Hi.
Welcome to my online journal. Sure, we can call it that. I don’t quite know how this will develop, but feel free to stay tuned if you want to go on this journey with me!
Welcome to my online journal. Sure, we can call it that. I don’t quite know how this will develop, but feel free to stay tuned if you want to go on this journey with me!
Hi! Hmm where do I start?
I own The League: Elite Training Facility, a warehouse gym in Houston, Texas, with my husband Terry. We launched in 2013 and today have the most incredible fitness community. We absolutely love what we get to do. I handle business operations and strategic planning and a million other things (fellow entrepreneurs feel me).
Before pursuing entrepreneurship, I worked in business development with start-up companies in Houston and Austin. I began my career as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Global Healthcare and Latin America groups at Barclays Capital, executing 15 transactions for global clients during my time in New York.
I graduated with a Finance and International Business degree from the University of Texas at Austin and spent time abroad studying in Milan, Italy.
My husband and I recently invested in Five Central, a restaurant concept with a unique dining experience. I have two ridiculously adorable sons, Terry and Trenton, who keep me laughing. I being involved at my church and in my community. My happy place is gathering friends and connecting people. Yoga is my jam.
My intention with AshleyMonee.com isn’t to have everyone reading all my posts all the time. I think it’s just an open letter about my life and people who inspire me and things I’ve learned. Something I can reflect on. Maybe something my kids can read one day. I have a lot to share and get super excited when I write. Maybe one day it will become a book, we’ll see.
A few years ago at a leadership retreat I felt like I needed to start this. Very strong in my gut, in my heart. But “how, why, with what time?” — you know, the regular doubt-filled questions. I had purchased the “AshleyMonee” domain years prior when I became oddly attached to my former middle name after changing my name when I got married (another story for another time).
I’m actually typing this on my phone on May 6th, 2019. This is what happened: I’d just dropped the boys off at school, and I’m at the drive through window ordering my regular: chai latte with almond milk. “Girl, Wash My Face” is on Audible in the background and while listening to Rachel Hollis’ words I SUPER inspired. The kind of inspired where I can’t focus anymore on what she’s saying because ALL OF THE IDEAS are leaping around in my head and I realize I need to finally do this.
I’m starting today because I need to do something for myself. In this phase of my life, it’s incredibly easy to make everything else “what I have time for.” My kids (especially when they are as amazing and adorable and incredible as mine), my husband (who is also super awesome), my friends, my clients… it seems like I find ways to make time for everything else. But if I don’t make time for me and I lose myself, I’m nothing to all of those people because the very thing which makes me a great mom or friend or business owner will slip away.
So here we are.
I would love to say there will be steady content but I’m making no promises. I may remind y’all will a post on IG when I have new posts here. I may not. It’s chill. What I WILL try very hard to do is engage, answer all of your questions and help however I can. This gets me excited. Gathering people, my friends meeting my other friends and them helping each other, community... those things move me. I’ll give you an example. One night (I think it was my birthday), I had some girlfriends over and we’d gotten a little tipsy and were having SUCH GREAT conversation. So great that we decided we should start a conference and it should be called The Tenacious Ten Curves Women’s Conference. Ten Curves was our street name at the time hahaha. So for the next three-ish years for my birthday we had our conference. We invited more friends. Terry made all of us dinner. It was the best. Those conversations were raw and intense and happy and sad and ridiculous. We laughed and cried and rolled our eyes and cheered each other on. I think it stopped because I had kids. The girls still ask each year if I’m bringing it back, maybe one day! But for now, I’m hoping some of that can happen here. Feel free to share your stories and help each other!
My hope is that with each post, you don’t leave just feeling inspired but that you take action and DO something, do anything, to make your day/week/mood/life better.
Cheers!