In 2025 I Want To Talk About Breaking My Cycle of Financial Struggle

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Brown Girl Self-Care is where Black women reclaim our wholeness and power in a world that demands our labor but denies our humanity. Here, the care of ourselves—and the care for each other—become sacred acts of justice, powerful ways of honoring our humanity in a world that doesn’t.

In this episode I'm getting real about my financial struggles, personal growth, and the steps I'm taking to break free from generational cycles of trauma and lack. I talk about my decision to leave corporate life in 2019 for my mental health, the challenges I faced thereafter, and my ongoing battle with debt. I want to STRESS the importance of shedding shame and guilt tied to financial hardships while discussing the conditioning and societal expectations that often plague Black women. My hope is that other 'cycle breakers' will continue to prioritize healing, make intentional choices, and reframe their mindset around money and self-worth as they navigate their unique journeys in 2025 alongside me.

Let’s take this journey together—we are worthy of this care.

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1:01.2	Bree. I'm the host of the show as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self Care. Brown
1:05.1	Girl Self Care is a platform and space of intentional healing, joy, and rest for black women.
1:10.0	Today's episode, I want to dive a little deeper into my backstory, my origin story, my
1:15.9	villain's story.
1:18.9	I'm really being silly, but just dive into my story just a little bit because I think,
1:24.9	or I know that it has been quite some time since I've actually really shared me.
1:32.4	As you know, if you've been listening to the podcast for, you know, for the last year or so or last year or two,
1:37.6	I know a lot of times people don't go back into the archive or back into the crate to build or get a better understanding of someone's history. Sometimes you just jump
1:45.2	into a podcast or into a YouTube channel, for example, but you don't necessarily go back,
1:50.9	back, back to find specific episodes or videos where someone's talking about just like their
1:56.3	beginning. So I think it's literally time in 2025 to reintroduce myself. And I didn't fart. I promise. I'm shifting in my chair. To reintroduce myself and again, just shared a little bit of my background because a lot of times for me sharing my background also equals kind of like sharing my shame. And this is 2025. I don't want to walk in that shame story
2:19.5	anymore because I know there's just like so much ahead of me that I really want to be okay with
2:28.9	just sharing my past, okay, and just releasing any shame, guilt, et cetera. So let's just take it back.
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