Welcome to Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here, and we are continuing right on with our series about giving yourself permission to stop settling.

Today is all about how to stop settling in your professional life.

No, no, no, no, no. We are no longer settling in our careers. I want to talk about how

burnout, hustle culture, and fear of rejection can lead to settling in your professional life.

Now, we all know the world around us isn't fair.

We all know it's particularly less fair to women of color,

to black women to be specific.

And it is really easy to end up settling in your job.

Between the fact that you are constantly having to deal with some version of probably a microaggression, to just outright aggression, to just toxic work culture

in general, work kind of is terrible across the board for a lot of people, regardless of their demographics.

So you have that on one hand, and then you have toxic hustle culture, which tells you that

somehow you can out hustle toxicity, you can out hustle sexism and racism, that if you do more,

more, more, more, more, if you give up more, more, more,

if you dishonor yourself or betray yourself more, more, more and more, that there's some kind

of magical pot of gold at the end of that rainbow. And I'm here to tell you, many of you are

younger than me. Some of you, a few of you are beautifully more mature

than me, you know the answer to that. And I'm here to tell you, particularly if you're younger than me,

the beautifully more mature of us already know this answer. But if you are younger than me,

that is a lie. There is no way to out hustle toxicity. You just can't do it.

And so if you think working harder is going to get you more money and a job that dishonors you,

disrespects you, it has not paid you fairly, I promise you it won't. I promise you because I've done it and all it gave

me was an immune disease, frustration and anxiety, and no career satisfaction. The need to be

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