Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Kelly here. And today I want to talk about how to opt

into adventure. I try to live as adventurous a life as I possibly can. I've always been an adventurous

kid, mostly in the fact that I was stubborn and I didn't like anyone telling me I couldn't do

a thing that I wanted to do it myself. But today we're going to talk about how to infuse adventure in your life in the context of how to have an exciting life that you cannot wait to jump up every day and live.

And I know that that sounds very aspirational as many of us get up in the morning and we're just like, my life is not an

adventure. It's a series of things I have to do to pay my bills and to take care of the people

I love, including myself. But I'm going to talk about how I injected adventure into my life and how possible it really is for every single one of you.

And I think that's what's important about today's episode is so many of us feel like adventure requires some kind of extreme choice or extreme epiphany to just like run off and and leave our life behind.

Or that, in line with that, adventure is escapism.

That people, when they think of adventure, they think about running away, not living up to their responsibilities,

or making really irresponsible choices.

And instead, I'm going to try to make the case for how you can put adventure in your life in small ways daily

and how those small choices that you make will easily have

you on the path to living an adventurous life. As I said, I consider myself an adventurer. I am a

very curious person and that drive for knowledge and wanting to know something often

sends me on different adventures.

I've had professional adventures.

I've had personal adventures.

I love learning new things and that curiosity has in my mind happily set me up for a life of adventure.

But we're going to talk about how to infuse your life with adventure in three different ways.

Really, it's all about taking risks, dreaming big, and finding your joy.

And so we're going to talk about each one of those three qualities of an adventurer

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