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Why We Need Hobbies for Self-Care

She's So Lucky

She's So Lucky

Balancedblackgirl, Self-improvement, #Shessolucky, Balancedles, Business, Entrepreneurship, Lesalfred, Education

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re closing out our book club series talking about a very underrated form of self care— hobbies—and how Black women, specifically, need to embrace them for their own wellbeing.


Tune in to learn about the research-backed benefits of hobbies and how regardless of your age or skill level, there are so many hobbies out there for you.


I also talk about…

  • Re-evaluating why we’re seeking out another degree or business
  • Digging deeper to see what areas we’re truly dissatisfied with
  • The slippery slope from hobby to side-hustle
  • Reading as an accessible and deeply beneficial hobby
  • Reading what makes you feel joy, not just what you think you should


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you for tuning into Balance Black Girl. My name is Les. I am your host and this podcast

0:10.7

is all about getting our lives together together. So we talk about ways that we can live

0:15.2

our healthiest, happiest, most balanced lives. Now this month on the podcast we've been focusing

0:20.9

on book club. So each week we featured amazing black women authors who have launched their new

0:25.7

books this month. So make sure you check out those episodes, add those books to your TBR list.

0:30.8

But today we are going to wrap up the book club series talking about a very underrated form

0:37.8

of self-care. And that is hobbies. And specifically I'm going to talk about why black women in particular

0:45.6

need to learn how to embrace hobbies now. Don't throw tomatoes. Hear me out. I recently saw a

0:52.8

TikTok that said that when black women get bored we immediately jump to either getting another

0:58.2

degree or starting a business. And first of all I felt attacked which we'll talk about a little

1:04.1

bit later. Second of all there's actually so much data to back this up. Black women currently

1:09.7

make up over 60 percent of advanced degree program participants in the US. Now getting an advanced

1:16.1

degree not a bad thing. I'm not telling anybody to not go to school, to not pursue a certain career

1:22.6

path. But what I'm saying is if you are pursuing that out of boredom it might be time to reassess.

1:30.0

Also according to research by JP Morgan Black women are the fastest-going group of entrepreneurs

1:34.4

which means that we are opening businesses at rapid rates again. Black women in entrepreneurship

1:39.6

is fantastic and we can acknowledge that being an entrepreneur is not always the best thing for

1:45.3

your well-being. So we really have to look at the why we're doing these things. Why are we

1:49.5

pursuing these degrees? Why are we pursuing these businesses and is pursuing these things in the

1:54.1

best interest of our well-being? Now if you have a dope business idea that you want to bring into

1:59.1

the world, fantastic. If you have a specific career aspiration that requires a certain degree,

2:04.7

love to see it. However if you're bored, if you're sad, if you're lonely, if you're going through

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