Hi, I’m Ashley

Climbing the marketing ladder

When I hopped out of college, I knew it was going to be marketing. Specifically advertising. 

So I worked in ad agencies in Chicago and NYC. Think Madmen energy with nightly drinking, smoking, and red-hot scandals. So thrilling, but man, I don’t know how any real work happened. 

I moved up the ladder in the business world, eventually becoming a marketing director for the western region of Sprint PCS. 

Putting my career on hold 

While I was gaining momentum at work, I made a big decision.

Stop working and raise my 2 children, Anna and Austin. I don’t regret doing that at all as my children mean everything to me but 18 years is a big bite out of someone’s career.

 So when they grew up and I tried to pick up where I left off, I felt really confused. No one teaches you how to Macarena back into the workplace after being out of it for almost 2 decades. 

Even though I didn’t have total clarity, I knew I wanted to get back to advertising as that was what lit me up during my early career. 

When everything turned upside down 

But when my children were teens – my world got shaken up one night. 

My husband left unexpectedly. I had to take care of the kids. I was a full-time mom. I didn’t have a pulse on the family money. I didn’t have savings or an IRA. I felt sad, confused and lonely. How was I going to manage this all by myself? 

All of these feelings fueled my mission for doing what I wanted to do. Put money and success into the hands of women so they can grow the business they want to run. And run it on their own terms. 

Now, I help women grow through paid ads, so they can scale a business regardless of the stage of life they’re in. Empty nester. New mom. Corporate dropout.

Every woman deserves to wake up to a successful business that makes her happy.