Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here, and we are continuing our conversation with Faith Brousard Cade.

In this episode, we talk about how community facilitates healing, letting go of toxic hustle mindset,

and we delve into Faith's book, Shine Bright Anyway, 90 days of affirmations to declare

you are enough when the world says you are not. We talk about how to actually turn

affirmations into action. Let's tune in to the conversation.

All right. We're back, Faith. This conversation just got started. Like, I feel like we're,

we went immediately to like head first, right? Head first, deep end deep and beautifully and I want to keep that going

and the way I want to keep that going is talking a little bit about what are some we'll start with

this what are some of the mindset work that you had to do and shifts you had to make to let go because

you're really outspoken about toxic culture, excuse me, toxic hustle culture and leaving that behind. How did you have to pivot?

And what would you recommend for other people, I guess, from your learning? Wow. So, I mean,

for me, it was it was learned out of necessity. I was forced to learn it because I was forced to make a choice.

When you are in like just a desperate situation, like I was in car accident, traumatic brain injury, I'm a wife. I'm a mom of a three-year-old daughter at the time um

i didn't really get like a leisurely choice to make right it was not like oh think about it and get back

to yourself on whether or not you're going to let some

things go. It was like either you let some things go or you will never recover from this.

Point blank, period. And hearing that from my clinicians, hearing that from my doctors,

neurologist, neuropsychologists,

orthopedic, like they're running the gamut of all of the people. It forced me to make a choice.

Do I want to recover and have a future with my family and possibly, you know, experience life in a bigger, more fulfilling,

more intentional way because up until that point, I think I had just been existing like most of us.

We just, we just getting through the day.

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