Tarana Burke on Putting Your Health First

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This episode mentions sexual assault, which could be triggering to some listeners. Tarana Burke coined the phrase “me too” to help young Black girls in Selma, Alabama talk about sexual assault over a decade ago. But when #MeToo went viral overnight in 2017, Tarana had to figure out how to share her life’s work and its resources with a broader audience. Today, Tarana’s facing new challenges: how to offer sexual assault survivors the resources they need over the internet, and learning to balance her own needs alongside her work. In this episode, Tarana talks about: How “me too” began How she keeps going when personal and professional overlap How she approaches burnout and recovery Why rest is important for work

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0:00.0	If you are burned out and feeling burned out, then we should respect that.
0:08.5	We have to appreciate burnout and the process of building ourselves back up from burnout.
0:14.9	When you feel burnt out and when you feel depleted and you don't have anything else left to
0:19.3	give, what the world tells us, and not even just the world, what we tell each other, is
0:24.6	that we're not useful.
0:26.4	But this works not the only thing that's important, you are important as an individual.
0:30.8	I'm Carly Zaken and I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:33.8	Welcome to 9-5-ish with the skin.
0:36.6	We've run into so many questions over the years and had so many moments where we needed advice
0:42.7	and we got it from women who'd been there.
0:46.3	And that's what we're bringing you with this show.
0:48.4	Each week we're helping you get what you want out of your career by talking to the smartest
0:52.7	leaders we know.
0:54.3	We know your work life is a lot more than 9-5.
0:58.4	All right, let's get into it.
1:02.2	Hey everyone, it is Carly.
1:04.0	Today, my guest is Tarana Burke.
1:06.7	She was time magazine's person of the year in 2017.
1:10.6	But she has been working at the intersection of racial justice and sexual assault for decades.
1:16.3	Tarana has worked as an organizer since she was a teenager growing up in the Bronx.
1:20.6	She has dedicated her life to providing resources and opportunities for women and girls
1:25.3	to heal from their experiences.
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