From Diagnosis To Purpose with Janelle Perez

Made It Out

Made It Out Media

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality

5 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week's episode is special for many reasons - watch until the end for a big announcement! Janelle shares her personal journey battling cancer in her early 20s and how it impacted her life: from coming out to finding a greater purpose. Janelle discusses the stages of fighting for her life, occasionally letting in her "darkness", and how her wife's love helped her overcome the toughest battle. The second half of this episode focuses on LPAC and its purpose: getting queer women and non-binary folks elected into office. Janelle discusses how important it is to vote and take interest in politics, and how understanding issues that impact the LGBTQ community is crucial to voting wisely. Please follow our guest @janelleperezfl and follow LPAC @teamLPAC. Follow our podcast at @madeitoutpodcast and follow Mal @MalGlowenke. Please don't forget to rate, subscribe, review... and vote! Learn more, or make a donation to LPAC at: https://www.teamlpac.com/ For all other inquiries, please email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode was shot in June 2024 before Vice President Kamala Harris was the Democratic nominee.
0:06.5	Please listen to the end of the-Pack, which is a political action committee that endorses
0:26.2	LGBT-Q women and non-binary candidates.
0:29.7	Today we're going to hear her incredible story of her coming out to her Cuban conservative family
0:36.4	while undergoing treatment for an extremely aggressive cancer.
0:40.8	Thank you for being here.
0:42.2	Thank you.
0:43.0	Thanks for having me.
0:44.0	This is fun.
0:45.0	Yeah.
0:46.0	Can you tell me a little bit about your background?
0:48.0	Yeah, so I'm born and raised in Miami. My parents are Cuban Exiles. They came when they were really young to the United States.
0:57.0	Whatever you think a Miami upbringing from Cuban parents is that it's exactly what I had growing up. I remember
1:06.4	being really young and being in my grandparents house and it was Christmas Eve
1:11.5	and the way that we celebrate Christmas Eve we
1:14.4	call it Noche Wena. We do a pig roast in the backyard like with bricks with palm trees
1:19.9	you put them all in this pit and then you start at 7 a.m.
1:24.2	Everybody is drunk by 12 and smoking cigars playing dominoes and just
1:29.2	cooking slow cooking this giant pig and my memories from being little and in my Cuban upbringing was
1:36.2	that like I remember going into my bathroom in my grandparents house and there was a
1:40.8	pig in my tub on ice.
1:44.4	Yeah, and it was like the whole pig just like dead in the tub and and like you we couldn't go inside because
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