Hi there, welcome to another episode of the Jasmine Starshow. My name is Betsy, I'm a copyrighter on the social curator team, and I'm excited to share with you a conversation Jasmine had on the Rob Murgatory Show.

So in this conversation Jasmine and Rob tackle how Jasmine's background set her on the path she's on today, the things she's learned along the way on her journey towards success, and why finding your joy usually means doing hard things you don't want to do.

Let's listen in.

Jasmine, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me, I'm excited to be here.

Well it marks a very good day, I'm very happy to be here.

Tell me why it marks a good day, is it just because we're together or is there something really exciting happening today?

Well we started off this conversation right before you press record and you would ask me what is going to be a home run for you, which number one is very generous as a podcast host because I know that your intention is to serve your listeners well, and my intention came up was like Rob let serve people well.

And in my mind, how what a great gift, what a place of power that we get to come in to be like, how can we devise the most powerful, actual conversations that somebody walks away, not just feeling inspired because inspiration only takes you so far, but walking way feeling motivated with a clear plan of action to change their life and as a reason of changing their life, they can change their business and I'm like,

hot dang, I'll wake up every day and do that and twice on Sunday, so you know, I'm here for it. I'm here for it. Awesome. All right, so we're going to jump right in, but I think a good place to start with you is culture, I go with my intuition on these things, you are a Latino, right, you are a Latino girl, you have a Mexican mom, you have a Puerto Rican dad, in what ways do you think being raised in that sort of environment, how do you think it's affected?

How you see the world today? So just as a point of clarification, my dad is Mexican and my mom is Puerto Rican.

I got a bad question, but no, but that's okay, because the reason why I'm saying that is because my dad and mom love listening to the podcast that I'm on and they're going to be like, why do you say something like that?

You can come correct. Okay, okay, okay, so this is where I'm on in dad.

Sorry, mom and dad. No, it's all good. It's all good. It's all good. So culture played a role in shaping the way that I see the world.

And it's been for a long time, for a long time, I felt that there was a disparity or inequality. And while those could be the case, like a disparity inequality in that, whenever I walked into a room, let's say in college,

anything past the point of high school, I noticed that distinctly, I was one of the few women and very specifically, one of the few people with melanin in my skin.

And there was always like a, but why, but why? And now, now I feel that the thing that I once felt was a liability, it distinctly feels like an asset.

Because if I am a small group of people representing what the differences could be in a room, that then is such a powerful place to be as long as, as long as when you're stepping into the room, you're asking other ways and possibilities for people to get into that room as well.

And so in my mind, how has culture shaped it? Well, my dad came from Mexico, my mom is from Puerto Rico. They met in East Los Angeles. And in my entire life, I never in my entire life ever considered that I can actually have a business.

My greatest life's aspiration was quite honestly to be able to wear a pair of pumps and a leather briefcase and get in my Toyota Corolla and go into an office.

Like I thought that that was the epitome because in my neighborhood, the people would bring like their children to the nannies in the neighborhood I grew up in and we would watch our gardener fathers and our cook uncles and our mom housekeepers do the blue color work that really kept Los Angeles as vibrant as it was.

But in my mind, I had never seen a single person or known of anybody who had started a business.

It was the equivalent of being like, go to the moon. And so it wasn't until I was 25 rub when I was 25, I actually realized I could start a business.

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