Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

And this is our final part of our interview with Dr. Amber today.

I am so excited.

If you've been through the week with us, you have really witnessed a

powerful conversation with Dr. Amber and I all about the lies, the myths of motherhood, and how

we can opt in to struggle as mothers and end up teaching our children how to not be joyful. And so in this last

segment, I talked to Dr. Amber all about how she centers joy in her life day to day, outside

of the labels of mother, outside of the labels of a partner, outside of the labels as this

millennial, maternal wellness expert,

how Dr. Amber is just Amber and walks through the world. Again, if you are like me,

which is intentionally child-free, this week's of episodes is still for you. I felt so excited about the conversation I had

with Dr. Amber. And I don't have children. I'm not ever going to have children. I'm committed to

being a community's rich auntie. But I am not going to have children. And yet I found this conversation so powerful because it made me

think about my own mother and my grandmother and all of the women in my maternal line and how I wish

they would have had this information and how I'm using it in my life to help my friends and my family and other people,

that they can learn a new way of embracing motherhood as a black woman.

So share this episode with a mom if you feel inclined to do so.

All right, let's get into the last part of our conversation with Dr. Amber Thornt.

For a long time, I've been a rider. All right, let's get into the last part of our conversation with Dr. Amber Thornt. We are back with Dr. Amber.

Thank you for hanging out with us this week as we deconstruct motherhood and blackness and all of the things associated with it. And we talked about professionally how you center joy. And I always ask black women because I feel like one thing about black women, I say this all the time. It's like we're going to get a bag. We're going to do well professionally. We're like addicted to getting a new degree. I just had this conversation with someone. You're like,

I'm unlearning that I don't need to get another certification. Like I have five master's degrees and I don't need to get another like, so what am I doing? Like just stop it. Right. we are going to be out here doing the most professionally.

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