This is Ashlynn

What if freedom isn't that deep?
Ashlynn is a retreat creator, speaker, and podcast host who helps women reclaim themselves after unexpected life shifts like betrayal, divorce, faith shifts, & midlife one honest conversation at a time.
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This week, I'm joined by Kenedei Faber, a mother of two, dance instructor, burlesque performer, sourdough baker, and professional finder of glimmers and small joys.
After rebuilding her life from the ground up, Kenedei has spent the last few years reclaiming her confidence, rediscovering who she is outside the roles she once held, and creating a life that feels fully her own. Through dance, performance, community, and plenty of laughter, she's discovered that healing doesn't always happen in silence. Sometimes it happens in heels, under stage lights, covered in rhinestones.
In this episode, we explore what freedom looks like for her today, the beliefs she's had to let go of, what she's still unlearning, and the life she's intentionally creating for herself and her daughters.
Find Kenedei on Instagram:
@kenedeifaber for everyday life
@classwithken for dance classes and adult movement

Marcella is back with her favorite co-conspirator Ashlynn for a conversation that is equal parts hilarious, healing, and long overdue.
They were both raised in the Mormon church where sex was sacred, self-pleasure was a confessional offense, and your body was something to be managed, not enjoyed. So now that they're out? They've had to completely rebuild their relationship with one of the most natural things in the world.
The question on the table: is sex like salad nourishing, wholesome, good for you or is it like a donut indulgent, a little naughty, and something you still kind of feel guilty about after?
Spoiler: it's neither. It's both. It's the entire buffet.
They get into the programming that never fully goes away, the weird guilt that shows up even when you know better, and what it actually looks like to reclaim pleasure when you were taught it wasn't yours to have in the first place. It's raw, it's funny, and it's the kind of conversation that will make you feel a lot less alone.
Pull up a plate. This one's a full spread.
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This is Ashlynn is a podcast about what it means to come home to yourself. After years of living by expectations, roles, and rules, midlife has become an invitation to question everything, reclaim what matters, and build a life that feels true.
Ashlynn has honest conversations about relationships, identity, freedom, healing, pleasure, faith transitions, divorce, motherhood, and the courage to live unapologetically. Through solo episodes and meaningful interviews, you’ll hear stories that challenge old narratives and inspire you to define success, love, and fulfillment on your own terms.
If you’re ready to stop performing and start living as your fullest self, you’re in the right place.
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Rebekah Anderson is a poet, trauma-informed somatic practitioner, Reiki Master, and single mother of three who is passionate about helping people come home to themselves.
Her work blends nervous system healing, inner child work, and embodiment with the transformative power of creativity and authentic human connection. Believing that healing is both deeply personal and profoundly communal, Rebekah creates spaces where people can reconnect with their bodies, express what words alone cannot hold, and remember who they were before fear, trauma, and conditioning taught them otherwise.
Through poetry, movement, music, play, connection, and community, she invites others into a gentler, more embodied way of living. Rebekah is currently completing two poetry collections and continues to explore the beautiful intersection of healing and the arts, inspiring others to embrace their humanity, reclaim their wholeness, and live with greater presence, courage, and love.
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Buckle up, because this one goes places. Marcella is joined by her friend and partner-in-chaos Ashlynn (@this.isashlynn) to talk about something they've both been sitting with for a while: the idea that nothing matters and why that belief might actually be the most grounding, most freeing, most feeling thing either of them has ever encountered.
As two women who grew up in the Mormon church, they were wired from the beginning to believe that everything mattered — eternally. Every decision carried cosmic weight. Fast forward to now, and a few meaningful experiences with psychedelics have completely rewired how they move through the world.
This episode is equal parts hilarious and profound. They talk about the moments that cracked them open, why "nothing matters" doesn't mean you stop caring or stop feeling — it actually means the opposite — and what it looks like to live a life where you're not performing for an outcome, you're just actually here.
If you've ever felt the relief of letting something go that was never really yours to carry, this one's for you.

If you’re between 35 and 55 and you feel like your body changed overnight… you’re not crazy. You’re not weak. And you’re definitely not alone.
Ashlynn Mitchell is the voice behind This Is Ashlynn, a podcast about reinvention, relationships, and the courage to become who you are beneath the roles you’ve been playing.
After rebuilding her life following a public betrayal and divorce, Ashlynn traded survival for self-trust and now leads honest conversations about midlife, desire, healing, parenting, and what happens when you stop living for everyone else.
Mother of two. Roller skater. Truth teller. Proof that your best chapter doesn’t have to be your first.
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Sarah is a Family Nurse Practitioner with over twenty years of experience in healthcare. Sarah doesn’t believe in the “one size fits all” health model and truly advocates for each of her patients as individuals. Sarah specializes in functional medicine such as hormones, gut health, mental health, women’s health and nutrition. 
Today we’re talking about what’s actually happening in perimenopause, what’s biology, what’s identity, and how to stop white-knuckling your way through it. 
There were moments I genuinely thought something was wrong with my personality. The anxiety. The 3 a.m. wakeups. The shorter fuse. The feeling like I wasn’t as resilient as I used to be.

1️⃣ What is perimenopause… simply?
• Why does it feel so chaotic?
• Why are so many women blindsided?

2️⃣ Symptoms no one warned us about
• Beyond hot flashes, what shocks women most?
• Why does it feel like a personality shift?
• Is the anxiety + rage + brain fog hormonal?
“If you’ve Googled ‘Why am I so angry?’ at 2 a.m., this might be why.”

3️⃣ Mental health + identity
• Why do high-functioning women suddenly feel less resilient?
• Is this hormones, stress, or both?
• Does perimenopause change what we’re willing to tolerate?
4️⃣ Hormone therapy myths
• Biggest myths keeping women stuck?
• Why can labs look “normal”?
• How is perimenopause actually diagnosed?
• When is hormone therapy appropriate?
“You don’t have to wait until you’re miserable enough to deserve help.”

5️⃣ What actually helps
• If someone feels barely functional, where should she start?
• What moves the needle most?
“Midlife isn’t about shrinking. It’s about getting stronger.”