What does it cost to speak up? What happens when using your voice in your own community makes you feel unsafe?

If you've ever stayed silent because you were afraid of the consequences, if you've ever watched something wrong happen and didn't know if speaking up was worth the risk, this episode is for you.

In this episode of Unapologetically Yours, Ashley Logan shares her raw, unscripted thoughts and experiences about the courage it takes to use your voice when fear tries to silence you, what we're willing to tolerate in our own communities, and how to build connection instead of division in a time when it feels like the world is tearing itself apart.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• What happens when advocacy and speaking up comes with real cost to your safety and livelihood
• How to navigate feeling unsafe in your own community for using your voice
• The rise of divisive language and what it means for our ability to connect with our neighbors
• How to tell the difference between fear-driven beliefs and love-driven action
• Why examining what we tolerate in our communities matters for the bigger picture
• How to have civil discourse that builds bridges instead of burning them
• What it means to find courage when you're genuinely afraid of the consequences
• Why we have more in common as humans than we have differences, and how to remember that
• How to teach the next generation about humanity even in the hardest circumstances …and so much more!

A note from Ashley: I spoke from my heart in this episode, without a script, without an agenda. I share in the grief of anyone who was deeply shaken by the killing of Renee Good. I am her. We all are. No one wants to be shot for trying to do the right thing. This is a time that calls for radical introspection about what it means to be a good neighbor, what it means to show up in your community, and what it means to create a country that is safe, accepting, warm, and joyous for our children. I'm afraid of speaking up, but I can't not speak up - because what I'm willing to tolerate here is what I'm willing to tolerate everywhere.

Connect with Ashley:

Instagram @ashleydlogan

Website https://ashleylogan.com/

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: podcast@unapologeticallyyours.com

There comes a moment when your mind can no longer carry what your body has been holding. This episode is an invitation to listen.

In this solo episode of Unapologetically Yours, Ashley Logan shares her personal journey that led her out of chronic overfunctioning and postpartum burnout, and into the world of sound, breathwork, and somatic healing.

This episode isn’t about “fixing” your body or chasing another wellness trend. It’s about listening and learning how to hear your body’s yeses and nos and honoring them, without guilt.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• Why burnout is often a nervous system issue, not a motivation problem
• How constant override disconnects us from intuition, creativity, and joy
• What somatic practices actually do (and what they don’t)
• Why stillness is the foundation of regulation
• How trauma and grief live in the body and why they need space to move
• The difference between fear and misalignment
• Why coming home to your body can change everything, including how you mother, lead, and live

…and so much more!

A note from Ashley:

If your body has not felt like a safe place to live, I want you to hear this clearly. You are not broken. Disconnection is often a survival strategy, something your system learned because it did not feel safe to stay present. This episode is an invitation to come back gently. Not with another program to perfect and not with more pressure. Just with stillness, listening, and the smallest acts of honoring what your body is already telling you. That is where the shift begins.

Connect with Ashley:

Instagram @ashleydlogan

Website https://ashleylogan.com/

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: podcast@unapologeticallyyours.com

Taylor Swift is a living example of what embodied leadership looks like. This episode is about what happens when a woman trusts her magic and lets the world rise with her.

In this solo episode, Ashley Logan breaks down seven leadership lessons inspired by Taylor Swift and the creation of the iconic Eras Tour. From trusting your vision to leading with grace, gratitude, and unapologetic power, this conversation is a love letter to women who are here to build something meaningful.

Ashley reflects on Taylor’s evolution as a leader, and how her willingness to live, learn, and lead out loud offers a roadmap for entrepreneurs, creatives, and leaders who are done playing small.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• Trusting yourself when your vision feels “too big”
• Building teams that believe in you
• Holding a bold vision when others doubt it
• Gratitude, grace, and compensation as leadership tools
• Why raising the bar helps everyone rise

A note from Ashley

Watching the Eras Tour felt like witnessing what happens when feminine leadership is fully embodied. Taylor didn’t shrink. She didn’t apologize. She trusted herself, trusted her people, and set a standard so high that everyone around her rose with her. That’s the kind of leadership that doesn’t just build success - it changes culture. This episode is an invitation to trust your magic, even when no one else fully understands it yet.

Connect with Ashley Logan:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleydlogan
• Website: https://ashleydlogan.com

Resources Mentioned:

• Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
• The Making of the Eras Tour Docu-Series

How much of your life have you spent trying to prove you’re worthy of being here?

In this week’s episode of Unapologetically Yours, I sit down with Meg Sylvester, artist, facilitator, and someone who has been an important mirror and mentor in my life for many years. I have admired Meg since we first met 25 years ago in college, and have watched her continue to grow and shed her skin.

What I respect most about Meg is her willingness to evolve in public, to release identities, step away from titles, and tell the truth about what it costs to keep performing. She does not position herself above others. She walks beside them. That distinction matters.

After the death of her father, Meg experienced a profound internal shift. Grief stripped away performance and awakened her creative voice in a new way. Not to teach, impress, or lead, but simply to express. In this conversation, we explore what “I am enough” actually means when it is no longer an affirmation, but a lived reality.

Together, we talk about what happens when you stop trying to be impressive, stop needing to be seen a certain way, and start letting yourself exist, without agenda.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What "I am enough" really means and how Meg's understanding of it completely shifted after her father's death
• Learning to be unimpressive and releasing the need to perform or prove your worth
• How grief awakened the artist in Meg and gave her permission to express without agenda
• Why mentors and facilitators are not on a higher plane and don't have life figured out (they just have a skill)
• The somatic, cathartic power of creative expression and why it's not reserved for "real artists"
• Living life without titles, identities, or the pressure to be something you're not
• How to choose mentors who walk beside you, not ahead of you

A note from Ashley:

I wanted to share this conversation because I see so many people, especially women, carrying the quiet pressure to be exceptional in order to be worthy. Meg’s willingness to live without titles or performance challenged me in a way that felt both confronting and freeing. This episode is not about becoming someone new. It is about letting go of what you no longer need to prove. If you have been questioning who you are beyond your roles, your work, or how you are perceived, I hope this conversation helps you come back to yourself with more honesty and less force.

Thank you for being here.

Connect with Meg Sylvester: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megansylvesterh Website: https://megsylvester.com

Connect with Ashley Logan: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleydlogan Website: https://ashleydlogan.com

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: podcast@unapologeticallyyours.com

There comes a moment when the life you built stops working - and once you see it, you can’t unsee it. In this solo episode of Unapologetically Yours, host Ashley Logan reflects candidly on her lived experience of navigating a dark night of the soul. This is the moment when burnout, misalignment, and intuition collide… and the truth begins asking for your attention.

Ashley shares how her own spiritual awakening unfolded: the stillness that came before change, the boundaries that protected her truth, and the small, courageous steps that ultimately reshaped her life. She explores what it means to trust yourself when doing so may unravel identities, relationships, and structures that once felt safe.

This episode is for anyone who feels the deep, unsettling knowing that something is no longer aligned, and is learning how to listen without rushing, bypassing, or blowing their life up overnight.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• What a dark night of the soul actually feels like in real life
• How burnout and misalignment show up in the body before the mind
• The role of stillness in spiritual awakening
• Boundaries as a form of self-trust and integrity
• Taking grounded, embodied action instead of bypassing

… and so much more!

It isn’t about fixing your life or making drastic moves. It’s about tuning in and understanding how to stay present throughout all the ups and downs, and learning to trust yourself again.

A Note from Ashley:

I wanted to share this episode with you because I know what it feels like to realize that the life you’re living no longer fits who you are. This episode comes from a very real chapter of my life. A season where I had to slow down enough to listen, brave enough to tell myself the truth, and patient enough to take one small step at a time. There was grief in that process, there was loss, and there was also a deep remembering of who I am beneath the roles, expectations, and rules I had been living by. I hope it stirs something in you, too! Thank you for being here.

Connect with Ashley:

Instagram @ashleydlogan

Website https://ashleylogan.com/

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: podcast@unapologeticallyyours.com

“You got this, mama.” It sounds supportive - but for so many women, it actually lands as isolating, silencing, and deeply abandoning. In this solo episode of Unapologetically Yours, Ashley Logan unpacks why the “you got this, mama” culture makes her furious, and how it quietly trains women to carry everything alone while disappearing from their own lives.

Ashley speaks candidly about motherhood, burnout, creativity, nervous system regulation, boundaries, and the slow, courageous work of coming home to yourself. She shares personal stories from early motherhood, the moment she realized she had stopped singing to her children, and how reclaiming her creative life became a turning point not just for her - but for her kids.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• Why “you got this, mama” actually reinforces isolation and burnout
• How self-abandonment became normalized in modern motherhood
• The connection between creativity, embodiment, and being a present parent
• Why modeling a full, alive life as a mom matters more than doing everything “right”
• Simple ways to reconnect with your body, desires, and truth

… and so much more!

A note from Ashley:

This episode came from a deep frustration with how pressure gets disguised as encouragement. How often women are told “you got this” when what they actually need is support. I keep noticing how much loneliness lives inside that expectation, and how much we lose when we stop asking for help and start carrying everything alone. My hope is that this episode helps you question where pressure has replaced care in your life, and reminds you that strength does not come from doing it all yourself, but from letting yourself be held.

Connect with Ashley:

Instagram @ashleydlogan

Website https://ashleylogan.com/

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: podcast@unapologeticallyyours.com

Welcome back to Season 3 of Unapologetically Yours! This is a season that is starting off on the back end of massive transformation: a divorce finalized, a business merger, a beloved nanny’s goodbye, and a woman learning to trust that shedding can be sacred. In this solo season 3 opener, Ashley pulls back the curtain on the endings, beginnings, and wild timing that have reshaped her life over the past few months. 

Ashley Logan is a writer, storyteller, and spiritual wayfinder, as well as an entrepreneur, mother of three, and host of the Unapologetically Yours podcast. She spent years running Yakkety Yak, a Chicago-based content marketing agency that grew to 30+ employees and nearly $4M in revenue, serving purpose-driven brands around the world. After walking through divorce, parenting three young kids, and navigating a major business merger with The David James Agency, Ashley is redefining what leadership, motherhood, and creative work look like on her own terms. 

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• What 2025 as the Year of the Snake is revealing about shedding, embodiment, and awakening
• How Ashley’s divorce process finally came to an end—on the same day as her business merger
• The emotional impact of saying goodbye to a nanny who loved her children like family
• Shifting from full-time agency CEO to a part-time role and more present everyday motherhood
• Creating space for writing, podcasting, events, and the creative work that feels most alive
• Welcoming change without bypassing the grief, fear, and tenderness that come with it

… and so much more!

A note from Ashley:

This episode is a love letter to anyone standing at the edge of a big decision. I won’t sugarcoat the chaos - there’s grief, rage, holy exhaustion, and a hundred tiny goodbyes baked into seasons like this. But I’m also noticing the quiet ways I’m being held: the extra toilet paper stacked, the kids’ laughter on weekday afternoons, the way my body exhales when I clear a closet or say no. My hope is that my story gives you permission to trust your own timing, your own body, your own knowing - especially when the path ahead doesn’t look “practical” from the outside. 

Connect with Ashley:

Instagram @ashleydlogan

Website https://ashleylogan.com/

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: podcast@unapologeticallyyours.com

What happens when women step away from their everyday roles and responsibilities… and step into deep rest, reflection, and real connection?

In this special episode, Ashley is joined by sound healing practitioner and Reiki master Genevieve Deely, her co-facilitator for the upcoming Restore Retreat, happening this September just outside of Chicago. Together, they share a heartfelt conversation about the power of retreat spaces, what it really means to be held, and why this work matters – especially for mothers, working women, and anyone navigating grief, burnout, or major life transitions.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• What makes retreats so transformative
• How sound healing, Reiki, and nature help us return to ourselves
• The difference between taking a break and truly being witnessed
• What to expect from the Restore Retreat (and who it’s for)

… and so much more!

Learn more about the Restore Retreat at https://ashleydlogan.com/retreat

Connect with Genevieve:

Instagram @gendeely

Website https://channelofyourpeace.com/

Connect with Ashley:

Instagram @ashleydlogan

Website https://ashleydlogan.com/

Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: podcast@unapologeticallyyours.com