An Unexpected Calling - Ashley McMakin's Story :: [Episode 139]

StoryTellers Live

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ashley McMakin, founder and owner of restaurant and catering business, Ashley Mac's, shares her journey of creating a 5-store franchise and longing to be a mom in the process.

Ashley is featured in our StoryTellers Live Community as our monthly "Story Within the Story."

Go to www.patreon.com/STLcommunity to join and listen as Robyn talks in further detail with Ashley about her business as her calling and what it looks like to balance life as a working mom. And, AS A BONUS, Ashley is sharing her Chicken Orso Salad with Dijon Vinaigrette recipe on Patreon as well. Join Today!

Check out Ashley McMakin's business, Ashley Macs at ashleymacs.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday women share stories of God's love.
0:10.2	I'm Robin and I am here with Katie and Lindy and today we are bringing you a story from a friend of
0:15.3	mine, gosh, all the way back to college, Ashley McMakin, and I think we could talk about her all day long.
0:21.3	Well, it's funny because I know you call her Ashley McMakin. I just call her Ashley Mac.
0:26.1	Because if you are from the Birmingham area, you have heard of Ashley Mac. It is a restaurant
0:31.1	and catering business here that has, oh my gosh, we could go, we've talked about all of our
0:34.8	different favorite recipes before we ever even started recording. But the interesting thing that I loved hearing about Ashley's story is not only how she grew
0:42.4	her business but how God had a different plan for her life than she did and you're going to
0:46.6	hear all about that in her story and before we jump into her story I want to tell you a little bit
0:51.6	about Patreon because we're going to have a follow-up story with Ashley.
0:55.3	Usually Katie does those, but I had the honor and you're going to hear me mess up.
0:59.2	It's amazing.
1:00.5	You're going to hear my kids enter the bedroom while I was recording, but such is the life.
1:05.7	But Ash, so we're going to do a follow-up story with Ashley on this thing called Patreon.
1:09.6	You hear us talk about it
1:11.1	all the time, but I bet 90% of you don't know what it is. Patreon is a website where you can go and
1:17.9	join and you pay either five or $10 a month and it helps support our ministry. That money goes directly
1:23.4	to us. It helps us pay our bills. It helps us pay an editor. It helps us do all the things that it
1:29.2	takes to have this podcast every week. And in return, you get bonus episodes like the story within
1:35.1	the story with Ashley, where we hear her story and we dig in a little deeper behind the scenes.
1:39.7	You get an amazing Bible study every month that Katie writes that goes alongside one of our stories.
1:45.1	You get bonus stories. And so you get that every single month by joining Patreon. So we have a link in our show notes right below.
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