the business coaching audio program that helps you
Be the “does it all” badass you want to be… without feeling like absolute shit
Whether trying to do it all is leaving you bone-weary and constantly on edge, or you’re carrying around a deep sense of “what the hell’s wrong with me??”-fueled shame, Mixtape is the self-paced audio program you put in your ears to work through it — now, and for good.
ever catch yourself thinking...
“Why tf can’t I just
enjoy it?”
Your business. Your family. Your home. Your success.
You’ve worked so damn hard to build this life — but you can’t remember the last time you felt at peace inside it.
You want to be fully present at the dinner table — laughing at your kids’ stories, actually tasting your food, feeling there.
You want to say “I’ve got this,” and actually mean it — instead of turning around and questioning your ability to actually have anything.
As the “should”s pile up, you head down one of two paths…
path one:
Hyperdrive
Back-to-back Zooms, nonstop Slack pings that you reply to within the minute, snack requests upon snack requests, last-minute school emails, “Mom! Mom! Can I have…” on repeat…
While somehow managing to fold a load of laundry, schedule the dentist appointment, launch a new offer, and make it to dinner without collapsing.
path two:
Shutdown
Blankly staring at the overflowing sink. Reheating the same cup of coffee for the third time. Looking at your dying plants and not watering them, even though the watering can is within arms’ reach. Nodding absently through your kid’s recount of football practice…
All while silently wondering why you feel so damn far away from your own life.
path tw0: Shutdown
path one: hyperdrive
And neither path is where you want to be.
This isn’t who you know you are, or who you know you could be.
But when you’re *this* bogged down by a schedule you can’t keep up with and emotions that run the show, how the hell are you supposed to do anything about it?
well, it's a good thing i made you a:
Mix
tape
Mixtape is an audio-only program led by a shit-talkin’ therapist slash business coach (that’s me!) designed to help highly ambitious and highly exhausted women burnout-proof their lives and businesses — without slowing down or doing less.
“Before working with Ash, I was surviving — mentally juggling a hundred things, snapping at my daughters, feeling guilty the second I sat down to rest. Now… I feel different.”
My daughters even said, ‘You laugh more now.’ That wrecked me—in the best way. I’m more present, softer, steadier. The work we’ve done didn’t just shift how I show up as a mom… It’s shifting what my daughters will expect and accept from themselves one day. This work is generational.”
- Em
This is “regulation” like you’ve never seen it before.
Yes, I am going to show you how to regulate your nervous system.
No, I’m not going to ask you to be calmer, more palatable, or more tame.
Calm, palatable, and tame didn’t get you here, and it sure as hell won’t get you where you want to go. You can be unhinged on the outside and unshakable on the inside — and Mixtape shows you how.
Bring more peace and presence to your days without putting out the (hot as shit) fire that makes you you
Inside Mixtape, you’ll move through collections of audio tracks that give you…
Sure, you want to do more of what you love doing, and let’s be real — there’s more that you simply need to do but can never seem to get done. With a better understanding of why your brain thinks some things are so fucking easy and other things are just too damn hard (and what to do about it!), you’ll be back to feeling unstoppable.
When you feel like you’re swimming upstream 24/7 (maybe with your head under the water half the time…), you need strategies that don’t just keep you afloat, but allow you to be ready for whatever the hell life throws at you next — even if that happens to be hangry kids, an IRS audit, or a week-long surprise visit from your MIL.
It’s cool to have the tools to feel good NOW, but what about in 3 years? 10? Hard shit always finds us, but I don’t want you to stay stuck in it or let it pull you away from the absolute fucking beauty of the life you’ve built. So I designed Mixtape to help you rebuild from the inside out, and then feel the ripple effect of that work for life.
See what’s inside
the box set
tape 1
The Psychology of Success
the summary
There’s a reason you feel like shit (even when things are objectively “good”!) — and there’s 100% something we can do about it. This tape walks you through what’s really happening inside your brain & body and sets you up to start feeling better ASAP. You’ll have greater self-trust, greater psychological flexibility, and the ability to take action without waiting to feel ready, certain, motivated, or fearless.
the runtime
110 minutes total
open the tracklist
TRACK 1: The Psychology of the High-Achieving Woman
TRACK 2: The Cortisol Addiction That’s Costing You
TRACK 3: When Stress Is Inherited (And What You Can Do About It)
TRACK 4: The Mental Fatigue Epidemic
TRACK 5: The Cognitive Biases Running Your Business & Life
TRACK 6: High Performance vs. Sustainable Performance
TRACK 7: Case Studies With My High-Functioning Private Clients
TRACK 8: Why You Spiral, Freeze, or Fawn & How to Shift
tape 2
Unraveling Your Burnout Patterns
the summary
Using everything you learned in Tape 1, you’ll go from “what burnout can look like” to “here’s exactly how it shows up for ME” — AKA you’ll uncover your burnout archetype, your unique energy leaks, and specific strategies for burnout-proofing your business based on your personal needs and patterns. Fucking love that for you.
the runtime
55 min total
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tape 3
Becoming Your Own Best Coach
the summary
This is where you’ll learn how to coach yourself through every curveball, downward spiral, or panicked “Okay, I have everything I wanted, but what if now I lose it all???” On this tape, we’re talking money, deepening your capacity, how to find and keep true wealth — and more.
the runtime
80 min total
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TRACK 1: Somatic Wealth: The New Way to Define Richness
TRACK 2: The Self-Coaching Loop: Regulate, Reflect, Rewire
TRACK 3: Wealth Starts in Your Body
TRACK 4: Money, Momentum & Receiving
TRACK 5: Selective Capacity: What Do You Actually Want to Hold?
TRACK 6: The Problem With AI Therapy & How to Use It Safely
TRACK 7: The Myth of Arrival & Becoming the Regulated Woman
tape 4
Your Body as the Strategy
the summary
Stop fighting with your biology and start working with it. Planning your next date night? Getting your launch event on the calendar? You sure as hell better know how to schedule those so they work with your hormones and natural energy cycles! This tape shows you how, but in a way that doesn’t make you want to roll your eyes.
the runtime
80 min total
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TRACK 1: Your Cycle is the Blueprint
TRACK 2: Understanding Your Menstrual Phase
TRACK 3: Menstrual Phase Meditation
TRACK 4: Understanding Your Follicular Phase
TRACK 5: Follicular Phase Meditation
TRACK 6: Understanding Your Ovulation
TRACK 7: Ovulation Meditation
TRACK 8: Understanding Your Luteal Phase
TRACK 9: Luteal Phase Meditation
TRACK 10: Embracing Your Personal Rhythm: Putting It All Together
tape 5
The Business of Being Regulated
the summary
You didn’t start your business to spend your days feeling pissed off and dreading your to-do list. If you’ve started lowkey hating your work or feeling like you’re failing more often than not, your next step isn’t some automation or fancy ad strategy. You need to first learn to become unshakable — and that’s what Tape 5’s help to help you do.
the runtime
90 min total
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TRACK 1: Your Body's a Better Business Coach Than You Think
TRACK 2: The Future of Sustainable Business
TRACK 3: Church and State: Keeping Business Out of Your Personal Life
TRACK 4: Decision Fatigue: How to Make Better Decisions Without Crowdsourcing
TRACK 5: Using AI for Systems, Not Creativity
TRACK 6: The Business Lag: Why Results Today Reflect Actions 60-90 Days Ago
TRACK 7: The Ultimate Guide to Over-Delivery Without Resentment
TRACK 8: Regulated Selling: What It Looks Like to Sell From a Full Cup
TRACK 9: Rich-uals for Success
tape 6
The Regulation Library
(ongoing)
the summary
Meditations, exercises, and tools, organized by what you need right now: when you need to regulate (fast), when you need to slow (the fuck) down, when you need to call something in (but it feels scary as hell to receive it), and when you need to make a decision (without asking everyone for their opinion).
the runtime
Ongoing!
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TRACK 1: Pull Yourself Out of a Spiral Meditation
TRACK 2: Midday Reset for When You've Been in Go Mode Too Long
TRACK 3: Breathwork Reset When Anxiety Won't Let Go
TRACK 4: Recalibrate After a Hard Day
TRACK 5: Feel Less Rushed and More Present Meditation
TRACK 6: Sealing Energy Leaks Meditation
TRACK 7: Releasing Stored Stress
TRACK 8: Walking Meditation to Call In More Money
TRACK 9: Feeling Safe With More Visualization
TRACK 10: Daily Rituals for Self-Trust
TRACK 11: The Decision Detox
TRACK 12: So Much Can Change in 7 Days Visualization
tape 7
Your Abundance Unlocked
the summary
A whole tape dedicated to bringing you more money, helping you not feel like that money’s going to disappear on you (or like it isn’t enough when it actually *is*), and how to stop working yourself half to death to always have more, more, more. (We’re HERE for wanting MORE, but not at the expense of your sanity, okay?)
the runtime
80 min total
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tape 8
The Energy Advantage
the summary
This tape’s all about short, targeted practices to refuel your system when that “aaand I have zero energy” feeling hits. We’re going to remind you what it feels like to actually have something left at the end of the day — and holy shit are you going to LOVE it.
the runtime
45 min total
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TRACK 1: Welcome to your Energy Advantage
TRACK 2: The Cortisol Reset
TRACK 3: Energy Anchors
TRACK 4: Emotional Residue Release
TRACK 5: Single Task Reset
TRACK 6: The ‘Not Now’ Protocol
TRACK 7: Capacity Expanders
TRACK 8: The Nourishment Reboot
TRACK 9: Unhooking From Urgency
TRACK 10: Co-Regulation:The Fastest Way to Refuel Your System
And don’t miss these bonus tracks…
Your Mixtape subscription comes with new content & extras every month:
collab tracks
Listen to ambitious AF women share their story, perspective, and wisdom in these exclusive convos
behind the scenes
Hear me coach myself and my clients through the tough shit with BTS tracks for your ears only
collector pricing
Get special pricing on all my other therapy x business coaching offers (not found anywhere else!)
off the tape
Access pop-up Voxer coaching days and other live events with me + my community
unplugged sessions
Tune into deep dives where I bring fresh content that complements the work you’re doing
from the studio
Every week, I send you a note with track spotlights and prompts + challenges to guide your work
“It’s like I finally caught up to my life and now I get to actually live it.”
“This was the first time I felt like someone saw beneath the surface of my ‘I’m fine.’ Ash helped me start feeling peace, like truly. I’m not white-knuckling my days anymore. I take up space differently. I move slower, but everything works better. It’s like I finally caught up to my life and now I get to actually live it.”
meet the entrepreneur's therapist
Hi, I’m Ash — and I’ve had it up to HERE with all this
“slow living” bullshit.
The internet would have you believe that regulation is an aesthetic. That it’s soft and calm and slow — so fucking slow.
And I’ve watched FAR too many women — brilliant, driven, and successful women — fall for this lie.
They let themselves become convinced that who they are at their core is the problem. Because at their core, they’re anything but soft, calm, and slow.
So they do what they think they must, and try to “fix” themselves. They bend, and they bend, and they bend — until they fucking break.
I built this body of work because I am her, and I think you might be too.
Mixtape came out of a season where I almost gave everything up.
After building the thriving business, buying the dream house, and living the “picture-perfect” life, I was still waking up every morning with a pit in my stomach — like I was a fucking imposter in my own success story.
In that season, I didn’t need more “white space.” I didn’t need to “slow down.” I tried both and it didn’t do a damn thing.
It’s crazy, isn’t it? Even as a therapist with a Master’s Degree in my craft, I still fell for the bullshit. I still believed the lie that something was wrong with me because I didn’t fit the narrative of what a successful woman “should” be.
What I really needed — and what I now believe every highly ambitious, high-achieving woman needs — was the permission to do what I love, how I love to do it.
That required me to rebuild my entire business and the way I operated inside of it. Only then did I feel the change — the change I know you want too.
Mixtape is how you start to feel it — and this is your first step:
Mixtape is the business coaching therapy program for you if you…
Would describe yourself as a VERY ambitious perfectionist who’s excellent at multi-tasking and has been accused of being “bossy” more times than you can count (but how the hell is it your fault that you’re always right??)
Deeply struggle to hold back the eye roll when someone sees your stress and suggests you “take a break” (or heaven forbid a fucking bath) because you know that what you’re dealing with can’t be fixed by a simple act of “self care”
Have zero spare time (truly, the number of minutes would be negative if that were possible) and need a flexible “meets you where you’re at” support that won’t require you to stare at slides or read copious amounts of dense material
Are so fucking tired of treating yourself like a project — everywhere you turn, someone has an opinion about what you’re doing wrong and you’re DONE
“I didn’t realize how much I’d been living in my head until I started this work.”
"My husband told me he feels me differently now. That I’m more present, more grounded, more… me. When I was deciding whether to continue, he looked at me and said, ‘This isn’t optional. Whatever this is doing for you — we need it.’ That was the moment I realized how deeply this work had landed — not just in my life, but in my home."
Emily
You
right now?
Okay, let’s talk it out.
Tap if youre thinking...
"I don't have time for another program I won't finish."
"I've tried things like this before and nothing has stuck."
“I don’t need more tools, I need help using them in real life.”
“I’m struggling with my business — will this help me?”
"I don't have time for another program I won't finish."
I get it — you’re capital-B Busy. That’s why Mixtape is an audio-only program and is available directly in your favorite podcast platforms via a private feed.
No slides to watch, no workbook to fill out (thank GOD). You’ll pop in your earbuds and press play on the tracks that feel most relevant to what you need right now, without it feeling like a marathon. (You saw those runtimes up there, right?)
Plus, when you enroll, I send you a curated direction to move through the tapes, so you can start feeling better fast.
"I've tried things like this before and nothing has stuck."
This isn’t like those other things you’ve tried ;) As an actual therapist who’s also been an entrepreneur for over 12 years while birthing and raising 3 kids, I’m able to bring real therapeutic techniques to Mixtape’s programming — techniques designed to help you resolve the thoughts, emotions, and patterns that have been running your life without your permission.
By listening each day, you’re tapping into the potential to reprogram your brain without having to add more to your plate or make massive changes in your life.
“I don’t need more tools, I need help using them in real life.”
This isn’t just a set of trainings for you to binge and never listen to again. With meditations and exercises you can use daily, and a framework you can use to coach yourself for the rest of your life — Mixtape is actionable to the core.
I developed this body of work out of my own experiences — both as a trained therapist and a mother + entrepreneur who burned all the way out. It’s not just ideas. The audios included in Mixtape are designed specifically to translate into your lived experience. And if you ever need more individual support after you’ve built this foundation, I’m here for you inside Deep Cuts.
“I’m struggling with my business — will this help me?”
Yes, I absolutely believe that Mixtape will help your business — and here’s why:
So many of my clients come to me feeling like they have a business problem… only to find out that the problem’s not actually with their business at all.
New offers, new strategies, new coaches, new platforms, new niches… That’s not going to fix anything if you don't have the ability to receive the success they bring. If anything I’ve said on this page resonates with you, I 100% believe that doing *this work* will bring you more of the business success you’re looking for than a new funnel ever could.
Ready to “order” your Mixtape?
here's what happens next:
01 / You find a “Your Mixtape is Here!” email in your inbox
And it’s not just welcoming you, it’s giving you an exact personalized starting point so you don’t have to wait weeks before you start seeing — and feeling! — changes. You’ll learn how to access the private podcast directly in your player of choice and press play on your first track.
02 / You move through the tapes at your own pace
Mixtape is audio-only and meant to be enjoyed in the order of your choosing. And while the tapes do build on each other, you can skip around, repeat content, or start wherever feels right. Want to binge it in a weekend? Go for it. Want to listen to one track a week? That works too.
03 / You keep an eye out for bonus tracks
I’m talking new guest interviews, fresh deep dives with me, and every once in a while, pop-up coaching and Voxer days ;) Plus, I send a weekly Mixtape update to make sure you stay in the loop with everything and never (ever!) miss a thing.
“I used to end every day feeling behind. I knew how to get things done, but I didn’t know how to feel good while doing it.”
“Since working with Ash, I’ve felt more energy with less effort. I’m making clearer decisions, actually enjoying time with my family, and trusting myself in a way that feels brand new. My coworkers noticed it. My partner noticed it. I noticed it. I’m still ambitious. I’m just not burning myself out trying to prove anything anymore.”
Sara
being busy
isn't bad.
(But we can be busy in ways that don’t make us want to burn it all down!)
Keep the hustle, keep wanting it all, and finally tap into your ability to have it all with Mixtape.
Faqs
I know a thousand “but!”s are running through your mind right now
Let's see if these faq's can help:
Where do I listen to the “tapes”? (...I don’t actually need a cassette player, do I?)
I kind of wish this could be as old school as a set of tapes you can put in your Walkman, but no, Mixtape is a private podcast that is delivered through Hello Audio. You can use the RSS Feed to access the audio through any podcast platform of your choice.
I’m already working with a therapist. Is Mixtape still a good fit for me?
Absolutely! The Mixtapes are the perfect complement to the work you are doing with your therapist and can provide an additional layer of support as you work through the hard shit in your life. Plus, Mixtape brings in perspectives and support for your business, rather than just focusing on your personal life — which (as you probably already know) is something that most therapists don’t have the experience to adequately support.
Can this replace therapy?
No, Mixtape is not a replacement for individualized psychotherapy. If you are looking for more 1:1 support, I recommend exploring Deep Cuts, where we work together in a private mentorship capacity, or completing the Mixtape program in conjunction with 1:1 work with a therapist in your area.
Is this for me if I’m not an entrepreneur?
It can be! While there is a section focused on business inside the Mixtape programming, there are many pieces of those recordings that can be applied to a more “traditional” career and/or life outside of work. And that’s not to mention the other seven sections of audio that don’t pertain to business. Bottom line: I deeply believe you can gain something from Mixtape, whether you own a business or not.
Do I get lifetime access to the audio recordings?
No, your enrollment in Mixtape does not come with lifetime access. You pay each month you want to have access, and you can cancel — and come back! — at any time.
Do you offer refunds if I decide this isn’t for me?
Due to the digital nature of this program, refunds are not available. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to ash@ashmcdonaldmentoring.com so I can better support you.
