At Ambire Collective, we believe community is the business plan

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what connects us

About our name

When we looked at our members and asked ourselves what connects every single woman in this community, the answer was obvious. It wasn't industry, or stage of business, or geography.

It was their ambition. Their willingness to reach toward their often lofty dreams with courage and curiosity, even when safety and sure-bets would have been much more comfortable.

Ambire is a Latin word for ambition, and it felt right the second we found it.

Collective, came shortly after because that's what we are. We’re not a brand built around two founders or any one person. We’re a community of women building alongside each other.

Meet The Members

Why “Ambire”

130+ Members

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100s of events hosted

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1,000s of conversations

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130+ Members 🌟 100s of events hosted 🌟 1,000s of conversations 🌟

Why we exist

We know that ambitious women are prone to working themselves into isolation and that they have a hard time asking for help, but we believe that the strongest businesses and people are built in community not in isolation.

Our mission

To provide a space for ambitious female entrepreneurs to be seen, supported, and validated in their experiences as entrepreneurs and as people.

Our vision

To enable future generations of women to pursue their most ambitious goals and know they have support.

Our why

the bigger picture

what we live by

Our Values

Belonging

Belonging isn't something you have to earn. You don't need to hit a revenue milestone, have a certain number of followers, or prove you deserve a seat at our table. We build every space, event, and experience with the same question: will someone feel like they belong here the moment they walk in? If the answer isn't yes, we redesign it until it is.

Reciprocity

Community is not something you sign up for and passively receive. That means listening to our members and actually building what they ask for. It means investing back into the women we serve. It means showing up for our co-founder, our team, our community hosts, and our partners with the same energy we hope to receive.

Honesty

Honesty encompasses everything, integrity in what we do, authenticity in who we are, and truthfulness in what we put out into the world. We say what we mean. We do what we say. We don't perform a version of ourselves that doesn't exist, and we don't expect our members to either. We want everything about this brand, from its leadership to its community, to be genuine.

Intentionality

Intentionality is the quality of being deliberate and purposeful, and we hold ourselves to it before we ask it of anyone else. Every event, every resource, every feature, every partnership, we ask why before we build it. We don't add programming to fill a calendar or chase growth for the sake of numbers. Everything we do, we do on purpose.

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How we met

Our co-foundership is proof this community works

We didn’t know each other before this community. .

We actually met at the first event back when we were still Hive Ambition.

Ashley started this community because she believed women in business deserved genuine support. Rachel showed up to that first event and got hooked. While Ashley spent the next year and a half building the community and hosting hundreds of events, Rachel spent as much time as possible inside it, attending events and connecting with the women there. And throughout all of this, our friendship began to develop.

Ashley had always preached "lean on community," but was quietly struggling to keep it all together. Rachel could see what Ashley was carrying, and while she'd been getting ready to launch her own community business, she realized she'd rather invest in the one she already loved. So she approached Ashley with the idea of partnership.

In November 2025, we made it official. Our co-foundership is proof of what can happen when you invest in community and allow it to support you.

The Faces Behind Ambire Collective

Meet Ashley

Chief Operations Officer

How I got here:

I spent over a decade in people operations and talent strategy, working my way up to Chief Operations Officer at a NYC software consultancy where I built their hiring and team infrastructure from the ground up. Somewhere along the way I realized that the thing that lit me up most wasn't the title, it was the people. Specifically, the women around me figuring out hard things. I believe we build better together than we ever could in isolation, and I want my daughter's generation to inherit a little more of that than mine did.

When I’m not working:

Most weekends, you’ll find me outside somewhere in the mountains with my husband, Miles and our six-year-old hiking, camping, biking, or doing absolutely nothing on our deck. At home, I'm cooking or baking, deep in a fantasy or sci-fi novel, playing cards, or crafting with my daughter (aka making anything we can find into a disco ball). We share our house with a cat and a golden retriever, who is, without question, the problem child.

A little woo:

Pisces sun, aquarius rising, enneagram 1w2, manifesting generator - wired to see what's possible and annoyed that it isn't here yet.

📍 Western North Carolina

Meet Rachel

Chief Growth Officer

How I got here:

I've spent nearly 15 years helping companies like BetterHelp and Suze Orman generate more than $15M in growth. My path to digital entrepreneurship started when I was 20 years old, when I walked out of my job with 2 weeks to figure it out, and totally replaced my income within a month. Now, I own a thriving growth consultancy called Found Forward. As a self-taught entrepreneur who spent most of her time working in isolation, I'm deeply passionate about making sure no other woman ever feels like she has to walk that same path.

When I’m not working:

I'm either watching reality tv, reading a good book (send me your weird girl recs), or spending as much time in nature as my allergies will allow. I'm married to an absolute gem, sci-fantasy author (Maurice Africh) who makes every day magical, and I'm a dog mom to the world's crankiest chihuahua, Toby. When I'm not spending my days with those two, you'll find me deep in conversation with the most wonderful friends and family.

A little woo:

Enneagram 3w2, 5/1 emo-manifestor, gemini sun/aries moon/sagittarius rising…I'm also an oldest daughter… and it's obvious.

📍 Asheville, North Carolina

Our members

But it’s not about us

We don’t center the founders here. Ambire is bigger than either of us individually. It’s bigger than any individual. We are truly a collective, and this community belongs to all of us.

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