June 20, 2025 • 32 mins
In the powerful finale of Self-Care School, Morgan opens with a meditation inspired by Claudette Colvin—evoking the bravery and grace of a girl who sat down so generations could rise. Vanessa then leads us in a jubilant lesson on celebration, teaching us how to honor ourselves and the communities that sustain us. Our favorite homegirls, Nyra, Renate, Yolanda, Sandria, and Trelani, join for a chorus of wisdom, gratitude, and laughter. And we lift the curtain to shine light on Tyreen and Jana of the GirlTrek team—the women who made this season possible with care, creativity, and hustle. This episode is a love letter, a reunion, and a reminder: we heal together.
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We are sick and tired of being sick and tired.
The. Disrespected person in America.
Is the black woman but still like dust all right?
Pretty girls in the VIP they came with drain.
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They'll need ideas. Mundane.
You see, the revolution will notbe televised, brother.
You are by the new Joe John. Even if.
You are not ready for the day. It cannot always be night.
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Welcome to self-care School everyone.
Wherever you are walking today know this.
You are welcome here. This is our victory lap.
This is day 5 of 10 weeks of walking.
We have all of our special Co host here today.
We will take the time to introduce them to you.
What I'd like to say is that we are girl Trek.
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We are 1,000,000 black women strong and in this moment here,
self-care school is exactly whatwe needed.
In this moment as the world unravels around us, this is
exactly what we needed. Many of us started a decade ago
together when we learned that our daughters would live shorter
lives than we would. Some of us joined this movement
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when we lost the women in our lives too soon.
Our mothers, our aunties, our cousins.
Many of us joined this movement in the middle of a pandemic, and
we welcome you. We welcomed you in the street
with Black History Boot Camp andwe have a whole new generation,
whole new generation of leaders who have joined us for self-care
School in the midst of a world trying to define itself.
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We will care for ourselves before we step on any frontline.
We have learned from Fannie Lou Hammer that our bodies are not
the sacrifice, but that we are going to lead a whole world to
love and liberation, to restoration and revolution, to
joy and to justice y'all. And so before we begin our final
episode of self-care School, we start, as we always do, on our
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front porches. Vanessa, are you there?
I am here. I am.
Yay. I invite you.
I invite Tyrene, who is our storied, beautiful producer.
Say hi to the people's Tyrene. Hi.
Irene has been behind the scenesthis whole time, y'all?
Hopefully we'll talk to her a little more.
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And then I want to introduce youto someone special who's on the
line here today, who is our editor to make sure it sounds
good in your ear, to make sure we are at 30 minutes.
Jana, are you there? Hey, hey.
Jana, it's so good to hear your voice.
Y'all let's all we have all of our Co host here today.
We will introduce them in one second, but let's step out and
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get started with our breath. I invite everyone on the phone
with me today, including our Co host, our producers to also
breathe with us. We are going to open our front
doors. We're going to feel the sun on
our skin. We are going to walk out and
plant our feet on the front porches.
Oh, this is a sacred space y'allput your feet hip distance
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apart. Take a deep inhale and an
exhale. On your next inhale, I want you
to reach for the sky and on the exhale, I'd like you to fold and
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release. Fold from your hips and I'd like
for you to just stay there and just dangle.
Just dangle. Anything that is not for you.
Let it drip out of your fingertips.
Just dangle there in a folded position on your porch.
Continue to breathe. On your next exhale, fold even
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deeper. Just sway back and forth.
Anything that you were leaving behind before you started
self-care school. Leave it there.
Shake your hands. Put your hands on your hips.
On your next inhale, come up halfway.
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Release your next inhale, come up all the way.
Continue to breathe, put one hand on your chest, put one hand
on your belly, feel the space below your hands, your heart
that holds everything good, yourbelly that holds you strong.
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Feel it and continue to inhale and exhale at your pace.
We are going to set our intention for after these 10
weeks. What are you carrying from
self-care school? What are you walking towards?
You don't even need words for it, but I want you to have a
feeling for it. Hold that feeling underneath
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your hands, in your heart and inyour belly.
Continue to breathe. Today we celebrate with our
standing meditation, Our Calling, our breath to the
fierce and unshakable courage ofClaudette Colvin.
As we continue to breathe, we remember that at just 15 years
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old, Claudette Colvin refused togive up her seat to a white
passenger on a segregated bus inMontgomery, AL, 9 months before
Rosa Parks. Her bravery was the spark in the
Civil Rights movement. Though her name was nearly
forgotten, she stood tall when the world told her to shrink.
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I want you to roll your shoulders up to your ears,
exhale, roll them down your back.
Claudette Colvin said no to injustice, which was in truth a
radical. Yes to dignity, to truth, and to
justice. So let us breathe deeply now in
her honor, in her fight, in the fight for our lives each and
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every day. And as we close this porch
meditation, we inhale and we exhale, affirming together,
making sure that one hand is on your heart, 1 is on your belly.
I want to tap yes. Tap yes to your heart, we are
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inhaling. Yes to healthy bodies we are
inhaling tap. Yes to healthy minds, we are
inhaling tap. Yes to healthy families, we are
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inhaling tap. Yes to healthy food, we are
inhaling. Y'all tap.
Yes to healthy finances, inhale.We are saying Yes to healthy
land inhale. We are saying yes to healthy
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political systems. Y'all inhale 1,000,000.
Black women are saying yes to freedom for our families inhale
1,000,000. Black women are saying yes to
justice for caregivers inhale 1,000,000.
Black women are saying yes to the next generation of Black
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girls Who will lead inhale. We say yes as commitment to our
own care. Our lives matter now more than
ever. Stay strong sisters. self-care
School has been a privilege and an honor to lead with you.
And it is a privilege to hand itover to my friend and to my
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sister. Vanessa, are you there?
I am here, Morgan, I am here andthat was such a beautiful
meditation and thank God we tapped yes to all of the things
that we have called in. We're going to do a review y'all
in a minute just to figure out like what we've learned and then
how. And on this episode on these
last two life saving skills, we're going to learn how we can
celebrate ourselves and how we can celebrate that.
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We did this with others. But Morgan, I wanted to bring in
for this real graduation, a commencement speech, just to,
like, bring in some words of encouragement for the women and
inspiration. And I was thinking, who would
have the right words for us to mark that We didn't just do 10
weeks. A lot of us did that extra
credit week of orientation. I think it's like 11 weeks.
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And so I want to bring in right now the voice of none other than
Lucille Clifton, a foremother and an ancestor.
And won't you come celebrate with me?
And we're going to have her, Miss Lucille, give our
commencement speech. Won't you celebrate with me what
I have shaped into a kind of life?
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I had no model born in Babylon, both non white and woman.
What did I see to be except myself?
I made it up here on this bridgebetween starshine and clay, my
one hand holding tight, my otherhand come celebrate with me that
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every day something has tried tokill me and has failed.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. That is a praise report.
That is a praise report, Morgan,for me, for you, for all of the
women who have walked with us, for the home girls who are on
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the line. Renata, are you there?
We got our home girl from masterclass Mondays on the line.
I am here happy happy. Graduation day, yes, happy
graduation, hey, But I do think we got right now on the line our
girl yo-yo from workshop Wednesday.
Are you there, yo-yo? Hey.
Hey. Good morning.
Good morning. Good morning.
Yes, that's what's up. We got our girl Next Gen.
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Naira on the line. Are you there Naira?
I'm here. Hey y'all.
That's right. And in a minute, we are going to
bring in our home girl for Fridays, for Mother Fridays,
Triloni. But I just wanted to hold space
for you home girls to just sharea reflection, a graduation
speech, a sentence around what has transpired for you over
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these past 10 weeks. Renata, can we just start with
you? You know, this past 10 weeks
have been so transformative, andnot just for myself, but like
when you run into someone or youmentioned to someone that you're
doing self-care school and they say I am too, and then they
start talking about a specific episode that's touched their
lives. Like, it's just been so
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powerful, y'all? It's been so powerful.
I had no idea it was going to lead to everything that has
unfolded over these 10 weeks. Yeah.
Yolanda, what about you? Man?
I have learned so much, so so much.
This has been like the most helpful thing, especially when
it comes to safety relationships.
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Like I have learned so much. Thank you all for this.
Now what about you, Naira? I think for me, it really has
been a toolkit to kind of guide me in things that I'm
experiencing now as a young adult and what to look forward
to as I grow older so that I canbe proactive in some things and
also empower me to step up in some things now as I'm becoming
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of age, as they say. So, yeah.
Oh. My God, becoming of age, look
narrow. I'm 47 years old and I am still
becoming of age. I just want to let you know.
I just want to let you know. I just learned how to drink
water. Naira.
Listen, Sandra ain't joining us live, but I was thinking about
her this morning because I was like, I remember we walked on
the Underground Railroad and this was Sandra said we did it
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all. We.
Did it. Oh my God, I know she was here.
She's still be saying we did it all.
We did it. We did it.
We love Sandra and I think Girl Trellanie is on the line.
Troll. You there?
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Good morning and happy Friday. This is number week 10.
But trail it's for mother Fridayand I'm just wondering like we
just called in Lucille Clifton for the commencement speech and
I'm wondering like, what do you think?
Or do you have any 4 mother words for us that would help us
to like close this 10 weeks out?The four mother voices have been
such an essential part of this experience.
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I'm almost tearing up a little bit thinking about it, but I
couldn't think of a better companion text for this week
than Parable of the Solar by Octavia Butler.
It's a book that I'm using in mysummer camp with the middle
schoolers that I'm working with right now too.
And like when I read a few passages from for them and I let
them know that the book was written in the late 80s and it's
set in 2024, like they were blown away.
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They couldn't believe it. And the what I why I chose this
particular text is because the main character, Lauren Olamina,
she's only 15 years old when shebegan shaping a whole entire new
belief system and she's leading a growing community this 15 year
old. And it's made-up of adults and
elders and practically they're strangers.
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It's a reversal, you know what I'm saying, of the usual power
dynamics. And it's one that forces us to
reconsider who we trust with vision and why.
And what makes it even more timely is, like I said, it's
because, like the the book was published in 93, but it's set in
2024. And her foresight wasn't just
imaginative. Octavia Butler's it wasn't.
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It was prophetic. Like she saw the climate crisis,
the rise of corporate control, the collapse of social
structures, but also the possibilities of new ways of
being. And through Lauren, Octavia was
essentially asking us, like, what can we plant in the ashes
of collapse? Octavia Butler got her first
name from her mother. That was another reason I
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thought about it. She got her first name from her
mother, her middle name from hergrandmother.
So Octavia Estelle Butler, she was the next Gen. carrying that
lineage forward and making it radical.
In the book's mantra, the destiny of Earth seed is to take
root among the stars. We are Earth seed.
So I read that again. The destiny of Earth seed is to
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take root among the stars. And to me that echo Zora Neale
Hurston's mother Lucy telling Zora, jump at the sun, right?
Like that's what we all do. We want to jump at the sun.
But then Octavia brother took itlike one step further and was
like, don't just reach root yourself and don't just dream
build and don't just survive. See a whole entire new future
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because if our young people inherent broken systems and they
deserve the chance to imagine something entirely different and
not just them, but us too. And so and all we got to do is
like, listen, tap in. And you know, it's use some of
that courage that we were born with.
But yes, that's what I had today.
So it wasn't like a verbatim reading, but I just felt like
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Octavia was just all up and all through here.
Oh, man, no, it was perfect. We are Earth Seed.
So thank you for that, Trellanie, and thank you for all
that you have brought to these episodes over this past week.
It's been really important and essential.
It really has been. Gianna, I wanted to ask you a
question as our editor because you've been behind the scenes,
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like listening to all of the stuff that doesn't come live on
air. And I just wanted to hear from
you, like, how has the experience been for you?
Have you learned anything? Has anything moved in you?
Oh my goodness, yeah. I've learned so much.
And I I've had the great privilege of hearing the
episodes in their entirety outside of the 30 minutes, so I
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think I've even gotten an extra.Dose of knowledge.
And you know, you you had the Lucille Clifton as the
graduation speech. And so even thinking about
self-care school being in response to everything that has
tried to kill us. And I think my generation in
particular has a lot of anxiety around everything that is trying
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to kill us from. The.
The question of air fryers to the clothes we wear and.
You. Know.
All of these different things and it can be overwhelming.
And so that this self-care school has really been a tool, a
tangible tool to help us navigate dealing with that
anxiety in a productive way. Oh yeah.
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Vanessa, can we hear from our, Idon't know, the hero of
self-care school, Tyrene? Yes, yes, yes, Tyrene.
Was recording and downloading episodes while she was driving
her kids to school. She was getting being the show
Wrangler, getting everybody on the line.
Tyrene, I'm so proud of you. I'm so grateful to you.
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What does this meant? What does this meant to you?
Thank you. Honestly, starting, I did not
think that it would have the huge positive impact that it had
on me. I thought I'm gonna just produce
behind the scenes, make sure everything sounds great, make
sure we get it out on time. But as the days went on and I'm
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like, oh, snap, I think I want to run for to be the the
president. Now I'm like, I'm checking
myself how I'm talking to the kids, like you like step or if
you overtalk your kids. And I'm like, OK, I do that.
But it's because I think I have solutions, but I need to stop.
And I'm just like, yo. And then like the economic
freedom, like it's just deep. Yeah.
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I don't really have words but ithas honestly been life changing
and not just the lessons but just what I've learned about
myself and I'm just honestly grateful.
Yeah. Oh, I'm proud of us.
I'm smiling ear to ear, y'all. I'm proud of Tyree.
You did such a good job, everybody.
You did such a brilliant job. Thank you so much, Vanessa.
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You have done such a great job instructing tears.
In my eyes, because every singleday I have just like asked God
to just like speak for me. And I have prayed over you and
asked God to speak for you, Morgan.
And so I feel grateful, Morgan, for all the lessons that you
have taught, for all of the things that you have brought to
the table, and just the powerfulreal teacher way that you that
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you really are the best teacher I've ever known.
And you just really know how to break it down for people.
And so, yeah, I've been grateful.
Let's get started with the lessons.
The first lesson is how we sell.How do we celebrate ourselves
for finishing? And it's such an important
question because I promise we can move on to the next thing so
quickly. I promise I've already kind of
moved on to the next thing in mycomputer and in my inbox and in
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my everything with like all the to do's and all of the other
things that are due. And yet I have to call my own
self in to just be like, what does it look like to take up a
moment to celebrate ourselves, to genuinely celebrate ourselves
for finishing? So I want to pose that question
to everybody. This can't just be something
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that you just closed the podcaston on this last episode.
And then tomorrow you are just off to the next thing.
We have to celebrate ourselves for what we have done.
And so the first thing, Morgan, is I just first of all, we've
all earned 10 for mother badges and we're going to earn a
completion badge. Who's on the completion badge?
Morgan. Harriet Tubman and it's so cute.
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And this is how we celebrate. I want to let you all know that
these were not just digital badges.
And if you're listening live andlive as we're recording this ten
week experience, we're going to close out on our last episode.
You'll be listening somewhere around Juneteenth.
Y'all for Juneteenth. You'll be wrapping this thing up
that's so symbolic. And on Monday, June 28th, these
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badges that have been digital, that are more than decorative,
they've been declarations will be available to you in the Girl
Trick Store to purchase. So that you can actually hold
them so that you can place them somewhere so that you could put
them on your denim jacket. So that you can mount them in a
shadow box so that you put them on the cork board so that you
can have a legacy backpack so that you can pass them down to
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your generations. And so making sure.
Not a legacy backpack. Yes, a legacy backpack y'all.
I love putting me some patches and stuff on my backpacks and
I'm just so excited to imagine all of the ways that we are
going to wear those badges. So proud all the ways we're
going to pass them down. I would encourage people that
you can buy an extra set of the badges and gift them to someone
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who you want to start the self-care school experience.
Give them they badges up front and just be like you.
Get ready to go. As intention, they can be
intention. We all got to be hoarding them.
Listen, they can be intention incredible yes I was also
thinking that people could do badge dedication rituals if they
want. You can take each badge and you
can dedicate it to a woman in your own life.
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Just like we have been doing those daughters of meditations.
You can call a woman and dedicate what you've done to
that for that week and what you've earned and you can
dedicate it to a woman in your life.
So I'm. Going to give the caretaker
badge to my Aunt Joyce because she was a nurse for all those
years. Yes, that is exactly right.
I love that. Yeah, so think about that.
Order an extra set so you can have a set.
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You could give the set out. Y'all.
This is like the New Girl Scouts.
So we have our badges and those are the way that we know we've
completed. But Morgan, I want to let
everybody know that if you've completed all these 10 weeks,
you're certified in Radical self-care.
Like officially certified. LinkedIn certified, but in
Radical Self-care by Girl Trek 1,000,000 Black.
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Women, right? And we are going to give you
something so that you could put it on your LinkedIn.
We are going to give everyone, Morgan, a downloadable official
self-care school graduation certificate so that you can
frame it next to your other degrees.
And yes, so that you can upload it onto your LinkedIn resume.
And in fact, we are going to give you the instructions that
you can go to your LinkedIn profile, Scroll down to the
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licenses and certification location sections, and don't
worry, this will all come with the download instructions.
All right, the second way, Morgan, that I really want to
invite, and maybe this is the most important way for everybody
to celebrate themselves for thisjourney is I want every single
one of us to schedule a victory lap walk for ourselves.
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I'm talking about your own just victory lap.
And here's the instructions, Morgan, I actually want you to
take the earbuds out of your ear.
This is a 30 minute victory lap where you are going to listen to
the birds or listen to the traffic or listen to your own
mind or listen to your own spirit and you're going to
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reflect. What am I most proud of?
What did I release that I will never want back?
What do I want to carry forward from what I have learned?
And what will you keep walking forward?
And I'm asking you to take the earbuds out because you've been
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listening to me and Morgan and you've been listening to The
Home Girls. But now is the time for you to
listen to yourself, to your own intuition, to the divine inside
of you who will guide and order your next steps to, to, to pour
down praise on you. Even on this episode, we're
pouring down the praise. But this is where we have to
learn as our last lesson in self-care school, how to praise
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ourselves maybe when nobody elsedid.
There might be some of you out there who did this journey
without any other person even knowing.
There's some of you who just push past work obligations and
stress and losing your jobs and all sorts of things and you
still push through. So take a victory lap, walk for
yourself, pick a date and a timeand let it be joyful and let it
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be reflective and let it be yours.
So that's the second instruction.
And then I also want people to make a joy appointment as the
last thing. And this is I'm talking about
you might go sit in your grandma's kitchen or you might
go to a spa. But I'm talking about something
that really just brings you joy.Just really pamper and love on
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yourself. Just really have fun.
Maybe you go to your favorite restaurant, maybe you go on a
little vacay, like maybe you create some sort of ritual for
yourself at home, but make a joyappointment for yourself,
something that really sparks peace and sparks pleasure
because that's Morgan. We don't reward ourselves
enough. We cut ourselves off from what
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reward looks like. And one of the ways you can
genuinely reward yourself is youcan buy the self-care School
T-shirt, class of 2025. You can buy it at girltrip.org.
Just hit the store. You can.
Yeah, you can get your T-shirt. So Morgan, those are all the
ways that people can celebrate themselves for self-care School.
And then I quickly just want to talk about how we can celebrate
with our friends and our families, right?
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Because part of this is the joy of sharing these solutions.
And I'm super excited for the very first way that people can
share with their friends and family.
Because we have been cooking in the kitchen.
Y'all behind the scenes. And we are going to release on
Juneteenth the latest, greatest,best ever.
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If you didn't even know we had aother version, don't worry about
it. We are about to release the 1st
most powerful movement app, The Underground.
The Underground drops on Juneteenth is where the next
chapter of our movement will live.
It's where you can all of your friends and family can catch the
10 weeks of self-care school episodes embedded into the app
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in an audio feature that is so bomb.
It is like Podcasts meets Clubhouse meets everything, and
all of the episodes that you have walked through and listened
to will be in the app. And so I want you to tell all of
your friends and families that they can download The
Underground. You don't just have to invite
your friends and family. You get to organize a crew, yes,
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on the app with your people so that you can be in the group
chat on the app cheering them onas they walk through the
episodes so that you can be talking about what you learned
so that you can see who's doing what.
It doesn't matter if you guys are in the same city, the same
state, or the same continent. It doesn't matter if you're
related by blood, if it's just friends, if it's coworkers, if
it's church groups. You can organize as many crews
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as you want, but think about thefirst crew that you want to
share this knowledge with. And as soon as that app drops
and you know those episodes are on there, y'all get after it.
And I want to just invite peopleto make sure that you tell
everybody, you know, to make sure that they are signed up at
girltrek.org or that they download the app so that they
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can get the information. And on my selfcareschool.com
when you access the classroom, we also have the field guide.
And the field guide is such a really beautiful resource for
your friends and families. And in the field guide it
recommends and encourages that at the end of self-care school,
we host house parties to celebrate y'all.
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And how is this connected to thesummer and being outside?
Because that is the tradition ofour families and of our
foremothers and of our grandma grandmamas.
We've been doing these porch meditations for over 10 weeks.
So I'm talking about opening up your porch and let some people
in and think about a real graduation celebration that you
would want to have. We're going to send you an
e-mail with some instructions. But right here and right now, I
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want to tell you that the if youdo nothing else, Morgan, if we
did nothing else, every single woman listening but brought
together some friends to share our daughters of stories.
I'm talking about. We've been doing Daughters of
Meditations for the beginning ofevery one of these episodes.
Who are you the daughter of? I am the daughter of Vanessa,
who was the daughter of Annette,who was the daughter of Melvina,
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who was the daughter of Katie Morgan, Who are you the daughter
of? The daughter of Carol Jean,
who's the daughter of Aletha May, The daughter of Willie, who
is the daughter of Sarah. That's right, y'all, And that
tradition is apparel for tradition in our Girl Trek
communities. And you can bring people
together, your girlfriends together and you guys can share
your daughters of stories and you can ask them what is a
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self-care secret or a strategy that a woman in your life passed
down. And that's called a solution
circle. Either reflect on what you've
learned. It can be as simple as that, but
a way to celebrate and gather. We look when I tell you that we
get together for funerals on thedrop of a dime, but that we
hardly get together for the things that really draw us
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together. And a lot of us, especially if
you don't have children, your children out of the house, it's
like don't be waiting for their high school or college
graduation like you have just graduated into and from
something powerful. So those are my tips, Morgan,
for how we can celebrate and share, celebrate with ourselves,
how we can celebrate with our friends and our families.
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I'm sad to sign off. I'm just like, what more can we
say? But no, we got, we got to go,
y'all, we got, we got to go. But this is just a see you soon.
See you on the underground. Y'all see you outside, see you
in your superhero blue, see you in the sisterhood, see you in
the movement. I'm just excited for what women
are going to be walking towards as we end this this experience
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together. So that's all I got.
Yeah, grateful for everybody. That's all I got to V, Yeah.
It's the end of the road. The. 2025 Convention.
Speaker, the Honorable Jasmine Crockett, US Congresswoman.
Representing the 30th District of Texas.
I am here to tell you that if you are waiting on somebody to
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come and save you, they are not coming to save you.
You are the person that you havebeen waiting on.
Listen graduates, every movementthat we have ever had has been
led by young people. I know that y'all look at me and
y'all think that I'm young, but just know this.
I am older than Megar was when he was assassinated.
I am older than Martin Witt was when he was assassinated.
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I am older than Malcolm when he was when he was assassinated.
So if you think that I'm young, I'm here to tell you that
y'all's work is cut out for you because there's so much that
stands before you. And some will tell you that
there is a hill for you to climb.
In fact, there is a poem that I oftentimes like to refer to.
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It is by Amanda Gorman. And some states wanted to say
that she couldn't have her writings available as well.
Florida. And it goes, for there is always
light, if only we're brave enough to see it.
If only we're brave enough to beit.
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My charge to you is to understand that your moment is
not in the future. Your moment is now.
This country is relying on each and everyone of you to walk into
your purpose and to walk in greatness with your head held
high. There are going to be people
that tell you that you don't belong, and I am here to tell
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you over and over and over that you absolutely belong.
There are people that are going to tell you that there is not a
table in which there is a seat for you, but I am here to remind
you of Montgomery in those folding chairs.
Let me tell you that we know howto use a chair, whether we
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pulling it up or we doing something else with it.
Let me hear the Let me be the first one to tell you that I
know that y'all are ready to putyour boots on the ground.
We are sick and tired of being sick and tired.
The. Disrespected person in America.
Is the black woman but still like dust all right?
Pretty girls in the VIP they came with drain.
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They'll need ideas. Mundane.
You see, the revolution will notbe televised, brother.
You are by the new Joe John. Even if.
You are not ready for the day. It cannot always be night.
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Welcome to self-care School everyone.
Wherever you are walking today know this.
You are welcome here. This is our victory lap.
This is day 5 of 10 weeks of walking.
We have all of our special Co host here today.
We will take the time to introduce them to you.
What I'd like to say is that we are girl Trek.
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We are 1,000,000 black women strong and in this moment here,
self-care school is exactly whatwe needed.
In this moment as the world unravels around us, this is
exactly what we needed. Many of us started a decade ago
together when we learned that our daughters would live shorter
lives than we would. Some of us joined this movement
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when we lost the women in our lives too soon.
Our mothers, our aunties, our cousins.
Many of us joined this movement in the middle of a pandemic, and
we welcome you. We welcomed you in the street
with Black History Boot Camp andwe have a whole new generation,
whole new generation of leaders who have joined us for self-care
School in the midst of a world trying to define itself.
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We will care for ourselves before we step on any frontline.
We have learned from Fannie Lou Hammer that our bodies are not
the sacrifice, but that we are going to lead a whole world to
love and liberation, to restoration and revolution, to
joy and to justice y'all. And so before we begin our final
episode of self-care School, we start, as we always do, on our
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front porches. Vanessa, are you there?
I am here. I am.
Yay. I invite you.
I invite Tyrene, who is our storied, beautiful producer.
Say hi to the people's Tyrene. Hi.
Irene has been behind the scenesthis whole time, y'all?
Hopefully we'll talk to her a little more.
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And then I want to introduce youto someone special who's on the
line here today, who is our editor to make sure it sounds
good in your ear, to make sure we are at 30 minutes.
Jana, are you there? Hey, hey.
Jana, it's so good to hear your voice.
Y'all let's all we have all of our Co host here today.
We will introduce them in one second, but let's step out and
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get started with our breath. I invite everyone on the phone
with me today, including our Co host, our producers to also
breathe with us. We are going to open our front
doors. We're going to feel the sun on
our skin. We are going to walk out and
plant our feet on the front porches.
Oh, this is a sacred space y'allput your feet hip distance
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apart. Take a deep inhale and an
exhale. On your next inhale, I want you
to reach for the sky and on the exhale, I'd like you to fold and
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release. Fold from your hips and I'd like
for you to just stay there and just dangle.
Just dangle. Anything that is not for you.
Let it drip out of your fingertips.
Just dangle there in a folded position on your porch.
Continue to breathe. On your next exhale, fold even
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deeper. Just sway back and forth.
Anything that you were leaving behind before you started
self-care school. Leave it there.
Shake your hands. Put your hands on your hips.
On your next inhale, come up halfway.
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Release your next inhale, come up all the way.
Continue to breathe, put one hand on your chest, put one hand
on your belly, feel the space below your hands, your heart
that holds everything good, yourbelly that holds you strong.
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Feel it and continue to inhale and exhale at your pace.
We are going to set our intention for after these 10
weeks. What are you carrying from
self-care school? What are you walking towards?
You don't even need words for it, but I want you to have a
feeling for it. Hold that feeling underneath
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your hands, in your heart and inyour belly.
Continue to breathe. Today we celebrate with our
standing meditation, Our Calling, our breath to the
fierce and unshakable courage ofClaudette Colvin.
As we continue to breathe, we remember that at just 15 years
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old, Claudette Colvin refused togive up her seat to a white
passenger on a segregated bus inMontgomery, AL, 9 months before
Rosa Parks. Her bravery was the spark in the
Civil Rights movement. Though her name was nearly
forgotten, she stood tall when the world told her to shrink.
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I want you to roll your shoulders up to your ears,
exhale, roll them down your back.
Claudette Colvin said no to injustice, which was in truth a
radical. Yes to dignity, to truth, and to
justice. So let us breathe deeply now in
her honor, in her fight, in the fight for our lives each and
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every day. And as we close this porch
meditation, we inhale and we exhale, affirming together,
making sure that one hand is on your heart, 1 is on your belly.
I want to tap yes. Tap yes to your heart, we are
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inhaling. Yes to healthy bodies we are
inhaling tap. Yes to healthy minds, we are
inhaling tap. Yes to healthy families, we are
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inhaling tap. Yes to healthy food, we are
inhaling. Y'all tap.
Yes to healthy finances, inhale.We are saying Yes to healthy
land inhale. We are saying yes to healthy
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political systems. Y'all inhale 1,000,000.
Black women are saying yes to freedom for our families inhale
1,000,000. Black women are saying yes to
justice for caregivers inhale 1,000,000.
Black women are saying yes to the next generation of Black
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girls Who will lead inhale. We say yes as commitment to our
own care. Our lives matter now more than
ever. Stay strong sisters. self-care
School has been a privilege and an honor to lead with you.
And it is a privilege to hand itover to my friend and to my
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sister. Vanessa, are you there?
I am here, Morgan, I am here andthat was such a beautiful
meditation and thank God we tapped yes to all of the things
that we have called in. We're going to do a review y'all
in a minute just to figure out like what we've learned and then
how. And on this episode on these
last two life saving skills, we're going to learn how we can
celebrate ourselves and how we can celebrate that.
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We did this with others. But Morgan, I wanted to bring in
for this real graduation, a commencement speech, just to,
like, bring in some words of encouragement for the women and
inspiration. And I was thinking, who would
have the right words for us to mark that We didn't just do 10
weeks. A lot of us did that extra
credit week of orientation. I think it's like 11 weeks.
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And so I want to bring in right now the voice of none other than
Lucille Clifton, a foremother and an ancestor.
And won't you come celebrate with me?
And we're going to have her, Miss Lucille, give our
commencement speech. Won't you celebrate with me what
I have shaped into a kind of life?
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I had no model born in Babylon, both non white and woman.
What did I see to be except myself?
I made it up here on this bridgebetween starshine and clay, my
one hand holding tight, my otherhand come celebrate with me that
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every day something has tried tokill me and has failed.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. That is a praise report.
That is a praise report, Morgan,for me, for you, for all of the
women who have walked with us, for the home girls who are on
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the line. Renata, are you there?
We got our home girl from masterclass Mondays on the line.
I am here happy happy. Graduation day, yes, happy
graduation, hey, But I do think we got right now on the line our
girl yo-yo from workshop Wednesday.
Are you there, yo-yo? Hey.
Hey. Good morning.
Good morning. Good morning.
Yes, that's what's up. We got our girl Next Gen.
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Naira on the line. Are you there Naira?
I'm here. Hey y'all.
That's right. And in a minute, we are going to
bring in our home girl for Fridays, for Mother Fridays,
Triloni. But I just wanted to hold space
for you home girls to just sharea reflection, a graduation
speech, a sentence around what has transpired for you over
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these past 10 weeks. Renata, can we just start with
you? You know, this past 10 weeks
have been so transformative, andnot just for myself, but like
when you run into someone or youmentioned to someone that you're
doing self-care school and they say I am too, and then they
start talking about a specific episode that's touched their
lives. Like, it's just been so
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powerful, y'all? It's been so powerful.
I had no idea it was going to lead to everything that has
unfolded over these 10 weeks. Yeah.
Yolanda, what about you? Man?
I have learned so much, so so much.
This has been like the most helpful thing, especially when
it comes to safety relationships.
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Like I have learned so much. Thank you all for this.
Now what about you, Naira? I think for me, it really has
been a toolkit to kind of guide me in things that I'm
experiencing now as a young adult and what to look forward
to as I grow older so that I canbe proactive in some things and
also empower me to step up in some things now as I'm becoming
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of age, as they say. So, yeah.
Oh. My God, becoming of age, look
narrow. I'm 47 years old and I am still
becoming of age. I just want to let you know.
I just want to let you know. I just learned how to drink
water. Naira.
Listen, Sandra ain't joining us live, but I was thinking about
her this morning because I was like, I remember we walked on
the Underground Railroad and this was Sandra said we did it
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all. We.
Did it. Oh my God, I know she was here.
She's still be saying we did it all.
We did it. We did it.
We love Sandra and I think Girl Trellanie is on the line.
Troll. You there?
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Good morning and happy Friday. This is number week 10.
But trail it's for mother Fridayand I'm just wondering like we
just called in Lucille Clifton for the commencement speech and
I'm wondering like, what do you think?
Or do you have any 4 mother words for us that would help us
to like close this 10 weeks out?The four mother voices have been
such an essential part of this experience.
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I'm almost tearing up a little bit thinking about it, but I
couldn't think of a better companion text for this week
than Parable of the Solar by Octavia Butler.
It's a book that I'm using in mysummer camp with the middle
schoolers that I'm working with right now too.
And like when I read a few passages from for them and I let
them know that the book was written in the late 80s and it's
set in 2024, like they were blown away.
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They couldn't believe it. And the what I why I chose this
particular text is because the main character, Lauren Olamina,
she's only 15 years old when shebegan shaping a whole entire new
belief system and she's leading a growing community this 15 year
old. And it's made-up of adults and
elders and practically they're strangers.
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It's a reversal, you know what I'm saying, of the usual power
dynamics. And it's one that forces us to
reconsider who we trust with vision and why.
And what makes it even more timely is, like I said, it's
because, like the the book was published in 93, but it's set in
2024. And her foresight wasn't just
imaginative. Octavia Butler's it wasn't.
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It was prophetic. Like she saw the climate crisis,
the rise of corporate control, the collapse of social
structures, but also the possibilities of new ways of
being. And through Lauren, Octavia was
essentially asking us, like, what can we plant in the ashes
of collapse? Octavia Butler got her first
name from her mother. That was another reason I
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thought about it. She got her first name from her
mother, her middle name from hergrandmother.
So Octavia Estelle Butler, she was the next Gen. carrying that
lineage forward and making it radical.
In the book's mantra, the destiny of Earth seed is to take
root among the stars. We are Earth seed.
So I read that again. The destiny of Earth seed is to
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take root among the stars. And to me that echo Zora Neale
Hurston's mother Lucy telling Zora, jump at the sun, right?
Like that's what we all do. We want to jump at the sun.
But then Octavia brother took itlike one step further and was
like, don't just reach root yourself and don't just dream
build and don't just survive. See a whole entire new future
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because if our young people inherent broken systems and they
deserve the chance to imagine something entirely different and
not just them, but us too. And so and all we got to do is
like, listen, tap in. And you know, it's use some of
that courage that we were born with.
But yes, that's what I had today.
So it wasn't like a verbatim reading, but I just felt like
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Octavia was just all up and all through here.
Oh, man, no, it was perfect. We are Earth Seed.
So thank you for that, Trellanie, and thank you for all
that you have brought to these episodes over this past week.
It's been really important and essential.
It really has been. Gianna, I wanted to ask you a
question as our editor because you've been behind the scenes,
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like listening to all of the stuff that doesn't come live on
air. And I just wanted to hear from
you, like, how has the experience been for you?
Have you learned anything? Has anything moved in you?
Oh my goodness, yeah. I've learned so much.
And I I've had the great privilege of hearing the
episodes in their entirety outside of the 30 minutes, so I
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think I've even gotten an extra.Dose of knowledge.
And you know, you you had the Lucille Clifton as the
graduation speech. And so even thinking about
self-care school being in response to everything that has
tried to kill us. And I think my generation in
particular has a lot of anxiety around everything that is trying
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to kill us from. The.
The question of air fryers to the clothes we wear and.
You. Know.
All of these different things and it can be overwhelming.
And so that this self-care school has really been a tool, a
tangible tool to help us navigate dealing with that
anxiety in a productive way. Oh yeah.
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Vanessa, can we hear from our, Idon't know, the hero of
self-care school, Tyrene? Yes, yes, yes, Tyrene.
Was recording and downloading episodes while she was driving
her kids to school. She was getting being the show
Wrangler, getting everybody on the line.
Tyrene, I'm so proud of you. I'm so grateful to you.
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What does this meant? What does this meant to you?
Thank you. Honestly, starting, I did not
think that it would have the huge positive impact that it had
on me. I thought I'm gonna just produce
behind the scenes, make sure everything sounds great, make
sure we get it out on time. But as the days went on and I'm
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like, oh, snap, I think I want to run for to be the the
president. Now I'm like, I'm checking
myself how I'm talking to the kids, like you like step or if
you overtalk your kids. And I'm like, OK, I do that.
But it's because I think I have solutions, but I need to stop.
And I'm just like, yo. And then like the economic
freedom, like it's just deep. Yeah.
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I don't really have words but ithas honestly been life changing
and not just the lessons but just what I've learned about
myself and I'm just honestly grateful.
Yeah. Oh, I'm proud of us.
I'm smiling ear to ear, y'all. I'm proud of Tyree.
You did such a good job, everybody.
You did such a brilliant job. Thank you so much, Vanessa.
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You have done such a great job instructing tears.
In my eyes, because every singleday I have just like asked God
to just like speak for me. And I have prayed over you and
asked God to speak for you, Morgan.
And so I feel grateful, Morgan, for all the lessons that you
have taught, for all of the things that you have brought to
the table, and just the powerfulreal teacher way that you that
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you really are the best teacher I've ever known.
And you just really know how to break it down for people.
And so, yeah, I've been grateful.
Let's get started with the lessons.
The first lesson is how we sell.How do we celebrate ourselves
for finishing? And it's such an important
question because I promise we can move on to the next thing so
quickly. I promise I've already kind of
moved on to the next thing in mycomputer and in my inbox and in
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my everything with like all the to do's and all of the other
things that are due. And yet I have to call my own
self in to just be like, what does it look like to take up a
moment to celebrate ourselves, to genuinely celebrate ourselves
for finishing? So I want to pose that question
to everybody. This can't just be something
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that you just closed the podcaston on this last episode.
And then tomorrow you are just off to the next thing.
We have to celebrate ourselves for what we have done.
And so the first thing, Morgan, is I just first of all, we've
all earned 10 for mother badges and we're going to earn a
completion badge. Who's on the completion badge?
Morgan. Harriet Tubman and it's so cute.
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And this is how we celebrate. I want to let you all know that
these were not just digital badges.
And if you're listening live andlive as we're recording this ten
week experience, we're going to close out on our last episode.
You'll be listening somewhere around Juneteenth.
Y'all for Juneteenth. You'll be wrapping this thing up
that's so symbolic. And on Monday, June 28th, these
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badges that have been digital, that are more than decorative,
they've been declarations will be available to you in the Girl
Trick Store to purchase. So that you can actually hold
them so that you can place them somewhere so that you could put
them on your denim jacket. So that you can mount them in a
shadow box so that you put them on the cork board so that you
can have a legacy backpack so that you can pass them down to
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your generations. And so making sure.
Not a legacy backpack. Yes, a legacy backpack y'all.
I love putting me some patches and stuff on my backpacks and
I'm just so excited to imagine all of the ways that we are
going to wear those badges. So proud all the ways we're
going to pass them down. I would encourage people that
you can buy an extra set of the badges and gift them to someone
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who you want to start the self-care school experience.
Give them they badges up front and just be like you.
Get ready to go. As intention, they can be
intention. We all got to be hoarding them.
Listen, they can be intention incredible yes I was also
thinking that people could do badge dedication rituals if they
want. You can take each badge and you
can dedicate it to a woman in your own life.
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Just like we have been doing those daughters of meditations.
You can call a woman and dedicate what you've done to
that for that week and what you've earned and you can
dedicate it to a woman in your life.
So I'm. Going to give the caretaker
badge to my Aunt Joyce because she was a nurse for all those
years. Yes, that is exactly right.
I love that. Yeah, so think about that.
Order an extra set so you can have a set.
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You could give the set out. Y'all.
This is like the New Girl Scouts.
So we have our badges and those are the way that we know we've
completed. But Morgan, I want to let
everybody know that if you've completed all these 10 weeks,
you're certified in Radical self-care.
Like officially certified. LinkedIn certified, but in
Radical Self-care by Girl Trek 1,000,000 Black.
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Women, right? And we are going to give you
something so that you could put it on your LinkedIn.
We are going to give everyone, Morgan, a downloadable official
self-care school graduation certificate so that you can
frame it next to your other degrees.
And yes, so that you can upload it onto your LinkedIn resume.
And in fact, we are going to give you the instructions that
you can go to your LinkedIn profile, Scroll down to the
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licenses and certification location sections, and don't
worry, this will all come with the download instructions.
All right, the second way, Morgan, that I really want to
invite, and maybe this is the most important way for everybody
to celebrate themselves for thisjourney is I want every single
one of us to schedule a victory lap walk for ourselves.
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I'm talking about your own just victory lap.
And here's the instructions, Morgan, I actually want you to
take the earbuds out of your ear.
This is a 30 minute victory lap where you are going to listen to
the birds or listen to the traffic or listen to your own
mind or listen to your own spirit and you're going to
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reflect. What am I most proud of?
What did I release that I will never want back?
What do I want to carry forward from what I have learned?
And what will you keep walking forward?
And I'm asking you to take the earbuds out because you've been
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listening to me and Morgan and you've been listening to The
Home Girls. But now is the time for you to
listen to yourself, to your own intuition, to the divine inside
of you who will guide and order your next steps to, to, to pour
down praise on you. Even on this episode, we're
pouring down the praise. But this is where we have to
learn as our last lesson in self-care school, how to praise
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ourselves maybe when nobody elsedid.
There might be some of you out there who did this journey
without any other person even knowing.
There's some of you who just push past work obligations and
stress and losing your jobs and all sorts of things and you
still push through. So take a victory lap, walk for
yourself, pick a date and a timeand let it be joyful and let it
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be reflective and let it be yours.
So that's the second instruction.
And then I also want people to make a joy appointment as the
last thing. And this is I'm talking about
you might go sit in your grandma's kitchen or you might
go to a spa. But I'm talking about something
that really just brings you joy.Just really pamper and love on
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yourself. Just really have fun.
Maybe you go to your favorite restaurant, maybe you go on a
little vacay, like maybe you create some sort of ritual for
yourself at home, but make a joyappointment for yourself,
something that really sparks peace and sparks pleasure
because that's Morgan. We don't reward ourselves
enough. We cut ourselves off from what
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reward looks like. And one of the ways you can
genuinely reward yourself is youcan buy the self-care School
T-shirt, class of 2025. You can buy it at girltrip.org.
Just hit the store. You can.
Yeah, you can get your T-shirt. So Morgan, those are all the
ways that people can celebrate themselves for self-care School.
And then I quickly just want to talk about how we can celebrate
with our friends and our families, right?
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Because part of this is the joy of sharing these solutions.
And I'm super excited for the very first way that people can
share with their friends and family.
Because we have been cooking in the kitchen.
Y'all behind the scenes. And we are going to release on
Juneteenth the latest, greatest,best ever.
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If you didn't even know we had aother version, don't worry about
it. We are about to release the 1st
most powerful movement app, The Underground.
The Underground drops on Juneteenth is where the next
chapter of our movement will live.
It's where you can all of your friends and family can catch the
10 weeks of self-care school episodes embedded into the app
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in an audio feature that is so bomb.
It is like Podcasts meets Clubhouse meets everything, and
all of the episodes that you have walked through and listened
to will be in the app. And so I want you to tell all of
your friends and families that they can download The
Underground. You don't just have to invite
your friends and family. You get to organize a crew, yes,
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on the app with your people so that you can be in the group
chat on the app cheering them onas they walk through the
episodes so that you can be talking about what you learned
so that you can see who's doing what.
It doesn't matter if you guys are in the same city, the same
state, or the same continent. It doesn't matter if you're
related by blood, if it's just friends, if it's coworkers, if
it's church groups. You can organize as many crews
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as you want, but think about thefirst crew that you want to
share this knowledge with. And as soon as that app drops
and you know those episodes are on there, y'all get after it.
And I want to just invite peopleto make sure that you tell
everybody, you know, to make sure that they are signed up at
girltrek.org or that they download the app so that they
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can get the information. And on my selfcareschool.com
when you access the classroom, we also have the field guide.
And the field guide is such a really beautiful resource for
your friends and families. And in the field guide it
recommends and encourages that at the end of self-care school,
we host house parties to celebrate y'all.
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And how is this connected to thesummer and being outside?
Because that is the tradition ofour families and of our
foremothers and of our grandma grandmamas.
We've been doing these porch meditations for over 10 weeks.
So I'm talking about opening up your porch and let some people
in and think about a real graduation celebration that you
would want to have. We're going to send you an
e-mail with some instructions. But right here and right now, I
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want to tell you that the if youdo nothing else, Morgan, if we
did nothing else, every single woman listening but brought
together some friends to share our daughters of stories.
I'm talking about. We've been doing Daughters of
Meditations for the beginning ofevery one of these episodes.
Who are you the daughter of? I am the daughter of Vanessa,
who was the daughter of Annette,who was the daughter of Melvina,
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who was the daughter of Katie Morgan, Who are you the daughter
of? The daughter of Carol Jean,
who's the daughter of Aletha May, The daughter of Willie, who
is the daughter of Sarah. That's right, y'all, And that
tradition is apparel for tradition in our Girl Trek
communities. And you can bring people
together, your girlfriends together and you guys can share
your daughters of stories and you can ask them what is a
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self-care secret or a strategy that a woman in your life passed
down. And that's called a solution
circle. Either reflect on what you've
learned. It can be as simple as that, but
a way to celebrate and gather. We look when I tell you that we
get together for funerals on thedrop of a dime, but that we
hardly get together for the things that really draw us
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together. And a lot of us, especially if
you don't have children, your children out of the house, it's
like don't be waiting for their high school or college
graduation like you have just graduated into and from
something powerful. So those are my tips, Morgan,
for how we can celebrate and share, celebrate with ourselves,
how we can celebrate with our friends and our families.
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I'm sad to sign off. I'm just like, what more can we
say? But no, we got, we got to go,
y'all, we got, we got to go. But this is just a see you soon.
See you on the underground. Y'all see you outside, see you
in your superhero blue, see you in the sisterhood, see you in
the movement. I'm just excited for what women
are going to be walking towards as we end this this experience
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together. So that's all I got.
Yeah, grateful for everybody. That's all I got to V, Yeah.
It's the end of the road. The. 2025 Convention.
Speaker, the Honorable Jasmine Crockett, US Congresswoman.
Representing the 30th District of Texas.
I am here to tell you that if you are waiting on somebody to
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come and save you, they are not coming to save you.
You are the person that you havebeen waiting on.
Listen graduates, every movementthat we have ever had has been
led by young people. I know that y'all look at me and
y'all think that I'm young, but just know this.
I am older than Megar was when he was assassinated.
I am older than Martin Witt was when he was assassinated.
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I am older than Malcolm when he was when he was assassinated.
So if you think that I'm young, I'm here to tell you that
y'all's work is cut out for you because there's so much that
stands before you. And some will tell you that
there is a hill for you to climb.
In fact, there is a poem that I oftentimes like to refer to.
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It is by Amanda Gorman. And some states wanted to say
that she couldn't have her writings available as well.
Florida. And it goes, for there is always
light, if only we're brave enough to see it.
If only we're brave enough to beit.
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My charge to you is to understand that your moment is
not in the future. Your moment is now.
This country is relying on each and everyone of you to walk into
your purpose and to walk in greatness with your head held
high. There are going to be people
that tell you that you don't belong, and I am here to tell
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you over and over and over that you absolutely belong.
There are people that are going to tell you that there is not a
table in which there is a seat for you, but I am here to remind
you of Montgomery in those folding chairs.
Let me tell you that we know howto use a chair, whether we
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pulling it up or we doing something else with it.
Let me hear the Let me be the first one to tell you that I
know that y'all are ready to putyour boots on the ground.
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