Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

And today we're going to talk about how to opt out of confusion in your life.

And instead, opt into clarity.

I'm going to start with a question. Have you ever been confused? I'm laughing because I feel like that was my entire 20s. The entire decade

was one of confusion. I was confused in every area of my life, professionally, personally, financially, just a lot of confusion.

And I want to talk about, one, the link between confusion and struggle, but the reasons why we

remain confused in situations and then stay in those situations with confusion and then talk about two ways to

really opt into clarity. So when we talk about confusion in our lives, I think about the

conversations I have with people. I want to say so much of the content that I produced for this podcast and the conversations I have with people. I want to say so much of the content that I produced for

this podcast and the conversations I have with you all are from conversations I have in real

life with black women who amazing, courageous, beautiful black women. And we're always having these kind of deep and thoughtful

conversations about life, about love, you name it, finances, family. There's really nothing

off the table. And often we talk about confusion in different areas of our life or past confusion in different areas of our life.

And inevitably, we think about how do we end up in the situation we're in and how to get out of it.

So a lot of times confusion, to me, the first thing that comes to mind is confusion and like your love life.

To put it mildly, it's hard out in these streets, to find partnership, to find a quality

person to be with and share your life with if that's your goal.

And so because of that, a lot of people on the journey to finding meaningful partnership end up in a lot of situationships and end up in dynamics with people where there is so much confusion.

Take the work world. There's a lot of times and there have been a lot of jobs I went to work saying, I know what I got hired to do, but I am really confused about what I'm doing right now and what this

job is.

What are we doing?

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