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Black Girl Burnout

Shift Your Thoughts And RUNON with Rhonda Ross - Part 3

Black Girl Burnout

Kelley Bonner

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this soul-nourishing and joy-filled conclusion to the Black Girl Burnout series with Rhonda Ross, Kelley and Rhonda close out their conversation by focusing on the power of integration, community, and what it truly means to protect your joy. Rhonda shares how centering and claiming all parts of herself has not only deepened her personal healing but also allowed her to show up more fully for the communities she loves.

💡 Today You’ll Learn:

  • Why self-care is a radical act of community care
  • How meeting your own emotional needs empowers you to be more generous and grounded
  • The difference between happiness and true, sustainable joy
  • How Black women can build community around healing, stability, and reciprocity
  • Practical ways to protect your joy—even in the face of life’s inevitable challenges

This episode is a celebration of what becomes possible when you tend to your inner world. Rhonda reminds us that joy is not about perfection—it’s about power, presence, and mindset.

✨ Episode Highlights:

01:00 Why community care starts with self-nourishment

05:00 How mutual care creates a feedback loop of love and support

07:00 Why obstacles are not the enemy of joy—they’re part of the path

09:00 Rhonda defines the difference between happy and joyful

11:00 How the “magic of mindset” keeps her grounded, no matter what

If you’ve ever wondered how to hold joy in the midst of struggle, this episode is your answer. You can be soft. You can be stable. You can be joyful—and still be healing.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here, and we are closing out our week with Rhonda Ross.

0:15.6

We close our week out like we always do, talking about joy.

0:19.0

But this is really special this episode because Rhonda really talks us about integration,

0:24.9

about how she is able to find joy by claiming and centering all parts of herself.

0:30.9

It's a great conversation.

0:32.5

Let's listen to Rhonda's final words for us.

0:41.2

Okay. Rhonda's final words for us. Okay, we're back.

0:42.6

This has flown by this conversation.

0:44.8

It has been so powerful and so impactful.

0:47.0

And I'm so grateful for your time.

0:48.5

And we always have a tradition here at Black Girl Burnout.

0:51.7

We talk about joy here.

0:52.8

This is rooted in joy. It's like we're

0:54.9

getting out of struggle. We're leaving that behind. We're going to learn the mindset work. And we're

0:58.9

going to step into our real, what we really should be inheriting, which we really got from our

1:04.0

family and our ancestors is joy. And so you made this statement about self-care being community care.

1:10.8

So I want you to talk a little bit about what that is and how you leverage the self-care,

1:15.5

your self-care, your nourishment, how you leverage that to impact your community.

1:20.1

Yes, yes, thank you.

1:22.6

So, yeah, I deeply believe that self-care is community care.

1:28.4

I gave an example earlier about the snorkel.

1:32.3

That is one way.

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