Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Today I want to talk about one of my favorite words, and that is the word audacity.

I love this word. I'm going to tell you all about why. And I'm also going to talk

today about how to opt into audacity in your life, how to become audacious day by day.

And as always, I'm going to end with a healing practice on what you can do today, right, this minute,

wherever you are,

to inject some more audacity into your life. So I love the word audacity because audacity is one of

those few words in the English language that have both a really positive connotation or meaning and a really negative

one, all in the same word. When you look up the word audacity, you get two definitions that are

completely in some ways opposite as far as the impression it gives you when you hear it.

The first definition for audacity, which is where we're going to

spend the most of today's episode talking about, is a willingness to take bold risks.

It's all about being fearless, daring, having bravery and courage. Think about heroes who are

audacious or have audacity, spirit, confidence, all these different words.

However, on the other side, audacity can also mean rude or disrespectful behavior, impudence.

So it can also mean people who are presumptuous or arrogant and insolent. Very few words have two

different meanings that evoke two different emotional responses when you hear it. And so today's

episode in some ways is about opting out of experiencing one type of audacity and fully opting into the other.

I feel that as black women and I'm sure women in general, we have a profound amount

of audacity thrown in our way. And I mean this in the negative connotation. And the way in which black women are disrespected in the

world around us is nothing short of audacity. If you look on, I love those memes on Instagram

that have women on boats and planes and cars. And underneath it, it says, looking for where men got their audacity from.

And usually it's in relation to how men can disrespect women and the bravery and the boldness

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