Welcome to the Balance Black Girl Podcast. We're putting Black Girl Magic in motion.

This show is dedicated to reinventing wellness for women of color.

I'm your host Lestrandra Alfred.

Hello, hello. Thank you so much for tuning into this week's episode of

Balanced Black Girl and happy Thanksgiving week.

Obviously, you know, the roots of Thanksgiving,

we don't really mess with around here,

not necessarily trying to celebrate colonizers, but any chance to take

a moment, enjoy our loved ones and spend an extra moment of gratitude is welcomed and appreciated.

So I hope you have a restful, wonderful holiday week and thank you so much for tuning into the show.

I have been living and loving this every other week format, which I don't know how much longer I'm

truly going to be able to sustain it and may have to ramp the show back up in

20 purely because there are so many and may have to ramp the show back up in 2020,

purely because there are so many amazing women

that I have gotten pitches to receive on the show

for guests who want to be interviewed,

people that I've met, where I'm just like, oh my gosh, putting out an episode

every other week. I don't know if that's enough to feature the amazing women that I want to feature.

But in the meantime, your girl has been living has been balanced has been more well rested

than I think I've ever felt in my adult life the slower pace has definitely been agreeing with me and I have been really, really

using the extra time that I have saved from creating less content and delegating more to members of my team to really focus on my own inner healing which

oo y'all is not necessarily easy to do and it's something that I am actually grateful to have a little bit more time in my schedule right now to be able to do that because it is really taxing and it is really challenging to do that inner work and I've been

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