Welcome to Black Girl Burnout, Kelly here, and we are back with part two of our three-part series

with Dr. Cassandra Dunbar, the host of the podcast,

Be Well Sis. If you caught last episode, we talked a lot about the concept of opting at a struggle,

both how Dr. Dunbar does that in her day-to-day life and also how we as a community can do that

when it comes to concepts like health and wellness

in the black community.

This episode, though, we dive a little bit deeper into concepts of opting in, right?

We always talk about in this podcast, if we're letting something go, if we're opting out of

something, we've got to be opting into something in exchange.

And so to that point, we are talking about how Cassandra opts into joy, opts into the concepts

we talk about in her professional life. Stay tuned. I think you're going to enjoy this conversation.

So let's jump back in with Cassandra Dunbar,

host of Be Well Sis, and our conversation about opting into joy.

So Cassandra, you talked about motherhood. And one of the things, first of all, I should tell you,

like, one of the concepts of this podcast is all about opting out of struggle. And when we talk about

opting out of struggle, we really have this foundational belief I have is that we as black women

have been taught that our legacy, what we

see depicted culturally and in, you know, social media and in the, in like what we consume

on TV and other places is this kind of idea that it just were meant to struggle. Like being

a black woman is just a struggle fest. Right. And you said in your own experiences that part of what stopped you from pursuing, like,

reducing burnout early was that you assumed, well, this is what motherhood is.

Right.

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