Hey you're listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast. My name is

Brie Mitchell and I'm the host of the show as well as the founder of

Brown Girl Self Care. Brown Girl Self Care is a platform in space of

intentional healing, rest, and joy for black women.

Let's go ahead and get into today's episode.

I want to talk, this conversation is actually going to be,

this conversation ain't gonna be for everybody, okay, I'm just letting you know that right now.

This conversation ain't gonna be for everybody, all right?

So don't send me no hate emails or any of that stuff.

I'm just letting you know if you're sensitive about money

you're sensitive like if you're not ready to have some like real talk tough

love conversations about like our money and our gifts and and things like

that then I'm going to need you to like just listen to another podcast episode

either mine or someone else's today okay okay so let's go ahead and just jump on, jump on in.

And I want to talk about how, man, a lot of us are just really letting our fears take center stage and we are allowing

our fears to take center stage and when that happens it's just completely

taking us off the game or out of the game it's knocking us off of our

path and we are just going to be in this constant cycle of stress, anger, frustration, disappointment, bitterness, shame, embarrassment,

because we're just going to find ourselves in the same place over and over again.

Like we're not willing for whatever reason to address certain things head on

and we are And we're kind of like settling and I've said this before at some point I'm sure like this

podcast is not for settlers and I, like 99.9% positive that every black woman that's listening to the sound of my voice is not

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