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You didn’t land here by accident.
Something in you is ready to slow down.
To live differently.
You can exhale here.
why she stopped
Kristen Renee Ingram is a Rest Architect, theologian, and cultural strategist.
She has spent over a decade shaping culture across sports, media, and social impact.
There was exhaustion.
There was grief.
There was a disconnect she could no longer ignore.
Everything that once worked stopped working.
the shift
After completing her Master's in Justice and Advocacy and moving through personal loss,
Kristen entered a season that changed everything.
She stopped pushing.
She started listening.
Rest was not an escape.
It was the way back.
That moment is available to you too.
You might be feeling it too.
That moment when pushing stops working and something quieter starts asking for your attention.
Pushing through what no longer fits.
Ignoring what your body already knows.
a different way of living
From that shift, Black Girl Sabbaticals was born.
As a new way of living.
Rest as your foundation.
Safety in your body.
Clarity in how you move.
her life now
Kristen lives what she teaches.
Her life feels safer in her body now.
She no longer pushes for what she needs.
She allows herself to receive it.
Living well and resting well are not in conflict.
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what becomes possible
You don’t have to keep living like this.
You can come back to yourself.
This changes how you choose, how you move, and what you allow into your life.
You are becoming a woman who trusts herself again.
You already know what your body has been asking for.
what we believe
Rest is the source.
Safety is the foundation.
When the body feels safe enough to rest,
discernment returns.
And from there:
healing opens,
freedom expands,
and wealth sustains.
meet the board
BGS is built slowly, on purpose.
The board protects that pace.
They guard the work from urgency, from drift,
from anything that would ask this brand to forget its own thesis.
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Maud Arnold
Co-Founder and President, Chloe and Maud Foundation, COO, Chloe and Maud Productions
DeVon Franklin
CEO and Producer,
Franklin Entertainment,
New York Times Bestselling Author and Motivational Speaker
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Dr. Mary Glenn
Law + Justice Chaplain Associate Professor,
Fuller Theological Seminary
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Hannah Gordon
CEO, Hannah Gordon Advisors
Janna Pea
Creative Director + Strategist, Pea Nation
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Gretel Truong
Founder & Producer, Outside Stories LLC
Dwight White II
Global Artist, Curator, Creative Director,
& Founder, Dwight White II Studio