Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

And this week in the States is all about gratitude and being thankful.

And in the spirit of that, I want to say,

I am thankful to all of you for everyone for listening.

And I am especially thankful for my team,

who we've had some new additions.

We'll talk about more incoming episodes.

And in honor of that, we're taking the week off, but we're not going to leave you hanging.

Instead, we're going to give you some episodes from the past that really tie into the theme of this month, which is all about gratitude.

I hope you enjoy these replays, and we'll see you with some new episodes next week.

Thank you. and we'll see you with some new episodes next week. Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout Podcast.

I want to talk about today how we can opt out of complication and opt into simple living.

I have often said one of my favorite songs is Lauren Hill's X Factor because of the opening lines of that song that starts with. It could all be so simple, but you have to make it hard. And while that was a lyric meant for the end of a partnership and the struggle of that partnership,

I often feel like that is such a simple and pure truth that when we opt out a struggle,

we're really saying, I'm choosing the easy way.

I'm not going to make this harder on myself.

And part of opting out of the struggle

is simplifying your life. And that's not about material possessions, although it could be.

You're burdened by too much stuff. Your life does get unnecessarily complicated. But simple living is a mindset.

It's a way of being that allows you to fully embrace yourself, fully embrace your goals,

and fully embrace happiness. Most people who are extremely successful or more importantly, extremely happy,

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