Have there been a time in your business where you felt completely defeated and thought,

how am I going to get past this?

Hi, I'm Yee Jin Ye Woo, podcast manager for the Jasmine Starshow.

In this episode, which originally aired on the Mo diversity podcast,

Jasmine shares the vulnerable details of her personal story,

the challenges she's faced in her business, and how she's overcome the hardest days

while building her software company, Social Curator. Listen in.

Welcome to the Mo diversity show, Jasmine. We're your host, Sun Joule, the founder and CEO of

Mo diversity, and I'm joined by Krithika, our head of production. Why don't you start with

telling us about yourself? I am the daughter of an immigrant, my father's from Mexico,

my mother is from Puerto Rico, so first-generation Latina, first-generation college student,

first-generation postgraduate student, so I ended up going to law school on a full-ride scholarship.

I always say not because I was smart, but because I learned how to apply myself,

and then I later applied that same dedication to actually asking what I wanted to do with my life.

I was in law school, and my mom had a relapse of brain cancer, and it really caused me to make

some distinct decisions about where I saw my future. My mom was 50 years old, and I was 25,

and I thought to myself, I don't want to die a lawyer. I was going through the motions of being

the child of the first generation in America to take advantage of education, take advantage of

socioeconomic opportunities, and so I did what I thought I should do, never questioning how happy

or fulfilled I was in the process, and so I took a medical leave from law school to be with my mom,

or the prognosis wasn't good, and it was around that time where I started asking myself, what do I

actually want to do? One of the things I wanted to marry my high school sweetheart, I wanted my

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