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Hosted by Ashlee Hayes · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 46 episodes
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This Wasn’t My Plan is the career podcast for high-achievers who’ve checked all the boxes (and done all the right things!) but still feel something’s missing. Hosted by Career Strategist and Performance Consultant and Advisor, RX Ashlee, it’s your no-BS roadmap to redefining success on your terms. Whether you’re pivoting, scaling your business, or ready for work that works for you, this show delivers sharp strategy, smart scripts, and real talk. No fluff, no filler, just focused guidance to help you lead, own your voice, and win with intention.
Ashlee Hayes hosts This Wasn't My Plan, a business show with 46 episodes published.
Episode 40: The Fastest Way to Lose Credibility as a Leader In this episode, Ashlee celebrates hitting episode 40 and dives straight into one of her core values as a communication expert: the fastest way a leader loses c
Guest Episode 6: Burnout to Blueprint: How Dr. Jen Bourgeois Built a Business by Healing Herself First In this episode, Ashlee welcomes Dr. Jen Bourgeois — pharmacist, nervous system expert, and founder of Peacefully Ric
Episode 39: How I Make Big Life Altering Decisions In this episode, Ashlee shares the behavioral based system she has built — not from theory or inspiration, but from real experience — for making big, high stakes decisio
Guest Episode 5: When Fear Means You’re Going the Right Way with Dr. Brooke Stubbs In this episode, Ashlee sits down with longtime friend Dr. Brooke Stubbs, founder of Rooted Femme, a women's concierge medicine practice
Episode 38: Most Leaders Talk Too Much In this episode, Ashlee calls out one of the most common and costly communication habits in leadership — over talking. She breaks down why saying more does not create more clarity,
Guest Episode 4: When Success No Longer Fits: Dr. Deepti Gandhi on Reinvention, Midlife & What's Next There comes a moment for many high-achieving women when the life they've worked so hard to build no longer feels align
Episode 37: Learning How to Give Feedback That Builds Trust In this episode, Ashlee breaks down one of the most underrated and undertaught leadership skills — how to give feedback that actually builds trust instead of de
Guest Episode 3: From the Lakers to Bestseller Lists: How Jake Kelfer Turned Books Into a Business Ashlee talks with Jake Kelfer, founder of Big Idea to Bestseller, about what it really takes to write a book, build a bus
Episode 36: The #1 Way to Build Trust on Your Team Is NOT with More Time In this episode, Ashlee challenges one of the biggest myths in leadership, that trust just takes time. Inspired by a conversation with a client who
Guest Episode 2: Dress for the Leader You're Becoming: How Amanda Weil Uses Style to Transform Confidence and Presence In this episode, Ashlee welcomes Amanda Weil - stylist, soul coach, and founder of Amanda Weil Style,
Episode 35: How the Best Leaders Speak Under Pressure In this episode, Ashlee breaks down one of her most important topics — how leaders communicate when the stakes are high. She explains why pressure does not create com
Guest Episode 1: Say Less, Mean More: How Chris Cozzolino Built a LinkedIn Marketing Empire Through Communication In the very first guest episode of This Wasn't My Plan , Ashlee sits down with entrepreneur Chris Cozzolin
Episode 34: High Performing Teams Recap Everything In this episode, Ashlee breaks down one of the most underrated communication habits in leadership — the recap. She explains why the absence of closing loops is responsib
Episode 33: Why Decisions Stall (And What It Is Costing You!) In this episode, Ashlee breaks down why most organizations think they have a people and productivity problem — when what they actually have is a decision-maki
Episode 32: The Leader Who Cannot Communicate Cannot Scale In this episode, Ashlee breaks down why most companies don't hit a growth ceiling because of talent — they hit a communication ceiling. She explains why the comm
Episode 31: Ownership — The Most Misunderstood Word on Teams In this episode, Ashlee breaks down why ownership is one of the most overused and least defined words in business today. She explains what ownership actually r
Episode 30: The Cost of Poor Communication in Leadership In this episode, Ashlee makes the business case for why communication is not a soft skill — it's an operational expense. She breaks down exactly what poor communic
Episode 29: Alignment Isn't Agreement In this episode, Ashlee breaks down one of the most misunderstood concepts in leadership — alignment. She explains why teams stall when they confuse alignment with consensus, and wha
Episode 28: Why Teams Don't Have a Talent Problem… They Have a Clarity Problem In this episode, Ashlee breaks down the most misdiagnosed problem in modern organizations — and it's not disengagement, poor culture, or lack
Episode 27: How RX Ashlee Defines Leadership In this episode, Ashlee plants a flag around what leadership actually means inside RX Ashlee, and it's not the corporate, title-driven, or performative version. She breaks dow
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