Welcome to Black Girl Burnout.

Kelly here.

And today we are back with part two of our conversation with Brianna Holt, the author of the book In Our Shoes.

We're going to pick up in the conversation today and discuss

about Brianna's professional life and how she has managed to infuse joy in her profession,

even though, as you know, we've talked about before, she primarily writes about culture and race.

And in the book itself, In Our Shoes, it's a somber at times look at the experience of what it means to be a black millennial woman.

So let's jump right back into our conversation with Brianna Holt, author of In Our Shoes, as she discusses how she maintains joy in her professional life.

So Brianna, so glad to have you here again.

We are talking with Brianna Holt.

And we just talked about really powerfully your book and how it details really

brilliantly the struggle of black women with burnout and just encapsulates entirely the black

woman's experience, to be clear. I think it's in all areas this book covers. But we talk about

burnout because of the nature of this podcast. And we just talked about how you've opted out

a struggle, how this book really in a about how you've opted out a struggle,

how this book really in a way is helping women opt out a struggle too by showing a mirror to them.

But let's be honest, these are deep topics you got into. I realized as I was reading the book that I was like, okay, I'm going to take a break. Come back. We just talked about black women's bodies.

Let me go.

Come back.

Reset because it's heavy.

There's a heaviness.

And particularly, I'm a little bit of an older millennial to you.

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