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Balanced Black Girl

How I Became A Full-Time Podcaster [BONUS]

Balanced Black Girl

She's So Lucky

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

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

A few months ago, I put in my two weeks notice at my tech job to pursue working on this podcast full-time.

In today’s special bonus episode, I’m sharing what my career trajectory looked like up until that point, all that went into the decision to make the leap, and what’s next.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:04.0

Thank you for listening to Balance Girl Podcast.

0:12.0

My name is Les, I am your host, and this

0:13.8

podcast is all about the different things that we balance in our day-to-day lives.

0:17.5

I also have to say, surprise, it's a Friday. If you usually listen to Balance Black girl, you know that we always come out with episodes on Tuesdays. But this week, we have a little treat. We have an extra episode for you.

0:30.0

It's my little Galentine's Day gift,

0:32.8

a little Black History Month gift with an extra episode.

0:38.2

Now I'm coming out with this episode

0:39.5

because I have had some big life updates that I've been getting a lot of questions about on

0:44.9

social media. We are also so blessed to have a very stacked guest roster at the

0:51.4

moment and so I wanted to do an episode talking about my life updates,

0:55.0

but the EdCal is booked and busy.

0:58.0

And so I was like, let's throw an extra episode in here

1:00.0

so that I can talk directly to the girls. So happy Friday I hope you enjoy this

1:06.3

bonus episode. Now my update is that Balance Black Girl in this podcast is now my full-time job.

1:18.0

Now for some people who may be new to listening to me or who maybe don't follow along on social

1:22.0

media or didn't know that I was working

1:25.0

corporate jobs on the side while building balance black girl may be thinking, oh I thought

1:28.6

it was your job the whole time.

1:30.9

But the ones that know, no.

1:33.0

And I have really appreciated how supportive people have been and how much many of you have been

1:41.0

rooting for me on this journey.

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