Ashley Lemieux: Rewire Your Mindset, Heal From Grief and Trauma, and Start Again | Mental Health | YAPClassic
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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
We experienced a very unexpected contested adoption and we ended up losing the kids. The lack of purpose that I felt in my life is something that made it really hard for me to get out of bed in the morning. Until I got to the point where I was like, I have to figure out what my intention for my life is now. And so I started with one simple question every single morning. And that question was, so that's when the concept of clarity mapping really started.
How did you get over the shame of starting a company and shutting it down? We
get scared of this idea of starting over, but you're not starting over. You can't. You have so much knowledge now, and so you get to now apply all of that into the next thing. Do you feel like
entrepreneurs deal with grief and stress differently than other people? Something that is very common.
Амен амреп.
Yap gang, if you've ever struggled with grief, loss, trauma, or just felt completely stuck in life, today's Yap classic is going to really resonate with you. Our guest today is Ashley Lemoy. She's the founder and CEO of The Shine Project, best-selling author and the host of the Healing Her podcast. Ashley is an expert on grief and trauma recovery, and she's devoted her life to helping others reignite the light within them. themselves. In this conversation, Ashley shows us how to move through some of life's darkest moments and find a way forward again. So, whether you're going through something right now or just want to be more mentally prepared for the future, I hope you find this conversation with Ashley valuable.
Ashley, welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast.
Hey, thank you so much for having me.
I'm so excited to be here. Yeah, thanks for joining me today. So I'm gonna just jump right into it. For a lot of us entrepreneurs, our businesses grow out of something that we've struggled with in our own lives. And I feel like this has been especially the case for you. You've had a bunch of dark moments in your life. So why don't we start off with the first one that I learned about when I was researching your story? It was in your 20s. You unexpectedly became the mother of Two children, and then you had some traumatic experiences around that. Can you tell us what happened?
Yeah, so in our mid-20s, I was actually building my first company also. Uh, we were newly married and we didn't have kids at all in our radar at that time. Um, and overnight we became permanent guardians of two kids. And for the next four years, we were a family in every sense of the word and everything that we did. revolved around raising the kids, giving them the opportunities that we, you know, as a parent you want them to have. And all of us were under the impression that we would be together forever, for always. Um And during the final steps of the adoption process, we experienced a very unexpected contested adoption. And during that time we ended up being in court for two years. Uh I just remember
the life inside of me, it felt like someone had taken a vacuum and just sucked it all out. We were in court all the time, depositions, high stress. No one knew what was going to happen. And we ended up losing the kids.
What happened when Ashley lost the children she had raised?
Um, I was actually on the other side of the country for work and happened fast. I didn't even get to come home and say goodbye to them. And that was almost eight years ago now. And it rocked our world in a way that I did not know how to come back from or if I even wanted to figure out how to come back from it to be honest.
And so can you help us understand like how you ended up with these kids in your 20s and then are they now back in your family or or the court took them away and you just never saw them again?
Yeah, so there's parts of our story that we just don't share all the full details of, but gotta they they were placed with us, uh, through someone we knew and we have not had contact with them since Since we lost them almost eight years
ago. I'm so sorry to hear that. And I know that you guys decided to move after this happened. What did that teach you about grief when you decided to move?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:28
2
What happened when Ashley lost the children she had raised?
3:28–9:49
3
How did Ashley develop and use Clarity Mapping for self‑healing?
9:49–16:47
4
What was the experience of surviving sepsis and the pregnancy loss?
16:47–23:49
5
How can sharing grief in community help the healing process?
23:49–30:43
6
Why did Ashley shut down her successful business and how did she start over?
30:43–41:31
7
What is the “I Am Here” mindfulness mantra and how does it work?
41:31–50:20
8
Do entrepreneurs cope with grief differently than others?
50:20–1:06:36
Speakers
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