Wealth in Mothers with Ashley Crabb

The Eldest Daughter Series: A Peek Inside Every Episode Eight episodes. One story. And this is your invitation to hear it all. This mashup is a glimpse into each episode of The Eldest Daughter Series — a peek inside the moments, the truth, and the becoming that lives inside this body of work. If something in here stops you, if something lands a little too close, that is the episode calling you in....

Join me as we go back to episode 20 for a memorable part of my story this week! Let's take a look back at it together: This episode is for the moment when the story you’ve been telling yourself stops working—not because you failed, but because you’re being asked to become someone who can hold more. Not more hustle. Not more pressure. More support. More truth. More wealth in its real forms. Th...

You Don't Have to Choose: God, Spirituality, and the Permission to Have Both I grew up believing faith had a strict set of rules. And for a long time, I fought the tension between the God I was raised to believe in and the spiritual woman I was becoming. The crystals on my desk. The angel cards. The intuition I couldn't ignore. The signs I kept seeing everywhere. For years I asked myself...

In this deeply personal and emotionally charged episode of Wealth in Mothers, Ashley Crabb shares the truth behind her transformation—from a woman trying to make herself digestible for the world to a mother reclaiming her voice, visibility, and purpose. Ashley unpacks the emotional cost of shrinking yourself to fit inside rooms that were never built for you. Through motherhood, rebuilding her iden...

Motherhood doesn’t erase women. It reveals them. In this deeply raw and transformative episode of Wealth in Mothers , Ashley Crabb dismantles one of the most dangerous narratives women are handed: that becoming a mother means losing yourself. Instead, Ashley shares how motherhood cracked her open — exposing every inherited survival pattern, every identity she performed, and every version of hersel...

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 fou...

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...

**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 t...

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 d...

"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 any...

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 wha...

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 fo...

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....

In this episode, I’m sharing a shift that cracked something open for me: You don’t choose. You decide. Here’s what we explore: The energetic difference between choosing and deciding Why decision requires severance How keeping doors “cracked open” fragments us The hidden cost of indecision for mothers in leadership Why waiting to feel ready keeps us split How fragmentation impacts wealth What it me...

Welcome back babes to another episode of Making Her History — the space where women stop shrinking, share their truths, and turn their moments into roars. Today’s guest is Annie Cullen — a high school art teacher, professional fine artist, and Doctor of Education (EdD) who’s blending research, creativity, and real-life lived experience to create safer, more human spaces for students and adults. An...

We are not just raising children. We are shaping how the next generation understands bodies, strength, confidence, and worth. In Part 2 of my conversation with Jackie Kelley , we got super real about body image and parenting. We talked about Jackie growing up in a home where body image was loud. We talked about how what our mothers modeled shaped us. And then we asked the bigger question: What are...

Welcome back to Making Her Story — the space where women stop shrinking, speak their truths, and share the moments that roar. Today’s conversation is with the one and only Jackie Kelley (aka “Stay At Home Jackie” in my world) — a mother, creator, illustrator, and walking permission slip for the quirky, the tender, and the wildly honest. Jackie and I have a long-distance friendship with zero polish...

Welcome back to Making HERstory! This episode is for the moment when the story you’ve been telling yourself stops working—not because you failed, but because you’re being asked to become someone who can hold more. Not more hustle. Not more pressure. More support. More truth. More wealth in its real forms. This conversation is about the quiet identity shift that happens when you stop performing str...

Every woman has a story. And so many of us have quietly wondered if ours is even worthy of being told. This episode is an invitation to stop questioning the value of what you’ve lived—and to start recognizing that your story, your motherhood, your everyday experiences are not side notes. They are the foundation of your leadership, your wealth, and the legacy you are building right now. What This E...

Women are so often taught that gratitude and desire can’t coexist. That if you want more, you must not appreciate what you have. That ambition is a threat. That desire is dangerous. That wanting more makes you ungrateful. But the truth is this: Gratitude isn’t the opposite of wanting more. Gratitude is what prepares you to receive more. In today’s episode, Ashley breaks down the difference between...

Motherhood changes everything — including the way you see yourself when you catch your reflection on a random Tuesday and don’t recognize the woman staring back. If you’ve ever felt lost in the “sweats and survival” season, this one is a reminder that finding your style isn’t about vanity. It’s about coming home to yourself. About redefining your normal. About being seen — by you first. What This...

If you’ve ever thought, “My life isn’t dramatic enough to matter,” this conversation is for you. Because you’ve been taught to measure worth by spectacle instead of truth. This episode is a reclamation of the ordinary. Of the quiet pivots. Of the chapters that didn’t explode but still changed everything. It’s an invitation to stop waiting for your story to feel impressive and start seeing it as va...

Most women aren’t afraid to tell their story. They’re afraid to tell the version that would change how people see them. In the first episode of 2026, Ashley Crabb opens Making HERstory by calling out the real reason women keep editing, softening, and swallowing their truth. This is not an episode about content tips or marketing hacks. This is a conversation about story as identity, leadership, aut...

The woman I started becoming this year is done showing up half-assed. And if you’re here, I have a feeling you are too. In the final episode of Making HERstory for 2025, Ashley Crabb reflects on a year that was heavy, demanding, clarifying, and deeply transformative. This episode is about embodiment. It’s about choosing your hard. It’s about staying instead of burning it all down. And it’s about r...

What if “going feral” isn’t a trend… but the moment you finally start thinking for yourself? In Part 2 of this two-part interview, Ashley Crabb and Aliyah of BoTree Life & Home go deeper — into identity, boundaries, and the systems women are expected to follow without question. Aliyah breaks down what “feral” actually means to her (and it’s not performative). It’s honesty. It’s discernment. It...