Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here. And today we're going to talk about opting out of scarcity. You've probably heard

scarcity mentioned that word several times in different contexts. Definitely in relation to

growth mindset or abundance, you'll hear that the opposite of those things is a scarcity mindset.

It's kind of the killer of abundance in your life. And I thought today we could talk a

little bit about what scarcity does, how it impacts us, and how we can actually effectively opt

out of scarcity. I'm particularly called to do this episode because, as I told you earlier,

this year for me is about abundance. It's about abundance and joy and believing

the kind of anthem affirmation that I say to myself and have said on this podcast that there is

more and more and still more for both myself and for you. But in order to get to that place, I had to overcome a lot of scarcity mindset.

A lot of feelings that come when you're in a space of scarcity.

I had to let that go to be able to even believe those words that I said to you my affirmation

for the year, my anthem. So what exactly is

scarcity or a scarcity mindset? It really is this belief in less that there's only a little bit,

that this moment is all you have, that there will never be another person or place or opportunity.

It's this belief that there's a finite amount of a thing or a person or a place, but just there's only so much. And because there's only so

much, it changes the way we approach things. Now, I often talk about believing and embracing the

fact that there's only a finite amount of time or a finite

amount of you as a person. That there's only so much time you have in a day. There's only so much

of you, your health, your ability to connect to people. There's only so much that we have inside

of ourselves during a lifetime. And I say all that usually to

empower people to take advantage of every opportunity and to live their lives, treating themselves

as precious. Because when things are few, we treat them as precious. Think about, for example,

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