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Ashley Smith

Ashley Smith

Ryan Smith's wife

Sep 9, 2026

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I'm going to have her share a little bit of what she's doing, and we encourage you to help her as she reaches out to help these incredible survivors in their healing.
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I am the founder and director of Stillwaters Healing Foundation.
114:33
And as a SRA survivor myself, I created this space for survivors of sexual abuse, SRA, and human sex trafficking, where they can find healing and safety and stillness inside community.
114:47
The heart of the foundation is found in Psalms chapter 23.
114:52
And we learned there that even though these survivors have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, the Lord can restore their souls and lead them beside still waters.
115:00
With this heart of the foundation, we teach survivors to bring stillness back into their bodies, to their nervous system, to their minds, their emotions, and ultimately their soul with safe support and in community.
115:14
We begin with our Open Waters monthly in-person gatherings where survivors experience nervous system education, somatic healing, and practical tools to empower their healing to help them move forward in their journey.
87:11
And we can encourage you to help her as she reaches out to help these incredible survivors in their healing.
87:20
I am the founder and director of Stillwaters Healing Foundation, and as a SRA survivor myself, I created this space for survivors of sexual abuse, SRA, and human sex trafficking, where they can find healing and safety and stillness inside community.
87:37
The heart of the foundation is found in Psalms chapter 23.
87:42
And we learned there that even though these survivors have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, the Lord can restore their souls and lead them beside still waters.
87:51
With this heart of the foundation, we teach survivors to bring stillness back into their bodies, to their nervous system, to their minds, their emotions, and ultimately their soul with safe support and in community.
88:04
We begin with our Open Waters monthly in-person gatherings where survivors experience nervous system education, somatic healing, and practical tools to empower their healing to help them move forward in their journey.
88:17
We're expanding our trusted network of professionals, offering a range of healing modalities and therapies so each survivor can find what truly supports their individual journey as well as their community healing.
11:49
Ashley Smith, just your thoughts on this part of the conversation.
11:53
I agree with everything that Kathleen says.
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We work closely with Kathleen and MNL on this and a number of projects.
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Any decision that a municipality makes is always complex.
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The municipality has to be responsible in most of these communities for the interface of the coast and the overland.
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If you have a storm and a lot of precipitation, where it hits is the coast, so the coast kind of gets it, like you said, in a squeeze from both directions.
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When you start to have conversations about managed retreat, you then have the situation where you're not only looking at moving properties that people identify with and that has massive personal financial implication, you then start talking about municipal zoning.
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They actually you know represent two things that are maybe not necessarily the low-hanging fruit but are you know if you do nothing else you should at least you know take a look at what you've already got to work with and make sure that your emergency plan is up to date and practiced.
114:59
And we can encourage you to help her as she reaches out to help these incredible survivors in their healing.
115:08
I am the founder and director of Stillwaters Healing Foundation.
115:11
And as a SRA survivor myself, I created this space for survivors of sexual abuse, SRA, and human sex trafficking, where they can find healing and safety and stillness inside community.
115:25
The heart of the foundation is found in Psalms chapter 23.
115:30
And we learned there that even though these survivors have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, the Lord can restore their souls and lead them beside still waters.
115:38
With this Heart of the Foundation, we teach survivors to bring stillness back into their bodies, to their nervous system, to their minds, their emotions, and ultimately their soul with safe support and in community.
115:52
We begin with our Open Waters monthly in-person gatherings where survivors experience nervous system education, somatic healing, and practical tools to empower their healing to help them move forward in their journey.
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religion and i believe we will see the world now look for him
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but that has to come after the burning down

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We're gonna have her share a little bit of what she's doing, and we're gonna encourage you to help her as she reaches out to help these incredible survivors in their healing.
92:06
I am the founder and director of Stillwaters Healing Foundation, and as an SRA survivor myself, I created this space for survivors of sexual abuse, SRA, and human sex trafficking, where they can find healing and safety and stillness inside community.
92:23
The heart of the foundation is found in Psalms chapter 23.
92:28
And we learned there that even though these survivors have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, the Lord can restore their souls and lead them beside still waters.
92:36
With this heart of the foundation, we teach survivors to bring stillness back into their bodies, to their nervous system, to their minds, their emotions, and ultimately their soul with safe support and in community.
92:50
We begin with our Open Waters monthly in-person gatherings where survivors experience nervous system education, somatic healing, and practical tools to empower their healing to help them move forward in their journey.
AmosHOST
6:16
So what are some of the common misconceptions people have about visibility today?
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Yeah, I mean, I think we've touched on it a little bit.
6:24
I think that some folks don't think their visibility online matters when in fact consumer behavior is suggesting that is changing.
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And some folks think that it's too hard.
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But I think some of the common misconceptions, and I'll speak even to a younger audience, you know, we have been taught now over the last 10 years to post more, to be more active on social media, to think about how to engage an audience.
6:51
And while I think that there can be a lot of value in that strategy, and I've used that strategy myself, it's having an audience and having attention doesn't necessarily mean that you're showcasing your expertise.
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As I'm working with people, what I'm trying to help them do is figure out, you know, what is that expertise that needs to show up and how can you go about doing it? And if you're not so concerned about having an audience, I think it lifts some of the fear and some of the hesitation that people have had in the past to be able to take some important steps.

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AmosHOST
19:50
So how do you balance authenticity with strategic visibility?
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A pulse check, right?
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A pulse check.
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Does it gauge your, the depth of what you do, or is it generic? Is it vague? Is it outdated? Is it not seeing something? And that can help you.
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But I think for people who do have, um, specialties, um, even if it's not the only thing you do, but if it's one of the things you do, if it's one of the reasons people pick up the phone and call you, you know, how can you start getting that stuff online in a meaningful way that's discoverable? Maybe eventually in a way that, where you can be recommended, where someone doesn't even know your name.
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Like, that's the ultimate goal for anybody.
23:19
But I think i- if you can simply get yourself in a way wherein if you meet someone at a happy hour and you tell them about what you do and what your, you know, what your focus is, and they go later that evening to look you up and they don't find what you, you've said you do i- in any meaningful way, I think there's a problem.
23:37
But the opposite thing is if they look you up and they find something that makes you look pretty extraordinary and, and really affirms the stuff you said you're good at, um, I think that ha- can have a huge impact.
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A client base, all that stuff.
22:49
And that really comforted me because of the things that
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he'd been through.

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And we can encourage you to help her as she reaches out to help these incredible survivors in their healing.
99:46
I am the founder and director of Stillwaters Healing Foundation.
99:49
And as a SRA survivor myself, I created this space for survivors of sexual abuse, SRA, and human sex trafficking, where they can find healing and safety and stillness inside community.
100:04
The heart of the foundation is found in Psalms chapter 23.
100:08
And we learned there that even though these survivors have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, the Lord can restore their souls and lead them beside still waters.
100:17
With this Heart of the Foundation, we teach survivors to bring stillness back into their bodies, to their nervous system, to their minds, their emotions, and ultimately their soul.
1:56
Hi.
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So I have problems getting clients from social media.
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And I was on this other call and they had something about a client attraction issue.
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machine or something and i was thinking okay what could i do to draw in clients like that and i was thinking of um doing like a signature session i think i heard this idea from elevate as well but draw people in to create a certain image um they get a canvas of this and it's it's the set price we're only creating this one image And then they get a taste of what I do.
2:42
They're on my email list now.
2:44
I can market to them more.
2:45
And then maybe they'll come back in the future.
4:53
What is a simple offer I could promote or post, you
150:55
Uh, I'm gonna have her share a little bit of what she's doing, and we encourage you to help her as she reaches out to help these incredible survivors in their healing.
151:07
I am the founder and director of Still Waters Healing Foundation, and as a SRA survivor myself, I created this space for survivors of sexual abuse, SRA, and human sex trafficking, where they can find healing and safety and stillness inside community.
151:25
The heart of the foundation is found in Psalms chapter 23, and we learn there that even though these survivors have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, the Lord can restore their souls and lead them beside still waters.
151:38
With this heart of the foundation, we teach survivors to bring stillness back into their bodies, to their nervous system, to their minds, their emotions, and ultimately their soul with safe support and in community.
151:52
We begin with our Open Waters monthly in-person gatherings where survivors experience nervous system education, somatic healing, and practical tools to empower their healing to help them move forward in their journey.
152:04
We're expanding our trusted network of professionals, offering a range of healing modalities and therapies so each survivor can find what truly supports their individual journey as well as their community healing.
152:18
And from there, we move into deeper programs and an immersive retreats with, um, our first retreat coming this fall where we spend three days going into deeper healing.
2:36
You know, where do you come from? I- obviously you didn't grow up here.
2:39
I didn't, no. [laughs] Well, first I would just wanna say thanks for having me on.
2:44
It's, it was nice to meet you as well, like you said, under circumstances w- probably not as desirable, but you know.
2:50
Um, so I am originally from Ohio.
2:56
I lived there for the first 30-some years of my life, and, um, grew up, uh, started at 15 around hunting dogs, pointing dogs, so English Pointers, German Shorthairs, English Setters.
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My best friend in high school got me into it, and I kinda discovered, like, what type of hunting that I wanted to do.
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My f- come from a family of deer and turkey hunters.
7:02
[laughs]
2:36
Where do you come from? Obviously, you didn't grow up here.
2:39
I didn't know.
2:41
Well, first I would just want to say thanks for having me on.
2:44
It was nice to meet you as well.
2:46
Like you said, under circumstances were probably not as desirable, but you know.
2:49
So I am originally from Ohio.
2:56
I lived there for the first 30 some years of my life and grew up, started at 15 around hunting dogs, pointing dogs, so English pointers, German short hairs, English setters.

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23:55
Okay.
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with the hope that people could see and start, you know, effectively cleaning it up and protecting the children.
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Wow.

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I'm going to have her share a little bit of what she's doing, and we can encourage you to help her as she reaches out to help these incredible survivors in their healing.
100:11
I am the founder and director of Stillwaters Healing Foundation.
100:14
And as a SRA survivor myself, I created this space for survivors of sexual abuse sra and human sex trafficking where they can find healing and safety and stillness inside community the heart of the foundation is found in psalms chapter 23 and we learned there that even though these survivors have walked through the valley of the shadow of death the lord can restore their souls and lead them beside still waters With this Heart of the Foundation, we teach survivors to bring stillness back into their bodies, to their nervous system, to their minds, their emotions, and ultimately their soul with safe support and in community.
100:56
We begin with our Open Waters monthly in-person gatherings where survivors experience nervous system education, somatic healing, and practical tools to empower their healing to help them move forward in their journey.
101:09
We're expanding our trusted network of professionals, offering a range of healing modalities and therapies so each survivor can find what truly supports their individual journey as well as their community healing.
101:22
And from there, we move into deeper programs and an immersive retreats with our first retreat coming this fall where we spend three days going into deeper healing.
218:52
And we can encourage you to help her as she reaches out to help these incredible survivors in their healing.
219:01
I am the founder and director of Stillwaters Healing Foundation.
219:04
And as a SRA survivor myself, I created this space for survivors of sexual abuse, SRA, and human sex trafficking, where they can find healing and safety and stillness inside community.
219:18
The heart of the foundation is found in Psalms chapter 23.
219:23
And we learned there that even though these survivors have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, the Lord can restore their souls and lead them beside still waters.
219:32
With this Heart of the Foundation, we teach survivors to bring stillness back into their bodies, to their nervous system, to their minds, their emotions, and ultimately their soul with safe support and in community.
219:45
We begin with our Open Waters monthly in-person gatherings where survivors experience nervous system education, somatic healing, and practical tools to empower their healing to help them move forward in their journey.
1:06
Before we get started, Ashley, why don't you just give us a little bit about your background and then we can get started.
1:15
Thanks, Paul.
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Yeah, I'm excited.
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And I know that a lot of your audience really lean into social.
1:21
So I am going to cater some of my messaging to adapt to the folks who you often have listening because they have the ability to take this stuff to the next level, okay? Yes.
1:34
So yeah, thank you for having me.
1:36
I'm a visibility strategist and I'm teaching professionals, particularly folks who've been in their business for a period of time who have a lot of expertise, who maybe just aren't showing up online the way they should.

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speaker_2ADVERTISER
10:05
And then
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Ashley, are you surprised that people are showing up early, 6.30 a.m., some people last night, just to go to a draft party?
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I mean, I'm not surprised.
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I love it.
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It's wild and powerful.
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And this is why, I mean, Adam Silver led the draft today saying, Sports for Unite people.
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And Utah is the poster child for that.
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We come together here.
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Is it cool to see the Mammoth as well come in on their draft week to join this Utah celebration?
2:34
What pulled you towards anxiety as your life's work? And was it any of it personal?
2:40
Yes, and a lot of it was luck.
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And so when I went to college, I was a smart kid, went to school.
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I'm like, okay, cool.
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I'm either going to major in math or psychology.
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And I couldn't work the calculator.
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It was some big fancy calculator.

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13:01
How much anxiety is the body and how much is the mind and how much is the environment that we build? And can you give me a rough kind of split, if you will?
speaker_1NARRATOR
0:44
Welcome to Unstoppable Podcast with Harry Sardinas, inspiring conversations with influential millionaires, investors, thought leaders, entrepreneurs who are making a massive difference with their innovative products and services and sharing the challenges and wisdom of how they sold their first million.
1:08
Well, hi, Harry.
1:09
Thank you so much for having me today.
1:12
You know, as you mentioned, my background's in real estate, and clearly a number of people have made their first million through real estate investment.
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I also know a number of people who've made their first million as salespeople and people in businesses adjacent to real estate.
1:28
Today, I'm going to talk about something a little bit different, because I think you can go to a how to invest in real estate and get real estate advice in that way.
1:38
And right now, at least where I'm from in Vancouver, Canada, the market is challenged, but there's a lot of opportunity.

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speaker_1NARRATOR
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estate prices here are crazy
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That's been my experience with it.
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One, one thing I'd like to add, because I think it sort of relates back to a lot of the things that I'm talking about, which is the proof gap, the disconnect between a professional's real world experience and expertise and what shows up online.
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Google just announced last week at their Google I/O conference that they totally changed for the first time in 25 years, fundamentally changed their search bar in Google.
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So I, up until last week, I felt like I was talking about AI and Google as two really important things, but sort of distinct and different things.
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And now I, Google is really powered through their AI system, and their search is powered through their AI system.
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And they're, it's become a lot more conversational, and they're really looking to be able to weed through the noise online.
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The other thing I haven't really talked about much yet, but is Google has also announced they're gonna start launching their own agents through search.

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Mm-hmm
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They'd tested positive for a sexually transmitted infection called chlamydia.
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I just quickly did a Google search to see who was going to be in the area that I could just schedule an STI test, and that Google search led me to Maine Family Planning in Norway.
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She once went to get a physical to work at a summer camp.
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I was like, "I know that you guys offer primary care.
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Can you basically just take my weight and tell them that my blood pressure's okay?"

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