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71: {Black History Month} The Recovery Room: Why Introverted Black Women Leaders Need More Than Self-Care

• Nicole Bryan • Episode 71

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Learn how to prioritize your well-being and build resilience in environments that sometimes demands more than they give.  Discover the transformative power of prioritizing self for introverted Black female leaders who are navigating the complex terrain of pre-executive and executive roles.  


Additionally, the episode touches on crucial strategies for recognizing burnout signs and building a personal recharge toolkit. 

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Speaker 1:

Hi, lady Leader, and welcome back to another episode of Leading Her Way. I am Dr Nicole Bryan and I am your host. I am really excited to be here today because we are wrapping up our Black History Month specifically dedicated to introverted female Black leaders who want to get to the executive level. If you're new to the podcast or if you have missed the past couple of episodes, let me just refresh your memory or let you know that this is episode four of the four-part series dedicated to Black History Month. You will definitely definitely want to go back and listen to the first three.

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On episode 68, we talked about you and your identity as being Black, as being female, as being introverted and as being a leader, and how having all four of those part of your identity really make you unique and how you can leverage that uniqueness to your advantage. And then in episode 69, we talked about stereotypes right Stereotypes that all of us who are Black female leaders in the workforce have to deal with and what that means for us, how to navigate despite those stereotypes and despite what misconceptions and misperceptions are out there about who we are and what we can do. And then, in episode 70, the last episode, we talked about the importance of building strategic relationships as an introverted Black female leader and how to build your board of directors or board of advisors for your career success. And today I want to talk about a topic that is very near and dear to my heart. It is something that I have personally experienced, as well as so many of my clients who I help, and it's really about the importance of recharging ourselves as Black female introverted leaders. Whether you are recharging to prevent burnout or you are recharging to recover from burnout or, in my specific case, you are recharging to avoid your work addiction, behaviors, mindset and attitudes, regardless of what the source of that ultimate burnout or work addiction might be, that ultimate burnout or work addiction might be, developing daily and regular practices to recharge yourself as a Black, introverted female leader is exceptionally important for many reasons.

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So I want to talk about that today and I want to kind of lay out for you the realities that we face on a day-to-day basis as Black female introverted leaders, how we can ensure that we are able to sustain our leadership over time, all while honoring our goals and objectives, to kind of make a larger impact and to succeed for ourselves, for our families, for our teams, for our organizations. So that's the episode today, and I thought it was just very fitting to kind of round out the series talking about you know how we are able to, and should be taking care of ourselves. Because, let's face it, we, as Black women, take care of everybody else. We take care of our children, our spouses and partners, our parents, our communities, our nieces, nephews right, we are taking care of our teams. We take care of our organizations, our colleagues. We need to also be taking care of ourselves. So that's what I want to talk about today, and it's something that we know intellectually but seems to be harder to put into practice.

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Okay, so, with that said, I just want to run down a little bit a few kind of statistics and facts, and the reason why I want to start out this way is because I'm sure that you know and are very in tune with your own experience. But what I've come to realize is that many of us, although we intellectually know about our own experience and we may know one or two other Black female leaders who have similar experiences we are so engrossed in our own day-to-day at work and at home that we sometimes miss the broader context. And so, starting out with statistics and laying out kind of the reality of the situation on a more global or broader scale will help put our own individual experiences into context. So the first thing that I want to share is, as Black women, we are two and a half times more likely to experience burnout than our white counterparts. Now, that is a significant, significant fact and a significant difference. So, of course, our white counterparts are experiencing burnout, they are taking on a lot of stress, they are taking on a lot of work, but the reality is when we compare how black women versus white women and white men experience burnout, we are two and a half times more likely to have to deal with it. The other interesting statistics that I found in the research was that studies show introverts in leadership positions report 30% higher stress levels than everybody else. Right, and that is in very much in due to the social demands that come along with leadership expectations.

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Whether you work in a large organization or a small organization, truly, you know what being a part of a team doesn't just involve the work that the team has and is responsible for. It also involves you engaging socially, and that social can look like very small things, like chit chat about how the weekend was all the way to larger social demands like having dinner with colleagues or maybe someone that you might have to interview, or going out for drinks or having lunch. Instead of you being able to have lunch in your office on your own, which is probably what you desire, you often have to, or are asked to or invited to, participate in lunch meetings or just to get out of your office and join other people. Maybe your team is going out to lunch and they invite you and you, as the leader, feel like, hey, I probably should go, even though you just want five minutes for yourself. So that is that larger stress level. That 30% higher stress level is really coming from social demands on us as introverts that other people don't necessarily feel.

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In the last episode of this series, we talked about the strong Black woman stereotype and how harmful it is to all Black women in leadership positions. But because of that Black woman strong Black woman stereotype, black women are 25% less likely to seek support for their mental health and well-being. Right Again, another thing that we know intellectually that, of course, if we're feeling overwhelmed, if we're feeling high levels of stress, if we are feeling like we need extra support, then yeah, go get it. But for us who, for many black women who kind of feel like they are expected to be the superwoman and the superhero, to always be strong for not only themselves but for everybody else, then we are 25% less likely to seek support for ourselves, right? Because if you seek support, then that might be misinterpreted by other people or even yourself as not being quote, unquote strong. So all of this kind of brings us back to the constant theme that we've been talking about in this entire Black History Month series, that the compounded impact of being Black and being female and being introverted and being a leader in corporate environments.

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It just creates a unique situation for us and for you as a Black female, introverted leader, and, as a result, it's even more important for all of these different factors that we just talked about, for you, as an introverted black woman, to seek recovery, for yourself, to be able to recharge, to be able to take care of yourself in ways that are meaningful to you so that you can re-energize and thrive. So let's talk about this, right? So when we talk about recovery or recharging, I just, you know, I can think about myself and I have had the way in which I recharge and recover has changed over time, and I think that's important to talk about, because your unique way of recharging what you personally need as an introvert Black female leader to refresh yourself may look different than your friend or colleague. It may look different from another Black woman. It may look different from another Black female introverted leader, and that is okay. The key is to just find what works for you and to honor it. So for me, like I said, the way I've recharged has changed over time.

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In my 20s, my recharging actually believe it or not it was more social. It was more outgoing Now, not in a big overt way, but I found that I would recharge by spending quality time with friends not necessarily family, but definitely friends, right. So I would spend my maybe one or two evenings a week or one or two social events on the weekend in small group or one-on-one settings with friends that I valued and loved and respected. In my 30s I went through a very much. I need all the alone time that I could possibly get, but it was not just sitting around the house being alone, it was I wanted to do things. I wanted to do activities. I wanted to. I would go get massages. I would go, you know, explore museums. I would go, take long walks, so I would be doing activities, but more so by myself, because that was a period of my life where I needed more time to just let my mind rest. But by keeping myself physically active In my forties again totally changed, because in my fifties I settled down with a partner, a long-term partner, and I inherited a family.

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He had two sons. So in my fifties I was creating a home for our new family and my alone time, my alone time, but my recharge time looked different, right, because it was filled with noisy boys. I was in a home where I was the only female and there were three other men, three other boys, three other males, I should say and so my alone time looked different. I keep saying my alone time, my recharge time looked different. So a lot of my recharge time was spending time with my new family. When I wasn't spending time with them and not working, I would my recharge time was taking trips with my girlfriends, and so that wasn't a something that I did on a day-to-day basis, but it was something that I did on a day to day basis. But it was something that I did maybe once a quarter, once every couple of months and it would give me an enough energy to and downtime to sustain myself for several weeks going forward. Another thing in my fees that I did was I would go to hot yoga.

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I started practicing yoga and there's a saying in hot yoga where you kind of you leave it on the mat, meaning it's expected that you're. You come into the yoga studio and you may have a lot of things on your mind and you may have, you know, a lot of responsibilities that you need to take care of. You have your grocery list in your head, you have your to-do list that you got to get done when you leave. But when you enter that yoga studio, the saying that our yoga instructors will always say is, if you're carrying with you, you leave it on the mat, which means you unburden yourself and you be present in the moment in that during your yoga practice. And that is something that helped me a lot to recharge and replenish myself in my 40s.

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So for you it may look different. Whatever it is that you need to take care of yourself. I have a client who she has weekly massages, so weekly 90 minute massages is her way of taking care of herself. There are other things that she does, obviously, but that one thing is like a non-negotiable for her. So it could be anything that allows you the space and time to take care of yourself in a way that nothing else and no one else can do, and so that you leave that experience, or you leave that setting, or you leave that engagement, just feeling more grounded and feeling re-energized and ready to continue or take on something new and different, to continue or take on something new and different.

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So, with that said, I think it's important to think that you know many people will say you know, think of replenishing or recovery, as you know, basic self-care, and what I would argue is that, as introverted black female leaders, we gotta go beyond that, right? So, going to get your nails done or going to taking a bubble bath, they may not be enough. Right, it might be enough, but it may not be enough because, particularly those types of kind of daily activities or routine activities, they become another to do for us. And what I would challenge you to think about is to really explore what not only what you enjoy, what makes you feel beautiful, what makes you feel strong, what makes you feel replen. Keep going right and, where you really do walk away feeling recovered.

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And the reason why this is so important it's not just because you, as an introverted black female leader, work hard, right, and work a lot in terms of your hours, etc. It's not just because of that, it's also because of all the unique things and unique aspects of being a black introverted woman in a work setting that you have to endure right. So things like if you find yourself having to code switch, there is a mental depletion that comes from having to code switch, having to turn part of your personality on or off, whether you're in the workplace or at home. That is something that our counterparts in the workplace don't have to necessarily deal with, and there is a strain on you as an individual if you are in fact having a code switch change. Another aspect of the introverted black woman's experience that others don't necessarily have to deal with is the emotional labor of being the only one right, and so maybe in your environment there is another black person, maybe there is another woman, but there's probably not another introverted black female leader at your level who has to have the, who endures what you have to endure and or experiences what you have to experience, and there is a emotional labor tax that comes with that.

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Another thing in terms of what is unique for you as an introverted Black female leader is that you are likely having to be visible in your work setting right, not only for your own career advancement, but to advocate for your team, to get your colleagues respect and to be able to do your job. You just have to be visible and, as an introvert, that is a significant energy drain. You feel that every time that you are having to engage, you feel that every time there is a expectation that you interact with other people or with large groups, it's a requirement of the job, yes, but that doesn't mean that it's not an energy drain, right? It doesn't mean that you are not feeling that and having to kind of push yourself to show up in the way that you need to show up to be successful. And then, finally, another way that is unique for you and your experiences as an introverted black female leader is all the microaggressions, right? So, whether you know, we can debate all day whether your colleagues meant what they said or intentionally, you know, put the microaggression out there, like, we can debate all day about those things, but what we can't debate about and isn't worth debating because we already know is true is that the is the impact that it has. And you, as an introverted black female leader, you are processing microaggressions all the time and again that leaves an impact on you. So when we talk about creating a, you know a way for you to recover. When I talk about taking time and space to replenish yourself, when I talk about creating a personal recovery framework or process or protocol for yourself, I'm not just talking about because you work hard and you work long hours. I'm talking about all these other things the mental depletion from code switching, the emotional labor of being the only one, the energy drain of constant visibility and from processing microaggressions. And that is a unique aspect of being an introverted black female leader in any type of work setting.

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Okay, so right now you're probably like all right, nicole, I get it Right. You've laid out the case and you probably you're probably thinking I'm doing some things, but I probably could be doing more. Or you're thinking and admitting out loud that you know what I'm not. I'm not doing. I'm doing for everybody else and I know intellectually I should be doing for myself, but I'm not. But I'm ready to start. Okay, great, now you're asking all. Well, what should I be doing? What should I do differently? How do I get from where I am today, in terms of doing nothing for myself or doing very little, to having a valid way to take care of myself that is meaningful for me and that can be a regular thing that I do, and not just the occasional bubble bath or the occasional girls night out or whatever. Well, I am glad you asked, lady leader.

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Okay, so the first thing that and I I want to obviously walk you through a couple of steps that you can take and I think the good thing about this is you don't need nobody else, you only need yourself to actually execute this. You don't require your organization to support it, you don't necessarily even require your family to support it. These are things that you can do on your own or you have the power to make happen. Of course, you can ask for support from other people, from your spouse, from your children, from your boss, from your organization, but you can also get it done on your own, like you. You, this is up to you to get done, this is up to you to get done. So let me just share four steps, four things you need to think about, decide and execute on to create your own individual recovery process and protocol to prevent burnout.

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The first is creating space and time. Now I already know I can see your eyes rolling, your neck moving. I can see you, basically, and hear you basically saying Nicole, I don't got time, I don't have any extra time. That's the whole problem that I'm facing right now. Like I got to take care of my family, I got to take care of my team, I got to take care of work. I take care of you know, I got to go contribute to the church. I hear it Right, and you're probably going down your mental list of all the things you have to do versus and why you don't have any time. I hear you and what I will also say to you is you have the ability to create time for all the things you care about and all the things you value. To not create time for yourself to recover and replenish basically says that you don't value yourself, and I'm sure that that's not the case. And then we also already know that, in order for you to give fully to all the other things that you care about, you first got to give fully to yourself, and that means creating time and space for you to replenish. Now, your calendar is probably full of all these other obligations at home, at work, family, et cetera. What you could do is build time into your calendar for you, build recovery time into your calendar, just like you schedule the executive team meetings, just like you schedule taking your daughter to her skating lessons, just like you schedule date night with your significant other, you can also schedule time for yourself.

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That is something that I learned the hard way years ago decades ago actually and it has stuck with me. So when I look at my calendar, I don't know about you, but I used to keep a personal calendar and a business calendar, but I used to keep a personal calendar and a business calendar. Then, when I started my own business I actually started I had my company's calendar, meaning my executive leader calendar for my nine to five. I had my family calendar and then I had my business's calendar, so I was navigating three calendars. Now, luckily, the technology is such where you can have three separate calendars and still see them on one view, which is what I do right now. But in addition to it, I am like type A and I'm a little OCD as well and, as a result of that, my calendar is like color coded right. I can look at my calendar in a quick glance and just see the way I've got it organized. I can see how much time I'm spending each day, each week, each month on all the different responsibilities that I have.

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But I have now also baked into my calendar time for me to recover, and my recovery looks like a variety of different things. Right, you will have to pick what is best for you, but creating the time and space for it is the first step, and my recommendation is to schedule it and to schedule it and have a hard no, you know, hard boundary around it. I'm not flexing it, it is baked in and this is my time. The second step for you to create a recovery and burnout prevention process for yourself is to create daily practices that you build into your capacity as a leader. Now, for me, I will share that my daily practice to make sure to create space for myself as a leader is actually working out. I will say it to you know, till till people stop listening to me, essentially, that I will not work for anyone else not my kids, not my partner, not my company, not my clients, no one else. Not my patients, no one else until I work out in the morning. And the reason why that is so important to me is I have come to realize that one that is me creating space and time to take care of myself.

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That physical workout is not just about physically working out. It is also about taking care of myself mentally, because during my workouts, my daily workouts, I am also allowing my mind to kind of just free flow and I get new ideas, I solve problems for my teams. It just I don't set out to do that, it just happens because I've created that space and my body is in flow state. But I also really feel strongly that when I don't work out in the morning, I'm not my best self, like my team can tell. They're like did you work out today? Because if I come in and my brain is foggy, I'm not as productive, my speech isn't flowing as eloquently as it normally does and my demeanor is just not my normal positive self. They know they are like you need to go work out because we don't want this version of Nicole here. And so working out it's always been, it's been my release and now it has become a part of my daily routine, and that daily routine not only helps me on a personal level, but truly helps me to be a better leader.

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The question is, what daily practices do you have, or that you could start, that would help you to build your capacity as a leader? So that's the second step. The third step is creating your personal recharge toolkit. Now, this could be whatever it is that you want it to be.

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For me, my personal recharge toolkit has several different things in it, and, depending on what I need in that moment, or how much of a recharge or reset I desire, will dictate what I pull and what I leverage out of that toolkit. So, at the high end my recharge toolkit in my recharge toolkit, is actually taking a vacation, and the key to the vacation, though, is that I either have to go solo or I have to go with girlfriends who have no affiliation with my family per se or my work, right. Like I just need something totally different and removing myself out of my daily routine and going to an island or going to a new place where I get to see and explore things that I've never seen and explored before and that don't remind me of my daily responsibilities. Like that is on the upper end of my recharge toolkit. Then I have some things that are lower hanging fruit that I do. So going for a massage is something that's easily accessible to me, right. Of course there's a charge to it, but it's nowhere near taking a week's vacation, right. That is something that's in my toolkit, my personal recharge toolkit.

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Something that doesn't cost me a lot of money at all and that I can do any place any time is reading a book. I that doesn't cost me a lot of money at all and that I can do any place any time is reading a book. I have since I was a little girl and when I first had my signs that I was truly an introvert. I can get lost in a good book Not just one good book. I could probably sit in a room by myself for weeks just reading and be so happy and so content. There is something about exploring or living or seeing the world through a character's eyes or an author's eyes that helps me to spark my imagination, and I truly can get lost in a good way in someone else's story. So that's a personal recharge tool that I have that I pull out whenever I can, so you see what I mean by it can be something small and not costly at all. It could be something large, and what I would say is, when you create your personal recharge toolkit, you want to have like a few things in there, like three to five different things that you can leverage, depending on the situation or how high your stress levels are or how you know what you need to recover from.

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So creating your personal to recharge toolkit is number three, and then the fourth thing is I really want you to spend some time identifying what your unique warning signs are of burnout, and the reason why this is so important is I've experienced this personally and in talking to and working with my clients. Many, many of my clients experience this where we don't even realize that we are hitting burnout until we're right up against it or in it. That time it's often too late. Right by that time you are in a situation where you have to take more drastic measures to be able to take care of yourself, whereas if you knew and understood the signs that lead up to burnout for you or lead up to, you know if you don't like the word burnout, you can talk about an energy crash, or you know you could talk about just needing space and time right, like if you knew the physical and mental and emotional signs that are uniquely yours, that predicts when you are about to, or when you might be on the path to, burning out or crashing or needing some alone time. Then you would be able to not only see those signs but take the actions that you need to to prevent the ultimate crash or ultimately burning out. And those signs are going to be different for you, versus me, versus someone else who may be listening to this podcast. For me, I know what my warning signs are. I didn't always, though, like when I was younger it was. I didn't. I burnt out several times in my younger days because I wasn't paying attention to what my body, what my mind, was telling me.

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One of my current clients, tricia. When we started working together, one of her goals that she wanted to achieve was basically to recover from burnout. Very successful, very well loved and beloved executive leader, and she works for communications, a large global communications company, and she is the head of marketing. And she came to me because she'd heard of my experiences with work addiction and my expertise in that area, and she herself, my expertise in that area, and she herself was in this vicious cycle and pattern of go, go, go, go, go, go, go, crash, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, crash. Right, so she would, and her crashes were heavy, right.

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So she would work on these big global projects and she would have a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of energy starting out, but somewhere midway, you know, to that in that project she would feel herself starting to slow down and not have the same level of energy and not show up in the same way, and then she would start calling in sick, right, because she was so tired. So she needed you know, she thinks she needed just a mental health day, and then that mental health day would not be enough. So the next week she was calling in for another mental health day. Next week she was calling in for another mental health day, and which was, you know, at her level, when it is unplanned and she's taking time off, it not only disrupts her and what she's trying to accomplish, but it also disrupts the project and it disrupts the team. But she needed it. So she would take off another day, and when the individual days weren't enough, she would try to take off extended time. But the time that she was taking off she's still in the middle of a project. So, even though she's physically not there, her mind is still working. Her mind is still worrying about her team and what they're doing and whether they need her, et cetera. Right, but she would do this over and over and over. According to her, she feels like she's been doing it for like the past 10 years and she's recognizing that now that she does have this very senior level role, she can't afford to do that anymore. She has to figure out a solution.

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So one of the first things we worked on was identifying her unique warning signs of burnout. Like what are the telltale signs that you are headed towards burnout? And she had a few of them. The first one is her sleep starts to be disrupted. Right, she's normally a very sound sleeper, but when she's very highly stressed, she starts to wake up a couple of times a night because her mind won't shut off and, as a result of that, she's not getting her good night's sleep, and that impacts how she shows up at work the next day as well. So the very first sign for her is lack of sleep or disrupted sleep.

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The second sign for her, in terms of her warning signs coming up leading up to burnout is emotional eating. And the emotional eating funny enough it's never about her home life, right? Many of us emotionally eat when we are in relationships that may not be going well or we are not feeling good about ourselves. We soothe ourselves with food. For her, she, her emotional eating, is all related to stress in her professional life. And so what she said was, when we first started working together, she was like I'm normally a very healthy eater, you know not, not a crazy healthy eater. She has a good, well-balanced diet. But she has now seen that when she gets really stressed at work and when she is heading toward burnout, that her eating patterns change and her food selections change and she starts eating a lot more junk food, a lot more sweets. So that's a second identifier for her.

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And then the third identifier for her and she had more than three, but these were her top three the third identifier for her was when she stops adhering to the boundaries that she sets between work and personal life. So because she gets so caught up in these big projects and because they are high stakes I mean, these are multimillion dollar deals that she's dealing with Because there is so much riding on it, she starts to allow more access to herself by her team, colleagues, clients, and when that happens, she doesn't have enough time for herself. So people are trying to get in contact with her, asking her questions, sending her emails around the clock, 24-7. And that's actually not the bad part. The bad part is she adjusts her schedule to respond to everything, like right now, even those things that are not urgent. She feels the need, the desire to actually answer all the text messages, all the calls, all the emails, all the questions from her teams and others right away, even when it's not required of her. So, and because of that, she that that creates, that creeps into time outside of the office. That creeps into time that she would otherwise be spending and doing different things right and letting her mind rest, letting her body rest. She doesn't take that. So what she's noticed is when she starts to allow the creep to happen at this great or higher, higher level, she knows that that is the path to burnout for her, because she's not getting the recovery time that she needs Now. Those are examples of her unique burnout signs, her unique warning signs.

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My question to you is what are your unique warning signs? Because knowing them and then keeping an eye out for them will help you make the necessary adjustments you need to make to avoid burnout and to more proactively take care of yourself, to build in the recovery time and processes that you need to be able to bring your best self to any situation that comes your way. Lady Leader, listen, I have to admit I did not think that this episode was going to be so deep and so so fruitful. Right, I didn't expect to be talking for 40 something minutes about the importance of protecting your time and recovery and creating a unique protocol process experience for yourself that will help you prevent burnout. I truly hope that today's conversation in fact, not hope I know that today's conversation is helpful and will be helpful to you, particularly if you take the actions that we talked about in order to build your own unique protocol and practice to avoid burnout. And if you found it helpful, then I would ask you to share it with a friend, share it with a colleague, share it with another Black female leader who also who you know, also needs to and has the opportunity to take better care of themselves.

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This episode episode 70, is the last episode in our four-part Black History Month series and I hope you've enjoyed it. Experience and talking about the unique aspects of everything that Black female introverted leaders have to deal with, have to think about, have to work towards, particularly as you are striving to be the best leader that you can possibly be for your team, for your organization, for yourself and for your family, as well as how you navigate to the executive level and the senior leader level of your company. Feedback that I've already received about this series has been phenomenal, so much so that I am going to be talking to Black female introverted leaders on this podcast going forward. So a couple of things that I want to make sure that I share, and I'll probably share it on my other platforms as well, because I want to make sure that everyone knows and understands the direction in terms of where this podcast is heading.

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Two things the title of the podcast is going to be updated. Currently, the podcast is called the Leading Her Way podcast. Going forward, it will be the Leading Her Introvert Way. This podcast has always been dedicated to introverts. It just hasn't been in the title, so I'm going to update the title to reflect that so more people can find us. The second change that I'm making is that I will be talking specifically and continuing to talk about topics that are for Black, introverted female leaders, and I'm excited about that. Right, I'm making this change based on the feedback that I've received from you. The vast majority of my listenership or the podcast listeners of the podcast, the vast majority of my community on LinkedIn, is, in fact, black introverted female leaders, and so I wanna make sure that I am covering information and materials that is most relevant to the majority of the community that I serve. So those are the two announcements in terms of I can't necessarily call them changes, but definitely maybe adjustments as we move forward, and I hope that it is going to give you more of what you want and what you need to hear, and that you are as excited about the adjustments as I am. So, with that lady leader, we are going to wrap up this episode.

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If you are a introverted black female leader who wants to become an executive in your company or in your career and you've been trying to do it and you have not gotten the promotion that you wanted, you are not having the presence that you desire.

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You are not getting the recognition that you know that you deserve and you feel like you're ready or you want to get ready, but the people around you just don't seem to see the potential that you know that you have inside, then you and I need to have a conversation, and I invite you to click the link in the show notes so that we can talk about what you're currently experiencing.

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We can talk about what your career goals are. And if you don't know exactly what your career goals are, but you just know that you want more and deserve more and can do more, then as part of our conversation, we can figure out what your goals are together. And not only will we figure out what your goals are together, but we will map out the steps that you need to take so that you can achieve your goals. And once we do that, then you will have a roadmap for yourself to become the executive leader that you know that you can be. So, again, just click the link in the show notes or you can go directly to my website at wwwthechangecom. Book your sales call and we can have our conversation to see if my one-on-one coaching is a good fit for you and what you are trying to accomplish. No-transcript.