Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

And today I want to talk about giving yourself permission to stop.

Again, our theme for October.

But adding to it, we're going to talk about settling,

giving yourself permission to stop settling.

This week is all about dreaming bigger.

And now is the time to do an inventory, to take pause and think about how's my life? How do I feel about it?

What do I want more of in my life? What do I want less of in my life? And where am I settling?

This week really is all about the idea that settling is a mindset that's born out of

fear and societal expectations. I want to spend the week pushing these limitations and giving

yourself permission to think expansively, to think beyond the now, to think beyond this moment, to think beyond what you

are told to want and have. On that note, I want to talk about what settling is, what the cost of it can be,

and really push you towards expansive thinking. We're going to close with, as always, a prompt for you, something to work on

to make sure that you are set up right for this week and giving yourself permission to no

longer settle. So what is settling? And maybe it's better to say how it shows up in our

lives as examples, right? Settling to me is accepting mediocrity. It's holding on

a limiting belief. It's not taking risks because you're too scared of what might happen.

Settling keeps us locked in struggle. And that is just not what you deserve. Again, joy is your

birthright. And so settling has to go. It can't be in our

lives. I will tell you that this has been something that I unlocked just, I would say, in the last five

years of my life. And when I got really clear on what settling was, how I was accepting mediocrity, for example,

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