What patterns are you still feeding? What do you truly want—and what have you been making smaller? Write it down. Name it. And decide. 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

    34 min

  7. MAR 18

    Motherhood, Money Struggles, and Self-Worth: The Story I Was Afraid to Share | Episode 26

    In this episode, I’m sharing a part of my story I’ve never spoken out loud before. A season where I was navigating new motherhood with twins, financial uncertainty, postpartum depression—and carrying it all silently. I talk about:  • Moving across the country with no income  • Becoming a new mom to twins while trying to “figure it out”  • The pressure to be a certain kind of mother  • Trying to force a version of motherhood that wasn’t truly mine  • Living in survival mode while feeling like I didn’t deserve help  • The invisible weight mothers carry—and why we keep it hidden The hardest truth I had to face: I didn’t ask for help… because I didn’t believe I was worthy of it. This episode is about releasing shame, redefining motherhood on your terms, and recognizing the wealth you already carry—even in the hardest seasons. Because motherhood doesn’t disqualify you from wealth. It reveals it. 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

    39 min

  8. MAR 11

    The Hidden Cost of “I’m Sorry” as a Mother | Episode 25

    In this episode, I’m talking about something many of us do without even realizing it: saying “I’m sorry.” Not when we’ve truly done something wrong—but the constant apologies for asking questions, taking up space, or simply existing as a full human. Recently, I had a realization that shifted everything for me:  Every time we say “I’m sorry” to someone else, we’re often saying it to ourselves too. I share a powerful moment from an event that forced me to see how often I had let others narrate my story—and how many times I had stayed silent instead of owning my voice. That moment became a turning point. In this episode, I explore:  • Why mothers are conditioned to apologize  • How constant apologizing can make us disappear  • The invisible weight mothers carry in decision-making  • The power of forgiving ourselves for past silence  • What changes when we stop shrinking and start owning our story This conversation is about reclaiming your voice, forgiving yourself, and choosing not to disappear anymore. Because deciding to show up fully—that’s a form of wealth. ✨ Download the Tell Your Story Firestarter in the show notes to start putting your story into words. 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

    19 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.

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