The One About Self Advocacy With Amin Jaswal
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Amin Jaswal was in her 20’s when she began to realize something was off and was dismissed by doctors repeatedly. Until one day, in pain and frustration, she took herself to the ER, only to find out she had cancer. Cervical cancer to be exact. This cancer was not detectable by a pap smear and without her own self-advocacy, she may not be here. Passionate to share her story, normalize discussions around discharge, and discomforts, Amin joins us today to share what life looks like when you’re young, single, and have cancer. There is love, romance, and loss in life… and Amin took time to write down her emotions into poetry. Now, a book, A Light Within My Light (preorder April 12 2021). Amin inspires the survivor in all of us, to live life, create boundaries, and fight for yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.7 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.7 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, |
| 0:23.5 | get real, because we are all in this digital space together. All right, everyone, welcome |
| 0:32.7 | back. I'm really excited to have today's guests on because she just has a really incredible story, |
| 0:38.3 | one that I think is going to lend itself in a few different ways for those listening today |
| 0:42.2 | and something exciting coming out for her as well. So please welcome Aminj as well. |
| 0:47.4 | Hi. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you so much for just sharing the space with me. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm really looking forward to chatting with you today. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, you are, I was just saying it was cosmic that this even happened because you had written me an email and I had seen it and it was there. And then, I don't know, somebody canceled on a podcast, which was totally fine. We had scheduling conflict. And I just saw you come up on my social |
| 1:12.2 | again. And I was like, no, I, like, this is the double sign. Not only did you email right at the time that we had this cancellation, but then I saw you pop up on social again. And I was like, no, this is, she needs to come on. And whenever I have those types of feelings, I know it's because even if it's a soul listener is going to listen to this and it's going to potentially impact their life or |
| 1:11.1 | lend itself in something even years from now, |
| 1:32.3 | because I think your story has layers to it that are really amazing. But maybe I'll let you |
| 1:37.3 | introduce yourself. Tell us who you are and where you are in your journey of a life. |
| 1:42.3 | My name is Amman Jazzal. I'm a writer. I write poetry. |
| 1:46.3 | I'm also in the process of my cancer journey. I was diagnosed with cancer two years ago, |
| 1:52.5 | gynaecological cancer, specifically cervical. I've been very open on Instagram about my journey |
| 1:58.4 | along my cancer journey. I guess that's really, I wouldn't say that's me |
| 2:02.5 | in a nutshell, but that's where you are right now. That's right now. That's where I'm at this |
| 2:06.3 | point. I'm an author, soon-to-be author, artist, and I'm an advocate for the cancer community. |
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