278: Scaling Your Business, Becoming a Great Leader, and Balancing Entrepreneurship & Motherhood with Founder of Lunya: Ashley Merrill
The Heart & Hustle Podcast
The Heart University
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Today we chatted with Ashley about her story of starting her rest wear brand Lunya, and how she went into the startup with a blind naivety that actually served her well. Ashley shares her biggest challenges in scaling her businesses, how her leadership has evolved over the course of being an entrepreneur, and how she balances being both an entrepreneur and a mom. She gets vulnerable and we are here for her honestly. I hope this episode gives you a little slice of everything from inspiration on how to start your own business, to wise advice on scaling when it gets hard, to navigating the mom guilt that comes along with being a momtrepreneur.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Heart and Hustle podcast. We are your hosts, |
| 0:03.0 | Evie McCloud and Lindsay Roman. Thank you for tuning into another episode, my friend. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we have an incredible conversation on topics like growing and scaling your business, |
| 0:11.0 | becoming a leader, and balancing entrepreneurship and motherhood. |
| 0:14.0 | Today is just a doozy, |
| 0:15.0 | we cannot wait for you to hear this conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Today's guest is the lovely Ashley Merrill, |
| 0:20.0 | founder of Lunya, an intentionally crafted wrestler brand. As founder of Luna, an intentionally crafted |
| 0:22.7 | wrestler brand. |
| 0:24.1 | As founder of Lunia and their sister brand, |
| 0:25.9 | Logo for Men. |
| 0:27.1 | Although, hold on, if it's like the Men brand? |
| 0:29.7 | Would that be not like a brother brand? |
| 0:31.4 | Okay, you get it. |
| 0:32.3 | Okay. Moving on, Ashley Merrill is on a simple |
| 0:36.1 | vision to elevate rest in people's lives. Beyond Lunya and Lago, Ashley is an investor and |
| 0:40.8 | also co-founder of the Deep and the chairwoman of Outdoor Voices. is an |
| 0:43.2 | investor and also co-founder of the Deep and the chairwoman of outdoor voices. |
| 0:44.5 | Both personally and professionally she is an active supporter of |
| 0:46.9 | organizations like Sola, Upstream, and United Medical Corps. |
| 0:50.3 | She is a Southern California native and resides there with her husband and their two young children. |
| 0:55.0 | Today we chat with Ashley about her story, starting her restware brand, |
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