Latest Balancedles Podcast Episodes
The Ultimate Anti-Aging Routine: Improving Your Sleep Hygiene
Balanced Black Girl - May 09, 2023 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsWelcome back! For the next few episodes, we’re continuing our current theme of Mindset May, and focusing specifically on our brain health. Because who doesn’t want to be sharp when they’re 90, right? In today’s episode, I’m talking about something we often sacrifice, but desperately ne...
How to Receive What You’re Calling In & Exploring Plant Medicine with Good Moms Bad Choices
Balanced Black Girl - May 02, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsIt’s a new month, so you know that means a brand new series! This May, we're talking about expanding our minds, changing our thoughts, and taking care of our brain health. So, in this episode I’ve invited two previous guests back on the podcast — Erica Dickerson and Jamilah Mapp of Goo...
Easy Ways to Boost Your Confidence So You Can Level Up
Balanced Black Girl - April 25, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsThis week in our Level Up series, we’re going all in on the topic of confidence. If you’re like me, you probably spent a lot of your life misunderstanding what confidence is all about. So I’m here to tell you that it’s not as complicated or mystical as we often make it seem. Tune in t...
Are Your Routines Holding You Back? It Might Be Time to Shake Things Up
Balanced Black Girl - April 18, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsThis week on our journey of Leveling Up, we’re talking about how to know when you need to let go of your routines and try something new. I love my routines. They’ve helped me accomplish so many things my 23-year-old self dreamed of. But as much as they served me to get here, they aren’...
How to Get Back on Track After You’ve Fallen Off
Balanced Black Girl - April 11, 2023 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsWelcome back! This week, we’re continuing the Level Up series with a topic that we can all resonate with—getting back on track after falling off. I’ve needed to do this so many times I’ve lost count, and it can be a vicious cycle. We fall off, then get trapped in a negative thinking pa...
How to Get Unstuck: My 25 by 25 Case Study
Balanced Black Girl - April 04, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsIt’s a new month and that means a new series! Today we’re stepping into April and focusing on Leveling Up. So stay tuned for conversations about getting unstuck, motivating yourself out of a rut, and busting through plateaus. In this episode, I share my first big experience getting out...
Why We Need Hobbies for Self-Care
Balanced Black Girl - March 28, 2023 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsToday, 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 ski...
Trusting the Timing of Your Life and Embracing Your Divinity with Lyvonne Briggs
Balanced Black Girl - March 21, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsContinuing our Black author's book club series, this week I’ve invited Lyvonne Briggs back to the show. Lyvonne is the author of the book Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body. She's an Emmy Award winner, a body and sex-positive womanist, preacher, spiritual life coach, and...
How to Feel More Liberated In Your Body with Chrissy King
Balanced Black Girl - March 14, 2023 09:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsWe’re continuing our book club series with another conversation with the very first Balanced Black Girl guest, Chrissy King. In celebration of Chrissy’s new book The Body Liberation Project, we have an honest, vulnerable conversation about what body liberation is and how we can work to...
Healing Through Humor and Cultivating Media Literacy with Clarkisha Kent
Balanced Black Girl - March 07, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsIt’s a new month, so we have a new theme—Book Club! For the next few weeks you can look forward to conversations with amazing authors from the Balanced Book Club. Today I'm joined by Clarkisha Kent to celebrate the launch of her new book Fat Off, Fat On: a Big Bitch Manifesto. Clarkish...
Self-Intimacy: Prioritizing Pleasure and Connecting with Yourself with Kamil Lewis
Balanced Black Girl - February 28, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsWe’ve had some incredible episodes on intimacy these past few weeks, and today we're wrapping up the series with licensed marriage and family therapist Kamil Lewis. Kamil’s work focuses on sex therapy and examines intersectional identity specifically with race, sexuality, and gender. S...
Embracing Your Sacred Sensuality with Krystal Taylor
Balanced Black Girl - February 21, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsAll too often, our formative experiences with our bodies and sensuality are tied to shame. That can lead to us feeling disconnected from ourselves and confused about what we want or need from intimacy. In this episode, we’re continuing our series on intimacy as we delve into the topic ...
Intimacy in Friendships: Having Healthier Friendships and Making Friends As An Adult with Dr. Marisa Franco
Balanced Black Girl - February 14, 2023 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsAs adults, building and maintaining friendships is a challenge. What felt so easy as kids, now feels like an overwhelming task full of rejection, uncertainty, and confusion. But connection plays a huge role in our overall health and well-being. Studies show that it’s even more important...
Understanding the Four Types of Intimacy and How They Impact Your Health
Balanced Black Girl - February 07, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsIt’s February, and around here that means celebrating Black History Month, Aquarius season, and (at least in this episode) very reluctantly love. If you’ve been listening to Balanced Black Girl for a while, you know I loathe talking about modern dating and the way relationships are dis...
Improve Your Focus: The Art of Managing Your Attention featuring Tara from Open
Balanced Black Girl - January 31, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsIt seems like there’s always something new to distract us and keep our attention spans ever-shrinking. So today, we’re wrapping up our Reframing the Reset series by talking with Dr. Tara Zinnamon about de-commoditizing our attention spans to regain agency and awareness of where our atte...
Reframing Our Relationship with Alcohol: Exploring Sober-Curiosity
Balanced Black Girl - January 24, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsFor this week’s Reframing the Reset episode, we’re talking about alcohol, and exploring this sometimes-sensitive subject in a non-judgmental, open, and educational way. Join in as I share my personal journey with alcohol consumption — from my not-so-inspiring first drinking experience ...
Reframing Exercise: The Importance of Building and Maintaining Muscle
Balanced Black Girl - January 17, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsStarting a new year often gets people interested in improving or revisiting their exercise regimens. But workout culture is so fraught with harmful weight loss narratives that the critical benefits of movement often get overshadowed. In this episode, I share my knowledge of cardio, mob...
How to Practice Digital Self-Care: Knowing When to Unplug + Tending to Your Digital Spaces
Balanced Black Girl - January 10, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsScreen time has a way of sneaking up on us, and before we know it, our time for the things we really want to do is gone. So this week, we’re continuing the Reframing the Reset series with a topic we’ve all struggled with at some point — digital self-care. In this episode, I discuss som...
Spacious Productivity: How to Improve Your Habits and Be More Consistent
Balanced Black Girl - January 03, 2023 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsHappy New Year, and welcome to our first episode of 2023! To kick off the year, I’m revisiting last year’s Reframing the Reset series with even more clarity and actionable items. We’ll be exploring ways that we can reset in the new year to feel our best all year long. This week, I focu...
Get ready to Reframe the Reset
Balanced Black Girl - December 27, 2022 10:00 - 56 seconds ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsJoin us for the Reframing the Reset series and challenge kicking off on January 2, 2023. Each week in January we'll be releasing a new episode to inspire you to refresh your habits. As a community, we'll be participating in weekly challenges for accountability to help you apply what you...
How to Conduct A Life Audit for Reflection and Goal-Setting
Balanced Black Girl - December 20, 2022 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsBefore we start talking about 2023, I think it’s important to look back and reflect on 2022. So in this solo episode, I’m sharing my process for conducting a life audit. I explain what a life audit is, why you might benefit from doing one, and how it can help you find deeper satisfacti...
How to Heal with Alex Elle
Balanced Black Girl - December 13, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsIn this week’s episode, we are continuing our end-of-year rest and digest series with the incredible, Alex Elle. Together, we have an honest talk about healing — the good, the challenging, and everything in between. Alex also shares what it’s like to heal your inner child while raising...
Rest and Digest: Reset Your Circadian Rhythm and Winter Self-Care to Feel Happy and Whole
Balanced Black Girl - December 06, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsFor me and so many others, Winter can be draining and leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves and our communities. So as we move toward the end of 2022, I find myself thinking of ways to be prepared for the holiday season and Winter blues. In this solo episode, I encourage you to ...
Finding Work that Fulfills You with Abena Antwi of Burt’s Bees [BONUS]
Balanced Black Girl - December 01, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsIt’s so important to balance life, family, friends and your career, but it can be challenging — especially during the holidays. In this episode, I’m joined by Abena Antwi, a Chemist and Associate Product Designer at Burt’s Bees. She shares how she balances her career in chemistry and c...
How to Start, Grow, and Monetize a Podcast with Nakia Swinton
Balanced Black Girl - November 29, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsPodcasting is a growing industry with so much room for Black creators to share themselves, their views, and their brands. That’s probably why Black people make up 12% of the total population, but 15% of the podcast host population. But how do you get started? And how do you help your po...
How to Get Funding for Your Business, Qualities of Successful Entrepreneurs, and Building the Damn Thing with Kathryn Finney
Balanced Black Girl - November 22, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsBlack women have been the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the US for the past few years with 17% of us in the process of starting new businesses. But in 2020—a record-breaking year for venture capital investment—less than 100 Black women raised $1 million or more for their bus...
Why You Need Community, Not An Audience with Kim Johnson
Balanced Black Girl - November 15, 2022 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsThere is a big difference between building an audience that’s watching you and building a community that’s engaging with you. So how do we build strong, engaged communities that connect people rather than simply entertaining them? This week, I’m joined by Kim Johnson, head of community...
Making Big Career Changes and Building a Business from the Ground Up with Anicia Anya
Balanced Black Girl - November 08, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsAsking for help and leaning on your community can be intimidating, especially when you’re an entrepreneur. So this week in our Black Women in Business Series, we're focusing on what it looks like to make big career changes, bring physical products into the world, and bootstrap a startup...
What It’s Really Like Being a Content Creator, Launching a Product Line, and Prioritizing Yourself with Alexis Barber
Balanced Black Girl - November 01, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsIt’s challenging to stay balanced and relevant as a Black woman content creator and business owner with a full-time job. That’s why in today’s episode we’re continuing our discussion of side hustles with Alexis Barber. Alexis is a full-time tech industry employee, content creator, and ...
How to Stay Balanced When You Have A Side Hustle
Balanced Black Girl - October 25, 2022 09:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsToday I’m kicking off our business and entrepreneurship series sharing my experiences having various side hustles. From podcasting, to personal training, to working in retail and corporate at the same time, I’ve done it all and I’ve learned a lot about how to find your balance while jug...
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