Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie May Wilson and I am so happy that you're

here. Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions

we have about our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships

and self-confidence, about our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives

to the absolute full. Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we navigate

it together as girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started.

Our guest for today's episode is Ashlyn Carter. Ashlyn's a new friend of mine and she is

a galphys inspiring me like crazy these days. She's a copywriter, a coaguffer, and an amazing

speaker who travels all over the country teaching creative women how to tell their stories

and sharing her story to. And that's what you're going to hear about in today's episode.

Today, Ashlyn's going to be telling us the story of how she's battled perfectionism,

work life and balance, and eating disorder, anxiety and depression. She tells us her story

for covering and of grace and how she's learning to work from a place of rest, not from a place

of hustle and that is just the beginning. Friends, I took notes like crazy during this conversation.

I seriously have a whole list of things that Ashlyn mentioned in this episode that I cannot

wait to put into practice in my own life. But even more than that, as we talked, I feel

like Ashlyn gave me the biggest hug. She has this way of immediately feeling like your

best friend and helping you see that you're not alone in what you're going through and

that's exactly what she did for me. Right before we jumped into the conversation, I told

Ashlyn that I was pretty sure I was going to cry during this episode because we were

going to be talking about anxiety on a day that I was really struggling with it myself.

Ashlyn looked me in the eye right before we started recording and said, Steph, you are

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