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The Jasmine Star Show

[9 min] The Advice I Needed to Hear When I Started My Business: My 2024 Whittier Commencement Speech

The Jasmine Star Show

Jasmine Star

Business, Social Curator, Business Strategy, Business Tips, Instagram Growth, Photography, Online Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Jasmine Star, Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Strategy, Start A Business, Photographer

4.92.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Maybe you’ve asked yourself this question… …“What is THIS all for?” It's a question that digs at the heart of purpose, pushing you to consider the true meaning behind the endless amount of work. And to this day, I wonder if my grandmother asked herself this question. She moved to East LA to work in a sweatshop, taking three buses to work after dropping off her three kids at school, one with special needs—getting home with just enough time to put dinner on the table and send the kids to bed. M...

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ready to feel inspired, empowered, and ready to take action?

0:04.3

Foxo.

0:05.2

Hi, I'm Rosie, H.R. and customer success

0:07.8

specialist at Social Curator,

0:10.1

and in this very special episode of the Jasmine Star Show,

0:13.6

Jasmine gives a, dare I say, killer commencement speech

0:18.4

at Wydier College, where she too crossed the stage years ago.

0:22.4

Let's listen in. Class of 2020. the I'm very honored to tell you that I sat in these exact seats.

0:34.7

My parents, my family were in the stadium,

0:37.6

and they were there to see me graduate sumu-cum-lad.

0:41.2

I was the first in my family to go to college.

0:44.0

Thank you.

0:46.0

How many of you are the first in your families to graduate college. We are the sojourners, we are the people who change, legacies and histories.

1:05.0

This school has given you everything you need.

1:08.0

And forgive me for this emotion,

1:11.0

hearing Dr. Sel Johnson talk about what it means to be resilient.

1:15.0

I stand in front of you telling you that life can get hard.

1:19.0

I was sitting in these seats and I had no idea what to do.

1:24.0

In fact, the first time my grandmother ever stepped on a college campus,

1:28.0

it was here in Harris B.

1:31.0

I had just moved in to the dorm with my twin sister and she looked around she just me

1:35.3

oh my god people live here yes they do and then she asked us to put on Celia Cruz and we danced and in that moment I felt

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