Listener Question - "How Are You Handling IRS Debt + Financial Struggle?"

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 52 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.

I've got a listener question today that came from my Instagram dm's. She wanted to know how I hancled/am handling my IRS debt. Listen in and I'll share the simple steps I took for my 13k of IRS debt as well as the mindset shifts I finally made regarding financial/struggle cycles.

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

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, what's going on? You are listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast. My name is Bree,
0:06.9	and I'm the host of the show, as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self Care. Brown Girl Self Care is a
0:12.0	platform in space of intentional healing, joy, rest, abundance, and liberation for black women.
0:17.4	In today's episode, I am actually digging into the mailbag, i.e., Instagram messages.
0:23.9	I received a message, excuse me, from a black woman who wanted me to talk more about
0:30.8	my journey from financial struggle and also just how I am working through the tax debt that I owe with the IRS.
0:42.2	So I believe I talked about that in last week's episode or in the last couple of episodes.
0:46.9	If you haven't had a chance to listen to that, girl, go ahead and listen to that maybe after this
0:52.6	episode. But, you know, let's just go ahead and jump right into it.
0:57.8	So I want to say that I'm not a tax professional.
1:00.1	I'm just speaking the way I feel like the spirit is moving me because I definitely want to get out of a space where I'm feeling shame or embarrassed about talking about my financial struggle because
1:11.5	I am currently right now in this moment, okay? Let's be very clear. Going through some
1:17.7	things financially. And like I mentioned in the last podcast episode, I feel like it's just a
1:23.6	loop, okay, that it just continues to go. I get out of debt, I get back into debt.
1:28.7	I pay off all my credit cards.
1:30.1	I run up the cards.
1:31.0	You know what I'm saying?
1:31.7	So for a variety of reasons.
1:33.6	And so I don't want to be a slave to my story.
1:37.6	I don't want to be ashamed of my story.
1:39.6	I want to work through this, okay?
1:41.7	So I can get out of this loop because that for me is a part of my liberation.
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