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Michelle, welcome to the Unmistakable Critic. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Thanks for having me. Super excited to be here.

It is my pleasure to have you here. So you were one of the long line of amazing people

who has been referred to was by our friend and former Unmistakable Creative

guest Sarah Peck. So I'm really thrilled to have you here, and I want to start by asking

you, where in the world did you grow up and what impacted where you grew up end up having

on the choices that you made in their life in your career? Yeah. So I grew up in the San Francisco

Bay Area in a suburb, largely populated by immigrant families. And so my parents are both immigrants. They immigrated from the Philippines. So interestingly enough, not at the same time. So they met here in the States. And I'd say that had a huge influence on just my entire arc. So my dad,

I feel like a very typical immigrant story, he grew up in a farming community in the Philippines.

And his education and his grit and his willingness to work hard was his ticket out of that type of life. And then my mom,

actually, I should say my dad immigrated here as an adult. And then my mom actually immigrated to

the U.S. when she was 12. So she spent a number of her formative years here. And as a result,

my parents have very different parenting philosophies.

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