Black Girl Burnout is a podcast hosted by Kelley Bonner, a licensed therapist with over 15 years of experience, dedicated to helping black women manage stress and prevent burnout. Each week, she explores topics like career burnout, relationship burnout, and the impact of racism and sexism on burnout, offering bite-sized, manageable practices for immediate relief. The podcast aims to help listeners develop tools to combat burnout by leaning into their intuition and becoming more connected with themselves.
Episodes
Opt Into Doing Your Best (replay)
Kelley gets personal about what it’s like when doing your best doesn’t look the way it used to. As the year winds down, she’s feeling energized by her goals and tired at the same time, and she’s learning that the soft lock-in is an ongoing practice, not a one-time declaration. She unpacks where Black women’s relentless standards of excellence come from, how to spot your own “too much” signals, and
The Humbling and Healing Art of Having Enough
As the year winds down, Kelley looks at her finances and finds a contradiction: she earned substantially less this year, yet she’s in a better place than the year she made more on paper. In this solo episode, she reflects on why “what is enough?” is a lifelong question, how she’s learning to build toward her floor instead of her ceiling, and why you can be serious about your future without being m
Soft Pivot: Pivoting with Care and Silence (Replay)
How do you know when it’s time to let go of the path you’re on? Kelley revisits the concept of the soft pivot: a gentler, more honest way to change before burnout or crisis forces your hand. She shares her own story of staying too long in work that no longer fit, the grief of leaving something you’re good at, and why the best pivots start in stillness instead of strategy.Key TakeawaysThe soft pivo
I Stopped Waiting For the World to Feel Safe
After seeing a viral clip of two Black women saying there aren’t many safe spaces for ambitious Black women, Kelley shares why she doesn’t disagree, and why her relationship to that truth has changed. In this solo episode, she walks through the five truths she’s cultivated over the last five years to create safety for herself instead of waiting for the world to provide it, and what it feels like t
Opt Into Rest When the World Feels Heavy
With so much happening in the world, Kelley offers a moment of Zen: a conversation about protecting your nervous system, holding onto your joy, and not losing your focus in chaotic times. She makes the case that rest, regulation, and joy aren’t luxuries, they’re necessities and forms of resistance, and she shares three practical tools for bringing your body back to calm, plus a guided meditation t
Finding Whimsy At the End of the World
With so much feeling heavy right now, Kelley makes the case for doubling down on whimsy, not despite how hard things are, but because of it. She shares a three-step framework for getting delight back into your life, why whimsy doesn't require money or a vacation, and why joy and grief can coexist without one canceling out the other.Key TakeawaysWhimsy isn't frivolous, it's exactly what
Let Fall Remind You To Let Go
After a few heavier episodes, Kelley comes in with a celebration of fall, her favorite season. Working off the quote "Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go," she walks through her personal Fall Inventory, five gentle questions about what to release and what to welcome in as the season turns, with zero self-judgment required.Key TakeawaysFall is an invitation to let go, not a
What Self Abandonment Costs Us
Kelley tells the story of a surgery that went wrong, and the email from her job that made her realize she'd been doing her life wrong: "So when are you coming back?" In this solo episode, she unpacks what self-abandonment gave her, what it cost her, and how it doesn't just harm you individually, it changes how we relate to each other too. She closes with a three-step practice for s
Recession Lies: 3 Money Myths I Need Black Women to Stop Believing
Kelley is doing Hot Takes today. In this solo episode, she breaks down three money myths circulating as the economy gets shakier: the belief that you need more income streams, that entrepreneurship is an automatic escape from a bad job, and that every hobby needs to become a hustle, and offers a grounded, researched alternative to the panic.Key TakeawaysMyth: you need more ways to make money. Trut
You Don't Have to Go to War
Kelley names three wars she believes so many Black women are fighting right now, wars we've been mislabeling as something else entirely. In this solo episode, she unpacks the war with ourselves (that we call self-improvement), the war with our community (that we call accountability), and the war with the world (that we call activism), and makes the case for stepping out of all three and choosi
Before You "Lock In", Check In
It's September, and Kelley wants you to pause before you "lock in." This solo episode challenges lock-in culture, the cultural pressure to suddenly get disciplined, finish the year strong, and fix your whole life in three months. Kelley shares her own cautionary tale of what years of pushing through cost her health, then walks through a gentler four-step framework for having real goals
Chloe Nwangwu, Brand Scientist: Curiosity, Curation, and Confidence
Kelley sits down with N. Chloé Nwangwu, keynote speaker, principal investigator at Nobiworks, and known as The Brand Scientist, for a conversation about the real difference between going viral and being truly visible. Chloé breaks down two decades of research into the science of visibility, from her early career in international conflict mediation to the framework she now teaches leaders, brands,
Joy Economics: Shani Godwin on Ending Over-Functioning & Choosing Joy on Your Own Terms
Joy Economics: Shani Godwin on Ending Over-Functioning & Choosing Joy on Your Own TermsKelley sits down with Shani Godwin, writer, entrepreneur, and creator of the concept of Joy Economics, for a conversation that started with a line from her viral Oprah Magazine piece: "Black girl magic isn't magic, it's normalized over-functioning." Shani opens up about the mental health cris
The Body Is Not an Apology: Sonya Renee Taylor on Radical Self-Love & Letting Go of Shame (REPLAY)
Kelley sits down with Sonya Renee Taylor, author of The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, for a conversation Kelley calls essential reading for every Black woman. They trace the phrase's origin story, unpack what body shame really is beneath the physical, and walk through Sonya's roadmap for opting out of shame and into radical self-love: mapping your way out of shame
Stop Waiting for Your Life to Begin: Why Permission Is More Powerful Than Productivity
We're on hiatus, but Kelley couldn't let August start without checking in. In this solo episode, she talks about why this month feels less about goal-crushing and more about giving herself permission, to have fun, to earn what she's worth, and to be brave, vulnerable, and visible. From booking concert tickets before she "earned" them to rehabbing the Substack membership, this i
Strength & Softness: Michelle Goodloe on Burnout Recovery for Black Women (REPLAY)
In this thoughtful conversation, Kelley sits down with licensed clinical social worker Michelle Goodloe to explore what burnout really is—and why so many Black women experience it differently. Michelle shares her personal journey through professional burnout, explains why self-care alone isn't enough to recover, and offers a compassionate framework for rebuilding a healthier relationship with
When Your Body Changes the Plan: Michelle Young on Chronic Illness, Rest & Redefining Success
Michelle Young joins Kelley for an honest conversation about what happens when life changes in ways you never expected. From navigating sudden public attention after The Bachelor and The Bachelorette to living with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), Michelle shares how she's learned to redefine strength, embrace rest, and let go of the belief that productivity determines worth.T
Reclaiming Your Body, Joy & Capacity with Jayden Aubren
Healing isn't another achievement to unlock—it's a relationship we cultivate with ourselves over time. In this conversation, Kelley sits down with therapist, trauma-informed movement specialist, and holistic health coach Jayden Aubren to explore why lasting healing begins with honoring our capacity instead of pushing past it. Together they unpack the connection between trauma, movement, ne
You Don't Need Perfect Conditions to Create a Beautiful Life Ft. Morgan Harper Nichols (REPLAY)
What happens when you stop trying to fit into expectations and start building a life that actually fits you?In this deeply affirming conversation, Kelley sits down with artist, bestselling author, and creative visionary Morgan Harper Nichols to explore the intersection of creativity, neurodivergence, boundaries, and self-advocacy. Morgan reflects on receiving diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and sensory
500 Episodes Later: What Burnout, Grief & Healing Have Taught Me
In this deeply personal milestone episode, Kelley celebrates 500 episodes of Black Girl Burnout by reflecting on the journey that brought her here—and the one she's stepping into next. She begins by honoring the incredible team behind the podcast before sharing how laying her father to rest at Arlington National Cemetery became an unexpected invitation to slow down, remember, and reconnect wit
The Quiet Growth That Changes Everything
We often think expansion should look loud, visible, and impressive. More followers. More money. More accomplishments. More proof that we're growing. But what if the most important growth happens where no one else can see it?In this episode, Kelley uses the metaphor of roots and blooming to explore a different path to expansion. She challenges the idea that success requires constant striving an
What Outrage Is Costing Us?
Over the past several weeks, Kelley has been exploring the idea of thawing—what happens when you move from survival mode into a space where you can finally feel again. In this episode, she examines another form of freezing that often goes unnoticed: outrage.Through reflections on social media discourse, cultural conversations, and personal experiences, Kelley explores how outrage can offer certain
Opt Into Success Without Self-Abandonment with Sarah Boyd
What does it look like to pursue ambition without abandoning yourself in the process?In this powerful conversation, Kelley sits down with Sarah Boyd, founder of The Formation, to discuss how Black women can navigate workplace challenges while protecting their wellbeing. Together, they unpack extraction culture, invisible labor, workplace boundaries, self-advocacy, and the difference between excell
Healing, Identity & the Questions I'm Asking Myself Now
Last week, Kelley shared that she had entered a season of thawing—a period of finally feeling safe enough to stop bracing for impact. This week, she returns with an unexpected discovery: healing hasn't brought certainty. Instead, it has brought questions.Drawing inspiration from Zora Neale Hurston's reminder that "there are years that ask questions and years that answer," Kelley re
You Don’t Have to Wait for the Crash-Out: Community Care & Black Women’s Mental Health
In this Mental Health Month bonus episode, Kelley sits down with Ashlee Edwards, founder and CEO of MindRight, to discuss community-centered mental health support for Black women. Together, they explore why healing shouldn’t begin only in crisis, how community care helps protect our capacity for joy, and what it looks like to build more human-centered systems of support through technology, intenti
You Cannot Optimize Your Way Out of Grief
Sometimes grief doesn’t look like falling apart — sometimes it looks like becoming incredibly productive. In this episode, Kelley reflects on the realization that she had been producing healing instead of actually experiencing it, and how years of survival mode, caregiving, medical trauma, and loss shaped her relationship to grief. Through personal storytelling and thoughtful reflection, she explo
The Life You Worked For Might Be Exhausting You W/ Zerlina Maxwell
In this episode, Kelley is joined by political analyst, writer, and speaker Zerlina Maxwell for a powerful conversation about visibility, truth-telling, and navigating the pressure of being a Black woman in public spaces. Together, they explore the emotional toll of constantly having to prove yourself, the importance of boundaries, and what it means to remain grounded while living and working in h
Breath, Mindfulness, and Black Joy with Oneika Mays
In this episode, Kelley sits down with mindfulness teacher and creative visionary Oneika Mays for a grounding conversation about breath, presence, and reclaiming joy as a daily practice. Together, they explore how mindfulness can help Black women reconnect with themselves in a world that often rewards constant output over inner peace.Oneika shares how breathwork, creativity, and intentional pauses
You’re Not Stuck, You’re Missing the Right Rooms
It’s easy to believe you’re stuck—that something about you isn’t working or that you’ve reached your limit. In this episode, Kelley offers a reframe: you may not be stuck at all—you may simply be in the wrong rooms. She explores how environments, communities, and proximity shape what feels possible, visible, and available to you.This conversation invites you to consider how the spaces you occupy i
You’re Not Bad With Money—You’re Carrying Old Stories
In this episode, Kelley sits down with Ruchi Pinniger to unpack the emotional roots of financial avoidance. Together, they explore how childhood beliefs, shame, and subconscious patterns shape our relationship with money—and why high-achieving women often feel stuck despite earning well. Ruchi introduces practical tools like the RIR Method™(Recognize, Interrupt, Reframe™) method and a prosperity f
The Middle Way: Staying Soft While You Succeed
You’ve likely been taught that success requires hardness—pushing through, tightening up, and leaving softness behind. In this episode, Kelley explores a different path: the middle way, where you can pursue success without abandoning your softness, your boundaries, or your humanity.This conversation challenges the belief that you must choose between ease and achievement. Instead, it offers a ground
Stop Waiting for Joy, Build It: How to Build A Soft Life With Real Systems
In this episode, Kelley challenges the idea that joy should be spontaneous and effortless, introducing a powerful reframe: joy needs structure. She shares how good intentions alone often fall short without systems that make joy repeatable and accessible. Through personal examples and practical strategies, she walks listeners through how to schedule, automate, and protect joy in everyday life.Kelle
I Will No Longer Break My Own Heart
In this deeply reflective episode, Kelley introduces a life-changing mantra: “I will no longer break my own heart.” She explores how self-abandonment, internalized beliefs about suffering, and delayed joy have shaped her past—and how choosing softness and intentional joy became her path to healing. Through personal stories, including her time living in Europe and the creation of her “joy jar,” Kel
Good Grief: Making Space for Joy After Loss ft. Angela Nissel
In this deeply honest and unexpectedly joyful conversation, Kelley sits down with author and television writer Angela Nissel to explore the layered reality of grief, caregiving, and rebuilding a life after loss. Together, they unpack the quiet, everyday griefs that linger long after the funeral, the guilt and self-blame many Black women carry, and the emotional toll of being “the strong one.”Angel
Joy Is Resistance: Why You Can’t Wait for the World to Feel Good
In this episode, Kelley explores the idea that joy is not something we wait for, but something we actively practice, especially in difficult times. Drawing from personal reflection, cultural history, and evidence-informed healing, she unpacks how constant exposure to outrage and hardship can disconnect us from our humanity.She reframes joy as both a survival tool and a form of resistance, rooted d
Honesty and Hope Are Enough: A Conversation with Marisa Renee Lee
Marissa Renee Lee has been through it. Harvard. Wall Street. The White House. And also: her mother's MS diagnosis at 13, stage four breast cancer, a pregnancy loss, and now two years of long COVID. What she's learned isn't that grief has a silver lining. It's that grief has a through line, and if you're honest enough to follow it, it leads somewhere real.In this episode, Kelley
How to Come Back to Yourself Again and Again
There are moments when you realize you’ve drifted—away from your needs, your pace, your sense of self. In this episode, Kelley explores what it means to come back to yourself after seasons of burnout, overextension, or disconnection. She gently unpacks how easy it is to lose touch with your inner voice when you’ve been prioritizing expectations, survival, or the needs of others.This conversation o
Opt Into Creating Safety in an Unsafe World: Tools to Break the Cycle
It’s easy to believe you know what you want—more success, more money, more recognition, more stability. But sometimes those goals are inherited from pressure, expectation, or survival patterns rather than your true desires. In this episode, Kelley explores the practice of reverse engineering what you actually want by slowing down and examining the life you’re building.This conversation invites you
When Wanting Becomes a Trauma Response
Sometimes the things you want most—success, love, recognition, stability—can start to feel urgent. Not just important, but necessary for your survival. In this episode, Kelley explores how wanting more can quietly shift into something deeper: a trauma response shaped by pressure, scarcity, and the belief that you must constantly strive to be safe, valued, or enough.This conversation gently invites
Safety Isn’t a Number: Why You’re Chasing Bags, Beauty & Busyness
Safety isn’t a number. It’s a nervous system state.In this episode, Kelley explores why so many of us feel an urgent need to optimize — our bodies, our bank accounts, our productivity — and what’s really underneath that impulse. In a world that feels economically, politically, and emotionally unstable, it’s easy to believe that if we just earn more, look better, or stay busy enough, we’ll finally
Softness Needs Structure: Tools to Interrupt Burnout Before You Collapse
Softness isn’t sustained by intention alone — it requires structure. In this episode, Kelley moves beyond philosophy and shares the practical tools she personally uses when she feels burnout creeping in. From recognizing early warning signs like doom scrolling and “tweak loops,” to using nervous system regulation, phone blockers, routines, therapy, and healthy escapism, this conversation is about
Opt Into Caring without Carrying
Continuing the How to Soften Without Falling Apart series, this episode focuses on the boundaries required to protect your humanity in overwhelming times. Kelley explores why Black women are often conditioned to absorb pain, urgency, and responsibility—and how that leads to exhaustion and burnout. Through nervous-system-informed tools and practical language, she offers a new way forward: learning
Opt into Staying Soft When Life Is Still Hard
In this episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley names what many of us are living through: the world is still loud, uncertain, and heavy—and there is no clean “after” yet. Instead of focusing on who we’ll become once things settle, this conversation centers on who we are while things are still on fire. Kelley explores how survival mode can quietly become an identity, what we lose when that happens, a
Opt Into Softness as Survival
In this episode, Kelley explores why softness is not collapse or avoidance—but a survival strategy in hard times. As the world feels increasingly heavy, she reframes softness as discernment, protection, and a way to stay human without disappearing. Through personal reflection and practical examples, Kelley invites listeners to release constant bracing and reconnect with their bodies, boundaries, a
Nothing Is Wrong With You: How to Cope When the World Is Too Much
In this episode, Kelley reframes burnout as a response to systems that demand too much—not a personal failure or character flaw. She explores why we internalize stress, how self-betrayal becomes normalized, and what it looks like to support yourself without overriding your body’s needs. You’ll learn how to build support, rhythm, and minimal mindfulness practices that help you stay human in a world
Why Work Feels Like a Gamble—and How to Opt Out
In this tools-forward conversation, Kelley sits down with business strategist Jessica Lackey, author of Leaving the Casino, to unpack why so many of us have been taught to gamble with our time, energy, and money in the name of success.This episode challenges the myth that virality, hustle, or six-figure milestones are the key to freedom. Instead, it offers a grounded, nervous-system-safe framework
You Don’t Have to Conquer the Year — You Can Hold It Gently
If the year didn’t start gently — if January arrived with tension, grief, or exhaustion instead of clarity — this episode is for you. Kelley offers a softer, more honest way to begin the year: not by conquering it or hardening yourself, but by holding it with both hands. Through a nervous-system-informed lens, she explores why overwhelm and numbness make sense right now, how joy supports regulatio
You Don’t Have to Abandon Yourself to Live Well
Five years into Black Girl Burnout, this season premiere serves as a manifesto and recommitment to living fully without self-abandonment. Kelley reframes burnout as more than a work issue, challenges the lie that success requires suffering, and invites listeners to build lives rooted in softness, ambition, and sustainability—without disappearing, shrinking, or betraying themselves.Key TakeawaysYou
You Are Allowed to Choose a Life That Doesn’t Hurt
In this manifesto-style year-end episode, Kelley closes out 2025 by naming the new foundation of Black Girl Burnout: five gentle “commandments” designed to help Black women opt out of struggle and choose softness, joy, and liberation. Reflecting on a year of global change, personal evolution, and collective exhaustion, she reframes rest, ease, joy, softness, and freedom from unnecessary pain as no
The Soft Lock-In: A December Reset Without Burnout
In this episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley revisits the idea of the Soft Lock-In as a gentler alternative to end-of-year hustle culture. Designed for moments of deep exhaustion and burnout, this conversation offers a compassionate December reset rooted in nervous system safety, realistic expectations, and care-first productivity.Key TakeawaysYou don’t need to “finish the year strong” — you need
Soft Life Liberation: Ending the Year Without Performing
In this episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley explores how empowerment has quietly shifted into performance — and why that shift is especially exhausting and harmful for Black women. She unpacks the cultural, economic, and patriarchal pressures driving hustle culture, aesthetic wellness, and performance-based worth, while offering a softer, more liberatory way forward as the year comes to a close.
The Great Crash Out of 2025: Why You’re So Tired (and How to Finish the Year Softly)
In this episode, Kelley names what’s really behind the collective exhaustion so many Black women are feeling: layer after layer of crisis, an overworked nervous system, and the cultural push to lock in when we barely have anything left to give. Drawing from her lived experience and burnout expertise, she breaks down the three layers of the Great Crash Out of 2025 and offers a liberatory alternativ
Bloom How You Must: Unlearning the Myth of Doing It All Yourself w/ Tara Pringle Jefferson
In this deeply grounding conversation, Kelley and author Tara Pringle Jefferson explore what it takes to stop “doing it all yourself” and allow support, softness, and ease into your life. Together, they unpack how burnout, community, and generational healing intertwine—and what it means to give yourself permission to bloom exactly as you are.Key TakeawaysLetting yourself be supported is not weakne
Opt Into Restful Gratitude
In this episode, Kelley offers a gentle invitation to rethink gratitude and generosity in ways that honor your real capacity. Instead of pushing through exhaustion or defaulting to obligation, she explores how rest, presence, and honest boundaries can create more meaningful connection. This is a grounding reminder to slow down, soften, and practice generosity that does not require self-erasure.Key
Opt Into Caring Without Collapsing:
This episode invites you to look honestly at the weight you’ve been carrying—family roles, cultural conditioning, religious expectations, emotional labor—and notice where care has turned into collapse. Kelley unpacks why so many Black women feel stretched thin and offers a grounded path back to caring in a way that honors your capacity, preserves your joy, and keeps you connected without abandonin
When Juggling Isn’t Joyful: The Cost of Carrying It All
In this deeply personal episode of Black Girl Burnout, host Kelley opens up about the exhaustion that comes with trying to hold everything together—career, caregiving, friendships, and self-care. She examines why so many high-achieving Black women feel pressured to “keep all the balls in the air,” and what it means to pause, realign, and choose peace over perfection. Kelley invites listeners to qu
Opt Into Delicious Discipline: Finding Joy in Everyday Habits
In this episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley invites you to rethink what discipline can feel like. Instead of viewing structure as a restriction, she shares how to make discipline delicious by weaving in joy and pleasure through a practice called dopamine anchoring. This gentle, neuroscience-backed approach helps you stay consistent without relying on willpower or burnout cycles—proving that plea
Opt Into Doing Your Best
In this reflective solo episode, host Kelley explores what it means to “do your best” when your best no longer looks the same. Drawing from her experience with grief, aging, and shifting capacity, Kelley redefines productivity and success through softness and self-compassion. She invites listeners to release perfectionism, honor their limits, and embrace a gentler approach to achievement.This epis
Opt Into Joy-First Productivity: Why Pleasure is the Power You’ve Been Denying Yourself
In this powerful episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley invites us to radically rethink how we approach productivity. For generations, Black women have been conditioned to believe that joy must be earned—that rest comes only after the grind. But what if that belief is not only outdated, but harmful?Through personal stories, science-backed insights, and cultural truth-telling, Kelley introduces us t
Opt Into Getting Your Life Together—Gently
In this episode of the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelley shares an honest check-in she calls The Getting My Life Together Toolkit. Instead of another rigid routine or “glow-up” plan, she offers the small, sustaining habits and mindset shifts that are actually helping her through life’s “life-ing.” From soft structure and nervous system routines to practical self-care rituals, Kelley invites you t
Opt Into Building Wealth and Worth with Precious L. Williams
In this powerful episode of Black Girl Burnout, host Kelley sits down with Precious L. Williams, 13-time national elevator pitch champion, bestselling author, and CEO of The Pitch Perfect Group. Precious shares her remarkable story of resilience—rising from homelessness and heartbreak to global recognition as a speaker and business leader. Together, she and Kelley explore the intersections of fina
Opt Into A Soft Pivot
In this reflective solo episode, Kelley invites you into the quiet, powerful moment when change begins—not with a bang, but with a whisper. Whether you’re shifting careers, reevaluating relationships, or letting go of an identity you’ve outgrown, this conversation holds space for the soft, honest pivot. The one you make not out of burnout or collapse, but from clarity, self-trust, and care.This is
Opt Into Living in Your Purpose with Melissa A. Mitchell
In this episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley sits down with artist, author, and entrepreneur Melissa A. Mitchell, who turned grief into a global creative career. Together, they explore how art became a source of healing and purpose, the pressure of constant performance in entrepreneurship, and the role of boundaries and honesty in resisting burnout. Melissa shares how she stays grounded in her “w
Opt Into Rest: How Black Women Can Protect Their Peace in Chaotic Times
In this episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley invites you to step away from the constant noise of the news cycle and social media to reclaim rest, joy, and nervous system regulation. In a world that feels heavy and overwhelming, she reminds us that rest is not weakness—it’s resistance. This conversation is both a pause and a practice: an invitation to slow down, honor your body’s signals, and reme
The Fall Reset: Why I'm Locking-in, Letting Go, And Closing the Year With Ease
Episode SummaryAs the year winds down, it’s easy to get swept into urgency—pushing harder, chasing more, and sprinting to the finish line. In this episode, Kelley invites you to embrace fall’s real lesson: letting go, slowing down, and closing the year with gentleness. She shares her practice of a “soft lock-in,” grounded in rest, ease, and intentional focus, offering you a way to rebuild without
Opt Into Private Joy: How to Heal Without the Audience
In this episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley explores the pressure to make wellness a performance and reminds you that your healing doesn’t need an audience. She offers a gentle invitation to reclaim private joy, protect your peace, and let your journey be sacred—away from the constant pull of comparison culture.Key TakeawaysHealing loses power when it becomes performance; keep parts of your jour
Opt Into Planning for Joy
In this special Labor Day episode of Black Girl Burnout, host Kelley invites you to pause, breathe, and reflect on the role of joy in your life. While sharing her own story of navigating stress and reclaiming rest, Kelley offers a gentle reminder that joy doesn’t have to be spontaneous—it can be something we intentionally plan for, just like vacations, appointments, and work projects.This episode
You're Not Tired, You're Tapped Out
In this episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley shares the powerful truth that exhaustion isn’t always about needing more sleep. Sometimes, your body is tapped out—living in chronic stress and unable to downshift into rest. Drawing from her own story of nervous system dysregulation, she unpacks how years of carrying too much can leave you wired even while exhausted. This conversation is an invitatio
Opt Into Gate Openers: Stop Confusing Support with Elevation (Bonus Episode)
In this bonus “love note” episode, Kelley Bonner breaks down the crucial difference between supporters — the friends and peers who cheer you on — and gate openers, the decision-makers who can truly elevate your career. Many of us confuse the two, surrounding ourselves with cheerleaders but missing the people who can actually open doors. Kelley shares personal stories, practical tips, and a simple
Saying the Quiet Parts Loud: Rachel Hislop on Rest, Creativity & Joy
In this powerful episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley sits down with writer, strategist, and visionary Rachel Hislop to talk about rest, creativity, and what it means to truly opt out of struggle.From leading Beyoncé’s digital presence to becoming one of Mozilla’s “25 Visionaries Shaping the Future of the Internet,” Rachel has lived at the intersection of culture, creativity, and relentless grind
Bonus Episode: When Thriving Makes Others Uncomfortable
In this deeply honest Love Note episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley explores a side of healing we rarely talk about—the way it can strain, shift, or even dissolve relationships.From friends who quietly drift away to loved ones who bristle at your boundaries, thriving can sometimes trigger discomfort in the people around you. Kelley unpacks why this happens, how to navigate the grief of changing
From Exhaustion to Ease: How Black Women Can Reclaim Rest and Joy (REPLAY)
In this deeply resonant episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley is joined by licensed clinical social worker and burnout recovery coach Michelle Goodloe for an honest conversation about what it truly takes to move from chronic exhaustion into a life rooted in rest and joy.Together, they unpack the realities of professional burnout, the hidden cost of “pushing through,” and the cultural pressures Bla
Bonus Episode: Opt Out of Hustle Culture, Opt Into Joyful Hard Work
In this heartfelt “love note” episode of the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelley invites you to rethink everything you’ve been taught about work. She draws a clear, compassionate line between hustle culture—the toxic grind rooted in scarcity, overperformance, and self-betrayal—and the kind of hard work that fuels joy, purpose, and self-liberation.Pulling from personal reflections and what she’s bee
From FOMO to Flow: Morning Mindsets, Career Change Courage & Slowing Down with Intention
In this special listener Q&A episode of the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelley answers your most powerful questions—from how to slow down without guilt to what it really takes to change careers in your 30s. She opens up about her personal morning affirmations (including a game-changing one: “There is more. And more. Still more.”) and gives deeply honest reflections on navigating burnout, setti
Joy is the Thread: Finding Purpose in Every Pivot
In this episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley Bonner sits down with branding expert, content creator, and former pageant queen Mackenzie Green for a conversation that will resonate with every multi-passionate Black woman who’s ever felt stuck or pressured to follow a rigid plan.From junior Olympic swimming to Ivy League business school to sitting at the table with Gabrielle Union and Tia Mowry, Ma
Opt Out of Accidental Burnout: What No One Tells You About Building a Business
In this empowering episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley sits down with venture capitalist and tech trailblazer Shalanda Armstrong to break down what it really takes to build a successful, scalable business. This isn’t just an inspiring conversation—it’s the essential business wisdom we wish someone told us sooner.Whether you're dreaming up your first idea, growing your side hustle, or already
Opt Out of Hustle Worship: Why I No Longer Make Hard Look Holy
In this unfiltered and vulnerable episode of the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelley shares her personal experience of hitting an emotional and physical wall—and choosing not to push through. Recording from a space of softness, Kelley opens up about caregiving for her mother, work exhaustion, and the long-standing cultural pressure for Black women to "keep going no matter what."Kelley chall
Healing is a Story Away: How Bibliotherapy Can Help You Reclaim Joy
In this powerful and tender episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley is joined by licensed clinical social worker and bibliotherapist Emely Rumble for a deeply affirming conversation about the healing power of stories. As part of our “Summer of Yes,” this episode explores what happens when we slow down, find ourselves in fiction, and use storytelling as a path to emotional integration and liberation.
The Power of No: How to Reclaim Your Summer, Your Energy, and Your Peace
In this energizing episode of Black Girl Burnout, host Kelley invites us into July with a powerful reminder: true freedom often begins with one simple word, no. As we continue embracing our "Summer of Yes," Kelley gets honest about what it really takes to say yes to joy, ease, and delight. Sometimes, that means first saying no to exhaustion, overcommitment, and emotional labor that’s not y
Opt Into the Power of Play: Active Rest for a Joyful, Resilient Life
On this episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley explores the transformative power of play and how Black women can reclaim joy and resilience through active rest. In a world that constantly demands output and performance, Kelley breaks down why play isn’t just a luxury—it’s a necessity. She dives into the science of joy, the healing impact of non-productive rest, and the cultural pressure that often
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