Ashley Lemieux: Rewire Your Mindset, Heal From Grief and Trauma, and Start Again | Mental Health | YAPClassic

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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.

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How did you get over the shame of starting a company and shutting it down?

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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.

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Do you feel like entrepreneurs deal with grief and stress differently than other people?

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Something that is very common among entrepreneurs is.

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YAP Gang, if you've ever struggled with grief, loss, trauma, or just felt completely stuck in life, today's YAPClassic is going to really resonate with you. Our guest today is Ashely Lemieux. She's the founder and CEO of The Shine Project, bestselling author and the host of the Healing Her podcast. Ashely is an expert on grief and trauma recovery, and she's devoted her life to helping others reignite the light within themselves. In this conversation, Ashely 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 Ashely valuable.

Ashely, welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast.

SPEAKER_2 (3:41)

Hey, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here.

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Yeah, thanks for joining me today. So I'm going to 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?

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Yeah. So in our mid 20s, I was actually building my first company also. We were newly married and we didn't have kids at all in our radar at that time. 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, as a parent, you want them to have. And all of us were under the impression that we would be together forever, for always.