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Black Girl Burnout

Shift Your Thoughts And RUNON with Rhonda Ross - Part 2

Black Girl Burnout

Kelley Bonner

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 762 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this transformative and deeply practical episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley continues her conversation with Rhonda Ross as they dive into the heart of Rhonda’s life-changing framework: the magic of mindset. Rhonda vulnerably shares her personal journey through depression, infertility, and career setbacks—and the tools she used to reclaim her power. Through her “RUN ON” method, she teaches us how to stop gaslighting ourselves, feel our feelings, and rewire our internal narratives with gentleness and intention.

💡 Today You’ll Learn:

  • Why your feelings are your responsibility—and why that’s empowering, not blaming
  • How to identify and shift the automatic, negative thoughts looping in your mind
  • Rhonda’s RUN ON method for transforming mindset and managing emotions
  • Why intentional, nourishing thoughts (INTs) are the first step to healing burnout

 If you’ve ever felt stuck in loops of negative thinking, disconnected from your true feelings, or unsure how to shift out of burnout, Rhonda’s wisdom offers a way forward that is both powerful and deeply compassionate. You’ll leave with practical steps to help you feel more grounded, seen, and in control of your inner world.

✨ Episode Highlights:

  • 01:00 Rhonda shares her personal experience with depression and infertility
  • 03:10 Discovering the space between event and emotion and reclaiming power within it
  • 05:00 The “RUN ON” framework: five steps to shift your mindset
  • 08:45 Why INTs (Intentionally Nourishing Thoughts) matter more than toxic positivity
  • 17:00 A gift from Rhonda: free access to her course The Crucial First Step
  • 20:00 A sneak peek at the next episode: self-care, community care, and joy

This episode is an invitation to stop running on empty and start running on truth, gentleness, and intentional thought. You have the power—and now you have the tools.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here, and we are continuing our conversation with Rhonda Ross.

0:15.6

We've gotten to know her a little bit and have been amazed by her journey.

0:19.0

But now we start digging a little bit deeper into

0:21.6

the magic of mindset, into this run-on framework that Rhonda has developed. Listen carefully.

0:27.9

The tools she is giving are powerful and healing. Let's listen to more of what Rhonda has to say.

0:44.8

Okay, we are back with Rhonda Ross. We've already started a great conversation.

0:50.8

I'm so excited. Where we left off is you are standing on stage. You are storytelling.

0:55.9

You are singing. You are mindset coaching in the middle of these performances with your songs.

0:57.1

Yeah.

0:57.4

And you said what got you there was this term that you use called the magic of mindset.

1:03.9

So I want to step back and go back to that and have you explain again what does it mean

1:08.9

and how how that shifted your life let's just

1:12.9

start there let's start there um I'm going to tell you how how I came to it how I found it

1:20.7

well the magic of mindset is the fact that when we change our thoughts we change our life okay

1:27.2

so that's the magic of mindset.

1:29.7

I'm going to tell you how I came to it. It was the year 1999 going into 2000. And I was riding high.

1:37.7

I was on a soap opera in New York. I was Emmy nominated. I was newly married. And everything was going my way. And the soap opera I was on,

1:50.7

which is another world, got canceled. And my agent said, you know, if you want to keep working,

1:56.3

move out to Los Angeles. Well, everybody was worried about the cancellation. I wasn't because I was

2:00.8

like, look, I'm doing it in cancellation. I wasn't because I was like,

2:01.0

look, I'm doing it in daytime. I'm about to do it in prime time. Let's go. And so I moved out to

2:06.3

L.A. and all of a sudden, nothing was working. No auditions, no jobs, no accolades, no awards,

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