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Balanced Black Girl

Stop Humbling Yourself: Owning Your Confidence with Alexis Barber

Balanced Black Girl

She's So Lucky

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

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

#290: Why do successful, confident women seem to get hate for taking up space?

Today I’m bringing back content creator, podcast host of Too Smart for This, and founder of Too Collective, Alexis Barber, to chat about the burnout that comes with juggling multiple careers, what it takes to build a luxury brand, and how to deal with spaces that still question the value of female success.

From dealing with hate comments to redefining what it means to be “relatable,” we talk about feeling the pressure to stay small while reaching for big dreams. Whether you’ve been told you’re too smart, or too ambitious, you’re just getting started.

We Also Talk About…

  • How Alexis built a luxury brand while navigating the pressures of maintaining a full-time corporate career
  • The realities of burnout when you’re balancing multiple careers and passions
  • The impact of hate comments and the challenges of staying confident as a woman in business
  • Redefining what “relatable” really means in a world that expects women to shrink
  • Why being unapologetically ambitious is necessary—and how to own it

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

0:22.6

Alexis, welcome back to the show.

0:25.4

Thank you. Wait, I'm so excited to be back to.

0:28.6

I'm excited to have you back because I feel like the last time that you came on,

0:32.1

I think it was maybe like three years ago. I think it was 2022.

0:32.9

Yeah.

0:35.0

Either 2021 or 2022.

0:36.1

I think it was. And I think we're both living like entirely different lives than we were at that time.

0:41.6

Ain't that the truth?

0:42.4

I think we did like a Zoom.

0:44.3

We did Zoom.

0:45.2

We did Zoom last night.

0:46.2

Because the show was audio only.

0:47.7

I was living in L.A.

0:48.8

You were here in New York.

0:50.3

Oh, my God.

0:51.0

What a time.

0:51.7

A lifetime ago.

0:52.6

Yeah.

0:53.1

That was crazy.

0:53.9

Yeah. That was crazy. Yeah. I'm so shocked because then I moved to L.A. for a little bit too after that. And then life all changed. And then you moved to my house. And then now we're kind of neighbors. People don't know that. People don't know that. You're semi responsible for me living in New York. Don't you love that? Yeah. It was great. I mean, I wouldn't have wanted anyone else to live there. Like, truly. Yeah. Well, I'm responsible for me living in New York. Don't you love that? Yeah. It was great.

1:10.9

I mean, I wouldn't have wanted anyone else to live there.

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