Win With Paid Ads

Hosted by Ashley Brock

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Aug 2026

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Welcome to the Win With Paid Ads® Podcast for entrepreneurs and business owners. This is THE podcast for business owners who KNOW that learning how to get in front of the RIGHT people with the RIGHT message is CRITICAL to a successful business. With the right advertising strategy, there's a way you can exceed your goals SOONER. So if you are great at what you do, but you want to be better at ADVERTISING what you do, you're going to love this. Let's get started.

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September 10, 2026Episode 148 min

#135 Believe Bigger: Faith And Business With Marshawn Evans Daniels

What you believe you build. What you doubt you delay. Marshawn Evans Daniels is a Reinvention Strategist who teaches women of faith how to build an extraordinary life and business. She went from Georgetown Law and running the fastest-growing woman-owned sports agency in the country to calling off her wedding six days out, rebuilding from rock bottom, and creating Believe Bigger. Her clients have generated more than $200 million. Her new children's book, Worthy Girl, teaches the same thing to little girls before the world talks them out of it. Ashley says this devotional was one of the biggest dominoes that had to fall for her to believe she could build Paid Ads Academy at all. So this one goes deeper than advertising, but it is still about advertising, because visibility starts with believing you are worth being seen. In this episode, they break down: 💙 "Little Me" and the voice in your head that talks you out of asking for more 💙 Why your hesitation on ads is usually not about the ads 💙 What this industry is really selling, and why it is making women more depressed 💙 The five identity mountains that keep you stuck even after you buy the course 💙 Why money is a mirror for worthiness 💙 How to bring your faith into your business without alienating anyone 💙 Why you cannot "find" your purpose (and what to do instead) 💙 Ashley reads the future she wrote down a year ago, and what has already come true You'll walk away understanding why belief is not the soft part of building a business. It is the part everything else is built on. Connect with Marshawn: @marshawnevans Worthy Girl Picture Book: https://worthygirlworld.com Believing Bigger Devotional Planner: https://believebigger.com/planner Start Here with Marshawn: https://marshawn.com/start-here Additional Believe Bigger products: https://believebigger.com 🏆 Join the Challenge: http://www.paidadscoaching.com/challenge?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=description&utm_content= 🎯 Connect with Ashley: @ads.with.ashley 📘 Read the Book: How to Win With Paid Ads (paidadscoaching.com/book)

September 3, 2026Episode 13417 min

#134 Your Funnel Isn't Broken, It's Just Behind

What if your ads are right, the targeting, the creative, the budget, and the real problem is where you are sending people? Funnels do not usually break. They fall behind. Your buyer evolved and your page did not. This episode is funnels through the lens of buyer psychology and how people actually decide in 2026. In this episode, Ashley breaks down: 📈 Why everything works until it doesn't (and why that is a law of marketing, not a flaw in you) 📈 Guessing your next move vs. knowing it, and why mastery is certainty about the process, not the outcome 📈 How price, risk, and familiarity decide how much convincing a buyer needs 📈 What actually changed in 2026: compressed attention, a higher noise floor, and social proof that still works 📈 A five-step conversion audit you can run on one page this week You'll walk away able to look at a page and ask the right question: not "is my funnel done?" but "what is my funnel's next move?" 🏆 Join the Challenge: Win With Paid Ads Challenge 🎯 Connect with Ashley: @ads.with.ashley 📘 Read the Book: How to Win With Paid Ads

August 27, 2026Episode 13324 min

#133 Why I Took My Entire Team to Greece

Twelve people, a yacht, the Aegean, Santorini at sunset. And me, someone who could not unplug for four hours, fully present for the first time in years. This one is part recap, part love letter to my team, and part argument for something most business owners get wrong: rest is not a reward, it is a strategy. In this episode, Ashley breaks down: ✨ Why she takes her whole team on company trips (and why it is a statement, not a vacation) ✨ The trip itself: Athens, Santorini, Mykonos, and the moments that mattered ✨ How twelve people spent a week together with zero conflict, and the psychology behind it ✨ The "Invested, Rested, Connected" framework and what it means for clients ✨ Why rested, connected teams make better decisions and protect your account You'll walk away asking your own version of the question: what is my version of Greece, and what would happen if I gave my team something to work toward? 🏆 Join the Challenge: Win With Paid Ads Challenge 🎯 Connect with Ashley: @ads.with.ashley 📘 Read the Book: How to Win With Paid Ads

August 20, 2026Episode 13224 min

#132 The 10 Beliefs That Keep My Head in the Game

A client asked me once, in the middle of her hardest season, "How do you stay so steady?" She expected a strategy. The real answer was simpler and harder: it is what I believe. Most people think they have a strategy problem, a time problem, or a money problem. Usually it is a belief problem. A belief is just a thought you have repeated so often your brain treats it as fact. The good news is you can change it. In this episode, Ashley breaks down: 💙 Why beliefs matter more than strategy (and the brain science behind why they stick) 💙 The 10 beliefs she leans on to stay calm and make better decisions in a hard season 💙 How your old beliefs quietly become your next ceiling 💙 Why you can "try a belief on" before you fully believe it 💙 The one belief to pick up this week and carry into your next launch You'll walk away with a simple shift: you do not need ten new beliefs today, you need one you are willing to try on until your results catch up. 🏆 Join the Challenge: Win With Paid Ads Challenge 🎯 Connect with Ashley: @ads.with.ashley 📘 Read the Book: How to Win With Paid Ads

August 13, 2026Episode 13131 min

#131 How Kalina Denault Scaled From $65K to Multi-Six Figures With Ads

What happens when your ads work so well that you burn out? That was Kalina's first good problem, and it was only the beginning. In this episode, Ashley reconnects with Kalina Denault, a family, maternity, and newborn photographer in Winnipeg, Canada. Two years ago Kalina was making $65,000 a year and was, in her words, the smallest fish in the mastermind. Her husband was skeptical about the investment. What happened next is the reason we do what we do. In this episode, they break down: 📸 Going from $65,000 a year to six figures, and then multi-six figures just six months into a new model 📸 Why ads that worked "too well" created a capacity problem (and why that is the good kind of problem) 📸 The single mastermind conversation that moved her from $600 sessions to $4,000+ full-service clients 📸 A $22 ad cost turning into a $4,000 client (a 181 to 1 return) and what an almost unlimited budget looks like 📸 The money mindset shift, and the honest conversation with her husband behind investing on a $65,000 income You'll walk away seeing that it is never the type of business that wins with ads, it is the type of person, and what becomes possible when you decide to be that person. Connect with Kalina: @kalinadenault 🏆 Join the Challenge: Win With Paid Ads Challenge 🎯 Connect with Ashley: @ads.with.ashley 📘 Read the Book: How to Win With Paid Ads

August 6, 2026Episode 127 min

#130 How We Use Paid Ads to Hire (Meet Head Coach Marianne)

Most people think paid ads are only for getting customers. But some of our best hires, around 15 of them, came from ads too. In her debut episode, Ashley sits down with Marianne Ewanouski, the head paid ads coach at Paid Ads Academy. Marianne runs every ad platform for the company (Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, and the new ChatGPT ads) and coaches clients from zero revenue all the way to eight figures. She dreamed of Mad Men style advertising, fell in love with paid search instead, and found PAA through an Instagram hiring ad she applied to within 24 hours. In this episode, they break down: 💼 What hiring ads are, and how PAA grew to eight figures with 15+ hires and no recruiter 💼 How to run hiring ads on Google, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Facebook/Instagram (and why each platform is set up differently) 💼 Why every ad points to one careers page hub, built around real core values and a video application 💼 The qualify and disqualify trick that keeps you from paying for the wrong clicks 💼 Two mistakes Marianne sees on coaching calls: low-intent keywords and burying your credibility You'll walk away seeing paid ads as more than a customer channel. They are how you find the people who help build your business. 🏆 Join the Challenge: Win With Paid Ads Challenge 🎯 Connect with Ashley: @ads.with.ashley 📘 Read the Book: How to Win With Paid Ads

July 30, 2026Episode 12923 min

#129 Workaholism, Parenting, and the Talk That Changed Me

Ashley sat down with her husband and admitted something most entrepreneurs never say out loud: she thinks she's actually addicted to work. Not the cute hustle-culture version. The real thing. In this episode, Ashley gets honest about: - Why workaholism is the one addiction that gets rewarded instead of treated - The difference between knowing you work too much and actually feeling it - How the drive that built the business became the thing she had to question - What being a present parent really means, and where the gaps were - The reps she's doing now to choose rest over compulsion If something in your chest tightened reading that, that's kind of the point. This one's for you. 🏆 Join the Challenge: Win With Paid Ads Challenge 🎯 Connect with Ashley: @ads.with.ashley 📘 Read the Book: How to Win With Paid Ads

July 22, 2026Episode 12829 min

#128 The 3 Signals That Tell You to Scale Your Ads

Every week on coaching calls, Ashley hears some version of the same question: I have the data, now what do I do with it? This episode is the exact decision tree she uses with every client to answer it. In this episode, Ashley breaks down: 🔍 The three signals that tell you it's time to scale (and what to do when only some are green) 🔍 Why a 4x ROAS on real spend can be worth more than a 12x on five dollars a day 🔍 The backend leak that looks like a scaling problem but isn't 🔍 When slowing down is the smartest scaling move you can make 🔍 The "do not scale yet" checklist most people skip You'll walk away able to look at your dashboard and make a clean decision instead of an emotional one. 🏆 Join the Challenge: Win With Paid Ads Challenge 🎯 Connect with Ashley: @ads.with.ashley 📘 Read the Book: How to Win With Paid Ads

July 9, 2026Episode 12734 min

#127: How Emily Judice Hit Her Best Month Yet With Paid Ads

Emily Judice runs Be That Girl Coaching, and last spring she was getting a lot of advice about her ads. Most of it pointed toward handing the whole thing off to someone else. She decided to own the skill instead, and this episode is what happened next. In this episode, Ashley and Emily get into: 📈 The ad advice Emily got in April, and why she didn't take it 📈 Outsourcing your ads vs owning the skill yourself 📈 The realization that flipped her organic strategy (the people who already knew her vs the people who really needed her) 📈 Why better DM ad lead quality changed everything 📈 The data behind her best month yet, and what it actually paid for: hiring, traveling with family, a new house You'll walk away from this one seeing what it looks like when a business owner stops outsourcing the thing that matters most and decides to own it. Connect with Emily: @thatgirlemilyjudice 🏆 Join the Challenge: Win With Paid Ads Challenge 🎯 Connect with Ashley: @ads.with.ashley 📘 Read the Book: How to Win With Paid Ads

July 4, 2026Episode 12617 min

#126 How We're Using AI to Speed Up Results (And Why Most People Use It Wrong)

In this episode, Ashley shares exactly how her team is using AI to speed up results, why most people are using it wrong, and the framework that turns generic AI answers into strategic ones. In this episode, Ashley breaks down: 🤖 Why open AI tools give general answers, and what changes when AI is trained on your real data 🤖 Inside Rainmaker AI, the custom tool built on real client data, frameworks, and what's actually worked 🤖 The 4-step prompting framework most people skip: problem, solution, context, and clarity 🤖 How to find the blind spots you didn't know you had 🤖 Where AI fits beyond ads: hiring, time audits, and operations You'll walk away from this episode knowing the difference between using AI and using it strategically, because most AI gives you what should work, and the right setup gives you what has worked. Callan's Course: http://myrootabl.com/r/0wwtkC8k?rootabl=adswithashley 🏆 Join the Challenge: Win With Paid Ads Challenge 🎯 Connect with Ashley: @ads.with.ashley 📘 Read the Book: How to Win With Paid Ads