Welcome to the Balance Black Girl Podcast. We're putting Black Girl Magic in motion.

This show is dedicated to reinventing wellness for women of color.

I'm your host Lestrandra Alfred. Thank you so much for

tuning into the balanced Black Girl podcast. So currently I am on a bit of a summer hiatus.

So I am taking a break from interviewing,

taking a break from creating new episodes.

Actually, I do have a lot of interviews

that I've done over the summer that will be released

as new episodes in the coming weeks,

but I'm heading on vacation, and I really like to be present when new

conversations are dropped because I like to participate and I like to get your

direct feedback and talk to you about it and be able to engage

with our guests on social media. And I thought in the name of me also trying to be a better balanced black girl in the name of my vacation and kind of

of peak vacation for a lot of folks it would be a good time to instead of pumping out new interviews for a couple of weeks to take it back.

So we're going to have just a couple of rewind episodes while I'm out on vacation so that you can listen to what have

been some of my favorite conversations here on Balance Black

Girl and what happened to have been the first couple of conversations that I've had here

on balance Black Girl. So since debuting the show last October, the community that's

formed has been incredible and with each new episode we get thousands of new listeners

which I am humbled and amazed by. But I realize that some of those initial

conversations that we had for the show not as many people find

because they're buried if you come and find the show and you start listening to the

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