You Aren't "Lazy," Sis So Stop Putting Yourself Down

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Black women get called so many negative things and we are always being hit with labels that are meant to make us feel bad about ourselves and/or encourage us to selflessly burn ourselves out by putting our entire beings last. If you have it in your mind that you are lazy because that's what you were told, or because you aren't doing all the things, this episode is for you.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's going on? You're listening to the Brown Girl Self Care
0:03.4	podcast. My name is Brie Mitchell and I am the host of the show as well as the
0:07.4	founder of Brown Girl Self Care. Brown Girl Self Care is a platform and
0:11.0	space of intentional healing, rest rest and liberation for black women.
0:15.0	Let's go ahead and get into today's episode.
0:17.2	I want to talk about, I keep seeing on social media, and I try my best to not be on social media but obviously we live
0:25.2	in a world where it's I mean it's possible but it's not possible you feel me
0:29.2	especially if you are in a creative space or you are a side hustler or an entrepreneur, even a
0:35.0	nine to fiver, there's going to be times when you have to be online, on social media for one reason
0:41.0	or another, be it work leisure rest entertainment education etc but in any case
0:50.3	Excuse me I apologize in advance I have like a I'm recording this pretty early in the morning so I have a little tickle in my throat
0:56.8	But in any case I keep seeing this narrative on social media and I've seen it I mean I've been seeing this for a while
1:05.8	but I want to talk about it today and it's this whole idea of how we are lazy we are
1:11.8	lazy right I keep seeing these for example YouTube videos stop being
1:17.3	lazy five ways to stop being lazy five ways to you, stop being lazy and, and, you know, X, Y, Z, or this is why you're lazy,
1:27.9	and this is why this and this is why that, right?
1:30.6	And I want to push back against that, especially for black women.
1:34.0	Especially for black women.
1:35.4	And I can only speak from what I know.
1:38.1	So this means my personal experience, the experiences of my friends,
1:41.5	the experiences of the black women that I am in community with,
1:45.3	either online or over on Patreon, etc.
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