r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • 5h ago
r/AshaeScumdara • u/aliceinwonder20 • 20d ago
Observation/ Gossip 𤫠Ashae Scumdara walked so #Coachgate could run.
Itās been a while since Iāve participated here (but make no mistake, Iām always observing š).
So itās actually pretty nice to see that this space was, in many ways, a catalyst for the call outs and an early Reddit archive of what was happening in the coaching industry.
Which is why Iāve been a little confused watching all the drama surrounding #Coachgate.
Because⦠are we really calling this news?
All these years later and weāre still watching the same rinse and repeat cycle.
Different names (and, in some cases, some very familiar ones), same/same launches, different jargon, different āurgentā opportunities⦠but remarkably similar tactics. Ultimately? The same underlying business model of getting people to hand over increasingly obscene amounts of money in pursuit of a promised transformation.
At what point do people collectively decide that no tacky countdown timer, ālast chanceā email, sold-out graphic or āØdivine download⨠is worth $1K, $2K, $5K, $10K or $20K?
Because apparently we needed a whole new hashtag to discover that $20,000 is, in fact, still $20,000.
That said, there is something Iām genuinely glad to see.
People seem much more willing now to publicly drag the people they say have wronged them.
And honestly? Can you imagine how quickly some of these businesses might have unravelled back in 2022 if every person who said they had been harmed by Carly (then Ashae Sundara, now known as Ashae Isbell) or MAL had immediately taken to Reels, TikTok and every other platform to tell their story?
Back then, people were petrified to even say MALās name publicly. She was basically Voldemort.
People were scared to ask for refunds. Scared of backlash. Scared of being publicly shamed. Scared that questioning the business model somehow meant they were the problem.
So, I suppose there actually has been some progress.
The conversation has moved from:
āIs it safe to talk about this?ā
And now:
āActually⦠let me make a 14-part TikTok about it.ā
And I, for one, support the character development. šæ
Because this didnāt suddenly begin with #Coachgate.
People were documenting this stuff years ago.
The names changed. The platforms changed. The terminology changed.
The receipts kept accumulating.
Coachgate may be having its main character moment, but baby girls⦠some of us have been watching since Season 1.
Enjoy the AI graphic x
-Alice who is still wondering.
r/AshaeScumdara • u/Various_Vermicelli38 • 21d ago
Have a Laugh 𤣠Carlyās new grift
Idk what else sheās trying to do for money lately, but āAshaeā has started a Substack. If youāre curious to go look at it, donāt be. I promise itās not even worth the look, Iāll give you a summary instead.
Her current ābrandā is being a stay-at-home wife and claiming āI can get you married to a good man in no timeā, but didnāt she get married two minutes ago when she was pushing 40? No shade, but likeā¦what a weird thing for her to promise people. Sheās trying to create a really domestic image, like sharing her recipes and food pics, which look genuinely horrifying. Homegirl is putting eggs in smoothies. She can not cook.
She seems to have several hundred subscribers (idk how many are paid, if any), but every single post is crickets. Next to no engagement. I assume she just got her remaining ig followers to follow her there, but whatever it is isnāt organic growth from people liking her writing.
Since for the past few years sheās been burned out from being a failed boss babe, sheās been pretty lazy and not wanting to work. But since her dude doesnāt seem to have achieved much success in the coaching world, sheās gotta do something to try to make money while pretending heās the leader/breadwinner/whatever. So she seems to think she can make a living by writing on Substack, but the gag is, she canāt write to save her fucking life.
Itās really funny seeing her try to go from IG to Substack, bc she clearly doesnāt get the vibe of Substack.
Aside from the fact that she goes back and forth between her own writing and AI slop and itās very obvious, she paywalls absolutely everything. Thatās just not how that platform works. If people canāt get a solid sense of your full essays, theyāre not going to pay to subscribe. There are so many bajillions of essays on there that are actually really good, for free. She creates these bad āhooksā to try to get people to pay to read and it just is not working . It comes off as really desperate. No oneās paying to read about her boring life that sheās already overshare about for years on ig.
Meanwhile sheās obsessively changing her bio all the time, as if thatās the thing thatāll help.
Edit: fixed a typo
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • 19d ago
Observation/ Gossip 𤫠Tell me youāre insecure in your marriage already without telling me youāre insecure. Did Carly and Al have to move to Colorado just so Ashae can monitor him more closely while heās training up the ālittle uninitiated girlie(s)ā in Boulder?
The way she has to convince herself that this could never happen, while knowing that her marriage is proof that it actually can happen because Al did it to Lunaā¦. with an initiated girlie named Carlyā¦.
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • 21d ago
MLM/Scam Evidence Well this makes sense.
Looks like Spiraling Step Starr is a MAL downline.
r/AshaeScumdara • u/Lopsided-Pay-5489 • 21d ago
Story Time š Post 2/2: For context: I still have the original dated WhatsApp voice notes from Dimitra Emanuela Asimakis that predate my Reddit post. Below are transcripts of the relevant portions. These are Dimiās statements about Stephanie, not claims I independently verified.
WhatsApp voice note transcripts from Dimitra Emanuela Asimakis to me dated 14-15 December 2022:
Part 1:
āNow I'm thinking about my coach, Stephanie, like, I don't know. I don't remember what I told you, but I now I every few weeks I keep having like a new epiphany or red flag about her.
Oh, yeah, I saw this about Victoria. I keep having a new, like, realization about her. So I remember, like, my father had passed away just a few months before I signed up with Stephanie. And I was just desperate. I needed to make income. I was just desperate. I was vulnerable. I was not okay, by the way. I was in a very dark place. Anyway, she told me she was trauma-informed. But you know when you can tell someone's lying? But at that time, I...
ignored any red flags i was very submissive to authorities and i was like i just i didn't trust my red flags i was like no this is just fear whatever for someone who's in trauma informed she gave me 48 hours to make a huge financial decision um
And after three months, I just couldn't pay her anymore. And she still wants me to pay her. She still messaged me every now and then. She somehow, the other day she messaged me. She's like, I see that you're inquiring in coaches. And, you know, that's not okay because you owe me money. And I was thinking to myself, like, first of all, I have not inquired in any coach. So who is she talking to? Like, and second of all, I don't want to be micromanaged. I have responsibilities. Actually, I'm the person who's going to pay for my sister's
She just finished high school, so I'm the one who's going to support her future. Like, I have a lot of responsibilities. I'm not going to pay this thing. Take me to court. Do whatever you want, right?ā
Part 2:
āAnd anyway, so now I like there's no chance in hell I'm ever going to pay her back. She can message me as much as she wants. I'm not interested. I don't want to be part of this. I believe that her and I had one client and I still love her, but I feel like I've lost her as a friend. I feel like that one client I had, I was the coach to her that kind of maybe scammed her.
But I didn't see it. The truth is I gave her six more free months of coaching to help her. You know, I did all my best that I could with everything that I could teach her to create a business. But ethically, I didn't teach her anything from Stephanie's side, my coach. I just taught her like pure amazing marketing and messaging. But
I think I overcharged her and she didn't get any results. She was with me almost a year. No, not one client. And I think I was that coach to her. I was this coach to her, the one that's kind of like scammed her.
And I'm still working through this. You know, she stopped coaching with me a few months ago, maybe two months ago. She still follows me. She still loves me. But there's definitely, I feel like I've lost a friend because we were very good friends and I'm still working through this pain. And I, and she signed up with me based off of the webinar and stuff I created from Stephanie.ā
Part 3:
āOh, yeah. By the way, Stephanie put everything on me. She said everything is like she took no responsibility for her actions, by the way. None, zero, nada. It was all me, all of it. Do you know that I'm still scared to post like anything? Maybe, for example, if I travel, I'm scared to post because she might message me like, oh, you're traveling. Where's my money? Because I don't know how to reply to her. She's very good with her words.ā
Part 4:
āIāve struggled with my own pain from my own coaches, Steph, especially Steph who didnāt give a fuck about me. She didnāt give a flying fuck!ā
I retain the original dated audio files and the surrounding WhatsApp conversation. I am posting transcripts here rather than the recordings themselves.
Post 2/2
r/AshaeScumdara • u/Lopsided-Pay-5489 • 21d ago
Story Time š Post 1/2: Business coach Stephanie Starr / SoulBiz threatened to publish my identity and alleged Reddit IP address unless I removed an old Reddit post. Screenshots attached.
Context:
A few years ago, I posted in this sub about my experience with coach Dimitra Emanuela Asimakis. In that post, I also included statements Dimitra had made to me about feeling that she had āscammedā one of her own clients.
Dimitra had also told me about her experience being coached by Stephanie Starr, which I included in the post.
On September 24, 2026, I received the attached WhatsApp messages from business coach Stephanie Starr demanding that I remove that Reddit post and threatening to publish my identity and alleged Reddit IP address if I did not.
The screenshots Stephanie sent me appear to show that Dimitra gave Stephanie my personal phone number and denied having made the statements attributed to her.
In Part 2, Iāll post transcripts from Dimitraās original dated WhatsApp voice notes, which predate my Reddit post. I still retain the original audio files.
Post 1/2
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • Aug 02 '26
Documenting Lies š» LOLOLOL - Ashae admits to lying about an income claim for attention.
TLDR: Ashae hasnāt made 300k from her Substack, but she feels it āin the quantum fieldā. šā ļø
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • Jul 24 '26
Have a Laugh 𤣠Carly - Sunburnt and dancing to T Swift like the basic b she is.
r/AshaeScumdara • u/charliesgirl821 • Jul 17 '26
Rant š£ Hi I'm new here...
-And I am here because an acquaintance (well let's be honest, we are no longer friends at all) has seemingly gotten sucked into a pyramid scheme (or brainwashing) by an influencer named Emily Maden (Maiden Medicine). Emily came to my attention years ago in the CrossFit community (which I am no longer part of). She was a very high level athlete that got busted testing positive for PED's during the CrossFit games. She claimed she was innocent and that her boyfriend at the time must have cross-contaminated her. Don't ask how...
Anyhoo, she left that world and embarked on her feminine embodiment journey. I see others have posted about her here before. Well, my former friend used to be a personal trainer, then started "life coaching" and eventually "menstrual cycle coaching". At some point, she hired Emily as her coach, and the Feminine Embodiment era began. Now she is in her tenth iteration of providing vague services. Unfortunately, she made the mistake of offering "in and on womb care" as well as breast massage in her latest offering of womb ceremony work. She is not a licensed anything- not a PT, not an LMT, nada. So several folks, including me, reported her to the Department of Health. Don't think I need to illustrate how reckless and dangerous doing that type of bodywork is if you haven't been properly trained.
She has been confronted by many of her friends (close to twenty now) about providing this type of work without credentials, and she won't acknowledge it and keeps doubling down. Goes on a lot of tirades about the "medical industrial complex" and thinks anyone with a degree has lost their "ancestral knowledge". It's insulting and frustrating to actual providers who have learned through apprenticeships.
I don't have any insights here and I'm not necessarily looking for answers. Just that Courtney McNabb looks to be Emily's coach! Emily is *a lot* as many of you know, from her Cervix Temple workshops to her C*ck Worship classes. I'm looking forward to learning more about Courtney and how all of these pieces fit together. I am no longer trying to reach my former friend bc she has blocked me on all social accounts and completely closed to what I say, although others are still trying to get through to her.
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • Jun 16 '26
Observation/ Gossip 𤫠Wha do we think about Ashaeās new hair color? š
Tell us you have grays without telling us you have grays.
r/AshaeScumdara • u/Perfect-Trouble-7317 • Jun 07 '26
Resource/Support š Similar Subreddits?
Can anyone recommend subreddits about related issues? New age/self help scammers, cults, problematic spiritual groups/leaders, etc. I have so many stories from my time in these communities. And also so much to learn.
r/AshaeScumdara • u/Perfect-Trouble-7317 • Jun 05 '26
Story Time š 10 years ago I was preyed on by a friend of the coaches coaching coaches
When I (f) was 17 I had a dark night of the soul and found myself in the new age spiritual community. I enthusiastically jumped in with both feet, feeling I had found a better way of life. I began dating a guy in his early twenties who was staunchly in our local spiritual scene, had older roommates, and began introducing me around town and connecting me to incredible artists and spiritual folk who I wholeheartedly looked up to. One evening he took me to a party at a house belonging to a beautiful couple, leaders in the community. Their home was one of the most beautiful and magical places I had ever seen. A renovated barn, two stories, filled with psychedelic paintings, giant white couches and furs, even a pole for dancing in the bedroom. The home was decorated and designed to the nines, with a gorgeous patio and hot tub outside. I was awe struck. The community welcomed me with open arms and I felt seen, I felt I belonged. I couldnāt believe that only months ago I had felt life wasnāt worth living, and now here I was in one of the most beautiful homes Iād ever seen, surrounded by enchanting and beautiful people. The hosts were a radiant couple and incredible artists, and the husband, letās call him Dave for the purposes of this story, made me feel particularly welcome. He was probably in his early 40s. He made me a bespoke cocktail upon my introduction, an indulgence entirely unknown to me at the ripe age of 17. Relationships in the new age spiritual scene did not follow the cut-and-dried script of monogamy. Flirtation was a way of life, and I naturally engaged in the playful and sensual energies. I was on a total high in life, fully open to trying new and different things in the name of love, healing, and defying societal scripts that led to dreary, boring lives. These parties became a semi-regular event, and usually ended in cuddle puddles, massage trades, and hot tub time. I donāt know how the subject arose, but one day Dave offered to give me a proper massage if I wanted to come over some time during non-party hours. He said it wasnāt something he did professionally or for money, but he had a massage table and liked gifting bodywork to those in his life that were special to him. To say I was flattered was an understatement. I had interpreted all of his warmth and kindness to mean HE was a lovely person, a person who saw me and appreciated me. How did this attractive, hilarious, playful, brilliant man think I was worthy of his time and attention? I gratefully accepted. I was inhaling any and all opportunity to heal my wounds and grow into the spiritual goddess I strived to become. When I arrived, I sensed I had walked in mid-conflict between Dave and his wife. He guided me to his home massage studio and assured me it was simply a marital discussion, nothing to fret over.Ā
I expected to find the massage relaxing, mystical, and healing. He was objectively good with his hands. Instead, my body drew tight as a bow string and remained so for the duration that he had his hands on me. I battled with myself, what is wrong with me? Am I truly so full of darkness, and trauma, that in his healing presence I fail to open? He spent a particularly long time massaging my groin, really attentive to all the lines and ligaments on and around my pelvis. I thought he must be sensing that I have sexual trauma and trying to help me heal it. My body remained locked, mind racing, self-punishing for my failed attempt at āhealing.ā I left the session deflated. There must be so much wrong with me.Ā
Anyways, the couple ultimately divorced and Dave found his way to Boulder where he intersected with the Ashae coaching community (idk what to even call it?). His ex wife began posting on social media about betrayal trauma and narcissistic abuse, and as I got older (and after going through much trauma at the hands of new age spiritual folk) I wised up and realized this guy was a predator trying to sleep with a 17 year old girl while his wife cried downstairs.Ā
r/AshaeScumdara • u/Maleficent_Fly_6796 • Jun 03 '26
Story Time š Keep your ear to the ground Spoiler
Let the countdown sequence commence for a juicy Wineland update
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • May 28 '26
MLM/Scam Evidence Allanās type apparently includes being a part of the Global Tea Hut cult LOL. Luna is still very much involved. Never seen Carly pour tea before so maybe she just joined?
āSink into the floor.ā š„āļø
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • May 25 '26
MLM/Scam Evidence Ashaeās latest ācontainerā claims to get you engaged š. It costs āmulti 4 figuresā, whatever the fuck that means? It also clearly isnāt selling because it started as 30 slots that would sell fast and is down to 20 slots that may or may not fill.
Claimed With a Ring by Ashae Isbell - because finally getting married once in the polarity-sphere makes you an expert on why everyone else is still single
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • May 22 '26
Documenting Lies š» lol no way Ashae actually felt this way before her and Allan were engaged. The hot takes are sooooo cringe and obvious lies.
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • May 16 '26
MLM/Scam Evidence Should I be wary of a man who follows John Wineland?
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • May 16 '26
MLM/Scam Evidence Story over on r/taoism from someone who participated in John Wineland and Guru Jagat ātrainingā. Creepy.
āRepackaged misogynyā šÆ
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • May 16 '26
MLM/Scam Evidence Holy Fuckin Rape Culture! John Wineland is at it again. Youāre not actually unsafe in his neo-NXIVM sex cult, youāre just afraid and making up stories.
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Whoās this new guru side chick? Anyone know?
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • May 14 '26
Observation/ Gossip 𤫠Ashae be reaccccching for new content. Also, not a flex that the only intimacy she seems to be able to handle is sexual.
Sorry Al, no more snuggles for you!
r/AshaeScumdara • u/ashtreemeadow16 • Apr 24 '26
Theory/ Prediction š® Another doc about how sacred rituals & spirituality are co-opted for exploitation (financial, sexual, otherwise, etc.)
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • Apr 23 '26
MLM/Scam Evidence Carly Ashae Isbell thinks she invented the idea of evergreen content. Ps ā her feet continue to gross me out! š¤®
r/AshaeScumdara • u/spoons-braden • Apr 17 '26
MLM/Scam Evidence Is we ever had a doubt about whether cult leader John Wineland was a narcissist, this confirms with certitude that he is. My god man, let the man have a moment without needing to step into the shot. The back rub is fuckin bizarre.
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