Opt Into Healing Your Money Mindset in Professional Spaces- Part 3
Black Girl Burnout
Kelley Bonner
4.7 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this intimate episode, Kelley shares her own experience of reaching a threshold—the quiet ache of burnout and the radical realization that asking for more isn’t betrayal, it’s evolution. She explores why advocating for your value, especially as a Black woman, can feel like a violation of who you’ve been taught to be… and why it’s actually the boldest form of self-preservation. Listeners will reflect on the cost of overgiving, the inherited guilt around charging for their gifts, and how to shift from scarcity to self-honoring in their careers and creative work.
💡 Today You’ll Learn:
- Why asking for more is not “selling out”—it’s choosing self-respect
- The emotional toll of sacrificial generosity and overgiving in professional spaces
- How internalized scarcity and martyrdom narratives keep Black women stuck
- Reflective questions to help shift your money mindset from guilt to groundedness
- What it looks like to honor your value in real, tangible ways
This episode is an offering of clarity, calling listeners to remember: you deserve to be well-paid and well-rested. Kelley introduces The Clarity Catalyst, a new one-on-one coaching experience designed to help you identify your burnout triggers, redefine your worth, and walk boldly toward ease.
✨ Episode Highlights:
01:00 The ache behind burnout—and why Kelley is choosing differently this time
03:10 The quiet harm of overgiving masked as generosity
05:40 How societal myths (like martyrdom and professionalism) fuel scarcity
09:00 Reflective questions to reclaim your worth
11:00 Introducing the Clarity Catalyst—an offering to help you get unstuck
13:00 Final thoughts: this is your time to value yourself, unapologetically
You are not asking for too much. You’re asking for what you’ve always deserved. Let this episode be your permission to stop shrinking and start receiving—with intention, clarity, and care.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here. |
| 0:12.8 | And today we are closing out the week in part three of our Healing Your Money mindset series with a focus on professional spaces. And today, this episode is |
| 0:24.5 | going to focus on the statement, you're not selling out, you're evolving, how to ask for more |
| 0:33.0 | without guilt. That's really the heart of this episode. I really am going through some things myself that I |
| 0:39.2 | want to talk about and I want to connect it to how I think, many times I think what I'm going through |
| 0:45.0 | alone is not really alone and that many of you are going through it and you might need the tips |
| 0:49.7 | and tools that I am using to overcome the feeling of guilt that comes when you've been overgiving and |
| 0:57.1 | undervaluing yourself and calling that generosity and how to change that. Because here's the thing. |
| 1:03.2 | There's a moment in every journey where you realize that you've quietly outgrown a version of |
| 1:07.8 | yourself who thought she had to give everything away to be worthy. |
| 1:12.5 | I know that has been a journey for me. I started my career in a space that it was just like |
| 1:20.8 | inevitable I was going to burn out if you knew me back then. I was on a mission to save the world, |
| 1:27.0 | to do all the things and to do it at my |
| 1:30.3 | expense. Like, I thought that was just part of the gig. That was part of the game. That's what you do |
| 1:34.6 | in mental health. That's what you just do. And to realize after I had my own spectacular |
| 1:40.5 | burnout, three years into my career, that this cannot be the answer. I didn't know what the |
| 1:49.1 | answer was. And honestly, many years later, I am still realizing what the answer is. And I stand on |
| 1:56.5 | this precipice of a new door after so many have been closed to realize that I have to do things a little |
| 2:06.3 | differently and I have to do things differently involving my money mindset and the professional |
| 2:11.3 | space. I tell the story about when I was learning all about burnout and getting licensed in treating compassion fatigue |
| 2:19.7 | and things relate to burnout. My professor said in the training that the thing about burnout |
| 2:26.9 | and really honestly mental health treatment sometimes is that many people will show up to you |
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