Opt Out Of Being A Strong Black Woman - Part 2
Black Girl Burnout
Kelley Bonner
4.7 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout Podcast. In this episode, Kelley continues her discussion on the importance of opting out of being a strong black woman. Today we will specifically focus on practical ways to opt out of playing the strong black woman role in your personal life. This episode is for you if you are ready to learn how to redefine your strength in romantic, platonic, and familial relationships. More, more, and still more is within your reach in 2024. Tune in today and prepare yourself to engage in realistic strategies that can help you with opting into a life filled with abundance and joy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here. |
| 0:12.6 | And today I want to continue our discussion on opting out of being a strong black woman. |
| 0:18.1 | Monday, we talked about why that myth is so harmful and how it has been weaponized, |
| 0:24.1 | basically, by history and unintentionally by our culture to keep women trapped in struggle, |
| 0:32.7 | not speaking up for what they need, and overextending themselves to prove their worth and value. |
| 0:40.6 | I said on Monday, we can't opt out of struggle and be opted into the stereotype of being the strong |
| 0:47.4 | black women. I know so many of you are already on this path. And so many of you are waking up or realizing just like me |
| 0:56.5 | that that stereotype, that title, has done more damage than it's ever done good for you. |
| 1:05.4 | Well, today I want to narrowly focus in on our interpersonal relationships. |
| 1:12.6 | What's going on in our personal life? I want to talk about specifically how to opt that of being a strong black woman |
| 1:17.7 | in our romantic relationships, in our friendships, in our friendships, and in our familial |
| 1:23.8 | relationships. |
| 1:25.2 | On Monday, I talked about redefining strength as the cure to letting go of the myth of the strong black woman. And we're going to talk more about that when we get into professional relationships that we have and our relationship to our work, how we were redefining strengths there. |
| 1:45.3 | Today, though, I want to anchor into the question, where has silence entered into your |
| 1:51.1 | relationships? Another way of asking this is what is going unsaid currently in your relationships? |
| 2:04.7 | So where has silence entered into your relationships? |
| 2:13.0 | And what is going unsaid in your current relationships? That is the theme of today is letting go of silence, which is a huge component of the strong black woman stereotype. |
| 2:19.2 | So many of us have things that are unsaid, whether it's between our partners, our parents, |
| 2:26.9 | our siblings, our cousins, our best friends, our acquaintances. |
| 2:31.3 | We spend a lot of our life in hidden silence. So much of what gets |
| 2:41.7 | communicated about a relationship, so much so that if you want to tell the health or the |
| 2:49.8 | temperature of a relationship, the answer is in what is going unsaid. |
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