Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here.

And today I am talking about my own financial journey and how I've opted into financial wellness. I want to spend some time talking about

my own journey, my own relationship with finances, be transparent up front about things,

and tell you where I am using the same framework that I talked to you about on Monday. So earlier in the week, I talked about

how the way to get out of a poverty mindset is to dream in the affirmative, have some affirmations.

I said it's also about shifting to a growth or abundance mindset. That was step two. And then step

three was taking inspired action

with, we said the new B word isn't budget, but boundaries. And so I want to revisit how I've done that,

give you behind the scenes in Black Girl burnout and how Black Girl burnout's operating, and be honest

about where I am financially with a view to saying

that, again, I'm growing with you and taking the lessons that I've learned. So I will start by

saying that I am extremely fortunate financially that while currently I will talk about some of the challenges with finances that I am

having, I have been very blessed with a couple of things. One, I'm tenacious. I know how to make

money. I'm really good at what I did. And I worked really hard to be really good at what I do.

So I have two businesses. You are experiencing the one Black Girl burnout.

But Black Girl burnout and transparency is funded almost entirely by my day job, my other business,

which is a consultancy called Burn Bright. This is a consultancy where I am an expert in sexual violence prevention in the workplace,

discrimination prevention in the workplace.

I'm really good with helping people create strategies and roadmaps.

I help professionally develop diversity professionals and wellness professionals and and sexual harassment prevention,

practitioners, people who do this kind of work, people who play key and pivotal roles in

a business, but are often like the unsung heroes, I come in and teach you how to get more funding, how to integrate your values and your goals

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