Hi, friend. Welcome back to another episode of the Jasmine Starshow. Let's hit the ground running.

Have you ever been asked a question that forced you to pause and truly think about the

answer? Well, that happened to me recently during a live conversation where somebody asked,

what do you wish you would have done sooner? I was like, okay, a little bit of food for thought.

And here's the thing, I could have answered in a variety of ways. I could have said, I wish I

dropped out of law school sooner. I could have answered, you know, I wish that I had started my

business sooner. I could have responded and said, like, oh, I wish I had invested sooner. I could

have said all of those things, but I chose not to. And I think if you've been hanging around here

for a second, the podcast is a place that allows me to be truly myself, like my true authentic self.

There is something about just hearing somebody's voice, the richness, the authenticity, the vulnerability,

the shaking, the forceful, the levity, all of that stuff. It happens differently here on the

podcast. And so I wanted to take this opportunity to actually speak my truth because you will never

hear me say a single one of those things. Oh, I wish I had done X sooner. And you're not going to

hear me talk about what I wish I had done sooner because I truly believe that everything that has

brought me to this very moment, talking to you right here on the podcast, like right now,

everything has happened in perfect timing. If I hadn't gone to law school, I might not have had a

reckoning about what I truly want in life. Had I started my business earlier, I might not have met

the same people or learned the same lessons. Had I asked for investments in a different capacity,

my business might not be one that I'm really proud of today because we're entirely bootstrapped.

And we don't take investments. So even now I look back and I say it happened as it should.

Because any minute that I spend wondering what if is a minute wasting the most valuable thing

that I have and that you have time. Now to be completely forthcoming, there have been moments where

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