Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Kelly here, and we are continuing this week's conversation with Coya Webb.

Today we dig into how Coya preserves and centers joy in her professional life. She offers some really great

tips and tools. So let's check it out. All right, Coya, we're back. I'm excited to keep having

this conversation with you. And so two second recap, we talked about how you pivoted your life. You knew some things about yourself. And you said, I am not made for the struggle life. So I am going to create the life that I want. We went into detail about how you did that. And so now here you are having this life that you want.

But as we know, career can be up and down. What we do in our professional life can vary. And so how do you center joy and keep joy in the middle of all that you do for a living?

I love that question because for me, it always goes back to my schedule.

And it's not about having the perfect schedule or perfectly following your schedule,

but it's about having it because I, for myself and for my clients,

create an ideal schedule.

And in that ideal schedule, I'm getting six to eight

hours of sleep. I have time in the morning for what I call my spiritual time. I have my work hours.

And then I have my community hours or my personal time with me and my partner, you know,

that I have in the evening. And I have days off on the weekend. And so for me,

that's how I center joy is just creating time for the things that I know that it's going to

help me being my best, you know? And as an introverted extrovert, like I need time to be

within, go within, practice mindfulness and connect with my spiritual self. So in the morning,

I spend anywhere from two to four hours just reading, meditation, journaling, yoga, hiking,

swimming, like whatever I want to do that's connecting with myself, nature. Sometimes I invite

friends, close friends during this time.

But it's really about just like having fun and experiencing joy in my morning. And that really

makes my workday really juicy. Like I'm revved up when I start work at 11 o'clock. I'm ready to go.

I'm happy. I'm excited. And I get the most productive work. And then I work back to back until five o'clock

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