Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

And today I want to talk to you about what exactly is Black Girl burnout.

I know that you probably have felt it, even if you can't language it.

So today I want to talk to you about the symptoms of black girl burnout, what burnout is,

and what specifically it means for black women, and honor you and say that again,

you've probably felt it.

When I'm talking about black girl burnout, what am I talking about?

It is the knots in your shoulder. It is the rock in the pit of your stomach. It's the

exhaustion you feel when you have to engage with another coworker who is committing all kinds

of microaggressions against you.

It's the frustration of realizing that if the American dream isn't even possible for white

people anymore, what am I striving for? Why am I even trying? It's the tears you hold back

when you see another incident of police brutality or another

verdict that just reinforces for you that the justice system was never created for black people

and that we often operate with none of the benefits from it.

How about it's the myth that you have told yourself and has been brought to you

by your mother and your grandmother and generations of women that there is no use in being tired,

that there is no soft place for you to land, you just have to be strong, that myth of the strong

black woman. All of that

is black girl burnout. And so often we feel a thing before we language it. It's just the way we

are as humans. Like we feel those feelings before we even know what it is. That this cultural

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