[33] Uncovering Your Authentic Self: A Journey to Freedom and Happiness with Ashleen Aguilar

In this week's episode, I'm joined by entrepreneur and spiritual explorer Ashleen Aguilar. Join us for a relaxed chat that explores personal development, spiritual awakening, and navigating life's twists and turns. This episode aims to offer insights and encourage you to rethink success, productivity, and living a fulfilling life.

Ashleen and I discuss the fascinating concept of human design and its impact on self-perception and life choices. Ashleen shares her  journey from working in the cannabis industry to founding a cannabis education company, all while embracing spiritual growth. We touch on the importance of embracing our uniqueness, trusting our intuition, and finding joy and purpose in life. Tune in as we explore the idea that life is an adventure and encourage you to approach your own journey with curiosity and courage.

Links and Mentions

• Ashleen Aguilar's social media: Instagram, Facebook
• Take Root Training social media: @TakeRootTraining on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn
• Chronic Gals podcast on Instagram: @ChronicGals_Podcast
• Human Design chart: Jovian Archive

About the Guest
Ashleen Aguilar is a multi hyphenate creative who is really here to make her life an art. She loves weed, and believes cannabis will save the world. Ashleen co-hosts Chronic Gals Podcast with her sister and business partner, where they talk about the cannabis industry and culture as it shifts around them. They took what they learned about weed and wrote and online course for budtenders that teaches foundational cannabis science and product knowledge from a sales and customer service point-of-view, launching their cannabis education company Take Root Training, where they're on a mission to bring accessible, empowering, and impactful cannabis education to budtenders. In her off-time, Ashleen is mother to two children, partner to her fiancé, artist, and spiritual alchemist here to evolve her soul. 

Transcript

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0:00:00 - (Melissa Janson): Welcome to my Life is a Saturday, the podcast that helps you live your best life by embracing a Saturday mindset. I'm your host, Melissa Janson, and each week I'll be sharing my experiences and interviewing guests who have learned how to make the most out of every day. From tips on how to develop a positive mindset to ideas for living a more fulfilling life, we'll cover it all. So get ready to let go of your worries, embrace your passions, and live life to the fullest.
0:00:26 - (Melissa Janson): Ready to dive in? Let's go. Holy cow. Welcome back to yet another episode of the my Life is a Saturday podcast, y'all. This is episode 33, my absolute favorite number, and it just so happens to be an episode with one of my absolute favorite people, my friend Ashleen. Ashleen and I have known each other for well over a decade, which is just wild. She was a friend of a friend, and now we're besties. We have a business together.
0:00:58 - (Melissa Janson): We hang out all the time. She's somebody who has a very unique perspective on life and the way that we live and the way that we can interact with our surroundings in the universe. And I'm so freaking excited to bring on. Welcome, Ashleen.
0:01:13 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Thank you so much. That's such a nice introduction, and, yeah, just a lovely reflection of what you think of me.
0:01:23 - (Melissa Janson): Oh, I think the world of you.
0:01:25 - (Ashleen Aguilar): That's something that you talk about with your friends all the time, is like, what you think of each other. And so it's just really nice. Really lovely to hear. Thank you. I'm happy to be here.
0:01:35 - (Melissa Janson): I'm so excited for you to be here. I made my list of people to ask to be on this season of the podcast, and I was, like, nervous to ask because I just was so excited that you potentially would be on the podcast for the listeners. Ashleen and her sister Riley and I own take root. It's a cannabis education company on a mission to make cannabis more accessible, impactful, and empowering. And Ashleen and her sister also have a podcast, the Chronic Gals, which I've been on a couple of times, and it is so fun.
0:02:13 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Yeah, we're all podcast friends. Yeah, it's been such an adventure in being creative, doing the podcast, and doing our business and, yeah, it's been an adventure for sure.
0:02:28 - (Melissa Janson): Hell, yeah. Will you tell the people just, like, a little bit about you? Introduce yourself, give them? Sure.
0:02:36 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Yeah, absolutely. So, my name is Ashleen Aguilar. I have worked in the cannabis industry since, I think, 2015, and came from a marketing background before that. I have two kids, one is five, one is three, almost four. And, yeah, there's so much to tell. Where do we even begin? Yeah, I feel like I've been on a really transformational journey the last few years, especially after the pandemic, to even kind of learn about who I am and who I want to be. Like, what kind of life I want to lead.
0:03:17 - (Ashleen Aguilar): So I don't know. I feel like a big focus in my life the last several years has really been trying to uncover who I am beyond just what I've done in the world. I don't know. I'm a Leo. I'm a projector in human things.
0:03:39 - (Melissa Janson): The journey to uncover who you are outside of what you put into the world is paramount, especially when you want to create a life that feels like a Saturday. Because I think so much of our society is focused and builds pressure around you being productive or productivity or creation and status and money. And it's hard sometimes to move yourself out of putting your worth in what it is that you do. I know I had an identity crisis, lasted three and a half years around.
0:04:13 - (Melissa Janson): Outside of my job.
0:04:17 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Yeah, absolutely. And, I mean, at the time of the pandemic, I was becoming a mother for the second time. And going through these early years of motherhood really change who you are, too, and how you look at the world and your perspective on all of that stuff. There's also something that happens in the first, like, I don't know, give or take 30 years of your life where you're really just absorbing the world from the outside in.
0:04:48 - (Ashleen Aguilar): And I think that our world has also been set up in that way to where they want you to watch tv, they want you to binge YouTube, they want you to scroll on social media. And so you're always just taking all of this information in, and it's not leaving time for you to put stuff out, to be creative, to have synthesize information into your own opinions and put it out. And in a world that's been changing so much, so fast, the only way that I think I've stayed sane is to reverse that and start practicing living and understanding who I am from the inside out.
0:05:31 - (Ashleen Aguilar): And a lot of that was like, spiritual practices, meditation, shamanic journey, a lot of cannabis. But, yeah, it's incredibly important to figure out who you are and figure out how you want to show up instead of showing up in the way that you've been told is the quote unquote right way to do so.
0:05:54 - (Melissa Janson): Right. It seems like a journey worth taking, like a worthy endeavor. But I know that starting out there can be a lot of noise or a lot of confusion around what is truly your voice while you're trying to figure out who you are and what it is outside of all these constructs. Can you share with us what that journey was like? Finding your own voice in your thoughts and how you navigated that?
0:06:24 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Absolutely. So I've always been kind of a spiritual person. I grew up in the catholic church, but was always interested in witches and astrology and the zodiac and reading my horoscopes in the newspaper or fucking Cosmo teen. But I didn't really get into it until I decided I was ready to go on this journey. What really changed for me was learning about human design. And human design is called the science of differentiation. It's this idea that every soul is here to be their own unique self.
0:07:08 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Nobody is here to be like anybody else. Even though all of this noise outside is telling us that this is how you get to happiness or the american dream or to success, if you follow these steps. No, the steps are different for everybody. The journey is different for everybody. And accepting that I was my own unique individual and just because my path didn't look like these other paths, that was, like, one of the biggest things that changed my entire perspective and mindset, when I could just let go of all of the expectation that my life had to show up like anybody else's life.
0:07:45 - (Ashleen Aguilar): And that was, like, 2017, right before I had my first kid. So I found out in human design that I'm a projector, which is a person who. And this specifically was another thing that really changed the way I saw things. Projectors are people who are here to see and guide and show people other ways of doing things, to find the strategy, and not necessarily to be the people who do. There are people in this world who are here to do things, to make things, to get lit up by making something for other people that is not my way. And when I understood that that was the way that my energy works, that was another thing that just lifted a huge burden off my chest to be like, okay, I don't have to pressure myself to be working 810, 12 hours a day to be continuously making things, even though I still do it.
0:08:41 - (Ashleen Aguilar): It is a huge program that I'm still working on shifting, especially at being an entrepreneur, you have to pick up so many different hats. Yes, but, yeah, human design was one of the biggest eye openers. It took off so many different layers just of programming and allowed me to accept that my journey is my journey, and it's okay to not look like anybody else's. And then beyond that, my whole spiritual transformation just exploded.
0:09:14 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Feel free to ask me any questions if you want to jump in, but I can keep going.
0:09:20 - (Melissa Janson): Yeah. No, I did want to say, though, that the human design, you and Riley introduced me to that. And once I learned my energy type, I'm a generator. And now I look for signs where it's like, I'm super fucking excited about something where I get this visceral feeling in my body, like, oh, yeah, that's going to be sweet. It's really helped me navigate and discern between what it is that I think that I should be doing and what it is that I'm going to do.
0:09:50 - (Melissa Janson): Really the big should. So that's been so transformational. And I always will go back and think about the first time you guys started talking to me about that human design. You guys, if you know where you were born and where, it's really easy online to figure it out.
0:10:07 - (Ashleen Aguilar): And it's crazy how specific it can get to your life. You're like, how does anybody know this about the way that I think? But it's a system, and you can get very deep into human design. I mean, you can find out the best environment that you should eat in. You can find out the way you interpret other people's energy. You can get very deep with human design, but even just the shallowest learning about your energy type, whether you're a projector or a generator, who is like you, who is designed to be lit up or a manifesto, who is here to have ideas and spark new creation, or a reflector, who is here to show us all, like a mirror of what we're all actually experiencing.
0:10:59 - (Ashleen Aguilar): When you understand what your energy type is, that is just such a huge difference in the way that you can approach your life and the way that you can approach relationships with other people. Because when I know that I'm a projector and you're a generator, we can use our own strengths in whatever project we're working on together to benefit each other, so that neither of us are doing things that make us tired, that just bring us down.
0:11:28 - (Ashleen Aguilar): So, yes, human design, you need to know what time, ideally, exactly, you were born and where you were born. If you just know the day you were born, you can find out still some really good information about yourself. But you can go to jovianarchive.com and click get your free chart, and you can just plug it in there. They're very complicated to look at, and they don't really mean anything if you don't know what you're looking at. But you can google the different elements and find a lot of resources out there or find a human design reader or on Instagram. There's a ton of human design readers who can read your chart for you.
0:12:07 - (Melissa Janson): Yes. The link for that website will be in the show notes. And that sparked a reminder in my mind that you did a human design chart reading for me, and I watched that quite a few times. I have a whole section in a notebook of just shit that you talked about that has been so life changing, eye opening.
0:12:32 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Yeah. It's like a blueprint to who you are, and you get to just compare. Like, okay, if this is the way my energy is supposed to run, but this is the way I'm living my life. There's clear unalignment, disalignment, unalignment, whatever the word is, they're not aligned. And so you can figure out how to get yourself back into alignment by referring back to this blueprint. Yeah, and all of it. The one other really cool thing about human design that I'll end on is that the whole thing is that life is an experiment.
0:13:07 - (Ashleen Aguilar): You do not have to believe hook, line, and zinker, whatever is in your chart. You do not have to believe anything. It's an experiment. It's like, just ask what if? And see what happens. What if this is the blueprint to your energy and you align more with it? See what happens? Then take a month and do completely the opposite and see what happens. And then you get to see. Life is just an experiment. It's up to you to play the game.
0:13:32 - (Melissa Janson): Yeah, Mike, drop on that. It definitely is. I always say, like, we're on a spinning rock in the middle of nothing and everything all at once. And the reason that we're here is to journey further within ourselves and approaching things where it's like life is an experiment. Like, somebody else made the rules that we're playing by, and you have the opportunity to make your own rules. It's life changing.
0:13:59 - (Melissa Janson): Lack of a better descriptor. It truly changes the way that you show up and the way that you feel comfortable and the way that you're able to deal with your emotions and your circumstances and the ups and downs that come with life. So, yeah, definitely. Okay, so let's go back to you. You're on this journey. You're figuring out over the last couple of years where it is that you want to go and what it is that your life looks like. So after you started that journey, has there been any trials, anything that you felt has come up and you've been like, oh, I wasn't sure I was going to get through that.
0:14:41 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Yes and no. There have definitely been trials, especially since starting this journey, I have never felt like, oh, I'm never going to get through this because just, I don't know, something about me. I always know that there's going to be an end or if the things go in cycles, things are always going to change. But it's been fucking hard for sure. Following this whole human design awakening, I was starting to recognize that my job was not in alignment and the way that I was working was not in alignment, and I wanted to be able to work for myself for a schedule that was more flexible.
0:15:26 - (Ashleen Aguilar): So I was still working for an employer at the time, a dispensary. I was doing their marketing, but just like, just really starting to recognize that I was not happy there anymore, but not sure what I was going to do next. So I was trying to figure out what was going to happen next. And then I was pregnant. I got pregnant with my daughter and had her, had my maternity leave, and then went back to work after maternity leave for the same employer.
0:15:58 - (Ashleen Aguilar): And at that point, I was very much, like, checked out. I did not want to be there anymore, stayed because I had a kid and a family to support. And I also didn't know what I was going to do. I didn't know what the next step would be. I didn't have clarity on what it was all going to look like. So I stayed at the job. Stayed at the job, ended up getting pregnant again with my second, and he was due in March 2020.
0:16:30 - (Ashleen Aguilar): So I went on maternity leave at the end of February, had my son, and then the world went crazy and I just never went back to work. And in that time, there's more spiritual transformation happening. I knew I was not going to be able to sit at a job and try to work and also try to come home and be happy. I don't know, put my kids in daycare. Put my babies in daycare at that point for a job that I wasn't going to be happy.
0:17:03 - (Ashleen Aguilar): The math wasn't mathing. At the same time, I'm also hosting this podcast with Riley on the side, Chronic Owls podcast. And we started that in 2018, and it was kind of a creative outlet through all of that time. And in 2020, when all of everything changed, we were like, okay, well, if we're not going to work, well, then we're going to work for ourselves and we're going to put that energy into ourselves and so we doubled down on chronic gals, put out more episodes. We transformed my whole downstairs into a studio space and a workspace for us.
0:17:39 - (Ashleen Aguilar): And that honestly blossomed and turned into the conversations that we had that turned into take root. So it was a very long, arduous journey, and I did not know where it was going to end. And I still don't really have a clear vision of where it's going to end. But I've just been trusting that the universe is going to match my step every time I walk into the dark, you know what I mean? And that's been a huge part of the spiritual transformation, is that you don't always know what it's going to look like.
0:18:17 - (Ashleen Aguilar): But if you have faith that you're going to be taken care of, just keep moving forward and experiment with life and see what happens.
0:18:28 - (Melissa Janson): Yeah, it all comes back down to the same couple of things. I know in the middle of the journey, it can sometimes feel like defeating or log and treacherous, or as you said earlier, everything's in a cycle. Like, does the journey actually end? Are we ever going to get there? Where is there? What does that look like? But it's been very interesting and admirable to watch you grow over the last few years. And now that we work in business together, it's very apparent the amount of growth that each of us individually, coming into a take group, have done.
0:19:10 - (Melissa Janson): And also even more apparent when there are others that are involved that haven't done the growth. And so I touched on this in a podcast episode last year. But once you start down the path of personal development and finding yourself and learning your triggers and understanding your feelings and how to deal with them, it's definitely obvious sometimes when other people haven't begun that journey yet.
0:19:40 - (Melissa Janson): And not to say, like, anyone's better than anyone else, but it definitely helps when you surround yourself with people who are also growing and intentionally putting forth the effort.
0:19:54 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Yeah, it's like we've all been able to come to this with a level of self awareness where we recognize when the energy gets weird, but we can take a step back and be like, okay, what am I bringing to the table that's making this weird? Or is it something that doesn't even involve me and it's something that's going on in someone else's life, you know what I mean? And, yeah, to have our whole group being on this journey together magically has been really helpful. We've been able to hold each other through all of this.
0:20:33 - (Melissa Janson): Yeah. So now that you're along, the journey. What are you thinking about? Like, the end of the journey. Does it end? Where are you going? What does the future look like?
0:20:47 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Oh, this journey does not end for me. This journey for me ends when my soul is karmically done with earth and is ready to ascend back to the 12th plane. You know what I mean? In the cycle of it all, I believe in past lives and future lives, in soul evolution. And so, yeah, for me, the personal development, I think, is like the path, especially the path that my soul is on and will continue to be until I have reached the end, the very end where I'm back into God again.
0:21:31 - (Ashleen Aguilar): I don't need to come back to earth, but on a more micro level, the journey, I would probably have a big property moved away from the city with plenty of freedom to do what I want without thinking. Financial freedom, freedom of time, freedom of resources, freedom. Yeah. So where I can just paint and be creative on my own terms and not have to do it for anybody else. Yeah.
0:22:10 - (Melissa Janson): I feel it. I'm like, yes, the property, the millennial dream. Financial. The attention. Freedom to just have your brain not worry about the next thing or the to do list or the growing watercoloring. I want to be an old lady that watercolors in my greenhouse, but I don't take care of any of the plants because that is not my thing.
0:22:39 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Same. I'm going to have gardeners.
0:22:40 - (Melissa Janson): Yeah. Someone else could fulfill their life dream to be a free range gardener in a greenery.
0:22:50 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Exactly. I mean, in all honesty, we will probably be on the same compound. You know what I mean? Like, you and I, our families.
0:22:57 - (Melissa Janson): Oh, yeah.
0:22:59 - (Ashleen Aguilar): The way that the future actually looks like it's going to go, and the likely apocalypse that is right around the corner, we're probably going to end up living in community somewhere with a lot of trees that. That can cut down.
0:23:14 - (Melissa Janson): Yeah. I'm not confident on my ability to survive apocalypse, but, yeah, that's why we.
0:23:23 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Got to do it together. Because you got to do it in community.
0:23:26 - (Melissa Janson): Yeah. I definitely feel like people in a scary movie. I am the person that goes into the house, feels like anybody there dies right away. Yeah, I'm first out.
0:23:39 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Yeah, that would probably be me too. Or I would, like, slip on the fucking banana peel on the floor and then be the last one left to be stabbed.
0:23:49 - (Melissa Janson): Yeah. Or go into a room and don't realize that the door locks behind you, and then I just starve in a room. Something wild like that.
0:24:02 - (Ashleen Aguilar): The grossest way I've ever seen anybody get maimed in a horror movie, and it's probably not even the grossest way. It's just what has stuck in my head. Did you ever watch horror movies?
0:24:14 - (Melissa Janson): Not really.
0:24:15 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Okay. There's this movie called House of Wax that was like a remake that came out in the don't remember with Chad Michael Murray and Jared Padalecki and Paris Hilton. But Jared Padalecki from Gilmore Girls, Dean from Gilmore Girls. He goes in and he walks in this room, and all of a sudden, the camera just goes down to his calf, like his Achilles tendon and a pair of gardening shears just comes out of the darkness and slices his Achilles tendon. And you can just feel it go.
0:24:52 - (Ashleen Aguilar): And it's really gross. It makes me do that every time.
0:24:57 - (Melissa Janson): That she's referring to is me squeamish in my chair. And I'm sure all of you are feeling squeamish right now, too. Yeah. No, thank you. But yes. Probably also how I will cease to be alive in an apocalypse. Okay, let's get back on track.
0:25:24 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Good.
0:25:25 - (Melissa Janson): Yeah. Okay, so you've talked a lot about your spiritual journey in this interview. And if someone was just starting out, they're, like, listening to this interview, and they're like, that's super interesting. I'm going to look up the human design thing, but I want to learn more about the spiritual stuff. What advice would you give them?
0:25:54 - (Ashleen Aguilar): I always find this question tricky to answer because in the spirit of individuation, you have your own thing, and your thing is probably going to be different than my thing. But I will say that there is a huge trend, and I don't think it's just my algorithm. I think there is a huge trend in spirituality coming forth, especially in the women, the millennial women, the Gen Z women, even Gen xers. I would recommend going back through your ancestry and starting with what your ancestors believed. Before there was empire that took away their beliefs.
0:26:40 - (Ashleen Aguilar): So if your family know from Sweden, look into the Vikings. Adam's family is from Norway, so the Vikings come up a lot for us. My background, I'm half irish, half Filipino. The celtic gods and goddesses have always been a lot louder to me than the filipino ones, but I feel like there's still some magic in there to uncover. So I really think you have to go with what interests you and what makes you interested, because I can say I am super interested in the Egyptian.
0:27:19 - (Ashleen Aguilar): The ancient Egyptian has always lit me up since I was a kid. And in 2019, I think I found Andy Murphy, who has been my spiritual teacher, leader coach through those last couple of years, and she works heavily in the Egyptian. So we are doing a lot of spiritual journeys with gods and goddesses. We're doing activations that are turning on different skills about ourselves. We are releasing programming that doesn't actually serve us anymore, but we're doing it through an egyptian lens.
0:27:55 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Some people out there may be into the greek gods and goddesses and might want to reach out to Athena or Zeus. Really, you just kind of have to figure out what calls to you. I think if you're like, nothing, if nothing calls to you, your Astrology or your human design are a really great place to start that don't have to do with gods and goddesses. Those things are much more internally or self focused, which is awesome when you're on a journey to discover yourself.
0:28:31 - (Ashleen Aguilar): So I find it a complicated question to answer. There are good places for a lot of people to start, but I really think that you should follow your interests. And whatever along the journey pings you or makes you interested or excited, then you should just follow the rabbit hole.
0:28:48 - (Melissa Janson): You heard it here first, folks. I think that that is great advice, and I also challenge you listeners. If you are in your spiritual journey right now and you're not feeling, like, interested or inspired to learn more about the path that you were on, work on, maybe being open to exploring some of these other avenues. I know when you talk about following your ancestry and going back, I was like, oh, shit, ancestor DNA thing. I got to take that. But then you kind of described it a little bit more. Just going back to where your name came from or where your family moved from, I've always felt like, I don't know, I'm american, but I guess we all did come from somebody somewhere else because I'm definitely a white bitch, so I wasn't here first.
0:29:44 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Right. But I mean, that being said, there are also a lot of people who are sensitive to the immediate environment around them. And so if that's you, you might find transformation. But just by going to the nature around you, visiting your local lakes or rivers or forests or whatever desert, biome, whatever you got, just get out in nature and listen to what nature has to say.
0:30:14 - (Melissa Janson): I think spirituality and going out into nature and learning about the things that other people do to connect to that being are fun ways to build an adventure in life. Okay. I always thought it was strange that people hug trees or go out and talk to trees, but I'm also like, what if it does do something? And, I mean, it makes for a good story at the end of the day. Now, I've evolved to understanding more of that practice and where it comes from and what the end goal is, but still build your own adventure. Do stuff that makes it fun.
0:30:56 - (Melissa Janson): And spirituality doesn't have to be so serious. It doesn't have to be like this big, serious, angry thing.
0:31:09 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Yeah, absolutely. I think that one of the biggest lessons that I've learned from Andy is that in the Egyptian, the same word for power is the same word for joy. The word for power is the same word for joy. So when you are not feeling your power, when you're not feeling powerful, do something that brings you joy and you will naturally come back into power play. Go on an adventure, create an adventure, experiment with life.
0:31:36 - (Ashleen Aguilar): All of these things that will serve to naturally just bring you back into alignment. And you don't have to sit there chanting to a goddess to make that happen. That's literally just you being happy.
0:31:49 - (Melissa Janson): It's the end goal for all of it, is to live a life that you really freaking love. And then when you're in the middle of living a life that you really freaking love, it's hard not to be happy.
0:32:01 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Yeah.
0:32:03 - (Melissa Janson): Even when those things come up.
0:32:05 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Yeah.
0:32:08 - (Melissa Janson): I feel like this is a really good stopping point of our interview. I appreciate you opening up and bringing us along on this ride. It's so interesting to learn how other people like what journeys we're all on and how pieces of those journeys. It's all a kaleidoscope is how I see it. We're all individual, but we're all doing this human thing, and it's just like a kaleidoscope turn. And there's so many points from each of our journeys that can be applied to others.
0:32:40 - (Melissa Janson): So I appreciate you being here and sharing the question that I always ask the guests before we finish up. Wrap up is what does my life as a Saturday mean to you?
0:32:57 - (Ashleen Aguilar): I guess. You know what? My life as a Saturday is the end goal. It's that freedom. It's that just being able to do whatever I want when I want.
0:33:09 - (Melissa Janson): Yeah.
0:33:09 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Freedom. It's freedom. That's the end goal. Freedom and happiness.
0:33:17 - (Melissa Janson): Yeah. Another mic drop moment. I couldn't have explained it better myself. Now, Ashleen, the people have gotten to know you and heard your story, and they want to connect with you online. Where can they find you?
0:33:32 - (Ashleen Aguilar): You can find me on Instagram at Queen Ashleen or Queen Ashleen.
0:33:36 - (Melissa Janson): Art.
0:33:36 - (Ashleen Aguilar): We didn't talk about my art, but you can check out some of the pieces that I have that are inspired by my. So, yeah, that's queen Ashleen on Instagram or Queen Ashleen art on Facebook. Or you can follow our bud tender education company. Take root training on Instagram or Facebook or LinkedIn. We're everywhere. And you can follow our cannabis podcast, chronic Gals podcast on Instagram at Chronic Gals Underscore podcast.
0:34:07 - (Melissa Janson): And what is your favorite?
0:34:12 - (Ashleen Aguilar): I I always use the two stars.
0:34:16 - (Melissa Janson): Yes. I love that one, too. Yes. When you go hit up Ashleen on any of those platforms, they'll all be linked in the show notes. Send her a sparkle emoji. That way she knows that you came from the my life is Saturday podcast. And you guys can. It's easy, icebreaker. Hit it off like that. It's going to be so cool. You'll have your dms just flooded with sparkles, and it looks so cool.
0:34:40 - (Ashleen Aguilar): I love it.
0:34:41 - (Melissa Janson): Well, thank you, Ashleen, again, for being on the podcast. Absolutely incredible conversation and I love just chatting with you. Every time that you talk, I'm just like, oh, my God. And then you just keep talking. It's so good.
0:34:56 - (Ashleen Aguilar): Well, thank you, because I always feel like I'm talking too much and I often lose track of what I'm saying. So I'm glad that I didn't lose track this conversation. I actually did a really good job. Pat myself on the back.
0:35:08 - (Melissa Janson): Big pat. Big pat on the back.
0:35:10 - (Ashleen Aguilar): I love you so much, Melissa. Thank you for having me.
0:35:13 - (Melissa Janson): Of course. Anytime, always. And to the listeners, we just want to remind you that you have everything in you to make your life feel like a never ending Saturday. If the vision is something that you can see, it's on your heart for a reason, and there's absolutely nothing stopping you from achieving that big goal. I love you. And until next time, bye. Thanks for tuning in to my life is a Saturday. I hope you enjoyed this episode and are feeling inspired to live your best life.
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