Success and Womanhood: How to Navigate Success While Owning Your Space with Ashley Davis, Lead Principal of West Front Strategies

In this episode of The Lavish Leader: Unveiling Wisdom, host Dr. Erin Martin is joined by Ashley Davis, Lead Principal at West Front Strategies - a multi-million dollar lobbying firm that Ashley co-founded.

With a successful career for many years working at the White House, as Special Assistant to Tom Ridge, the previous National Director of Homeland Security, and later, directing operations for Homeland Security within the Executive Office of the President, Ashley has an acute understanding of how to navigate womanhood in typically masculine professions. In this episode, she explores:

The power of women in society
Whether equality quotas ever actually work
Female success and whether it equals loneliness
How to remain authentic while in a dominating workspace

Alongside co-founding West Front Strategies, Ashley is also the Co-CEO of the Belizean Grove, a preeminent global network of influential women committed to building collaborative, trusted partnerships.

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Episode Highlights:

[07:00] Working with Men

[12:15] Empowering Society and Women

[19:29] Equality Quotas

[22:46] Female Loneliness at the Top

[34:56] Authenticity: Real or Not?

[45:39] The Intimate Relationship with Spirituality

Episode Resources:

Connect with Ashley on LinkedIn
Connect with Dr. Erin on LinkedIn

Quotes:

“ All the men I worked for in politics I had to take care of, you know, no one was taking care of me.”

“If you wanna empower a society, then you start by empowering or educating the women.”

“ I support women, but you have to support women that are willing to do the work or willing to, you know, be successful on their own as well. And so you can't just blindly support a woman just because they're a woman.”