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Balanced Black Girl

Choosing Alignment Over Ambition with Daria Burke

Balanced Black Girl

She's So Lucky

Health & Fitness, #Shessolucky, Balancedblackgirl, Lesalfred, Balancedles

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

#289: What if success isn’t about climbing higher, but about getting closer to yourself?

In this episode, I sit down with Daria Burke—former CMO, writer, and possibility model—to talk about choosing alignment over ambition, creating space to heal, and honoring your gifts even when they aren’t profitable.

We talk about her bold decision to step away from high-powered titles, how somatic practices helped her reconnect with herself, and why radical honesty became the foundation of her memoir Of My Own Making.


We Also Talk About…

  • Why Daria chose to step away from her CMO role
  • What it means to give yourself permission not to want certain accolades
  • How to meet high expectations while giving yourself grace
  • How somatic practices can help your healing
  • Why being unrelatable is a good thing


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

0:20.4

Dariot, welcome to the show.

0:21.9

Thank you.

0:22.5

I'm so happy to have you here.

0:24.0

I'm thrilled.

0:25.1

So I learned about you and got connected to you through Anwar, our mutual.

0:31.0

I had Anwar on the show a couple months ago and loved him.

0:34.7

Our audience loved his episode.

0:36.1

And then he reached back out and he was like,

0:37.5

I really think that you should connect with my friend Darya. She's coming out with a book.

0:40.8

She would be a great guest. And I was like, absolutely. I took like one look at what he sent

0:46.8

with your info. And I was like, oh, absolutely. Thank you. Thank you so much. First of all, yes,

0:51.3

shout out to Anwar because he is a riot and like full of wisdom and just such a good person. So I'm grateful to. And thank you for having me. I love your show. So it was for me, I was like, oh my God, this was one of the shows I really wanted to be on. And I think the evolution of your show as well is so aligned with my thesis of trusting my magnetism.

1:14.3

So I'm here for it.

1:16.0

Absolutely.

1:16.7

I mean, as I was doing my like preliminaries of research and got to hear parts of your story, I was like, yes, exactly.

1:24.7

And I think especially now that the podcast has evolved and is kind of expanding and we're talking more so about sharing stories as opposed to going super deep into wellness related topics, which I do think we can do today a bit because I would actually love to talk to you about the different healing modalities that you've had experience with, but how that's a part of your whole story.

1:45.0

It just is like perfect.

1:47.2

Yeah.

1:47.3

Thank you.

1:48.7

Before we started rolling, I was asking you a little bit about your astrology, also asking you a bit about your career path thus far.

1:57.7

And so I would love to catch the audience up on that.

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