Opt Into Healing Your Money Mindset in Professional Spaces - Part 2
Black Girl Burnout
Kelley Bonner
4.7 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this deeply affirming and liberating episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley continues the powerful three-part series on healing your money mindset in professional spaces. Today’s focus: how to trust yourself when advocating for what you're worth—especially when others try to gaslight you out of your value. If you've ever asked, “Am I being too sensitive?” this episode will help you find your answer—and your power.
💡 Today You’ll Learn:
- How professional gaslighting shows up—especially for Black women
- Why your intuition is a valid and essential part of your decision-making
- How to stop over-explaining your worth and start owning your value
- Tools to recover and reclaim your peace after boundary violations at work
This episode is a call to honor your emotional truth, set clear boundaries around compensation, and stop justifying your value. You are not asking for too much. You are asking for what you deserve.
✨ Episode Highlights:
01:00 Why advocating for money is really about power
07:00 How microaggressions and coded language can cause self-doubt
10:45 Why feelings are data, not drama—and how to trust them
13:00 What to do after workplace gaslighting (journal, rewrite, and rest)
You’re not too sensitive—you’re finally paying attention. And that awareness is your superpower. Let this episode be your reminder: clarity is not conflict, and your needs are not negotiable.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout Podcast, Kelly here, and we are continuing our three-part series on how to opt into healing your money mindset and professional spaces. |
| 0:20.6 | Really, it's a series on burnout and money and how we as black women can begin |
| 0:25.6 | healing our relationship with both. |
| 0:28.6 | Because let's be real. |
| 0:30.7 | Ultimately, money is less about dollars and it's more about power. |
| 0:36.0 | It's about boundaries. |
| 0:40.0 | It's about how we let people speak to us and how we speak to ourselves when we feel undervalued. This specific episode today is going to focus in on |
| 0:46.7 | the question, am I being too sensitive? Because I want to talk about that moment, that moment where you |
| 0:53.0 | walk away from an email or a meeting and feel gutted, but still wondering if it's just you. |
| 1:00.7 | In this episode, we're going to really hone in on distinguishing between emotional truth, what your intuition is telling you, and professional gaslighting when it comes to advocating for |
| 1:11.7 | compensation, boundaries, and clarity. I know for myself, I felt that moment of reading an email |
| 1:18.6 | or having a conversation where I've been made to feel like I did something wrong, I'm asking for |
| 1:26.0 | too much. And my first reaction in old Kelly used to be, |
| 1:31.9 | maybe they have a point. Maybe I am jumping the gun and asking for more. That was the before. |
| 1:39.8 | That's certainly not the now. And there have been certainly many instances in my career where I have |
| 1:45.7 | almost talked myself out of self-advocacy, all because I was busy gaslighting myself and letting |
| 1:55.1 | other people gaslight me into thinking that what I deserve was somehow too much. I always tell this particular story because |
| 2:03.8 | it's very powerful and very upsetting professionally for me. Thinking back on how I've been in jobs where |
| 2:13.5 | I've not been well treated, I mean, there's been many jobs where that's been the case, but particularly one job, |
| 2:19.2 | I always tell this story about how I literally walked on water for a job. |
| 2:24.9 | And when I tell you, I took an impossible situation and not only made it possible, but made |
| 2:31.3 | it like very, the equivalent of award winning, I guess would be |
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