Today we’d like to introduce you to Ashley LeBlanc.
Ashley, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
So my son was 9 months old when the family I always dreamt of started to shatter. It was 2021, I had PPD and infidelity wrecked my relationship. I was in my fifth year of teaching and clung to the classroom and my students while I pushed through what I thought would never end. I watched the person I thought was my partner turn into my worst enemy in family court. One of my best friends died. My parents did what they could but they never knew the extent of what I was going through from hours away. I switched schools to be closer to home and my son who was in daycare too much, to shorten my drive to him. I landed in a place I couldn’t find my feet at and felt like I drug myself across hot coals everyday until I couldn’t anymore. One day in the middle of January, I just quit. The life I had worked so hard for I left on the other side of a line in the sand. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, but I was ready to do what I could to find happiness for me and most importantly, a happy mother for my son.
In the months after leaving teaching, I struggled financially with no help from anyone. I found stable ground running a listed family home, making and selling baked goods, and picking up and fixing up to resell, free furniture off Facebook. I did pretty much anything you could think of to survive those months. The burns slowly healed. The paranoia that my ex was going to take my son for the two and a half years we were in family court turned into a powerful resentment. I got up off the ground in 2023 and dusted myself off. My listed family home had finally become a stable income, and I was building a tribe with the mothers whose children I looked after.
As kindergarten crept closer, I knew staying home watching kids wasn’t my calling. My in home childcare had become just my son‘s friends coming over to play and I was trapped to the house M-F 6:30am-6/7 pm. I had no real social life outside of work. I knew I needed to make more money for the life that I wanted and I turned into a workaholic. I was running my listed family home, my little bakery, my furniture refurbishing business, cleaning homes on the side, selling chicken eggs, doing DoorDash when I needed to, and taking every little odd job that came my way. Including babysitting over the weekends, and overnights. And one day, the cloud finally cleared and the storm blew away. I started to get out more and talk to my old friends again. I tried to start multiple businesses, running a food truck, reselling designer bags, a mobile charcuterie business. Then one day, a door opened for me while talking to an old friend, he runs a successful logistics and packaging company out of Houston, my hometown. He needed an executive assistant and someone to help attend trade shows to boost sales. I’ve never run through a door so fast and I’m so glad I did. I was able to work mostly virtually with some trips here and there for work to stay in hotels that I never thought I would be in. After earning the trust of my new boss through hard work, he turned to me for some help with his social media.
I had made a really good friend while teaching, she was very successful on social media so we started a partnership trying to grow their brand. I quickly found that I didn’t have time for my five jobs and my friend took over the social media. But then she had a baby of her own and didn’t have time for it either so they then turned to me once again. But this time when the door opened, I was overwhelmed, so I walked through it slowly and kept my foot in to make sure it didn’t close. My boss there saw something in me and in 2025 when I helped him acquire ATF licensing for his warehouses in Houston (as his executive assistant) and he decided to invest in an online firearms and ammo business that he crowned me operations manager of in January of 2026 with high hopes of success but the sales weren’t coming in yet. I knew I had to get out of the childcare business if I ever wanted the successful life of my dreams. So I marketed myself for what I knew best and that was digital marketing. I created flyers using Canva and ChatGPT and marketed myself to the local markets as a digital marketing specialist.
The first client I picked up outside of the logistics & packaging company, and our new company Spur Defense, was a direct pay doctor out of New Braunfels. I worked from 6:30 AM to 12 AM almost every day to prove myself. The fourth marketing job that God placed on my Facebook feed was for a pool company. What started is running their social media’s turned into being their office manager part-time. The owner allowed me to bring my son and with this income I was able to close my listed family home and only had to work 15 hours a week.
In my free time, I became a marketing guru. I became obsessed with the idea of success. My old life motivated me and the company that we started in January, Spur Defense, quickly grew in the 2A industry and was doing well within the first five months.
Marketing became my passion and I was recognized by another local company who saw the networking queen in me. I picked up my fifth job once again, but on a carousel that I could handle. Now I get to stay home with my son most of the time and his dad finally started paying child support now that I’m on my feet. I run a marketing company called LeBlanc Social House. I manage marketing for six companies now. My son starts Kindergarten in August.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I feel like I covered a lot of this in what I wrote on the last question. But I struggled with my mental health, paying all of the bills for my household, holding a job with my son’s dad harassing me, and figuring out what business worked for me.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Leblanc Social House?
LeBlanc Social House was built from the ground up through hard work, long late hours, and a genuine passion for helping small businesses succeed. I wear soooo many hats at LeBlanc Social House: I create digital marketing ads, run social medias, run one of my companies QuickBooks, and all of their office calls are directed to me, I’m essentially their office manager for Blue Water Oasis, I’m also the operations manager so I oversee everything at Spur Defense, I got all of our licenses and permits and created the website, handle SEO, and write blog posts weekly, also attend expos, and oversee our Corporate Sponsorship with Central Texas Wildlife Legacy, I have to go out there and shoot content, with Texas Reptile Expos I had to put up 50 flyers, with Texas Commerce Solutions they require me to go to at least two networking events per week all while juggling motherhood, raising frenchies, and everything else life throws at me.
I’m proud of the brand I’ve built because when people work with me, they’re getting someone who is invested in their success. Behind the scenes, I’m creating content, writing SEO blogs, managing websites, getting cars wrapped, responding to messages, building marketing strategies, designing graphics, coordinating events, networking, troubleshooting problems, researching industry trends, and finding new ways to help my clients get in front of the right audience. Many people see the finished social media posts, but they don’t always see the hours of planning, communication, editing, scheduling, website management, and relationship-building that make those results possible.
I specialize in helping businesses establish a strong brand presence and grow through consistent marketing, authentic storytelling, and meaningful community connections. I work with businesses of all sizes throughout Central Texas and beyond, helping them build credibility, attract customers, and stand out in competitive markets.
What I’m most proud of isn’t a specific campaign or project, it’s the relationships I’ve built and the businesses I’ve been able to help grow. Many of my clients become good friends, and I truly care about their success as much as my own. Seeing a business gain confidence, bring in clients, increase revenue, open new opportunities, or reach goals they once thought were out of reach is what keeps me motivated every day.
At the heart of LeBlanc Social House is a simple mission: helping businesses tell their story, connect with their community, and grow from the ground up. Every business has something unique to offer, and I love helping people see that value and share it with the world.
Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
If I had to talk to someone who was just starting out, I would say don’t be prepared for it to be easy, there are going to be obstacles thrown at you every single day, you can’t give up. You need to be ready for 14 hour days in the beginning, but it gets easier the more you learn how to run your company and work everything in your schedule. I would also say that networking is key, it’s a huge way to get your name out there and make organic relationships with people that will eventually want to work with you.
Pricing:
- $600: Basic Social Media Management, client sends me the content and I post for them every other day
- $800: Growth Package, I come out and film content, and also create flyers and mention them in local pages under poats
- $1000: Premium Package, everything listed prior, plus SEO work, Facebook and Instagram ads, business card designs, services and price lists, website revamps, event planning and pretty much anything marketing related they could need.
- +$500 QuickBooks management
- $1,000 New Website Design *starting price*
Contact Info:
- Website: https://spurdefense.com
- Instagram: @leblancsocialhouse
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1K3JwDuoT9/?mibextid=wwXIfr
