Welcome to the Grief series - a collection of conversations about the grief woven throughout our lives with some extraordinary women bringing their raw, vulnerable stories to the mic. I hope you see yourself somewhere in these stories.

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This specific episode is for the women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond who are entering a new season, physically, emotionally, and mentally. My guest, Bryn Daylor, brought her whole heart to this conversation and bared it all from her grief around physical changes, ambition shifts, and comparison as we age.

TOPICS WE EXPLORE:

• The identity shift underneath every physical change
• Grieving the attention you used to get
• Aesthetic procedures, the pressure, the fear, and the nuance
• Losing reckless abandon
• Building ambition from belief instead of survival
• Starting a family later and doing the math on time
• How comparison kills your output
• What shamelessly ambitious looks like when you stop performing

THE POINT:

Aging is the grief that lives in the gap between who you were and who you're becoming, and the only way through it is to name it.

ABOUT BRYN:

Bryn Daylor helps women unmask themselves through creative expression so they can have the life and love they really want. She works with women to strip back layers of conditioning so that when they go to share themselves, whether through storytelling, writing a book, or putting a creative project into the world, they are doing it from the core of who they actually are. Find her on Instagram @bryndaylor and on her podcast, Seen.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Bryn's podcast: Seen
• Vanquish Vitiligo (product for vitiligo coverage)
• Work with Ash

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MORE ABOUT ASH

I'm Ash McDonald — the Entrepreneur's Therapist. Trained therapist, seasoned entrepreneur, mom of 3, && the person you call when your business coach doesn't get your brain && your therapist doesn't get your business.

I built the thing I couldn't find anywhere else: whole-picture support that holds your strategy && your humanity in the same conversation at the same time.

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