Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here.

And today I want to talk about how to opt into expansion, how to live an expansive, big life.

I feel like it's something that we all want to do and all want as a goal.

But being expansive, being broad, being big, living out your dreams, all those things.

There's something that happens as you get older, right?

As you stop thinking, the world is so big and there's so many possibilities to your life. As you get older, you lose that child like wander

where one day you wanted to be maybe a doctor or an astronaut or even like me. Like one of the

things I wanted to be was a cashier at a grocery store because I liked all the buttons.

As you get older, though, those types of dreams, no matter if they're big or small, we start limiting them.

We start saying things like, well, you aren't going to make enough money as a cashier.

Or being an astronaut requires a lot of work and you have to be really

good at math and science. So maybe that's not on the path for you. Being a doctor has high

pressure. We start talking ourselves out of our dreams. And sometimes that's a perfectly natural

and appropriate thing to be doing. There are some

dreams that we just should not pursue. They're not realistic to pursue or sometimes we just

outgrow our dreams. There are things that I wanted to be as a kid that I am genuinely satisfied

and thrilled I did not pursue as a career.

But the spirit of expansion, the spirit of feeling that your life is filled with possibility,

that is the energy that we don't want to lose, even if our dreams and our hopes may change.

The fact that anything could happen at any moment and that we're

capable of anything, that spirit and attitude goes away as we get older. And I want to spend

the week talking about how to get it back. We're going to talk today about how to opt into

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