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Balancing Career and Personal Life: Insights with Dr. Nsenga Burton
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In this episode of 'Need to Know with Dr. Nsenga Burton', emphasis is placed on important events such as National Voter Registration Day and National Black Theater Day. The conversation highlights Adrian Alvarado's recent book and the challenges within the entertainment industry, which often go unrecognized as a business due to its entertaining nature. Dr. Burton stresses the importance of mental health, advocating for taking personal time to maintain a balance between professional and personal life, especially in a demanding work culture like the U.S. The episode also celebrates the anniversary of the Black Executive Perspective podcast, commending its work on addressing racial challenges in workplaces.

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00:00: Introduction and Welcome

00:21: Important Announcements and Updates

01:58: The Importance of Mental Health in the Workplace

03:48: Understanding the Entertainment Industry as a Business

05:24: Balancing Work and Personal Life

07:16 Final Thoughts and Acknowledgments

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BEP Narrator:

A Black Executive Perspective now presents Need to Know

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with the award winning hyphenated Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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Dr.

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Burton.

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What do we need to know?

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Dr. Nsenga Burton: Good afternoon

and welcome to Need to Know with Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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I am she.

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I hope that you are

having a wonderful day.

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Just a couple of reminders up front.

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Today is National Voter Registration Date.

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So if you have not registered to

vote for the upcoming election, I

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encourage you to go to IWillVote.

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com.

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If you live in the state of Georgia

where I live, you can go to the Georgia

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My Voter um, It's a long acronym,

but if you Google Georgia, my voter.

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It'll come up and you put your

information and it'll give

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you your voter registration.

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You can also go on the Burton

Wire for that information as well.

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So today is National

Voter Registration Day.

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And then the other thing that's

really important to us, especially

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with our producer Adrian, is that

he is back from his book tour.

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So we want to say

congratulations on your book.

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It is an autobiography.

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About his life and times and his journey.

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Um, not only as a Boricua, as we

celebrate Latino Heritage Month,

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um, but also, um, as an actor.

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So I encourage you to pick up

Adrian Alvarado's book, um,

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at your earliest convenience.

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It's a great read.

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And then last, my last update, um,

is it's National Black Theater Day.

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That's also important to Adrian.

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Um, and to me, I serve on the board

of the Craft Institute and we are

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committed to all things equity.

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Um, as it relates to the black theater.

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So support your black theaters, your

local black theater, um, support your,

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uh, theater departments in general,

black theater departments specifically.

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Um, especially if you're at HBCUs

or you have HBCUs in your town,

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uh, today's a great day to support

them in many ways, buy some

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tickets, donations, what have you.

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So anyway, that's my spiel on that.

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But today what I want to talk about

is, Um, is the workplace and I want

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to talk about, um, making sure that

you are taking time to, to ensure

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that you are well mentally, right?

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Mental health awareness month, that

you are well mentally, um, and that

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you understand that if you do not Then

you must mind your business sometimes,

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um, such that when you decide to leave,

or if you unfortunately leave, uh,

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because the Lord calls you home or with

whomever you, uh, worship or not, even

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if you don't worship anybody, anything.

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Any deity, um that you have definitely

making made sure that you have spent the

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appropriate amount of time Um with your

family now, of course that depends on who

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you are how you define family Um, I know

we have to work in the united states like

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crazy because things are so expensive

here Um, so there is there is no siesta

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May we please have a siesta in the united

states Um, there is no real time off

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where it's like, oh, you know, everybody's

gone for six weeks because it's the

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holidays, so nobody's working right now.

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That does not exist in the United States.

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And so many times people

work, work, work, work, work.

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And I started thinking about this

particularly this week 'cause we've

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lost so many fantastic people.

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You know, whether it's Frankie Beverly.

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Whether it's Tito Jackson, I mean, hell,

over the last month, I mean, it's just

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been a lot of folks, James Earl Jones,

Erica Asher, rest in peace, fantastic

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actress who has gone under reported, whose

loss has gone under reported, young woman.

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And, you know, You know, just it

seems like every other day, there's

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just someone else who was leaving us.

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And when we think about entertainment,

we don't really think about

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entertainment as a business.

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And I have taught the business of

entertainment for over 20 years.

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Right?

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So most recently at Emory University,

when I was a professor there,

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I've since retired as a professor,

but that was one of the classes.

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And I don't think that people

understand, um, in entertainment.

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And I'm sure Adrian can co sign on this.

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That it is actually a business.

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It's a bottom line.

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So when you're outside of

the industry, that's why it's

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called the industry, right?

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The Hollywood film industry, the

music production industry, right?

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The theater industry, when we

think about, um, these things,

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because they bring so much pleasure

to us and they do entertain us.

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are consumers of it.

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We don't think about the fact, um, and

this is not everyone, of course, but

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many people don't think about the fact

that the bottom line is revenue and

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that these are actual businesses and

functioning businesses that require a lot

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of This is why we have strikes, right?

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Um, this is how I have

people walking off the job.

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This is why you have tell alls.

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This is why we have books like Adrian.

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They're like, listen,

this is what can happen.

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Um, you know, when we are trying

to, um, create these, This content,

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this art, in many cases, I'm wearing

Steve Allen's shirt right now.

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Um, world known artist.

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Uh, sometimes we have to work

way, way, way past, uh, what is

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considered reasonable and also which

is above what the law, uh, entails.

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So I just wanted to say today.

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Particularly because we've lost

so many greats who have really

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sacrificed so much of their lives.

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They've sacrificed time

with their families.

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They've sacrificed a lot of money in

order to entertain us that we should

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keep in mind and take a lesson from that.

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When you leave, you obviously

want to have a fantastic legacy.

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They all have amazing legacies, but you

also want to have a great legacy with

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your families, which are friends and

with other members of the community.

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So.

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Try to strike a balance.

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I know it's really hard,

especially in the U.

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Like, you know, I feel like we just work

all the time, but try to strike a balance.

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It's okay to say, I need a day.

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It's okay to say, you

know, it's a holiday.

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I'm not going to be working.

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I'm not going to be reachable.

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It's okay to say that now

people might not like it.

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Hopefully no one will penalize

you because that is illegal.

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Um, but you know, I just want

to say, stand up for yourself.

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Um, be respectful and kind if

you're really good at your job.

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People will hear you.

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All right.

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So when you make up what I would

call excuses, or you call out a lot

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or that kind of stuff when you want

to do something, a lot of times,

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people will shrug you off because,

you know, you're the equivalent

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of the person who cried wolf.

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Um, but if your, uh, legacy is tight.

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If you've done everything that

you're supposed to do, um, if you

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are reliable and resourceful and

resilient, more than likely, you have

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that time to take and you should.

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So that's what I wanted to remind

people today, as we try to celebrate

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all of these other awareness days, which

have taken over really the timelines,

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really think about your boundaries.

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Think about the workplace.

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Think about, even if it's not

what you do, have respect for

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what other people do and to.

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Help people who have a hard time

with boundaries, even find them for

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themselves, even in the workplace.

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All right.

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So that's what I have to say.

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I also need to wish a black executive

perspective, podcast, a happy anniversary.

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Um, you know, shout out to Tony and

the crew, everybody, you all have

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been doing amazing work, uh, and

we'll continue to do amazing work to

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enlighten people about challenges as it

relates to race in, uh, The workplace.

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So without further ado, I

wish you a fantastic day.

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Stay strong, stay focused, stay healthy.

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So come back and join us next week for

the Black Executive Perspective podcast.

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Thank you for joining us today

and have a wonderful day.

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