Black Girl Burnout

Black Girl Burnout is a podcast hosted by Kelley Bonner dedicated to helping black women manage the stress of daily living and preventing the detrimental effects of burnout. Black women often feel overburdened and undervalued, and this podcast offers palpable solutions for this undeniable phenomenon. Bonner is a licensed therapist with over 15 years of experience helping people and organizations transform, evolve, and heal burnout. Each week, she dives deep on topics around burnout including career burnout, relationship burnout, and how racism and sexism contribute to the acceleration of burnout-in just 15 minutes! Bonners helps listeners develop the tools to combat and overcome burnout. During each episode, she guides listeners through bite-sized and manageable practices that provide immediate relief by leaning into their own intuition and becoming more engaged and connected with themselves and their surroundings.

Health & Fitness
Mental Health
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Opt Into Celebration
There's a lot about being a black woman that is born out of generational trauma and historical myths.
17 min
27
Opt Out of Self Improvement Traps
15 min
28
Opt into Career Success
One of the most coveted secret’s to achieving top tier success in your career is to connect with a mentor.
18 min
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Opt Into Be Well, Sis - Part 3
18 min
30
Opt Into Be Well, Sis - Part 2
Did you know that your value is not tied to how much you make, or what you do for a living, none of those things matter.
9 min
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Opt Into Be Well, Sis - Part 1
What steps are you taking to honor the things most important to you?
9 min
32
Opt Into Doing What You Love - Part 3
Allow yourself intentional time to explore things that make you feel peaceful, happy,and if those things also make you laugh, even better!
19 min
33
Opt Into Doing What You Love - Part 2
Number one thing, if you want joy, stop caring what other people think. Joy is the key to success, so do the work that allows you to figure out what makes you joyful.
16 min
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Opt Into Doing What You Love - Part 1
Are you checking in with yourself and literally asking yourself what brings you joy?
17 min
35
Opt Into Cultivating Safe Spaces
While it is true that many black women do NOT feel safe in their personal and professional lives, this episode confirms that safe spaces do exist.
16 min
36
Opt Out of Comparison
Let go of the concept of comparison and elevate into a mindset of admiration.
16 min
37
Opt Into Nostalgia
One way we express joy is through nostalgia, by connecting back to the things that mattered as kids or to that childlike joyfulness and playfulness.
16 min
38
Opt Into Soft Mornings
Are you using hyper-independence and overworking to keep yourself locked in struggle?
16 min
39
Opt Out of the Glorification of Busy
15 min
40
Opt Into Generosity
Did you know that generosity is often mistaken for self-sacrifice?
15 min
41
Opt Out of Self Betrayal
Are you being intentional about scheduling breaks for yourself? Self care is essential to rejecting burnout.
16 min
42
Opt Into Connection
Being connected to yourself, to other folks, to some kind of higher power or higher source is good for our health.
16 min
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Opt Out of Excuses
Did you know that the fear of feeling joy could be blocking success from your life?
19 min
44
Opt Into Me - Part 3
Knowing your worth is important. You don’t have to settle for non-reciprocal relationships on any level in your life.
19 min
45
Opt Into Me - Part 2
You deserve to live and work only with those who bring some form of joy into your life.
18 min
46
Opt Into Me - Part 1
This episode is for you if you want to know why this podcast is about Opting Out of Struggle.
17 min
47
Opt Into Protecting Your Peace - Part 3
It’s time to really look into what is causing stress in your life and think about what you can do to dissolve that source of stress in any way possible.
13 min
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Opt Into Protecting Your Peace - Part 2
The joy in telling the truth builds community and inevitably you meet people who are like-minded.
11 min
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Opt Into Protecting Your Peace - Part 1
No one should have to endure a constant state of struggle.
15 min
50
Opt Into Nourishment - Part 3
One of the real game changers in life is when you realize that the path to Joy is through clarity and having a clear sense of self.
13 min