Ashley Strong Smith : Intentional Living Coach, Podcast Host and Author

Have you taken a moment to truly check in with yourself lately?

✨ MID-YEAR REFLECTION WORKSHOP ✨

Join me for a 90-minute virtual experience designed to help you slow down, reflect, and reconnect with yourself through guided reflection, intentional practices, and heart-centered connection.

Together we'll explore:
✨ Where life finds you right now
✨ What is asking for your attention
✨ What you want more of in the months ahead
✨ How to move forward with greater clarity and intention

Details :
📅 Wednesday, July 8
🕦 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PST
💻 Live via Zoom
🤍 Intimate, supportive group setting
💲 Investment: $37

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After nearly four years, I’ve made the decision to close the chapter of the Living an Intentional Life Podcast.

Even as I write those words, I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude.

This podcast has grown alongside me through seasons of courage, motherhood, entrepreneurship, joy, heartbreak, expansion, and becoming. It has been a place where I’ve shared my heart, processed life’s transitions, and invited you into the beautifully imperfect journey of living intentionally.

Together, we’ve shared 199 episodes and conversations with 75 incredible women whose stories reminded us that we are never alone.

As I’ve reflected on this decision, I keep coming back to something I’ve learned through this work:
Intentional living isn’t only about having the courage to begin.

✨It’s also about honoring what feels complete.✨

This decision isn’t coming from burnout or from wanting to walk away from the work I love.

Rather, it feels deeply aligned.

I’m creating space to complete my book, design the 2027 Fall in Love With Yourself & Your Life Planner, prepare for upcoming retreats, and embrace a season of rest and reflection.

To every single person who has listened, shared an episode, sent a message, or allowed me to be part of your journey—thank you. 💛

This community has been one of the greatest gifts of my life.

This isn’t goodbye.

It’s simply the closing of one beautiful chapter to create space for another. ☀️🌱🤎

🎧The final episode will air Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026!

This season feels palpable 🌱💕

The transition from the rhythm of the school year into summer schedules.

The final days of spring gently giving way to summer.

The moments before releasing multiple big truths, transitions, offerings, and reflections that feel like mirrors of where life has brought me.

There is something deeply comforting in realizing that I no longer feel the desperate need to be seen, heard, or acknowledged.

That simply being who I am is enough. 🥰
That my presence holds value whether witnessed by many, a few, or only myself.

I’ve also found myself deeply connected to the invitation to rebuild after destruction.

To honor what has fallen away.
To gather the wisdom from what once was.
And to intentionally choose what gets built next.

There is a profound beauty in honoring all of who I am.

Who I have been.
Who I am becoming.
Who I am in this very moment.

Allowing all of it to exist together rather than feeling the need to choose one version over another.

I’ve been feeling deeply connected to the paradox of this life:
That we are living a finite human experience while carrying infinite souls. 🤯

That our days are limited and precious.

And perhaps because of that, they invite us to live more honestly.
More intentionally.
More fully.

These are just a few reflections from this season, and there is so much more unfolding beneath the surface.

I am grateful.
I am humbled.
I am uncomfortable.
I am excited.
I am expansive.
I am full.

I am living this life and trying my absolute best to be all that I am being called to be in this moment.

Releasing expectations of what once was.
Honoring what is.
And creating space for what is still asking to become.

Here’s to honoring the parts of me and seasons of life that have shaped who I am, while gently welcoming what is now asking to emerge. 💛☀️✨

There comes a point in the year when we realize we’ve been moving so quickly that we haven’t stopped to ask ourselves how we’re actually doing.

We’ve been caring for others.
Managing responsibilities.
Checking things off the list.
Keeping life moving forward.

And somewhere along the way, we stop checking in with ourselves.

At the midpoint of the year, I want to offer something different.
An opportunity to pause.
To reflect on what you’ve moved through.
To reconnect with what matters most.
And to realign with the life you desire to create.

✨ MID YEAR REFLECTION WORKSHOP ✨
A 90-minute virtual experience designed to help you slow down and gently turn inward through guided reflection, intentional practices, and heart-centered connection.

Together we’ll explore:
✨ Where life finds you in this moment
✨ What is asking for your attention
✨ What you want more of in the months ahead
✨ How to move forward with greater clarity, intention, and alignment

Workshop Details:
✨ 90-minute virtual workshop held live via Zoom
✨ Intimate, supportive group setting
✨ Investment: $37

Bring:
📝 A pen
📖 A journal
🤍 An open heart

If you’ve been craving a moment to breathe, reflect, and reconnect with yourself, I’d love to have you join us.

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🌿Trusting the Process of Life with Alison Bell

A beautiful conversation about healing, presence, intentional living, and finding the courage to embrace life's unexpected turns.

🎧 New episode available now - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-an-intentional-life-podcast/id1648573252?i=1000771839497

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how easy it is to move through life without ever truly pausing to ask ourselves why.

Why am I living this way?
Why am I making the choices I’m making?
Why do these things matter?

I think so many of us become incredibly skilled at maintaining our lives.
Keeping up with schedules.
Meeting responsibilities.
Taking care of others.
Doing what needs to be done.

But somewhere along the way, we can lose sight of the deeper pulse beneath it all.

The values guiding us.
The life we’re actually trying to create.
This is why spaces like this matter so deeply to me.

Not because ceremonial cacao magically provides the answers. Not because reflection suddenly fixes everything. But because they create something many of us are desperately missing:
Space.
Space to listen.
Space to notice.
Space to tell ourselves the truth.

As I sat in reflection, supported by ritual, community, and tools that help me slow down, I found myself asking:
Where is my time going?
Where is my energy going?
Where is my attention going?
Where is my money going?
Where is my love going?

And perhaps most importantly...
Do these things reflect what I value most?

Because intentional living isn’t about perfection.
It isn’t about having all the answers.
It’s about building a life that increasingly reflects what matters most to you.

A life rooted in your values.
A life created with awareness rather than default.
A life that feels true.

I believe there is incredible power in creating intentional spaces to bridge the gap between where we are and where we feel called to go.

To honor what is present.
To acknowledge what isn’t working.
To celebrate what is.

And to gently ask:
What is wanting to be created next?

When was the last time you created space to truly listen to yourself?
Not to fix.
Not to perform.
Not to get ahead.

But simply to understand the pulse beneath the life you’re living.

🤎☕️These moments here are from last week’s cacao + connection ceremony documented so beautifully by (+ with permission edited with a vintage feel by me)!

A Gentle Life Inventory ✨

Not from judgment.
Not from pressure.
But from curiosity.

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how often we think intentional living is about doing more.

More habits.
More routines.
More productivity.

But what if intentional living is actually about paying closer attention?

To the way you’re caring for yourself.
To the way you’re nurturing your relationships.
To the way you’re spending your time, energy, and attention.

Because whether we realize it or not, we are always creating a life through what we repeatedly choose.

This is an invitation to pause and take a gentle inventory of the areas that shape your life:
🌿 Self
🏡 Family & Marriage
💰 Finances & Lifestyle
🌿 Health & Wellbeing
💼 Career & Purpose
🎨 Joy, Creativity & Passion
🤍 Relationships & Community

Not to find what’s wrong.

But to notice what may be asking for more intention, more support, and more care.

You don’t need to change everything.
You don’t need a complete life overhaul.

Maybe all that’s being asked of you right now is one intentional choice.

One conversation.
One boundary.
One act of care.
One step toward the life you want to create.

👉🏼As you move through, I’d love to know:
Which area of your life is asking for more intention right now?

🎧And for more ... Tune into EPISODE 196, “Intentionality in Every Area of Life: Building an Aligned & Authentic Life” of “Living an Intentional Life Podcast” on all places you find your podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-an-intentional-life-podcast/id1648573252?i=1000770744779