Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Ashlyn Prendergast & Paige Farrington. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Ashlyn Prendergast & Paige Farrington, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?
Our mission unexpectedly began on a pristine and perfect Colorado summer morning in 2008. Out of nowhere like a lightning strike from a clear blue sky, the trajectory of our lives forever changed when the words Love Ignites Peace unexpectedly arrived. That morning the sights and sounds of nature and the romance novel that I (Paige) was reading (now now that’s a different kind of love than we are talking about here) had saturated my mind and my body with complete relaxation. As I looked up from my book, in the space between my inhale and my exhale, the words Love Ignites Peace appeared out of nowhere and tattooed themselves in my mind. Where had they come from? To this day I am still not 100% sure of that answer, but within seconds, they demanded my attention. The truth in the statement was obvious, but what did it have to do with me? It became my mission to unpack this statement that contains a life changing truth, and now it is our mission, my daughter Ashlyn and I, to share what we’ve learned with the world.
As I absorbed the words Love Ignites Peace, it became clear that I needed to begin unpacking the limitations in my own life that were preventing me from unconditionally loving myself and others, so that I could live as peace. Thus, the words Love Ignites Peace have taken Ashlyn and me on a many year journey of deepening our self-awareness and expanding our understanding of the human experience. It is our purpose to share all we’ve learned over the last 15 years with the world.
We created Love Ignites Peace as a lifestyle brand to empower you to transform limitations body, mind, and spirit to the all things good frequency of LOVE – the energy behind your human potential. Our tagline is Get Your Frēq, aka Frequency, On. Everything is energy, including you, and as you embody the vibration of love you empower more peace in your life, which empowers that same energy in our collective human community. At Love Ignites Peace, your journey of self-discovery/self-
Based on our own experiences of learning how to fully embody the words Love Ignites Peace as our lifestyle, we discovered that there are three primary causes of our limitations: 1) Subconscious Programming/Beliefs, 2) Soul Trauma (aka your soul’s suitcase of experiences), and 3) Physical Dis-Ease. We’ve also identified Love’s 6 Actions- Understanding, Discerning, Allowing, Forgiving, Accepting, and Respecting – as an internal code of conduct that effects how you interact with yourself and others.
We’ve learned along the way that Love Ignites Peace is a becoming, not something that you seek outside of yourself. Getting Your Frēq, aka Frequency, On is a process of working with your energy on a daily basis and on a deeper basis. The deeper work is where you empower your ability to overcome the limitations in your own life. We are here to support you every step of the way by offering weekly podcasts, a book, Love Ignites Peace: Our Next Evolution, a journaling experience Love Ignites Peace: Our Next Evolution The Companion Journal (both on sale March 8, 2024), courses, one-on-one + group coaching, and retreats to help you become more self-aware, so you can evolve beyond the limitations that have kept you from living love’s all-things-good energies.
We are a business that is dedicated to serving the hearts and minds of humanity–your heart and mind–so that you can transform into your greatest potential. When you change, the collective changes. Love Ignites Peace is an individual journey that has the power to affect the entire human collective.
Visit www.LoveIgnitesPeace.com for more information, tune into our weekly podcast Love Ignites Peace #BathtubChats everywhere podcasts are available (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, etc.), and lastly, if you’re interested in being on our podcast, please reach out to [email protected]!
Ashlyn Prendergast & Paige Farrington, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
Paige: As someone who now promotes love, peace, and human potential, you might be surprised to know that for 30 years my career was in the transportation and energy sector. In 2002, I cut my teeth as an entrepreneur, when my husband and I started our own business. Little did I know that 6 years later the Universe would give me the message Love Ignites Peace, which would totally change the trajectory of my life. Those words caused me to grow in ways I could have never predicted. It is my hope that when those words are planted with intention in your mind and heart they will nurture your ability to grow in self-awareness and ultimately love, the force behind your human potential. In 2017, I retired from our small business and now I dedicate my resources to teaching about Love Ignites Peace.
Ashlyn: My greatest desire is to live a heart-centered life that shines light and love into the world. I call it living heart wide open. From working at Make-A-Wish, to The Peace Corps, to the American Red Cross, to teaching English in Thailand, I have found that it is through helping others shine their light and recognizing their brilliance, that I can best help the world live heart wide open. The Love Ignites Peace lifestyle empowers individuals to radiate their light a 1000 times over, thus creating a chain reaction that can unify the world. My professional career since graduating from the University of San Diego in 2018 has been in marketing for small start-up companies and when my mom asked me to partner with her in bringing the Love Ignites Peace vision to life, I could not wait to put all that I had learned to work in service of others. I believe if you truly want to change the world, you first have to heal, evolve, and grow yourself. It is my greatest privilege to be doing this work through Love Ignites Peace.
For You: Love Ignites Peace brings a new consciousness (self-awareness) to solving old problems. It transforms your not-love beliefs (your limitations) so that you can break through the restrictive glass ceiling that has kept conflict, struggle, not-enoughness, self-righteousness, suffering and a long list of other not-love energies cycling. Love Ignites Peace is your personal and individual journey back to knowing, accepting, healing, and loving yourself, first and foremost, just as it was for Ashlyn and me. As you truly love yourself then you can love others unconditionally. It is love that you embody and your ability to offer understanding, forgiveness, discernment, acceptance, allowing, and respect (Love’s 6 Actions) to yourself and others that will create peace for our collective human community. Peace on earth, and the many other all-things-good energies that love generates, starts with you.
You are the ignition, the fire that will create the change. Love as an action is the energy that ignites your individual and then the collective transformation. Love Ignites Peace offers weekly podcasts, a book, Love Ignites Peace: Our Next Evolution, a journaling experience Love Ignites Peace: Our Next Evolution The Companion Journal (both on sale March 8, 2024), courses, one-on-one + group coaching, and retreats to help you become more self-aware, so you can evolve beyond the limitations that have kept you from living your human potential and Get Your Frēq, aka Frequency, On. When you change your frequency, the collective begins to change too. Love Ignites Peace empowers you to learn how to fully love yourself, so that you can offer love as an action to your human community.
Ashlyn and I: We are most proud of how we’ve been able to distill this vast and seemingly complicated message down to three areas of self-exploration: Love’s 6 Action – Love of Self and Others, your subconscious programming, and your soul’s suitcase (desired learning). It is our mission is to help you overcome the limitations that have kept you from living the all-things-good frequency of love – the energy behind your human potential. We are thrilled with the success that our weekly podcast has experienced in our first year. As of November 1, 2023 we have posted 50 podcasts and had over 11,000 listens. We feel so grateful for our podcast guests and all of the listeners and for everyone who has supported our mission. Additionally, my book Love Ignites Peace: Our Next Evolution is in the process of publication. That book, written in 2023 and available March 8, 2024, has been one of my (Paige) biggest accomplishments.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
At Love Ignites Peace we are committed to creating and operating our business with the mindfulness of flow, balance, and abundance. We are a for profit business that brings the consciousness of what is in the highest and best good for all to our offerings, content, and decisions.
Life is meant to be enjoyed, so we want to enjoy our work and allow plenty of fun and relaxation. So many lives, for many years mine included (Paige), felt like struggle. Pushing the boulder up the hill depleted my joy and my energy. I was raised with the belief you had to work hard all of the time. It was something you had to do to survive, even if you disliked what you were doing. Ashlyn and I knew that those old societal programs were in opposition to a company that was about achieving your human potential by overcoming the limitations that kept you from living the all-things-good frequency of LOVE.
Flow vs Force: Our societal programming has been to do, do, do, often times forcing an idea or a situation. Ashlyn and I have had to unlearn this method of running our business and in our personal lives too. As we’ve learned to work with flow verses force, we have experienced so much more success and far less struggle. For example, I started Love Ignites Peace in 2019 because I thought that since retiring from my previous job I needed to be “doing” my next thing. So I forced something that, if I had been listening to my intuition, I wouldn’t have started then. As Ashlyn and I have reflected back to that time and certain moments in our current business, it is very clear that when we’ve forced something a myriad of challenges always presented themselves. Ironically, when we’ve flowed at a slower pace or even gone on vacation, miracles have happened, podcast downloads have quadrupled, opportunities have fallen into our laps, interviewees have said yes, and beyond! Yes, we’ve encountered challenges when we’ve flowed, but they are usually very minor bumps along the way. Paying attention to what is showing up is vitally important to working in the flow. By paying attention to the information found in life’s synchronicities, we stay open to receiving direction or next steps. Working in harmony with the flow doesn’t mean not taking action, it means taking aligned action. Instead of getting pulled under by the need to do, do, do and force we seek the waves that find us and then we hop on for an easy ride.
Balance: Have you ever lived a life out of balance, where it feels like your energy is pushed in either too many directions or completely out of sync with what brings you joy? This is something and Ashlyn and I are working on overcoming in our lives. It is our intention to bring balance to our work and our personal lives. This is a tricky one and one that we haven’t 100% mastered. A happy life is a life shared with people you love, doing things you love. We have a long list of things that we need to get done every day, but we work hard to find that sweet spot where balance between work and play lives. Part of living in balance is overcoming the mental (subconscious programs) that tell you “your work is your identity” or that achieving a certain title or income benchmark determines your success. Good thing for us overcoming limitations is our specialty! Success looks differently when you work/live/play/connect in balance and it feels oh so good.
Abundance: At Love Ignites Peace we are committed to putting what is in the highest good, not just for some, or for the sake of more, more, more, but for our collective human community and the planet. Abundance is every person’s birthright. At Love Ignites Peace we are committed to collaborating, creating, and sharing our abundance. Money is energy and as we exchange energy we intend to create win-win situations for all. As we grow our business, we can empower more people to transform their lives. Every day, Ashlyn and I practice gratitude for what we do have. It is our intent to operate our for-profit business from the consciousness that there is always enough; not lack.
How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?
Embrace the pivot! As we evolve through our lives we are constantly making changes to create a better experience. Why should our businesses be any different? In 2021 I launched Love Ignites Peace with a different team. The pieces of the entire puzzle, from messaging to the team itself, never felt like the sweet spot. In 2022, Ashlyn joined me and we re-launched–this time with different messaging and a smaller team. In 2023 again we refined on how we were presenting certain information and our business’ priorities. We didn’t know what we didn’t know… you know what they say about best laid plans. What we lacked was experience with launching this type of business and as mentioned earlier, the first launch was a forced event and not in harmony with flow. Pivoting is part of learning. The “mistakes” (blessings) we make are how we learn. Pivot until you find your sweet spot and then pivot again when life/business is giving you information that there is “something more”. Change is the only constant and pivoting is a powerful way to flow with change.
To find out more information about Love Ignites Peace visit our website at www.LoveIgnitesPeace.com, listen to our weekly podcast Love Ignites Peace #BathtubChats (available everywhere you can listen to podcasts), and follow us on social media @LoveIgnitesPeace. Interested in being on our podcast? Please reach out to [email protected] to help our audience transform limitations to love!
Contact Info:
- Website: www.loveignitespeace.com
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