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Balanced Black Girl

[Solo Episode] Mental Health Check-In: Challenges of Entrepreneurship and Life Updates (Part 1)

Balanced Black Girl

She's So Lucky

Health & Fitness, #Shessolucky, Balancedblackgirl, Lesalfred, Balancedles

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

#233: At the beginning of the year, I moved to New York City and started working as a full-time podcaster and content creator.

In today’s solo episode, I’m opening up about the challenges I’ve experienced so far, what changes I’m making to support my mental health, and how I’m using new wellness tools to spark my next creative endeavor.

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:04.0

Hello friend,

0:10.0

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

0:15.2

So if you have been listening to this podcast for a while, you know I usually come at you with a long-form

0:21.1

episode every Tuesday. That is what I've been doing since 2018. And this

0:27.2

week we're doing something a little bit different because sometimes when it comes to production

0:31.3

and when it comes to life we got to be a little bit more flexible and we have to pivot.

0:37.5

So this week instead of one long episode I'm actually coming at you with a two-parter, a little more compact but still really meaningful.

0:46.4

We're having a few mental health check-ins to kick off Mental Health Awareness Month.

0:51.6

So today I'm just going to have a short but sweet

0:56.1

candid conversation with a mental health check-in for myself talking about how

1:02.2

things have been going for me my first few months of

1:04.4

entrepreneurship settling into life on the East Coast and just some changes

1:09.2

that I'm making in my life to support my mental health.

1:13.0

And then later this week, we're going to be coming out with part two of the check-in

1:17.5

where I have invited a friend to join me on the show,

1:22.0

to talk a bit more about their experiences with healing and

1:25.7

tending to their mental health so enjoy part one of our mental health check-in. Thank you for listening to Balance Black Girl Podcast.

1:41.0

My name is Les, I am your host and I come out with new

1:44.8

episodes every week talking about the different things that we are balancing

1:48.6

in our lives and I do a mix of solo episodes. I do interviews and I've been on an interview kick lately.

1:58.0

For the past couple months it has been back-to-back interviews which have been great.

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