We're back for episode seven! Hosted by best friends, seasoned entrepreneurs, and investment coaches Ashley and Scottie, this episode picks up the raw, unscripted conversation about what it actually takes to build a life and business on your own terms.

This week, with no agenda and no filter, Ashley and Scottie get into trusting your gut, resetting a bad morning, and why chasing a future version of yourself only works once you start living like her today. Expect candid, living-room-style conversation covering:

• Trusting the Intuitive Hit: Scottie shares the story of a late-night gut feeling that led him to snag $871 US Open tickets that had been going for thousands — and why he and Ashley see moments like that as proof manifestation and smart decision-making aren't opposites.

• Meditation and Gratitude as a Reset Button: Ashley walks through how a five-minute meditation and a gratitude practice helped her push through a cranky, out-of-sorts morning — and get herself to the gym even when she really didn't want to go.

• Stop Holding Yourself Apart From the Vision: Scottie's realization that he's been treating his 'lake house, $150K-month' version of himself as a distant future person instead of someone he can start embodying today — and why growth is a stair-step, not a single leap.

• Reverse-Engineering a Goal Into a Savings Habit: Ashley traces how she went from dreaming about a personal trainer in a cockroach-infested first apartment to actually affording one — by pricing it out and building it into a future budget, the same way Scottie saved toward his Rivian before buying it.

• Automating the Money So You Don't Have to Think About It: The duo's approach to taking the emotion out of finances — auto-transferring a percentage of every deposit to savings and taxes, paying quarterly, hiring a bookkeeper, and using AI tools like Claude to stay on top of it.

• Budgeting for Fun Without the Guilt: Why setting aside a dedicated 'trip fund' for Spain — instead of just figuring it out later — lets them actually enjoy spending without it bleeding into the rest of their financial picture.

Ashley and Scottie aren't here to give you textbook theories or gatekeep their strategies. Whether you're an advisor trying to scale, an entrepreneur navigating the messy middle, or someone looking for honest advice from two friends who have actually been in the trenches, you're in the right place. Grab your favorite drink (or a glass of whole milk coffee), pull up a chair, and join the conversation.

We're back for episode six! Hosted by best friends, seasoned entrepreneurs, and investment coaches Ashley and Scottie, this episode picks up the raw, unscripted conversation about what it actually takes to build a life and business on your own terms.

This week, Ashley and Scottie get into the planning behind their upcoming Spain and Maldives trip — from manifesting it into existence to preparing the business (and themselves) to actually disconnect. Expect candid, living-room-style conversation covering:

• From Vision Board to Reality: The Spain and Maldives Trip: Ashley and Scottie share how a manifested Maldives trip came together through a friend's content-for-stay partnership — and the reminder that you have to actually ask for what you want to get it.

• Traveling Together, Working Apart: Why aligning on which days are work days and which are play days before the trip even starts eliminates guilt and misaligned expectations between travel partners.

• Working Backward From the Trip: How planning the getaway forced Ashley and Scottie to think differently about their business — hiring two new people, building out SOPs, and handing more off to their team well before takeoff.

• Right-Sizing the Ship: Scottie opens up about a brutal stretch in late 2024 when ad spend outpaced revenue — and how having recovered from it before gives him the calm certainty that he can handle whatever the business throws at him.

• Building a Routine That Travels With You: Why isolating specific working hours (instead of leaving work open-ended) keeps a trip from feeling like a second job, plus the story of a friend who stays grounded anywhere by keeping the same morning routine.

• Don't Come Back Needing a Vacation From Your Vacation: Ashley explains why she keeps up workouts and step counts on trips instead of abandoning her routine entirely — so indulging in the fun stuff doesn't leave her feeling worse when she's back.

Ashley and Scottie aren't here to give you textbook theories or gatekeep their strategies. Whether you're an advisor trying to scale, an entrepreneur navigating the messy middle, or someone looking for honest advice from two friends who have actually been in the trenches, you're in the right place. Grab your favorite drink (or a glass of whole milk coffee), pull up a chair, and join the conversation.

We're back for episode five! Hosted by best friends, seasoned entrepreneurs, and investment coaches Ashley and Scottie, this episode picks up the raw, unscripted conversation about what it actually takes to build a life and business on your own terms.

This week, fresh off a relaxing weekend away, Ashley and Scottie get into designing your life around your ideal day, separating real stress from imagined stress, and how to figure out what's actually worth your time. Expect candid, living-room-style conversation covering:

• Choosing Friendships That Energize You: Fresh off a weekend at the Jersey Shore, Ashley and Scottie talk about why who you spend time with matters as much as how you spend your time, and the litmus test for a friendship that actually fuels you.

• Build the Day, Not Just the Business: Scottie explains why he coaches people to design their ideal day before their ideal revenue number — and why a business you don't enjoy living in defeats the purpose of building it.

• Looking Behind the Bush for the Tiger: Scottie shares a journaling exercise for separating real financial stress from imagined stress, and how getting specific about what actually needs to be covered (staff, rent, mortgage) can quiet a fear-driven hustle.

• Energy as a Battery: The Steve Jobs and Elon Musk Approach: The duo unpacks the idea of treating focus like a depleting battery, and what it really means to run an 80/20 (or 100/0) split between business-moving work and noise.

• Sales, Staffing, and the Biggest, Scariest Thing First: Ashley breaks down the handful of priorities that actually move a business forward — and her practice of tackling the biggest, scariest task before noon.

• Your Hourly Rate and the Four-Hour-Day Test: A simple exercise for figuring out what's actually worth your time: calculate your target hourly rate, then ask what you'd cut if you only had four hours a day to work.

Ashley and Scottie aren't here to give you textbook theories or gatekeep their strategies. Whether you're an advisor trying to scale, an entrepreneur navigating the messy middle, or someone looking for honest advice from two friends who have actually been in the trenches, you're in the right place. Grab your favorite drink (or a glass of whole milk coffee), pull up a chair, and join the conversation.

We're back for episode four!Hosted by best friends, seasoned entrepreneurs, and investment coaches Ashley and Scottie, this episode picks up the raw, unscripted conversation about what it actually takes to build a life and business on your own terms.

This week, Ashley and Scottie get into the guilt-free art of saying no, why the vaguest asks are the hardest to help with, and what it really feels like to build a business that doesn'tneed you every day. Expect candid, living-room-style conversation covering:

• Setting Boundaries Without the Guilt: Ashley shares the story of turning down a mentorship request from someone she genuinely admires — and the honest, from-the heart response she used to say no without shutting the door.

• It's Actually More Selfish to Say Yes: Scottie's take on why saying yes out of obligation shortchanges everyone involved, and why believing you're the only person who can help someone is its own kind of ego trip.

• The Art of the Specific Ask: Why vague requests like 'can I pick your brain?' put all the work on the mentor, and how getting specific about what you need makes people far more likely to actually help you.

• Redesigning the Work Week: Scottie and Ashley are moving meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays to protect the rest of the week for deep, big-picture thinking — and Scottie gets real about the Slack-checking dopamine habit that's hardest to break.

• What Actually Scares You About Stepping Back: Anhonest look at the fears that come with building a business that doesn't need you day-to-day — not feeling relevant, doubting you can earn without grinding, and losing control of the outcome.

• Sitting in the Valley of Despair: Why the hardest part of growth is staying in the uncertain middle, and how learning toenjoy the process (instead of rushing to the end result) has changed the way they run their businesses.

Ashley and Scottie aren't here to give you textbooktheories or gatekeep their strategies. Whether you're an advisor trying to scale, an entrepreneur navigating the messy middle, or someone looking for honest advice from two friends who have actually been in the trenches, you'rein the right place. Grab your favorite drink (or a glass of whole milk coffee), pull up a chair, and join the conversation.

We're back for episode three!

Hosted by best friends, seasoned entrepreneurs, and investment coaches Ashley and Scottie, this episode picks up the raw, unscripted conversation about what it actually takes to build a life and business on your own terms.

This week, Ashley and Scottie dig into what's really standing between advisors and $100,000 months, why doing less can be the key to earning more, and how to make the freedom versus-control trade-off that comes with real growth. Expect candid, living-room-style conversation covering:

• It's Never Really About the Money: Scottie and Ashley unpack why so many people cap their own ambition at a 'comfortable' number — and why the real fear underneath isn't more money, it's more responsibility, pressure, and loss of freedom.

• Freedom vs. Control: The Trade You Have to Make: Why successful entrepreneurs consistently choose to sacrifice perfection for time, how delegating means accepting mistakes, and the story of the Tulum trip where the team proved they didn't need to be needed.

• Reverse-Engineering a $100K Month: Scottie breaks down the math behind hitting six-figure months — from clients needed and average revenue per client to booking calls, close rates, and ad spend — and why the numbers matter more than the mindset alone.

• Doing Less to Think More: Why stepping out of day-to-day fulfillment and sales creates the mental space for bigger ideas, and how both hosts use unstructured mornings to generate their best business thinking.

• Setting a Client Minimum (and Holding Firm): Scottie shares the story of setting an income threshold for clients in 2020 — and the uncomfortable months that followed — as an example of what it really takes to break through a revenue plateau.

• Structure, Creativity, and the Four-Hour Work Week: Ashley reflects on a therapist's advice to build in more creative space, and how time-boxing her day (like the Four-Hour Work Week philosophy) is helping her figure out what actually matters.

Ashley and Scottie aren't here to give you textbooktheories or gatekeep their strategies. Whether you're an advisor trying to scale, an entrepreneur navigating the messy middle, or someone looking for honest advice from two friends who have actually been in the trenches, you'rein the right place. Grab your favorite drink (or a glass of whole milk coffee), pull up a chair, and join the conversation.

We're back for episode two! Hosted by best friends, seasoned entrepreneurs, and investment coaches Ashleyand Scottie, this episode picks up the raw, unscripted conversation about what it actually takes to build a life and business on your own terms.

This week, Ashley and Scottie get into their Tuesday-morning routines, the real systems behind staying productive (ADHD included), and why perspective — more than strategy —determines whether a client actually succeeds. Expect candid, living-room-style conversation covering:

• Mastering Your Energy, Not Just Your Time: Scottieshares how tuning into his personal energy cycles — and building short, intensely focused work windows followed by real disconnection — helps him move from an unmotivated morning to a fully productive day using meditation andvisualization.

• Planning Around an ADHD Brain: Ashley opens upabout the systems that actually work for her, from night-before planning and time-blocking to tackling the hardest task first and rewarding herself along the way.

• Do It Yourself or Delegate It?: The duo unpackshow to tell the difference between a task that's simply uncomfortable (and worth pushing through) versus one that should be handed off — and why anchoring decisions to your long-term vision makes the call easier.

• Business Runs on Data, Not Just Energy: Why the'manifest and visualize' approach only gets you so far, how tracking numbers becomes essential once a business starts running without you day-to-day, and the specific metrics advisors should track at each stage of growth.

• The Skepticism That Sabotages Success: Scottierecaps a coaching call gone sideways and explains why clients who show up skeptical rarely get the results they're looking for — even when the strategyworks.

• What a $30,000 Coaching Investment Really TaughtAshley: A candid look back at an investment that didn't deliver as expected, and the reframe that helped her see its real value — plus why blanket skepticism can cost you more than the investment itself.

Ashley and Scottie aren't here to give you textbooktheories or gatekeep their strategies. Whether you're an advisor trying to scale, an entrepreneur navigating the messy middle, or someone looking for honest advice from two friends who have actually been in the trenches, you'rein the right place. Grab your favorite drink (or a glass of whole milk coffee), pull up a chair, and join the conversation.

Welcome to the debut episode of a podcast that strips away the polished, corporate veneer of the financial industry. Hosted by best friends, seasoned entrepreneurs, and investment coaches Ashley and Scottie, this show is a raw, unscripted look into what it actually takes to build a life and business on your own terms.

In this introductory episode, the duo pulls back the curtain on their 20+ years of collective experience, sharing the unfiltered stories of their early careers, massive pivots, and the failures that shaped them. Expect candid, living-room-style conversations covering:

• Escaping the Corporate Grind: Hear Scottie’s journey from feeling soul-crushed in a windowless finance cubicle at Ralph Lauren to taking a massive leap of faith and moving to Los Angeles to start a cricket protein bar company.

• The Reality of the Hustle: From nursing single drinks at dive bars and eating free hot dogs to stretch a dollar, to the painful sting of constant rejection in the early days of their advisory careers.

• Taking Radical Responsibility: Why making excuses is the fastest way to fail, the importance of getting clear on your 10-year vision, and how true success requires stepping out of your comfort zone.

Ashley and Scottie aren't here to give you textbook theories or gatekeep their strategies. Whether you're an advisor trying to scale, an entrepreneur navigating the messy middle, or someone looking for honest advice from two friends who have actually been in the trenches, you're in the right place. Grab your favorite drink (or a glass of whole milk coffee), pull up a chair, and join the conversation.