Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast, a weekly conversation about mental health,

personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions

of ourselves.

I'm your host, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia.

For more information or to find a therapist in your area, visit our website at therapyforblackgirls.com.

While I hope you love listening to and learning from the podcast, it is not meant to be a substitute

for a relationship with a licensed mental health professional.

Hey y'all!

Thanks so much for joining me for session 137 of the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast,

and Happy New Year!

I hope that your 2020 is also an amazing start, and I'm really happy to hear that so many

of you love the 20 questions we shared in the last episode.

We'll definitely be checking in on you throughout the year to see what kind of progress

you're making with your answers.

I know that many of you are probably working on some pretty big goals and dreams this year.

Things you've maybe been wanting to do for a while, and I heard a podcast recently that sparked

my thoughts and the information that I wanted to share with you today.

So I was listening to the most recent episode of the Massive Scale Podcast,

is definitely when you want to check out if you're an entrepreneur and you want to hear how others

have been able to build and scale their businesses, and it featured a conversation with Sarah Blakely

of Spanx. She shared something that I thought could be an important message for many of you.

She said that when she first had her idea for Spanx, she didn't talk to anyone about it other

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