Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout Podcast. Kelly here. And today we are diving into our third part of our week-long interview with Brianna Halt, author of the book In Our Shoes.

Brianna and I close out the week of interviews by talking about how she maintains joy in her

personal life. You're going to see her drop some really thoughtful tips on how she is doing that,

what boundaries she's creating, and how she is cultivating a life of joy outside of work.

All right. Let's jump right into this conversation.

All right, Brianna, I'm so excited to have you on this podcast.

It has been an honor.

I now want to talk to you a little bit about, we've recapped.

If you haven't listened to the rest of the week, what are you waiting for?

We want to listen to Brianna, talk about her book, also talk about opting out a struggle,

talk about how she creates a life of joy in her professional life, despite writing about very heavy topics regarding race and the intersection of womenhood and black womenhood.

And so our last conversation and topic always is joy in your personal life. And I always say, I think the thing

about black women, and you allude to this a little bit in your book as well, is we are natural

overachievers. It is rare to find a black woman who doesn't know how to get the bag, doesn't have

three side hustles, isn't excelling professionally. However, a lot of times there is this gap in the excellence of

a personal life, right? It comes as an expense. And so I really like to spend time asking people

to define for themselves however they define personal, how they cultivate or opt into a life

of joy in their personal life.

And so I wanted to give you an opportunity to speak about how are you cultivating joy in your

personal life?

Yeah, I've taken many steps to cultivate joy in my personal life.

First, starting with social media, I realized that I was really engaging with and consuming a lot of Eurocentric beauty standards

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