How Breathwork Can Prevent Burnout ft. Jasmine Marie, Black Girls Brreathing

Brown Ambition

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Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week, Mandi sits down with the brilliant Jasmine Marie breathwork practitioner, founder of Black Girls Breathing, and author of Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Stress, and Find Your Freedom. From surviving the corporate grind to creating wellness spaces rooted in cultural relevance, Jasmine gets real about her journey into entrepreneurship, healing work, and what it truly takes to hold space for Black women’s mental and emotional wellbeing.

We talk about everything from the power of a deep breath and surviving burnout, to funding a business on your own terms and growing a team the *smart* way. Jasmine even leads us through a mini oceanic breath session at the end — don’t miss it

We talk about:

- Jasmine’s transition from corporate beauty marketing to breathwork and mental wellness

- Why most wellness spaces *don’t* center Black women's lived experiences — and what she's doing about it

- Building a company without VC funding: how Jasmine bootstrapped and scaled BGB

- The importance of listening to your body (and your breath) when trauma speaks

- Balancing healing work with entrepreneurship and how not to burn out

- Tools in Jasmine’s toolkit: EMDR therapy, acupuncture, daily walks, and more

- Real talk on grief, generational trauma, and creating new blueprints for Black wellness

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0:00.0	At what point were you like, I'm going to teach women how to breathe and how to heal themselves, and this is what I want to do?
0:05.7	This is not something I ever said, I want to do this.
0:08.9	It was something that came to me.
0:10.6	Like, the purpose was put on me.
0:12.1	I always say the breath tells on you.
0:14.1	I can look at someone's body and see what they may be dealing with emotionally, just where the breath is trapped.
0:20.3	Right. Some people even in
0:22.0	attempt to take a full inhale and exhale can't. Most people have this huge fear that if they
0:27.0	allow themselves to go to the bottom, they won't be able to get it back up.
0:35.0	Hey, BA fam, I feel the need to be doing this right now and you're going to find out why I am taking some deep breaths, some deep soothing breaths today because I happen to have an incredible woman here to join us today. And her name is Jasmine Marie.
0:51.8	Jasmine Marie is the author of a recently published book called Black
0:55.8	Girls Breathing, heal from trauma, combat chronic stress, and find your freedom. But Jasmine has,
1:02.7	in her own right, such an incredible career entrepreneurship, business, financial journey,
1:09.2	which I hope you're cool with me getting into because we are called
1:12.1	Brown Ambition. We do love centering women of color at the conversations about wealth building and
1:18.3	thriving and how it can all work together. And in this book, Jasmine offers tools,
1:25.4	some personal experiences as well, from her training, from her life,
1:30.6	and just tools that we can use to cope.
1:34.7	And I don't know.
1:35.7	I mean, I'm writing a book right now.
1:37.8	Y'all know that, VA, fam, but it's hard to predict.
1:41.0	You can't predict when your book is going to come out what's going to be happening in the world. And all I can say is it was divinity that made you publish, that got you to
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