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77 | Intentional Friendships, Setting Healthy Boundaries, and Life-Changing Healthy Habits with Zuri Adele

She's So Lucky

She's So Lucky

Balancedblackgirl, Self-improvement, #Shessolucky, Balancedles, Business, Entrepreneurship, Lesalfred, Education

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Today, we’re having a heartfelt conversation with Zuri Adele. Zuri  is an actor, currently known for her portrayal of Malika Williams on Freeform’s “Good Trouble.” 

 

She is an alumna of Spelman College, UCLA’s school of theater, film, and television, and the British American Drama Academy, and a former acting teacher at both the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for girls in South Africa and UCLA.

 

Before “Good Trouble,” Zuri performed on many stages with Georgia Shakespeare, the SITI Company of New York, and the UCLA MFA Acting program.

 

She is passionate about wellness, access to education, and social justice, Zuri launched and oversees the Zuri Adele Fellowship for HBCU Alumni, which provides support for HBCU graduates pursuing their Master of Fine Arts degrees in theater, film, and/or television.

 

In this episode, we talk about…

  • How to hold space for one another and cultivate community
  • Being in spaces where you can be your authentic self
  • Creating intentional wellness practices 
  • How different wellness practices shape our lives
  • The foundation of how to take care of yourself first

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to Balance Black Girl, a podcast dedicated to mental, physical, and emotional health from the Black woman's perspective.

0:13.0

Tune in to hear from black woman health and wellness experts

0:16.2

giving the approachable advice you need

0:18.3

to help you feel your best.

0:20.2

I'm your host, Lestrandra Alfred. Let's dive in.

0:24.0

Thank you for tuning into this week's episode of Balance Black Girl Podcast.

0:31.0

I am your host, Lest, and I so appreciate you tuning in and joining the

0:37.4

conversation today. Yeah I have to be honest. I don't even really know how to start this off, just really thinking about

0:50.8

the current state of the world, where we at and just what is happening day by day.

0:58.6

Who even knows what act of the circus that we are all living out right now because I don't know but I am

1:08.1

so grateful to have this community and that we're able to hold space for one another. And honestly

1:18.0

that's a really big theme of today's episode and I could not be more excited to share this conversation with you.

1:30.0

So today's guest is Zuri Adele who I am so grateful to consider a friend. She and I have

1:38.0

gotten to know each other well over the past year that I've been here in Los Angeles and she is just such a light and I always enjoy talking to her and this conversation was no different because she and I we kind of started getting to

1:56.1

know each other and then just kind of jumped right into having really deep conversations

2:01.6

with one another. You know how that happens when you become friends with somebody

2:04.7

and then you just like, you all just go jump in?

2:08.0

That's what it's like when we get together.

2:10.9

And this episode, we are inviting you to listen in on what

2:17.2

conversations between the two of us sound like and during a time where we all need to be holding space for one another and really cultivate community and connection, I could not think of a better conversation to share with you.

2:33.2

Zury is an actor currently known for her portrayal of Malika Williams on Free Forms

2:38.1

Good Trouble, and she's also an alumna of Spelman College, UCL UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and the British

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