Welcome to the Crab Shack

I didn't plan this episode. I didn't plan any of it, honestly.

I didn't plan to be sitting in my garden in my hippie zero shoes recording my first episode in over a month and a half. I didn't plan to become the Christian education and youth and children's ministry director at our local church. I didn't plan for any of the shifts that have happened in the last ten months — the ones you may have already felt if you have been here for a while.

But here I am. Finally home. And I am so ready to bring you along.

What This Episode Holds

• Why Ashley has been quiet for the last month and a half — and what she has been coming home to in the meantime
• The shift that has been building for almost a year and what finally coming home to God, her husband, her kids, her community, and herself actually feels like
• How a feral, F-bomb dropping woman became a church director — and why that is the least surprising thing in the world when you know her whole story
• Letting go of the polished performance and showing up from the garden, from the wicker chair, from the real
• What the Crab Shack is, where this podcast is headed, and why the mission has never been more alive
• The truth about grace — why she is done declaring it and finally just living it
• What radical responsibility actually looks like when you stop trying to beat everyone else's narrative and finally come home to your own

Who This Episode Is For

• The woman who has felt the shift in Ashley and wanted to understand what changed
• The woman who has been keeping herself chained up while calling it discipline or loyalty or love
• The woman who is afraid to say the G word out loud but feels something pulling her toward it anyway
• The woman who is done with polished and ready for real
• The mother who is building something and needs to hear that none of it disqualifies her — it qualifies her

"I am not extraordinary. I am just an ordinary girl living out her extraordinary purpose. And we all have the power, the strength, the grace within us to do that."

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

Success can be loud and lonely at the same time. In this episode of Making HERstory, host Ashley Crabb gets real about the hidden loneliness that often comes with entrepreneurship — even in a world that praises collaboration and community. She explores the ways comparison, competition, and isolation creep in when women forget their own worth and power. This conversation is a reminder that sisterhood in business, female connection, and authentic community are what keep us grounded when the noise gets too loud.

If you’ve ever felt unseen, isolated, or like you’re cheering for everyone but yourself — this episode will remind you that you’re not alone and that your story, your voice, and your worth still matter.

This Episode Is For You If:

• You’ve felt lonely even while running a thriving business.
• You’re craving deeper connection beyond networking.
• You want to stop comparing your journey to everyone else’s.

🦄 About This Episode:

Inside this episode, Ashley opens up about the paradox of success — how you can be thriving and still feel unseen — and the real reason women feel isolated even in rooms full of support. She shares the reminder that different doesn’t mean better, and that sisterhood is the strategy that sustains us through growth.
🌶 Why success can feel lonely even when everything looks “right”
🌶 How comparison and competition quietly disconnect us
🌶 What real sisterhood in business looks like — and how to find it

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RESOURCES + CONNECTION:

Find Ashley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsashleycrabb/

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I spent 30 days telling you what I learned from a $5,000 retreat I never even went to. But I never gave you the full story.

Today I am giving you the full story. And then we are putting it to rest for good.

This is not an episode about regret. It is not a cautionary tale or a warning or a confessional. It is the story of the most expensive yes I ever said — what it cracked open, what it cost, and why every single door that opened after it was worth more than the five thousand dollars I left on the table.

What This Episode Holds

• The full story behind the $5K investment — the yes, the unraveling, and the moment she finally said no and asked for her money back
• The woman who made that investment — desperate, still looking to other people for the answers, still not trusting herself — and the woman who came out the other side
• How postpartum entrepreneurship pulled her into a world of targeted noise and how she kept reaching for the wrong rope trying to climb out
• The moment she realized she had been trying to learn from someone whose life she did not even want
• What it actually means to say yes from a place of abundance versus yes from a place of desperation — and how to know the difference
• Why this investment, as painful and expensive as it was, is the thing that finally unlocked the chain keeping her buried underneath narratives that were never hers
• Peeling back the onion — why becoming is not about finding the woman you lost but about finding joy in every single layer of who you are

Who This Episode Is For

• The woman who has made an expensive decision and is still carrying shame about it
• The mother in the online business world who has been targeted, overwhelmed, and has grabbed every rope thrown at her trying to find solid ground
• The woman who has been saying yes from a place of desperation and is ready to learn what a yes from abundance actually feels like
• The woman who has been looking to everyone else for the answers and is starting to suspect she has had them inside her all along
• The entrepreneur who is done following someone else's path to someone else's life

Key Quote

"It was a full body yes in a desperate place. It wasn't a full body yes from a place of abundance and self-trust and self-knowledge and self-worth. I was still thinking that I was not worthy and enough and that someone else was going to save me."

You are not behind. You are not too much. And you do not have to choose between your family and the life you are building. Keep peeling back the layers. The woman underneath every single one of them is worth finding.

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