The High Cost of Hustle for Black Women: Overwork, Shame & the Path to Healing

🎙️Carrie On!

Hustle culture tells us we’re either not doing enough… or we should stop doing everything. But what if the real question isn’t whether you hustle, it’s what the hustle is costing you?

In this episode of Carrie On!, I sit down with Dr. Portia Preston—2x TEDx speaker, public health expert, and author of Hustle, Flow, or Let It Go?: A Guide to Shame-Free Wellness That Honors Your Reality and Gives You Life (Revell, Aug 5, 2025). We dig into what sustainable wellness actually looks like, especially for women, Black women, caregivers, and neurodivergent folks who are tired of “perfect” wellness culture and just want something that feels real and doable.

Portia shares her SANE framework, talks openly about late-in-life ADHD + a ...