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139. No More Grind: How to Finally Rest with Tricia Hersey

We Can Do Hard Things

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Let the Chips Fall Where They Met

Tricia James was raised by a black liberation is, you know, activist black man in Chicago who would look at me and tell me: You're perfect because God created you. And just so I was never really taught in a lot of ways that I had to be perfect. "I want to say yes to things that I only feel like really a yes about," she says. The way that our entire lives are built around labor and what we got to do next, there's never a moment to just be specifically with black people,. We don't even understand what the word leisure means; everything has to be monetized.

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