Hello, and welcome to the Free Your Heart podcast. I'm your host and heart healer, Ashley Mondor. And, I’m here to serve as your guide while bringing you nourishing conversations, wisdom, and channeled messages that support your healing journey to wholeness and unconditional love. It's my hope that this podcast and the stories shared with you inspire you, expand you, and align you to the profound understanding of not only who you are, but for what's possible for you as you heal and open your heart.
And with that said, I invite you to get comfortable, unclench your jaw, and release any tension you're holding in your body. Now take a deep breath in with love for yourself and for this heart-to-heart connection. And, when you're ready, let's dive in. Hello and welcome to the Free Your Heart podcast. I am so, so, so happy to have you here.
And, candidly, I can't believe I'm doing this. I've been hedging on bringing this to the world for a while. I've had a podcast on my heart for years, but I have to tell you that often I would let my fear really push me into, you know, you are not good enough to do something like this. You speak so quickly.
People are going to hear your flaws. Who are you to say anything? Who are you to have a podcast? There's already a million podcasts out there. What makes you so special? I have to say that, you know what, at the end of the day, I believe that I have something to share. I believe that my voice matters in the world.
I believe that I'm the type of person who can walk with my fear, hand-in-hand, and I'm going to do something that scares me because my fear isn't my truth. Right? My truth is my soul, my spirit, my heart. This is why I'm creating this. Another reason is I have a lot of really, really, really cool people in my life.
Like really beautiful, magical, talented, gifted souls in my life who have these stories that I think would be expansive for you. Stories that I think will help you make shifts, help you drop into your heart, help you feel seen, heard, and supported. I want to bring that to you. I want to be the bridge between these people, and their wisdom and what they've gone through to you.
I truly believe that, you know, if you find yourself to me, there's a reason. There's a magical way that energy works. When you follow that and you follow your heart, and somehow we end up in the same space, our worlds collide.
I just like… It puts me in awe. I wanted to create this because what if you need this support? What if you want to heal your heart? What if you really want to tap into the magic and majesty of your soul? Well, I had to be brave enough to create something like this. So, thank you for being here. And I have to tell you, you know, I, well, I have a lot of fear.
I literally would tell my clients, “You? Oh my God, You’re incredible. If you have this dream, it's yours for a reason, get out of your own way!” But I have to do that for myself too. I have to lead by example. This is your invitation that if you have something like this on your heart, it's yours.
What would it take to bring something like that into the world? And if you aren't ready yet, I just invite you to really see your fear and love your fear and, hold it with so much love. To just see it for what it is. It's just trying to keep you safe. But what is me not creating a podcast keeping me from?
Well, what’s my brain trying to tell me is, “I'm going to keep you away from what certain death.” By having a podcast and sharing my views, my values, my heart in the world, and sharing people whose stories deeply move me. Who am I to keep that from you? Who am I to keep that for myself?
I'm creating this, knowing that I have this and it’s mine. I can't wait to share it with you. And also, I’m truly, genuinely scared, but the only way that we make moves in our life and to fall into even more magic is by walking with our fear hand-in-hand with love for that fear and also love for where we're meant to go.
I'm bringing this to the planet because I can. I'm bringing to this podcast to you because I think it's worth it. I also want to say that oftentimes my brain moves so quickly and my mouth can't keep up. That's just what happens. I share that with you because I'm going to be raw, real, honest, and truthful, and I'm going to be my fullest self, which is imperfect.
I believe that your soul is literally divinely perfect, because it is a fractal of Source, of God, of the Universe, but your human was designed to be imperfect. Imperfection is really, truly your humanity at play. So, we might as well play and be real. And, I want to bring conversations to you that even if the topics are heavier, triggering, I believe in your power.
I believe that you can hold this level of love for me, for my guests. For yourself. I believe that you are powerful enough to hold your triggers. I believe that you are powerful enough to navigate when you feel something move inside of you, and that you can take that pain, that trigger, that wound and transmute it into love.
But I really think that because you're hearing me in this space, you can do it. You can hold it, you can hold all of me, as I can hold all of you. Thank you for being here. I also wanted to say that I have in my lifetime, you know, been on two, like a mainstay on two podcasts.
If you've ever heard of Darkness Radio, it's a paranormal podcast. I literally interned there, and I was so freaking afraid of being on the podcast with my voice. I thought I would sound so stupid so I wouldn't speak. I would do background research for it. And, and really, I just, oh God, I was so terrified of bringing my voice to the world.
Then, a few years later, my mom created a podcast called Sit A Spell. My mom is Wiccan and, you know, spell casts. We would talk about spirituality and how you can craft these spells, and experience spirits, and magic, and all of those things. I felt wildly uncomfortable to speak there.
You’d think that maybe with my mom being the host, I could handle it, but it still brought me a lot of fear. So, I'm doing this podcast in honor of those previous versions of me who was too afraid to be seen, who thought that people would judge her, or thought she's dumb. Who thought what she had to share is ridiculous.
I see her, and I honor her, and I'm doing this because I feel so compelled. As a Projector (in Human Design), I have to share that I, you know, I follow what lights me up, and I, I honor the invitations, but also, I only have so much energy to give as someone who holds space as a full-time entrepreneur for other people's healings.
So, I'm not going to tell you I'm going to create a podcast and share it with you every week. I simply can't do that. I can't honor that expectation. I think I'm just going to flow with how this is meant to unfold. I'm going to create the space for this to grow into what it is meant to, without any expectations, and with divine trust in knowing that what is meant to be will be. And, that whoever receives these messages are in divine timing, and that's just what it will be.
I'm excited to bring this to you. I'm scared as hell to be so open, raw, vulnerable, and honest, and I'm here for it. I'm here for the journey. Thank you for being with me. For listening to this first episode, for taking time out of your life, to you know, just sit with the shadows, and sit with your heart, and to listen to me talk about whatever it is that I feel called to.
Thank you. I love you so much, and wanted to let you know that I hang out on Instagram a lot. My handle is @Ashley.Mondor which is M O N D O R. Come hang out with me. If something resonated with you, or if something, you know, is pulled up while we have these discussions, from a heart to heart place, message me.
I want to hear about it. I want to hear what moves you because I'm here for you and I'm here for me. I think this is how we make the world a more, better, brighter, more loving place to be when we are the embodiment of love. Even if it's hard or heavy. So, come hang out with me, let me know what you think.
I'm excited to continue this journey with you. If you loved this episode, would you do me a favor and leave me a quick rating? Or could you share this episode with someone you love? This is super, super helpful for me on my mission to opening more hearts across the world and connecting people back to the truth of their souls.
Thank you so much for being with me.