Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here, and I am so excited for today's and this whole week's episode.

We are interviewing the phenomenal Sonia Renee Taylor. She is a New York Times selling best author of

seven books. She's a transformational thought leader, a world-renowned activist, award-winning

artist, and founder of the international movement, the body is not an apology. Her work has

reached millions of people by exploring the intersections

of identity, healing, and social justice using a radical self-love framework. She continues to write,

create, speak, teach, and transform lives globally. All of this is to say, Sonia is incredible.

We have a very beautiful conversation about who she is,

how she came to this belief system and this way of living where she says that her body is not an

apology. It gets deep, y'all, but it as always gets deep and joyful. So let's dive right in with the first kind of

snippet of our conversation with Sonia Renee Taylor. And we dive into who she is and how she came to

create this life-changing piece of work called The Body is Not an apology.

For a long time, I've been a rider to run. piece of work called The Body is Not an apology.

Hi, Sonia.

I am so excited to have you here today.

How are you doing?

I am great.

Thank you so much for having me.

I appreciate it.

No, I'm super excited. I came in here,

everybody, fan girl and already to talk about the body is not an apology, the power of radical self-love. I love, love, love this book. I really want, if there's, I don't say this often.

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