Welcome to Balanced Black Girl, a podcast dedicated to mental, physical, and emotional

health from the Black woman's perspective.

Tune in to hear from Black woman health and wellness experts giving the approachable

advice you need to help you feel your best.

I'm your host, Lestrandra Alfred.

Let's dive in.

Thank you for tuning into this week's episode of Balanced Black Girl Podcast.

My name is Lest, and I am really, really honored to have you today.

I'm continuing with my sabbatical through the month of December,

so I have one last rewind throwback.

I haven't fully decided what I want to call these.

I've been interchanging between rewinds and throwbacks.

One more of those episodes that I want to share with you,

which is another one of my favorites, all about connecting with the breath with Kathleen Booker.

So a little kind of behind the scenes note about this interview is we actually had to record it

twice because the very first time we recorded it, Kathleen was amazing, it was phenomenal,

it was beautiful, and I don't know if Mercury was in retrograde during that time or what was

going on, but the audio was completely worked, it was unusable, and she was gracious enough to

rerecord with me, and it can be really hard to rerecord things because when you have an organic

conversation, there can be anecdotes. It's like you can't recreate that, right?

Like lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice, and so I was really nervous because I knew

I loved Kathleen from our first conversation. I was so excited to share her and her work

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