Well, well, well. Well, come back to another episode of the Jasmine star show. And if you

notice, this is a surprise bonus episode. And it's just as much a surprise for you as it is

for me. And yeah, I'm recording this from my phone. I'm not sitting in front of my fancy pants

podcasting mic. And I don't even have like a fancy microphone on my phone. It's just me

in my closet. But I had to bring this out and document this moment because, well, I like sharing

a few random personal things on the podcast as a testament to what thoughts and beliefs and

focus can actually do. But it comes on the heels of how I grew up. So quite backstory. Many of you

know I've spoken plenty of times on the podcast about my upgrade, bringing like we often joke that,

you know, as kids, we weren't poor. We were just po. Like we couldn't even afford the OR at the

end of poor. We were just po. Right? So we joke and it really impacted the way that we grew up.

And it really shaped how I view life, how I view money, how I view hard work and dedication. And

appreciation and things of that nature. However, when you come from very little or when you come from

nothing at all, you noticed small pockets of mini miracles along the way. And oftentimes we would

joke that the miracles that happen in our life outside of the big ones have spoken openly about

seeing my mother after an eight and a half year battle with brain cancer fully recover and still

remains to this day in remission. Those are big miracles in our life. I talked about the miracle

of adopting my daughter. That was a huge miracle. But growing up, we had taken to calling these

small miracles, Wattis miracles. My maiden name is Wattis, like the city in Mexico. And

there were things that would happen that really shook, shaped, and highlighted

what we defined as hope and what we defined as desire. So, case in point, we would think about things

that we really wanted in our life and in our family. And then we would write them down. In fact,

my mom had this large piece of yellow parchment paper. And she rolled out this piece of paper about

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