Welcome to Black Girl Burnout, Kelly here, and we are back with our last part of our incredible conversation with Dr. Jennifer Gomez.

I have loved this conversation. And today we close again

on a high note talking about how Jennifer has joy in her personal life. I think the most important

thing any black woman can do, you've heard me say this over and over, is find a way to live a life of

joy. That is the ultimate act of resistance. That is the ultimate act of caregiving. It's all

wrapped up in us finding joy. So let's tune in and hear Jennifer describe how she beautifully

integrates joy into her personal life.

So last but not least, I want to just talk to Jennifer. You have this incredible body of work,

but you were first someone who was in ballet and you were first

at creative and all these things. I want to know for you on a personal level now. Because I think

black women have got professional. We could tell you for years how we do professional work.

What personally, how do you, Jennifer, how do you pursue a life of joy for yourself just as you outside of, outside of work?

I love that question. So for me, and this is maybe my personal or my professional like anal head coming into play, but like life is hard.

You know what I mean? And just just seeing that like know, like, joy will, like, stumble upon me in the middle of my week, like, isn't

realistic, you know, for me. And so I've scheduled my work to where I, I work very early in

the morning. I can do this as a professor, make my own schedule. At, like, four and five in

the morning, I'm working. And I'm done at like two-ish some days.

The latest I'll work is till four.

And I have entire afternoons to myself.

I'm in Boston.

I walk up and down the Charles River.

I do cardio at home.

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