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Welcome to ”The Black Woman’s Stress Solution,” the podcast for ambitious black women who are navigating the complexities of success while striving for balance and well-being in their lives. Brig Johnson, your host and go-to coach for stress management, brings you insights, strategies, tools and a little bit of neurobiology to master mindfulness, self-improvement, confidence, and personal growth. With Brig’s guidance, you’ll learn how to become unstuck and manage stress effectively while pursuing your goals and dreams to create your EPIC shit. Each week Brig dives deep into the world of self-care, mindset shifts, and empowerment strategies tailored specifically for Black women in business and leadership roles. With a focus on self-awareness, confidence-building, and goal-setting, this podcast provides the tools and guidance needed to navigate the challenges of work, health, relationships, and modern life with grace and resilience. Whether you’re an experienced women boss or just starting your journey of self-discovery, this podcast is your go-to resource for becoming the empowered, confident woman you were meant to be. Brig addresses common questions and challenges faced by high-achieving black women, offering practical advice and actionable steps to help you unlearn and unleash to live a more balanced and fulfilling life. Examples of these questions are: *How can Black women effectively manage stress while juggling multiple responsibilities? *What are some mindfulness techniques specifically tailored for Black women? *How can Black women develop a positive mindset in the face of challenges and setbacks? *What strategies can Black women employ to boost self-confidence and self-esteem? *How can Black women set achievable goals for personal and professional growth? *What are some practical self-care practices that Black women can incorporate into their daily routines? *How can Black women navigate imposter syndrome and overcome feelings of inadequacy? *What role does self-love play in stress management and personal empowerment for Black women? *How can Black women overcome barriers to seeking help and support for their mental health? *What are some effective techniques for boundary-setting and prioritizing self-care in a demanding work environment? *How can Black women cultivate resilience and bounce back from triggers stronger than before? *What resources are available for Black women seeking mentorship, coaching, or community support? *How can Black women leverage their unique experiences societal bullshit and perspectives to excel in their careers and personal lives? *What are some common misconceptions about stress management and self-improvement for Black women, and how can they be addressed? *How can Black women balance ambition and self-care to achieve sustainable success and fulfillment? * How can Black women become unstoppable and unf*ckwithable being their absolute best self…no matter what the situation—not allowing outside things to impact how they think and feel about themselves, what they do, or how they show up in the world? *Health and relationships and societal bullshit that create stress for black women *Why stress is the biggest block to your confidence, keeping you stuck. *Why is creating safety one of the first things we must address as black women? *Why is stress hindering the growth of our relationships? Subscribe to ”The Black Woman’s Stress Solution” today and embark on a journey of empowerment, resilience, and growth. Visit https://brigjohnson.com/ to learn more about Brig Johnson and her coaching services.
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Today I want to continue our conversation about desire. I want to talk about another reason why we dampen our success expectancy. We've been taught that our future success is based on how successful we have been in the past. The thing is, if most of us looked to our past to determine our future success, we would not have any hope of creating the desires of our hearts because our brain is going to tell us every little detail about our failures.
Can I tell you something? Our past has absolutely nothing to do with our ability to create in the future. We can create desire, whatever it is that we want. Lean into it. It's possible. Don't allow your brain to give you probability thoughts. When our brain is saying NO, we get to say YAS!
Listen in as we unpack this concept.
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Monday Oct 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Disappointment is the unhappiness you feel from the failure of something hoped for or expected to happen. This is the internal fear that you experience when it comes to wanting and desiring more. For a lot of us, we don't want to desire because we're unwilling to experience disappointment.
So in this episode, I want to help us understand the disappointment in such a way that we are okay with experiencing it. When we put it all together we have to understand our cultural history, which is the danger of desire, the immortality of desire, greed, and our lack of tools for preparing ourselves for experiencing discomfort, disappointment. Once we understand this we can move on to the work of cultivating desire.
Listen in as I share three ways that you can deal with the fear of disappointment that is dampening your desire.
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EP. 28 Your Leaving Your Goodt, Goodt
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Monday Sep 27, 2021
Monday Sep 27, 2021
In episode 44 we talked about how vital it is for us to have desire yet having desire is often viewed as greed. I want to offer that we can be grateful and still desire more. It is the desire that moves us and gives our life direction. Without this continuous stream of desiring, there would be no reason to do anything. So if we want the thing, we have to create the desire to want it. And if we want to create the desire to want it, we have to make it safe for us to do so.
With this realization, why is it that we still shy away from experiencing desire? The reason why we dampen our desire is to avoid a specific feeling. It’s what we feel when our expectations for the desired outcome are dashed. This reason is totally in our control and that is what I want to unravel in this episode. Listen in to learn more.
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EP. 44 The One Emotion That Scares The Sh*t Out Of Us And Why
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Monday Sep 20, 2021
Monday Sep 20, 2021
If we want to attract a thing into our lives, it's first necessary to have a deep, burning desire for it. Desire is a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. It is the mental state that is needed to cultivate anything for us at all. Such as those big goals that we have.
We may believe that it's only natural for people to want all manner of things, but often the concentrated mental effort needed to put into motion the forces of circumstance to bring the desired goal/dream from the mental realm into the physical is not there. This lack of desire is true for WOC. Desire is the one emotion that scares the shit out of us. And today, I want to talk about why that is.
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EP. 18 Yes, I'm Angry and I'm a Black Woman, So what?
EP. 23 Emasculate...Is That Possible?
EP. 22 When The Angry Black Woman Stereotype Follows You Home
EP. 27 An interview with Dr. Koritha Mitchell, author of From Slave Cabins to the White House
Book - From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture
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Monday Sep 13, 2021
Monday Sep 13, 2021
Why do we give so much credence to what others think of us? The truth is that we are responsible only for ourselves, and our own feelings. We are not responsible for the feelings of others, and we do not cause those feelings to surface. Just like for yourself, the feelings that they experience are those that they have created for themselves. Yet we regularly have the thought that OPT (other people’s thoughts) about us are more important than our own and so we try to manage OPT by editing ourselves constantly.
I want to free you from the desire to try to manage OPT about you by helping you to understand why you value OPT in the first place and how to instead value your own thoughts and opinion of yourself. Listen in to learn more.
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Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Your mind is constantly filtering and bringing to your attention information that affirms your preexisting beliefs as well as presenting you with repeated thoughts and impulses that mirrors what you've done in the past. These thoughts are hidden beliefs that dictate the direction you go in and at which speed. Most of them are not actually serving you.
I like to think of these thoughts as little duck feet pedaling feverishly in the water but going nowhere fast. The duck feet are your internalized thoughts underneath your awareness, your consciousness that you actually get to question. So if you ever feel like you’re just going in circles, it’s these hidden thoughts that are directing you and that is one of the reasons why you are not making any progress towards your goals.
So listen in as we discuss a few ways to start retraining your mind to be your ally, not your enemy.
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EP. 41 Managing Your Mind - The First Step
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Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
I once heard the saying that “the quality of your life is dependent on the quality of your questions.” I thought this was so fascinating and then I also had the thought that the one thing that we rarely question is our thoughts. We rarely ask ourselves, “why are you thinking that?”
Every day the average person has an average of 12,000–60,000 thoughts a day. These thoughts can range from a different variety of things. So they are not all bad thoughts but primarily I personally believe this would be beneficial to bring awareness to those quite negative thoughts that seem harmless. You know the one that makes you feel like you are in the fight or flight mode or makes you feel like you're stuck or shut down. Of course, questioning your thoughts doesn't have to only apply when it's negative. There are many different instances where questioning your thoughts can be very beneficial.
I want you to know that you don't have to believe your thoughts. You get to question the validity of the story you tell yourself and in this episode, I share with you exactly how to do that.
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Monday Aug 23, 2021
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Our brain will offer us all kinds of thoughts, especially the thoughts it’s used to thinking. But just because these thoughts are familiar doesn't mean that they are useful. Our brains are doing what it was designed to do. It’s being efficient but we don’t want our minds running loose with destructive or unmonitored thoughts. Therefore we must monitor the thoughts and then manage and redirect them.
Remember that intentional thinking creates intentional results so to create the results you want, you must be intentional with your thinking by choosing a thought that will give you the feeling you need to take action and these actions will create your desired result.
You may have tried doing this before and think that it is impossible to change your thoughts, that they just happen and you have no control over them but I am here to tell you that, it's not true. You can control your thoughts. It starts with you being intentional with your thinking. It will take some practice but you can do it and in this episode, I show you exactly how to manage your mind so that you create on purpose.
This is the work that I specialize in. If you need help up-leveling your thoughts, I invite you to book a breakthrough call with me at https://brigjohnson.kartra.com/survey/Salescall.
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Monday Aug 09, 2021
Monday Aug 09, 2021
Are you on the journey to get your life? Then it may be time to think about life coaching. A life coach acts as a guide to assist you in retraining your mind by adopting new ways of thinking, which can involve replacing harmful beliefs with positive and affirming ones in order for you to reach personal and professional fulfillment. Think of a life coach as someone whose literal job is to help you reach your goals and ultimately enhance your life.
In today's episode, I am joined by Jennifer Moore, a private client who will be sharing with us how her decision to hire a life coach has amplified her quality of life. As a life coach herself, she knows the value that coaching has to offer. Listen in as she shares her experience and tells us why she is clear that her life is much richer because she invested in a life coach.
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Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
“Imagine meeting someone who wants to learn your past not to punish you but to understand how you need to be loved”. – Unknown
As I reenter the world of dating I have been self-coaching on how I feel about this process. I find myself pondering the thought of how we show up to a date with the intention to actually get to know the other person and determine if there is a connection. I’ve also been thinking about why we do this. The goal of dating is usually to find a partner, someone who you can grow to become intimate with. True intimacy happens when both people feel safe enough to be vulnerable. There is support for each other's weaknesses and celebration of each other's strengths. The couple has agreed on a definition of fidelity and both feel secure that the other will not violate that understanding. This then led me to think about what it would be like if we learned to find true intimacy with ourselves. Are you intimate with yourself? Are you safe with you? How well do you know you?
Queen, we don’t know ourselves enough to understand how we need to love ourselves. No, we understand ourselves, to punish ourselves. It is time to change this dynamic.
This is the work that I specialize in. If you need help improving that core relationship with yourself, I invite you to book a breakthrough call with me at https://brigjohnson.kartra.com/survey/Salescall to learn how to increase your intimacy with yourself. Listen in to learn more.
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