She had everything she was told would make her happy. So why did it feel like a cage?

Ashley Jordan built a life that looked perfect on paper. The dream house. The marriage. The career as an activist. A life that looked enviable from the outside. The result … feeling absolutely caged on the inside.

She walked away from it all. The marriage to a good man. The activist career. The friendships that couldn't handle her evolution. And she rebuilt everything from the inside out based on who she actually is, not who she was told to be.

This isn't a story about dramatic betrayal or abuse. It's about the quiet

suffocation of living a life that isn't yours. The terror of leaving safety for the unknown. The death of your ego when you stop performing goodness and start embodying truth.

This conversation captures the messy, beautiful journey of unbecoming. Of stripping away every mask to find the truest self underneath. Of walking away from a good man and a good career because good wasn't enough. Of losing friendships that couldn't survive her transformation. Of discovering that grief is actually love calling you home.

Ashley shares the raw truth about:

🔹 The moment she had to leave the activist group she founded because she no longer fit her own mission

🔹 Why 24 years of repressed grief cracked her open when her childhood sweetheart died

🔹 How closing her heart at 13 to avoid pain kept her caged for decades

🔹 The loneliness of not fitting anywhere while you're becoming who you really are

If you've ever felt like your life looks good on paper but still doesn’t “feel right,” this episode will shake something loose.

Listen to understand what’s possible when you choose yourself.

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Ashley's Bio:

Ashley Jordan is the author of Unhappy Achiever: Rejecting the Good Girl Image and Reclaiming the Joy of

Inner Fulfillment. She writes and speaks for women who are done with the masks, the striving, and the

silence—and who are ready to reclaim their voices and rebuild their lives with truth, freedom, and love.